Our team had a blast creating beautiful heart-shaped charcuterie boards on Wednesday 💕🧀 Thank you to Michelle from Chell's Charcuterie for sharing your expertise, and shoutout to the CHDI Sunshine Committee for hosting this class! #OfficeFun #WorkplaceWellbeing

CHDI excitedly welcomed four new team members in January: Chad, Kalagena, Angelica, and Alana. Together, they bring a broad range of experience and perspectives that will strengthen our work! #ChildrensMentalHealth #BestPlacestoWorkCT #MeetTheTeam

Many #pediatric primary care providers see the value of trauma screening, but aren’t sure how to put it into practice. This course helps make screening part of everyday care. Register here: https://loom.ly/GWUlGoM#pediatric #TrainingTuesday

Fresh off the press: our January 2026 newsletter is here! ➡️ Read it now: https://loom.ly/Khf0Avo ✉️ Sign up for future editions: https://loom.ly/y5OPB-s #ChildrensMentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #QualityImprovement #EvidenceBasedPractice #SystemOfCare

🎉 CHDI recently welcomed two new board members, Ruby Goyal-Carkeek, MPH, and Beth Heinz, MHA, MSW! 💻 Learn more about Beth, Ruby, and the rest of our board on our website: https://loom.ly/UT4-kg8 #ChildrensMentalHealth #NonprofitBoard #MeetTheTeam

#TrainingTuesday is back! In this week's featured FREE course, explore principles behind building a coordinated #SystemofCare for children, youth, and families with behavioral health needs. ➡️ Register: https://loom.ly/K3o6vog#TrainingTuesday#SystemofCare#CareCoordination #ChildrensMentalHealth

Access Health CT said it will launch an enrollment period Feb. 1 for eligible customers to enroll in coverage with the new state subsidy.

CHDI was proud to sponsor last week's Moving Beyond Implications: Research Into Policy Conference, hosted by @ctscholarsnetwork.bsky.social! We presented on the need to change #CT #Medicaid policy to allow reimbursement for family + youth #PeerSupport services. Learn more: https://loom.ly/hOTJ-0s

Honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at one of many community events being held across Connecticut today: https://loom.ly/kFwKf3g

Sweeping cuts to mental health and addiction programs worth more than $2 billion are being reversed. After a political backlash from Republicans and Democrats, the grant money will be restored. n.pr/3YFoZww

🙏We need your help!🙏 Mass grant terminations are back, this time at SAMHSA. We're tracking terminations to support advocacy and possible litigation. Please report info on specific SAMHSA grant terminations here: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... We'll have a tracker online ASAP. Spread the word!

NEW: The Trump admin unexpectedly canceled almost $2 billion in funding for substance use and mental health. Organizations today are forced to lay off staff and scale back lifesaving services, like opioid reversal medications for first responders. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#Breaking: SAMHSA canceled up to $1.9 billion in grants without staff consultation, accelerating the mental health agency's deterioration under President Trump. www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/s...

Today's the last day to register to join us this Thursday! RSVP here: chip.uconn.edu/moving-beyon... #ResearchtoPolicy

We're proud to sponsor the 2026 Moving Beyond Implications: #ResearchtoPolicy Conference next Thurs, 1/15 in Hartford - organized by the #CT chapter of @scholars.org. Our staff will present on #Medicaid Funding for Family and Youth #PeerSupport.

Using real-world examples from CHDI's #QualityImprovement (QI) work with CT's youth mobile crisis service, our latest brief shares strategies to ensure that every child benefits from QI efforts in #ChildrensBehavioralHealth. ➡️Read it here: https://loom.ly/IEVguPY#QualityImprovement#ChildrensBehavioralHealth#HealthEquity

Happy new year from all of us at CHDI! 🎉

As we bid farewell to 2025, watch this 1-minute recap of our year! Learn more about CHDI's work throughout the past year in our annual infographic and letter from our President and CEO: https://loom.ly/88bt76w #YearinReview #ChildrensMentalHealth #CT #NonprofitImpact

2025 was a year of change, but we couldn't be prouder of the work our staff and partners accomplished. Read 2025 reflections + highlights from CHDI President and CEO, Jeff Vanderploeg, in his annual year-end letter: https://loom.ly/88bt76w #ChildrensMentalHealth #YearinReview #CTNonprofits

CHDI has received a generous grant from The Cigna Group Foundation to expand access to an innovative school-based peer support model we began piloting in 2024, Students Supporting Students. Learn more: https://loom.ly/TOsFQU0 #SchoolMentalHealth #PeerSupport #ModelDevelopment #ImpSci

Reflecting on a year filled with changes and challenges and feeling grateful for our talented, hardworking staff, who remain as committed as ever to strengthening children's behavioral health practices, systems, and policies so that all children can grow up healthy and thrive.

How can you tell if a student's challenging behavior or falling grades are caused by #trauma? Often, you can't - unless you ask. Our free Trauma ScreenTIME Schools course helps school staff learn to effectively screen students for trauma: loom.ly/P1kbrco #SchoolMentalHealth #CECs

CHDI is proud to recognize International Day of Persons with Disabilities. About 1 in 5 children in the U.S. live with some form of disability and/or special health need, including behavioral health conditions. All deserve our respect and inclusion. 💙 #IDPD2025 #DisabilityJustice

We cannot wait for this! 👏 Register here: chip.uconn.edu/moving-beyon... #ResearchtoPolicy #ImpSci #EvidenceBasedPolicy

Need to complete #CECs this winter? We can help! Kids Mental Health Training is our FREE online learning portal for convenient, evidence-based training on #ChildrensBehavioralHealth for clinicians, educators, pediatric providers, and others working with youth. ➡️Register: https://loom.ly/2ZRgIns#CECs

Missed our November newsletter before the holiday? ➡️Catch up here: https://conta.cc/3XnldXQ #ChildrensMentalHealth #MentalHealthPolicy #ProfessionalDevelopment #CTJobs

We're back with another #TrainingTuesday! The new Effective Family Engagement course explores practical strategies and evidence-based approaches to building strong, collaborative relationships between therapists and families. ➡️Register FREE: https://loom.ly/sYbDnW8#TrainingTuesday #Therapists #CECs

CHDI was recently awarded funding from The Tow Foundation to develop a new Children’s Behavioral Health Workforce Center for #Connecticut over the next 2 years. Learn more: https://loom.ly/a7AG-Yg#Connecticut #ChildrensBehavioralHealth #WorkforcePolicy

Applications are now open for CHDI's 2025-26 Postdoctoral Fellowships in children's behavioral health! Check out what former postdoc Meghan Flynn says about her fellowship experience - then visit our website to learn more + apply: https://loom.ly/MyxQ4uo #Postdoc #ImpSci #SystemsChange #Hiring

CHDI Associate VP of School + Community Initiatives, Jeana Bracey, contributed to this @uconncsch.bsky.social report outlining simple, cost-efficient, evidence-based strategies that anyone can use to foster an emotionally safe school environment - refreshed for 2025!

The October newsletter just hit inboxes! Read it here: https://conta.cc/42jSZ3e #ChildrensMentalHealth

Thanks to @ctmirror.org for today's excellent overview of Connecticut's Urgent Crisis Centers (UCCs) for youth. Learn about what UCCs do, where to find them, and what's at stake without long-term, sustainable funding: https://loom.ly/R3hvHcQ #CrisisServices

Attention #Connecticut researchers: CT Scholars Strategy Network's Moving Beyond Implications: Research into Policy Conference is 1/15 in Hartford! Abstracts due 11/3: https://loom.ly/UrNS7ks#Connecticut CHDI is proud to sponsor this event, hosted by @scholars.org + @uconninchip.bsky.social #ResearchtoPolicy

Passionate about improving children's behavioral health and well-being? We're hiring for a Data Analyst (or Sr. Data Analyst) and Senior Communications Coordinator: https://loom.ly/MyxQ4uo #CTJobs #PsychJobs #CommsJobs #NonprofitComms #SocialWorkJobs #PublicHealthJobs

Our latest issue brief identifies strategies to expand the impact of youth and family peer support services within Connecticut's behavioral health system for children and families:: https://loom.ly/q7SuPJY #PeerSupport #ChildrensMentalHealth #CTPolicy

This #TrainingTuesday, we're sharing one of our newest free courses: Autism, Families, and Severe Behavior. Learn practical, evidence-based strategies to better understand and support youth with autism and intense behavioral needs. ➡️Register: https://loom.ly/JJK9-jA#TrainingTuesday #AutismSupport #CECs

CHDI Associate VP of School + Community Initiatives Jeana Bracey was interviewed for an article published in today's CT Insider on challenges facing schools as federal funds for student mental health come to an end: https://loom.ly/VAfyMK4 #SchoolMentalHealth #CTBudget #CTSchools #CTPolicy

Calling all #BehavioralHealth #clinicians licensed in #Connecticut - don't forget to take our statewide workforce survey this month! 🔗All CT-licensed clinicians should have received a link in their email from [email protected]. Didn't get one? DM us! #CTTherapists #ClinicalPsych #LMFT #LCSW #LPC

CHDI welcomes Curtis Antrum, PhD, to the team as our newest Senior Data Analyst! Curtis will apply his expertise in data analysis to support CHDI's Evidence-Based Practices and Functional Family Therapy – Foster Care #QualityImprovement initiatives. Welcome, Curtis! 🎉 #BestPlacestoWorkCT #ImpSci

This week's #TrainingTuesday course is timely as students and families settle back into the routines of a new academic year. ➡️Register: https://bit.ly/45BApFN#TrainingTuesday #SchoolMentalHealth #CECs #CEUs #SchoolAttendance #FreeCourse

The September newsletter is here! In this month's issue, we share strong outcomes from Connecticut's youth mobile crisis services, introduce new SBDI schools, welcome a new staff member, and more. ➡️Read it here: https://conta.cc/487UfKl #ChildrensMentalHealth #SchoolMentalHealth

This week's featured #TrainingTuesday course will teach you to implement the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (#CLAS) in Health and Healthcare framework. ➡️Register FREE: https://loom.ly/EA6EgDE#TrainingTuesday#CLAS#YouthMentalHealth #HealthEquity #CECs

CT School Superintendents Face Federal Uncertainty As New Year Begins #ctnewsjunkie #ctpolitics

Meet our new Senior Project Coordinator, Christina Stephens, DSW(c), LCSW! 🎉Christina will be working on CHDI's new Functional Family Therapy - Foster Care Performance Improvement Center. Learn more about Christina's journey to CHDI: https://loom.ly/-sntVRc #BestPlacestoWorkCT

NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

This #TrainingTuesday, we're highlighting the Adolescent Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (#ASBIRT) Course. Learn how to use this #EvidenceBasedPractice to identify and support youth with #SubstanceUse disorders. ➡️Register free: https://loom.ly/uozlLfs#TrainingTuesday#ASBIRT#EvidenceBasedPractice#SubstanceUse#CECs

Today is #988Day, a day to make sure everyone in your life knows about the 988 National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline! Dial 988 or visit 988lifeline.org to get free, compassionate support - anytime, anywhere.

To kick off the 2025-26 school year, we've compiled this list of free mental health programs and resources for schools, developed by CHDI, our partners, and colleagues from around the country: https://loom.ly/nrIzPg0 #SchoolMentalHealth #CTSchools #EduSky

This week's #TrainingTuesday spotlight is the Trauma ScreenTIME Schools course, developed to help school staff, faculty, and leaders learn to screen students for trauma and develop a screening process that works for your school. ➡️Register: https://loom.ly/RkjUTeI#TrainingTuesday #ChildPTSD #ChildTrauma #CECs

The August newsletter is here! Find #BacktoSchool #MentalHealth resources, learn about our newest Performance Improvement Center, see the latest outcomes from CT's Urgent Crisis Centers for youth, meet new staff, and more. ➡️Read it here: https://conta.cc/4lMar75#BacktoSchool