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

This week's featured #TrainingTuesday course is timely as students head back to the classroom: School Refusal. ➡️Register FREE: https://bit.ly/45BApFN#TrainingTuesday #SchoolMentalHealth #KidsMentalHealthTraining #SchoolAttendance #CECs #CEUs

This week's FREE #TrainingTuesday course is "Brief Introduction to Wraparound." The Wraparound model helps build constructive relationships and support networks among children and youth with behavioral health challenges and their families. Register: https://bit.ly/4nXoLw2#TrainingTuesday #YouthMentalHealth #CECs

In our latest brief, CHDI's Jeff Vanderploeg unpacks the 5 elements of infrastructure we must invest in to build effective, accessible, and sustainable state-level children's behavioral health systems: https://loom.ly/1OZ-8QA #SystemsChange #MentalHealthPolicy #PublicHealth #ChildrensMentalHealth

This #TrainingTuesday, we're highlighting the FREE 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: https://loom.ly/uozlLfs#TrainingTuesday#ASBIRT#EvidenceBasedPractice#SubstanceUse#CECs

Trauma is prevalent among youth involved in the #ChildWelfare system. CHDI's free, online Trauma ScreenTIME Child Welfare Course answers many common questions #ChildWelfare professionals have about #trauma screening. ➡️Register for the course: https://loom.ly/3TuJGJ0#ChildWelfare#ChildWelfare#trauma#ChildPTSD #CaseManagement

Are you passionate about building a better #ChildrensBehavioralHealth system? Join our team! CHDI is currently #hiring for 5 open positions in #QualityImprovement, #ImpSci, #EvidenceBasedPractice, #SystemDevelopment, and #SchoolMentalHealth in #Connecticut. ➡️Learn more + apply: loom.ly/MyxQ4uo

It's #TrainingTuesday! This week's featured course is A Comprehensive Introduction to the Ohio Scales for Youth, taught by Ohio Scales co-developer Ben Ogles. Learn to use these evidence-based measures to assess + monitor #BehavioralHealth treatment with youth and families: https://loom.ly/znQWMIA

Our latest newsletter includes a new Issue Brief, training courses, job opportunities, and a tribute to the late champion for CT families, Beresford Wilson, Jr. Read it here: https://conta.cc/4mlKv32 #ChildrensMentalHealth

Help shape CHDI’s new Performance Improvement Center for the State of Connecticut’s Functional Family Therapy-Foster Care (FFT-FC) program! We're currently hiring for 2 roles to staff this initiative: https://loom.ly/MyxQ4uo #MentalHealthJobs #PublicHealthJobs #QualityImprovement #FosterCare

In our latest Issue Brief, CHDI's Jeff Vanderploeg unpacks 5 essential elements of infrastructure within the context of state-level children’s behavioral health system building: https://loom.ly/1OZ-8QA #MentalHealthPolicy

It's #TrainingTuesday! This week's FREE course is "Brief Introduction to Wraparound." Learn skills to implement the #Wraparound Practice Model to build support networks around youth w/behavioral health needs. ➡️Register: https://bit.ly/4nXoLw2#TrainingTuesday#Wraparound#YouthMentalHealth #ProfessionalDevelopment #CECs

At the #2025TrainingInstitutes earlier this month, our team shared many free CHDI trainings, resources, and publications for professionals working to improve #ChildrensMentalHealth treatments, systems, and policies. Here were some of the most popular resources: 1/

In this week's health news roundup: -More states passing laws to grant doula access to those covered by Medicaid -Gaps in mental health care for Connecticut mothers -Patients delaying care due to fears of ICE raids Read these stories and others here: www.cthealth.org/latest-news/...

Help us welcome Wendy Hulbert to the CHDI team as our new Accounts Payable Manager! 🎉 Wendy brings over 20 years of experience in accounting and administrative support across the health, finance, and manufacturing sectors. She holds a bachelor's degree from Lesley University. Welcome, Wendy!

📣Join one of the "Best Places to Work in CT"! CHDI is seeking a Senior Associate or Director to has an exciting opportunity to lead our quality improvement work for a state of #Connecticut #FosterCare program. 👉Apply: https://loom.ly/MyxQ4uo #Hiring #CTJobs #QualityImprovement #ChildWelfare

New research from Dr. Neal Halfon of UCLA finds an alarming decline in American kids' health and well-being: https://loom.ly/nyB8UDs #HealthPolicy #ChildHealth

It's #TrainingTuesday, a new weekly series highlighting free Kids Mental Health Training courses! The #OhioScales for Youth are evidence-based measures to assess + monitor youth #BehavioralHealth treatment. Learn to use them in your work with kids + families: https://loom.ly/oAarET0

#Connecticut's Urgent Crisis Centers (UCCs) have diverted 1000+ kids experiencing behavioral health crises from emergency rooms since 2023. But as this @ctnewsjunkie.bsky.social piece explains, their long-term sustainability is uncertain: https://loom.ly/mLSJecc

CHDI's #SchoolMentalHealth team was busy at #2025TrainingInstitutes! Their sessions included sharing lessons learned from 10 years of Connecting to Care, #RestorativePractices in schools, and using data to strengthen school mental health services.

Yesterday, CHDI President & CEO Jeff Vanderploeg had a chance to catch up with longtime partner Tammy Freeberg of The Village + Michelle Zabel of @innovations-uconn.bsky.social, #2025TrainingInstitutes host! Thanks again to Innovations for organizing this incredible gathering. 🙌

Another #2025TrainingInstitutes highlight: a workshop on #TraumaScreening best practices by CHDI's Jason Lang + Kellie Randall w/FAVOR's Lisa Girard. ✨Missed this one? No worries! It was based on CHDI's Trauma ScreenTIME courses, all available FREE to any child-serving professional: bit.ly/44aI0ua