Child Health & Development Institute (CHDI)

Despite the current federal landscape, public school superintendents in Connecticut are focused on “Leading Transformational Learning: Shaping the Future.” Proud to be a part of today’s conference by CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS INC to share Child Health & Development Institute (CHDI) initiatives supporting “Restorative and Comprehensive School Mental Health” with Rebekah Behan and Roseann Breindel.

Congratulations to our colleagues at the Child Health & Development Institute (CHDI) Brittany C.L. Lange, DPhil, MPH, Kellie Randall, Jason Lang, Christian M. Connell, and Ashley Nelson on the recent publication of "A Systematic Review of Brief, Child-Completed Adversity Screening Measures" in Journal of Child and Family Studies (Springer Nature). The article highlights critical measures of child adversity exposure, addressing issues like bullying, violence, and poverty. Access the article: https://lnkd.in/eabzren2

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) amazing keynote today and many thanks to the champion leaders, scientists, lived experience experts, and many more committed to youth substance use and co-occurring services for youth prevention, treatment, and recovery! Many thanks to RDML Director Jones, Director Olsen, and their respective staff for their commitment and investment to a better future.

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"The single most vulnerable year during childhood for experiencing things like abuse and neglect is your first year of life." - Sufna John, PhD, UAMS - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences In our latest video, hear from Dr. John - and other nationally recognized experts who consulted on the development of CHDI's Trauma ScreenTIME Early Childhood Course - on why it makes sense to screen for trauma exposure in early childhood settings. The free, online Trauma ScreenTIME Early Childhood Course teaches early childhood teachers, home visitors, clinicians, and other professionals how to screen young children (0-6) for trauma and connect families to services and supports that can help them recover. CECs/CEUs available! Register at link in first comment ?? (Special thanks to Dr. John along with Salam Soliman, Psy.D. of Child First, Joshua Mersky, MSW, PhD and James Dimitri Topitzes, MSW, PhD of Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for helping us explain the impact of early childhood trauma in this video!) #TraumaScreening #ChildTrauma #PTSD #EarlyChildhoodEducation #ECE #ChildDevelopment #CECs #CEUs

Happy World Social Work Day to the TEN social workers on CHDI's team and the countless social workers we partner with across Connecticut and beyond to improve the children's behavioral health system! #WorldSocialWorkDay #CompassionPlusAction #SWMonth2025 #SocialWorkMonth

Inspiring SAMHSA CSAT Annual Conference! Great to meet over 100 youth, researchers, lived experience experts, and collaborators in youth co-occurring and substance use treatment. Many thanks to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for bringing the best and finest together. Key takeaways: -Life is lifing -Each one, reach one, teach one #cooccurring #integrated #treatment #addiction #recovery #mentalhealth #addictionrecovery #sobriety #sober #youth #soberlife #recoveryispossible #mentalhealthawareness #depression #alcoholism #addictionawareness #soberliving #drugaddiction #wedorecover #anxiety #onedayatatime #addict #soberaf #rehab #selfcare #motivation #healing #steps #alcoholfree #selflove #substanceabuse

Last night, CHDI celebrated our fourth straight year being recognized by the Hartford Business Journal as one of Connecticut's "Best Places to Work" for 2025! ?? CHDI ranked third in the Small/Medium organization category - our highest rating ever! - and was the top-ranked nonprofit. The winners will be profiled in a special issue of the Hartford Business Journal later this month. Congratulations to the rest of this year's honorees! ??Learn more about the award and what staff had to say about working at CHDI: https://loom.ly/60NUqGU #BPTWCT2025 #BestPlacestoWorkCT

This short video highlights one of CHDI's key strategies to improve the quality of behavioral health care for children: expanding access to evidence-based practices (EBPs) and treatments (EBTs), which are proven to have better outcomes than "treatment as usual." Since 2007, CHDI has trained more than 2,700 clinicians to deliver an EBP, reaching over 21,000 children and youth across Connecticut and beyond! ??Learn more about our EBP work + opportunities to partner with us: https://loom.ly/v5u1hxc Special thanks to partners from the Connecticut State Department of Children & Families, The Village for Families & Children, and Community Health Resources for sharing their experience working with CHDI on EBPs in this video! #EvidenceBasedPractice #ResearchtoPractice #ImpSci #ChildrensMentalHealth

In honor of Women's History Month, CHDI celebrates the strong, talented, passionate women on our staff and Board of Directors. By finding and championing innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges in the children's behavioral health field, they are making history every day. ?? #WomensHistoryMonth #BestPlacestoWorkCT