Wraparound Care Coordination Has a Positive Impact on Youth and Caregivers Across Racial-Ethnic Groups |
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CHDI's Jeana Bracey, PhD and Aleece Kelly, MPP joined colleagues at Yale School of Medicine and the Department of Children and Families in co-authoring a study in Psychiatric Services, "Understanding Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Wraparound Care for Youths With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders," The study examined disparities in outcomes for families receiving wraparound care coordination within a system of care and revealed few significant differences by race-ethnicity and an overall positive impact of services on both youths and caregivers. Previous research illustrated significant disparities in outcomes of non-wraparound care on the basis of youths’ race-ethnicity. Click here to read the article.
Connecticut is working to develop a statewide system of care through the State's Connecting to Care initiative and implementation of the Behavioral Health Plan for Children. The system of care is designed to increase access to and quality of care for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties and their families through the provision of coordinated, community-based, culturally competent, family-driven services. Families in Connecticut can learn more about how to access wraparound care coordination at www.connectingtocarect.org and learn more about Connecticut's efforts to build a system of care at www.plan4children.org.
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Issue Brief 81: Innovative Service Delivery During COVID-19: Strategies to Meet the Needs of Children and Families During the Pandemic and Beyond
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On September 1, CHDI published an Issue Brief summarizing strategies employed by four grantees representing four sectors (pediatric primary care, community-based mental health) to address the needs of children and families during the pandemic. The Issue Brief includes recommendations to permanently sustain adaptations and innovations that significantly reduced barriers to care and improved outcomes for children and their families.
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Findings from the Mobile Crisis Annual Report - FY 2021 |
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Despite the significant challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, Connecticut's Mobile Crisis Intervention Services continued to provide effective care and exceeded benchmarks for mobility and response time.
Key findings from the Mobile Crisis FY 2021 Annual Report include:
- Mobile Crisis served 7,791 children through 10,542 episodes of care.
- The statewide mobility rate for the year was 95.5%, and the 90% mobility benchmark was exceeded by all six regions.
- Additionally, 82.8% of mobile episodes were responded to within 45 minutes, exceeding the 80% benchmark.
- Though schools are typically the top referral source for Mobile Crisis, school closures and virtual learning led to only 26.5% of episodes being referred by schools – this accounts for a majority of the decline in episode volume from previous years.
The Mobile Crisis Performance Improvement Center at CHDI prepared the annual report as part of our effort to provide ongoing quality improvement, practice development, and outcomes evaluation for the program. Visit our website to view the full report or to learn more about Mobile Crisis quality improvement efforts.
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CHDI Helps SAMHSA Create Crisis Continuum of Care Blueprint |
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CHDI's President and CEO Jeffrey Vanderploeg, PhD is part of a team of national experts engaged by SAMHSA to develop a Blueprint for a comprehensive crisis continuum of care for children, youth, young adults and their families. The team is identifying best practices and emerging approaches for developing, implementing, and sustaining a comprehensive crisis continuum of care that is effective for children, youth, and young adults with behavioral health needs across various subpopulations. For more than a decade, Vanderploeg has helped create and guide quality improvement efforts for Connecticut's Mobile Crisis Intervention Services program and assisted several states and communities in developing youth mobile crisis systems in partnership with SAMHSA. Learn more about the Mobile Crisis Performance Improvement Center at CHDI.
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Early Child Trauma Collaborative Funding Extended |
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The Early Childhood Trauma Collaborative (ECTC) is CHDI’s initiative to increase the availability of trauma treatments for young children (0-6 years old) in Connecticut. Funded by SAMHSA and in partnership with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and 16 community provider agencies, ECTC has disseminated two evidence-based treatments in Connecticut: Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) and Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). Over the past five years, more than 160 clinicians have been trained in EBTs for young children and more than 700 children have received treatment in Connecticut. Families completing treatment have experienced significant improvement in trauma symptoms, parent depression, and parenting stress. While September marked the end of the initial project, CHDI has received a no-cost extension that will allow for some additional consultation and training opportunities over the next year to enhance sustainability.
Families can search for providers offering the ARC and CPP treatments for young children using Connecticut's Evidence-Based Practices Directory.
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CHDI Shares Expertise on Comprehensive School Mental Health |
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School-Family-Community partnerships are instrumental to successfully implementing an equitable comprehensive school mental health plan. CHDI's Jeana Bracey, PhD, Associate Vice President for School and Community Initiatives, and Jamie LoCurto, PhD, Senior Associate for Project AWARE, shared strategies schools can use for strengthening these partnerships within each tier of a multi-tiered system of support at the North Central and Central Networks of Care meeting on September 8. LoCurto also shared strategies schools can use to begin thinking about the development and implementation of comprehensive, equitable, and trauma-informed behavioral health programming at the Regional Crisis Team’s meeting on September 21.
Schools in Connecticut can access free technical assistance and resources related to comprehensive school mental health, including The SHAPE system, evidence-based trauma treatments, and professional development resources.
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Aleece Kelly will Serve as CHDI's New Senior Project Coordinator in Support of the Children's Behavioral Health Plan |
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Congratulations to Aleece Kelly, MPP who was selected as CHDI’s new Senior Project Coordinator in support of the Children’s Behavioral Health Plan implementation initiative. Aleece joined CHDI in 2018 and most recently served as a Senior Data Analyst providing oversight of data analysis and reporting for the state’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Services and WrapCT Care Coordination programs. She also supported the evaluation of CHDI’s Early Childhood Trauma Collaborative. In her new role, Aleece will engage state agencies, providers, advocates, and families in efforts to improve equitable access, quality, and outcomes of children’s behavioral health systems and services. She will also lead the planning and facilitation of workgroup activities focused on specific enhancements to the children’s behavioral health system.
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Thank you to Andy Agwunobi for his Service to CHDI's Board of Directors |
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CHDI is grateful to Andrew Agwunobi, MD, MBA for his leadership and guidance while serving on CHDI's Board of Directors. Andy is the Chief Executive Officer and the Executive Vice President for Health Affairs for UConn Health system and Interim President of the University of Connecticut. He has served on the CHDI Board of Directors since 2017 and most recently served as Chair of the Board Development Committee. We wish him the best.
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