Issue Brief 85 Explores the Use of Measurement-Based Care to Improve Children's Behavioral Health |
|
|
|
|
|
CHDI's Issue Brief 85, Making Measures Matter, examines how measurement-based care (MBC) can enhance family-centered care, reduce costs, and improve outcomes in children's behavioral health services.
Health care providers have used MBC to improve physical health for years and it has been increasingly applied in behavioral health with positive results. MBC may be as simple as paper-and-pencil questionnaires or as sophisticated as digital apps with automatic scoring and reporting tools. Issue Brief 85 includes practical suggestions for how behavioral health providers of any size can implement MBC in their programs.
|
|
|
|
Children and Youth Services Review Article Explores Repeat Use of Connecticut's Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention Services |
|
|
|
CHDI’s Kayla Theriault, Kellie Randall, and Jeff Vanderploeg, along with Tim Marshall (DCF), authored an article in Children and Youth Services Review on children who have multiple contacts with Connecticut’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Services. The article, “Factors associated with repeated use of a mobile response service for children: An observational retrospective cohort study,” looks into the roughly one-third of children served by Mobile Crisis who have more than one episode of care within a two-year period. The study identifies related factors, including the referral source, presenting problem, and acuity level. For instance, the two most common presenting problems for Mobile Crisis are harm/risk of harm to self; however, children who present with disruptive behavior have 33% higher odds of returning to the service. Additionally, children who have prior experience with high-level behavioral health crisis services have 43% higher odds of having at least one additional Mobile Crisis episode. The article compares these findings to the literature on the frequent use of the emergency department for pediatric behavioral health concerns and discusses implications for the broader behavioral health system.
|
|
|
|
School Mental Health and Trauma Updates |
|
|
|
|
|
|
CT Schools Can Access School-Based Trauma Treatment and a School Mental Health Assessment Tool at No Cost |
|
|
|
The SHAPE System (School Health Assessment & Performance Evaluation)
|
|
|
|
CHDI is available to help schools and districts in Connecticut use the SHAPE System. SHAPE is a web-based platform and assessment tool with targeted resources to support comprehensive school mental health and quality improvement. It is hosted by the National Center for School Mental Health, and dissemination is supported by CT DCF. Learn more at www.chdi.org/shape.
|
|
|
|
|
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) and Bounce Back |
CBITS is a school-based group intervention (for grades 5-12) that has been shown to reduce PTSD and depression symptoms and psychosocial dysfunction in children who have experienced trauma. Bounce Back is an adaptation of the CBITS model for elementary school students (grades K-5).
Since 2015, CHDI has worked with the State of Connecticut and others to disseminate CBITS and Bounce Back to schools and districts. Over 500 clinicians have been trained and more than 4,000 students have benefited from treatment. In SFY 2022, 96 schools in 29 districts offered Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) or Bounce Back.
Connecticut providers, schools, school-based health centers, or others interested in participating in the Connecticut CBITS / Bounce Back initiative can learn more at www.chdi.org/cbits.
|
|
|
|
Trauma ScreenTIME Shared at NCTSN's All Network Conference |
|
|
|
Trauma ScreenTIME is an online training course on how to screen children for trauma. It provides staff working with children and youth the knowledge to effectively screen children for trauma and connect families with their preferred supports and services to help children recover from the effects of trauma exposure. The course is available at no cost to child-serving professionals. Additionally, continuing education credits are available. Take the course at http://traumascreentime.org.
Learn more about screening for child trauma at www.chdi.org/traumascreentime.
*Trauma ScreenTIME is part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and is funded through a five-year federal SAMHSA grant to CHDI.
|
|
|
|
CHDI Welcomes Three New Staff Members! |
|
|
|
CHDI Bids Farewell to Diana Perry |
|
|
|
CHDI wishes Diana Perry well in her new position as the Regional Trauma Coordinator at the Capitol Region Education Council (CREC). In her four years at CHDI, Diana helped guide the evolution of comprehensive school-based mental health in Connecticut and contributed to the success of Connecticut's CBITS, Bounce Back, and Project AWARE initiatives. She was also instrumental in helping CHDI advance our work toward equity and racial justice. In her new role, Diana will contribute to the planning, development, and implementation of trauma-informed training for CREC school districts in the Greater Hartford region. Recognizing that CREC has a meaningful and ongoing collaboration with CHDI, we anticipate many opportunities to continue our work with Diana in her new role.
|
|
|
|
Join Our Team
CHDI is seeking candidates for the following positions.
-
Senior Associate to work on projects to disseminate and implement evidence-based practices (EBPs) in children’s behavioral health. The position will be responsible for managing training and consultation for multiple community-based children’s behavioral health initiatives with a trauma-informed lens.
-
Senior Associate Behavioral Health System Development to lead CHDI’s efforts to advance equitable children’s behavioral health system development, including initiatives to support the state’s Children’s Behavioral Health Plan and behavioral health workforce development.
|
|
|
|
Child Health and Development Institute
|
|
Copyright ©2022. All Rights Reserved.
The CHDI logo is a registered trademark.
|
|
|
|
|
