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Early Childhood Trauma Collaborative (ECTC) Connecticut

 

The Early Childhood Trauma Collaborative (ECTC) is a 5-year, $2 million grant awarded to CHDI in 2016 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to extend trauma-focused services to young children in Connecticut.

The Early Childhood Trauma Collaborative will also be part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), a federal network of 81 SAMHSA funded members and over a hundred affiliates working to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.

Goals: The Early Childhood Trauma Collaborative goals are to:

  1. Improve knowledge among Connecticut’s early childhood workforce about violence, abuse, and other forms of trauma, including how to identify young children and their families who may be experiencing traumatic stress
  2. Improve capacity to deliver community-based, trauma-focused services to children birth to age seven who are exposed to violence, abuse, and other forms of trauma

Partners: The Early Childhood Trauma Collaborative partnership includes:

  • CHDI
  • Connecticut Office of Early Childhood
  • Connecticut Department of Children and Families
  • The Consultation Center at Yale University (Evaluator)
  • Evidence-based practice treatment developers and trainers
  • Community-Based Providers:
  • Bridges, A Community Support System
  • Community Child Guidance Clinic, Inc.
  • Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut
  • Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, The Center for Youth & Families
  • Community Health Resources
  • Family and Children's Aid
  • United Community & Family Services
  • Wellmore Behavioral Health
  • Yale Child Study Center, Yale University

Trauma-Informed Care in Connecticut:

For the past 10 years, CHDI has partnered with state agencies and community-based mental health providers to disseminate and sustain children’s behavioral health evidence-based practices and has helped Connecticut develop a robust system of trauma-informed care and services for school-aged children. This grant will expand upon that work by developing a system of  trauma-informed care and treatment options for children under the age of seven.

Download a fact sheet on the ECTC. To learn more about the ECTC and how it will expand trauma-focused services and care for young children and their families, please contact Jason Lang (jalang@uchc.edu), Kellie Randall (randall@uchc.edu), and Kim Campbell (kcampbell@uchc.edu).

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