Child Health and Development Institute - CHDI

Child Health and Development Institute - CHDI CHDI works to improve children’s behavioral health by advancing systems, policy & practice solutions.

👏 We're thrilled to introduce the newest member of our team, Senior Accountant Nicole Matheson!Nicole provides accountin...
06/01/2026

👏 We're thrilled to introduce the newest member of our team, Senior Accountant Nicole Matheson!

Nicole provides accounting support to our finance team and manages finances for the Functional Family Therapy-Foster Care (FFT-FC) program, a collaboration with providers statewide that improves outcomes for youth and families involved in the therapeutic foster care system.

She joins us from St. Paul Catholic High School in Bristol, where she served as Business Manager. Over the course of her career, she has also held accounting roles at higher education institutions.

👋 Please join us in welcoming Nicole!

Learn more about the FFT-FC program and CHDI's role as its performance center: https://loom.ly/c9BWLRc

🔍 What's inside our May newsletter? New resources, recent publications, and staff updates!Discover all this and more her...
05/29/2026

🔍 What's inside our May newsletter? New resources, recent publications, and staff updates!

Discover all this and more here: https://loom.ly/7530N80

And don't forget to subscribe if you haven't yet!

🎉 We're excited to announce the latest addition to our training catalog: Trauma ScreenTIME Juvenile Justice Course!Traum...
05/28/2026

🎉 We're excited to announce the latest addition to our training catalog: Trauma ScreenTIME Juvenile Justice Course!

Trauma is pervasive among youth involved in the juvenile justice system, but it's not always identified or addressed. That’s where the Trauma ScreenTIME Juvenile Justice Course can help! This course uses best practices and expert guidance to equip probation officers, detention officers, and other professionals in this setting (no clinical background required) with the tools to develop a screening process, choose a screening measure, conduct screening, utilize the results, and more.

🔗 Register here: https://loom.ly/8XVlwVw

The course is free, online, and self-paced. This program has been approved for 3.25 Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT , and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal.

Trauma ScreenTIME is a partner in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and funded through a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Category II NCTSI grant.

Connecticut needs one thing above all else to solve its children's behavioral health crisis: passionate professionals re...
05/27/2026

Connecticut needs one thing above all else to solve its children's behavioral health crisis: passionate professionals ready to step up. Could that be you?

Visit our new online resource to hear why current clinicians love this work, learn about career paths in children's behavioral health (some require less schooling than you might think!), and browse education funding resources and training opportunities!

🔗 chdi.org/cbh-careers

🚨 Something new is coming to our Trauma ScreenTIME course catalog next Thursday, and it's free and available to provider...
05/22/2026

🚨 Something new is coming to our Trauma ScreenTIME course catalog next Thursday, and it's free and available to providers nationwide.

Trauma ScreenTIME trainings deliver best practices and practical tools for trauma screening and intervention, tailored for a variety of child-serving settings—so providers can identify signs of traumatic stress and offer support early.

💬 Can you guess the topic?

National Child Traumatic Stress Network

🎉 Connecticut's children and families have some amazing champions in their corner!This afternoon at our 18th Annual Evid...
05/21/2026

🎉 Connecticut's children and families have some amazing champions in their corner!

This afternoon at our 18th Annual Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Conference, CHDI honored the clinicians and teams who demonstrated outstanding performance in implementing EBPs.

👏 Organizations recognized included:
• The Child and Family Guidance Center
• Community Health Center, Inc.
• Community Mental Health Affiliates (CMHA)
• Community Child Guidance Clinic, Inc.
• UCFS Healthcare
• Wellmore Behavioral Health
• CFA
• The Village for Families & Children
• Clifford Beers
• Bridges Healthcare
• CREC - Capitol Region Education Council
• Mid-Fairfield Community Care Center
• Southwest Community Health Center, Inc.
• Hartford Public Schools

We're grateful to all of our provider partners who are endlessly committed to transforming children's behavioral health; thank you for all that you do!

05/19/2026

Last but not least, meet contest winner Glorimar Falcon, LMSW! For her, working in children's behavioral health in Bridgeport is personal—she's giving back to the community she came from.

🎉 Congrats, Glorimar!

05/19/2026

Our second contest winner is Katherine Babb, LCSW! She originally intended to work with adults, but found her passion in children's behavioral health because she believes early intervention can create a deeper impact.

🎉 Congratulations, Katherine!

05/19/2026

Meet Dr. Alayna Freeman, one of three winners of our Behavioral Health Workforce Video Contest! Her powerful response emphasizes how joy, creativity, and community contribute to a truly supportive children's behavioral health system.

🎉 Congratulations, Dr. Freeman!

🏆 We're thrilled to announce that the winners of our video contest have been chosen with the help of student judges from...
05/14/2026

🏆 We're thrilled to announce that the winners of our video contest have been chosen with the help of student judges from Lyman Memorial High School in Lebanon!

A massive thanks to everyone who submitted a video and to those students who helped us make some tough calls and narrow down our top 3. Your contributions go beyond this contest—these stories will inspire the next generation of clinicians and benefit the kids and families who will one day be in their care.

👀 Check back next week for the reveal!

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30 Batterson Park Road
Farmington, CT
06032

Telephone

+18606791519

Website

http://www.kidsmentalhealthtraining.org/

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