How Connecticut’s Child Welfare System Became Trauma-Informed

The Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut recently released a brief detailing Connecticut’s efforts to implement trauma-informed care throughout its child welfare system. Since 2011, the federally funded CONCEPT initiative has begun screening every child age 3 and over in state care for trauma exposure and symptoms. It has trained thousands of child welfare workers in the causes and effects of childhood trauma and disseminated evidence-based treatments to clinicians in 30 agencies. The CONCEPT program has contributed to modifications of 37 DCF policies and practice guides.

Read more here: https://www.cmhnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IB68CONCEPT.pdf