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:
- 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
- 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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