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A bridge to better behavioral health

The Child Health and Development Institute (CHDI) provides a bridge to better behavioral health and well-being for children, youth, and families in Connecticut and beyond.

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We empower policymakers, champion providers and educators, and spark partnerships that advance solutions and improve care for children, youth, and their families.

 

A bridge to better

We collaborate with state, community, and family partners to identify challenges and advance research-based solutions that improve behavioral health care across child-serving systems.

CHDI helps providers, educators, and other child-serving professionals expand and enhance care with prevention and early intervention programs, evidence-based practices, and research-based training that integrates family voice.

CHDI helps state agencies, legislators, and other policymakers apply data and research to inform decisions so they result in better outcomes for children and their families.

Who we are

Our Vision

All children will grow up healthy and thrive.

Our Mission

We advance effective and integrated system, practice, and policy solutions that result in equitable and optimal behavioral health and well-being for children, youth, and families in Connecticut and beyond. 

Our Strategy

We identify, demonstrate, support, and promote effective behavioral health innovations that will result in sustainable change, working in partnership with providers, educators, policymakers, academic institutions, state agencies, families, and others.

Our Vision

All children will grow up healthy and thrive.

Our Mission

We advance effective and integrated system, practice, and policy solutions that result in equitable and optimal behavioral health and well-being for children, youth, and families in Connecticut and beyond. 

Our Strategy

We identify, demonstrate, support, and promote effective behavioral health innovations that will result in sustainable change, working in partnership with providers, educators, policymakers, academic institutions, state agencies, families, and others.

 
OUR APPROACH

Collaboration in action

CHDI is an intermediary organization that connects people, information, data, and systems.

 

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CHDI powers systems, practice, and policy improvement via the following framework:

Our strategic process

Identify

Identify problem, gap or need in system

Develop

Develop or identify research-based innovation

Test

Test innovation to determine effectiveness and feasibility

Disseminate

Disseminate effective innovations widely and embed in statewide system

Create

Create infrastructure for policy and system sustainability

Evaluate

Evaluate effects of innovation on child and/or system outcomes

Adjust

Adjust to ensure optimal outcomes

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