Jeff Vanderploeg interviewed for CT Insider piece on funding for youth crisis services
CHDI President and CEO Jeff Vanderploeg, PhD, was interviewed for a recent CT Insider piece by Alex Putterman on the urgent need for the state to identify sustainable funding sources for Connecticut's youth behavioral health crisis services.
The state's youth crisis response system - which includes Urgent Care Centers and Mobile Crisis Intervention - is nationally recognized for high quality and strong outcomes. But with much of the system currently funded by expiring pandemic-era funds, the future of these services is at risk.
"It's one of the best [systems] in the country," Vanderploeg is quoted as saying in the CT Insider piece. "And when you have something that's good, you can't let it wither on the vine."
CHDI partners from Wellmore Behavioral Health, The Village for Families and Children, and the Connecticut Department of Children and Families were also interviewed for the piece.
Learn More About Sustaining CT Youth Crisis Services
Vanderploeg and partners from Wellmore Behavioral Health, The Village for Families and Children, and United Way of Connecticut recently co-authored a Policy Brief identifying possible solutions to sustain the state's youth crisis system. Read it here: