A recent NPR story highlights how Connecticut is leading the way in reducing preschool suspensions and expulsions with support from an innovative classroom-level intervention developed by Advanced Behavioral Health called the Early Childhood Consultation Partnership (ECCP). CHDI and the Children’s Fund of Connecticut played a key role as champions and funders in bringing mental health consultation to child care in Connecticut beginning in 2001. The Children’s Fund provided a grant to Walter Gilliam to conduct the first large scale evaluation of ECCP. New research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry shows that ECCP continues to make a difference in preschools.
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