By Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc.
CHDI launched a five year initiative to improve child trauma screening across child-serving systems in Connecticut and nationwide. The initiative, Trauma ScreenTIME (Screen, Triage, Inform, Mitigate, Engage), will develop online staff training for child-serving professionals to improve early identification and support of children suffering from traumatic stress and connection to evidence-based treatment. Trauma ScreenTIME is part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) and is being funded through a five year, $3 million federal SAMHSA grant, beginning in June 2020. CHDI was one of six organizations nationwide to be awarded a SAMHSA National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative Category II grant in 2020.
“The online aspect of Trauma ScreenTIME leverages the latest technology to provide a virtual, interactive training experience,” said Jeffrey Vanderploeg, President and CEO of CHDI. “This is especially important in the COVID-19 environment, as we prepare child-serving professionals to identify higher rates of trauma exposure when systems and services across the nation re-open. Web-based innovations such as ScreenTIME can be distributed widely to advance and promote more equitable health outcomes for children and families.”
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