CT’s broken child mental healthcare system needs more reform

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CT’s broken child mental healthcare system needs more reform

The consequences of an underfunded and overstretched child mental health system can be devastating for Connecticut’s kids and families. The combination of children with serious psychiatric illness being treated by overburdened staff who may have been inadequately trained, supported, supervised, and compensated can contribute to abuse of some of the most vulnerable members of our community: children seeking care in residential facilities.

Like many in my town, I was sad and angry to learn of some examples in my own backyard, at the Children’s Center of Hamden. It is egregious that the public is only now becoming aware of these very serious concerns happening under our noses but behind locked doors. I urge legislators to work to ensure greater oversight of these facilities and increased transparency for the community when patterns of mistreatment are detected.

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