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To advance equity, states, districts, and schools must serve the whole person and whole community.

If your child breaks their leg, you know you should take them to the emergency room, and that’s usually easy to find. It’s also normally in-network with your insurance. If your child is struggling with anxiety or depression, it’s much harder to find appropriate care in-network with your health insurance. 

The historically under-resourced care delivery system in Connecticut raised significant questions about how our state can improve the way we meet the behavioral health needs of young people. 

If 2020 was the year that the pandemic catapulted telehealth into the mainstream of healthcare delivery, 2023 was the year that it became the new normal, especially in behavioral healthcare.  But for telehealth, as for other aspects of post-pandemic life, settling into the new normal hasn’t always been easy. 

Too often, youth experiencing behavioral health crisis face hospitalization or justice system involvement, instead of the home- and community-based services they need to de-escalate and stabilize.

Screening for Anxiety and Depression in Schools: Next Steps. How do we know if our children are struggling?  And what do we do about it if they are?  Since the pandemic shone a light on children and adolescents’ behavioral health, these questions are increasingly urgent for health care providers, educators and policy makers. 

Every child who shows up in the ED in crisis is a sign that we, as a society, have not done enough to support them at other points in their journey. We need to move care away from crowded emergency departments and into homes, schools and communities, with a focus on prevention.