The purpose of the Connecticut Center for Effective Practice (CCEP) is to enhance Connecticut's capacity to improve the effectiveness of treatment provided to all children with serious and complex emotional, behavioral and addictive disorders through development, training, dissemination, evaluation and expansion of effective models of practice.
CCEP is engaged in an ongoing effort to educate policymakers and the public about the most effective behavioral health interventions. Effective behavioral health practices are clinical interventions supported by scientific research and able to demonstrate clinical improvement. These practices are individualized yet uniform, intuitive yet logical, and are explicitly based upon theoretical understanding of the risks and protective factors associated with behavioral disorders. New and effective practices for children and adolescents emphasize the importance of providers effectively engaging families, receiving ongoing supervision and training and assuming responsibility for demonstrating positive outcomes. In this context, the Center serves as a catalyst for significant reform of current behavioral practices.
Initiatives:
- Perform studies that assess children’s behavioral health services in Connecticut and recommend system improvements that incorporate best practices;
- Identify service gaps in behavioral health resources provided to children embroiled in the juvenile justice system;
- Facilitate the full integration and continuous evaluation of evidence-based behavioral health;
- Support the implementation, dissemination and evaluation of Multisystemic Therapy (MST) throughout Connecticut;
- Articulate lessons from the expansion of MST that inform state-wide discussions and planning for the introduction of other evidence-based models;
- Support, design and participate in behavioral health research piloting effective models of children’s treatment and service system improvements; and
- Become a conduit for state-wide dissemination of best practices and children’s behavioral health technical support.
Partnership and Funding
Connecticut Center for Effective Practice (CCEP) is a unique and effective public/private/academic partnership that includes the Department of Children and Families, the Court Support Services Division, the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center, the Yale Child Study Center and CHDI. This partnership functions as a management team, ensuring completion of Center goals and objectives.
Core funding for CCEP programs comes from the Connecticut Health Foundation, the Children’s Fund of Connecticut, the Tow Foundation and the State of Connecticut.
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