December 12, 2013
Release of Connecticut’s First Study and Comprehensive Report on Homeless Youth
Co-sponsored by: Joint Committees on Housing, Children, Human Services, Education and Public Health
Hosted by:
Stacey Violante Cote, Esq, Center for Children’s Advocacy; Chair, Reaching Home Youth Workgroup
Alicia Woodsby, Deputy Director, Partnership for Strong Communities
Andrea Spencer, PhD, Dean, Pace University School of Education; Education Consultant to Center for Children’s Advocacy
Blind Spot: Impact of Missed Early Warning Signs on Children’s Mental Health
Richard Pugliese, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Fellow ,Yale Child Study Center; Family Advocacy Practice, Middlesex Hospital
Screening and Intervention
Rob Zavoski, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Connecticut Department of Social Services
Mental Health Screening as Part of the Well Child Pediatric Visit
Jay Sicklick, Esq., Deputy Director, Center for Children’s Advocacy; Director, Medical-Legal Partnership Project
Medicaid and Behavioral Health Screenings – What the Law Requires
Center for Children’s Advocacy 2014
Legislative Agenda
Legislative Office Building, Room 2C
8:30am -12:00pm
Connecticut Voices for Children is hosting a youth-led discussion on the educational challenges facing young people in the care of the Department of Children and Families or residing in Court Support Services facilities:
· Listen to youth sharing their stories and ideas;
· Learn the facts about the academic challenges and opportunities facing youth in state care; and
· Discuss how we as educators, advocates, and community members can support opportunities and success for youth in state care.
Participants include:
· Youth in the care of the DCF
· DCF Commissioner Joette Katz
· Dr. Myra Jones-Taylor, Exec. Dir., Office of Early Childhood
· Connecticut Child Advocate Sarah Eagan
· Hon. Bernadette Conway, Chief Administrative Judge, Juvenile Matters
· Rep. Toni Walker, Chair, Appropriations Committee
· Rep. Andrew Fleischmann, Chair, Education Committee
· Rep. Diana Urban, Chair, Children’s Committee
· Martha Stone, Exec. Dir., Center for Children’s Advocacy