The Transforming Children’s Behavioral Health Policy and Planning Committee (“TCB”) was established in 2023 by Public Act 23-90 and mandated to evaluate the availability and effectiveness of prevention, early intervention, and treatment services for children’s behavioral health, substance use disorders, and general well-being of children aged from birth to eighteen.
The law further directs the committee to assess and identify:
- Statutory and Budgetary changes to improve the children’s behavioral health system.
- Service Delivery Gaps and other missed opportunities to advance the State’s ability to offer families a set of streamlined, accessible, and responsive solutions.
- Strengths and Barriers that either support or hinder children’s behavioral health care.
- School-Based Behavioral Health Efforts that collaboratively support efforts to improve behavioral health outcomes for children.
- Disproportionate Behavioral Health Access and Outcomes for children of color and those in underserved communities such as rural parts of the state.
- Disproportionate access and outcomes across the behavioral health care system for children with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
- Quality Assurance framework(s) to maintain timely data analytics to improve both private and publicly operated behavioral health services, facilities, and programs capacity to streamline and centralize processes and operations with accountability and agility.
- Governance Structure to align state public policy and healthcare goals to ensure that all children and families, in urban, rural, and all other areas of the state, can access high-quality behavioral health care regardless of their ability to pay.
- Sustainable Workforce Needs to support the evolving behavioral health needs of children.
Timeline
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2014
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March 26
Establishment of Tow Youth Justice Institution
In 2014, the State of Connecticut established the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee (JJPOC) through Public Act 14-217 to oversee the continued reform of the juvenile justice system.
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April 14
First Recognition
Who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain itself, it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
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august 22
Best Consulting Award
To take a trivial example, which of us ever laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy.
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2017
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February 14
Opened 27 Offices Worldwide
To take a trivial example, which of us ever laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy.
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June 27
Best Consultant of the Year
Who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain itself, it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
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2025
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February 14
Opened 27 Offices Worldwide
To take a trivial example, which of us ever laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy.
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June 27
Best Consultant of the Year
Who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain itself, it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.