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Information | Media Links | Resources

FFACT works with media partners, advocacy organizations, and individual advocates from around the country to increase awareness around the impact of early trauma on children, and drive effective parent advocacy practices in an effort to address flawed child-serving systems in place to help. Find links to various news stories, documentaries, feature editorials, TedTalks, and more here. These links are intended to both inspire and inform, educate and grow hope. 

Media Coverage (CT) - Childhood Trauma and Children's Behavioral Health

Child Mental Health Care Access, Custody for Care, Trauma

Desperate Choices: Giving Up Custody for Care
A Desperate Bargain; Parents are forced to give up custody to get their children psychiatric care
Waiting for Tearah, Frontline, 2019
'Early intervention is the key:' Identifying trauma in young children, CT Mirror, Marjorie Sostak
Giving Up Child Custody for Mental Health Care, CTPublic, 2019
Nowhere to Go: Mentally ill youth in crisis, 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley, 2014
Link search
custody for care, child welfare reform, CT DCF article

Advocacy - How Parent Voice Informs Change

CT-Network Programming, Rallys, Interviews, PR, Seminars, Community Outreach

2/7/2017 Children's Committee Hearing, HB 6297 Testimony

2/7/17 Children's Committee Hearing

HB 6297 Testimony (w/others)

2021 Two-Gen Parent Academy
Two-Gen work through the CT CWCSEO
Second Time Foster Child, Toni Hoy
Acknowledging Childhood Trauma
CT Mirror article Trauma, Acknowledged Childhood Trauma
Family Forward Project
Family Forward Project Defund ASFA
WNPR When Teens Abuse Parents
Shout Your Cause, Change the System or Bust
Shout Your Cause, Advocating Families Forward

Education/ Special Education - Tools for Parents 

Special Education can be a lifeline intervention for RAD kiddos
Special Education Advocate Services, attachment disruption trauma accommodations

Special Education Services, a specialized area most parents are ill-prepared to navigate, become very important to those raising children with behavioral health needs. Learn more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H90Po8tHbOU

CT Coastal Academy, CT

Connecticut Coastal Academy

Special Education Day School

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Information - Informing Child Serving System Reform

Ted Talks, Films, Podcast Interveiws

Rethinking Foster Care, Molly McGrath-Tierney, TedX 2014
Childhood Trauma Affects Us All, Gina Heumann, TEDx 2020
Nadine Burke Harris, How does trauma affect a child's DNA
Time to Talk - a parent's perspective on children's mental illness: Liza Long, TEDx, 2013
Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline, Benjamin Williams, TEDx, 2019, school to prison pipeline
My son was a Columbine shooter, This is my story, Sue Klebold, TEDx, 2017

Resources

Genesight, Inc.

Learn about the value of Genomic Testing


Are your child's medications absorbed as intended?

CT School & State Finance Project

CT: Net Current School Expenditures per Student


Research Your School District

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