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The Office’s Three Roles

By: Scott Orsey Promoting the optimal healthy development of children. That’s what we do here at the Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health (the Office). It sounds fairly straightforward, right? Getting kids programs and services to help them achieve their best outcomes. However, in reality, accomplishing that […]

What is Good Program Definition?

By: Scott Orsey Are you struggling to explain your program to potential supporters? Is your program a wild success and worthy of replication, but others just don’t get it? Are you looking to put pen to paper and document your program definition? A quick internet search will turn […]

A Vision to Help Children Thrive

Dr. Paul Dworkin, Executive Vice President for Community Child Health at Connecticut Children’s and Founding Director of the Help Me Grow National Center, joins our blog to share more about his work in Hartford and beyond to transform child health and development to ensure all children have an […]

Father buckling daughter into car seat.

Hazards of Hot Cars

By: Amy Watkins, MPH The statistics are alarming: about 40 children die from heat stroke every summer in the United States after being trapped inside hot cars. In more than half of these deaths, a parent forgot and unintentionally left their child behind in the car. Connecticut Children’s embraces […]

Pride Month

Honoring Pride Month With Kids

Pride Month provides an opportunity to teach children about the tremendous contributions and accomplishments of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) during past and present times. At Connecticut Children’s, we honor Pride Month with our team members, patients and […]