NCCEV Announcements

For immediate release: September 15, 2005

NCCEV conducts 8th Annual Mental Health Conference

The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV) at the Yale Child Study Center, in collaboration with the New Haven Department of Police Service is hosting the 8th Annual Child Development-Community Policing Program Multi-site Conference at the Yale Child Study Center, 230 South Frontage Road, Donald J. Cohen Auditorium.

The conference is an all day meeting of representatives from the 16 CD-CP sites throughout the country. The purpose of this year’s conference is to work on the development of a formal CD-CP Program network. Sites represented include: Baltimore, MD; Bridgeport, CT; Charlotte, NC; Chelsea, MA; Clearwater, FL; New Haven, CT; Framingham, MA; Guilford, CT; Nashville, TN; Providence, RI; Raleigh, NC; Rochester, NY; Sitka, AK; Stamford, CT; Wilmington, DE and Zuni, NM.

The CD-CP Program was established in 1991 and formed the basis of the NCCEV, established in 1999. The program is directed by Steven Marans, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. NCCEV's goals are to raise public awareness about the effects of exposure to violence, provide training and technical assistance in the CD-CP Program model to communities nationwide, and to serve as a national resource center for professionals and the public on children's exposure to violence.

Central to the CD-CP Program is a round-the-clock acute response consultation service, where mental health professionals along with police respond to crises. Children and families exposed to violence and trauma are provided with clinical services at the scene of the incident with follow-up, and with referral for ongoing services.

Representatives from the NCCEV’s Southeast Regional Training Center in Charlotte, North Carolina have been instrumental in coordinating the activities for the conference as well. For more information on NCCEV or the conference, please contact Colleen Vadala at 203-785-7047 or colleen.vadala@yale.edu.