Senior Project Coordinator - BRIDGE

The Child Health and Development Institute (CHDI) is an independent, non-profit organization located in Farmington, CT. CHDI is dedicated to improving the behavioral health and well-being of children in Connecticut and beyond by providing policymakers, providers, educators, and partners with a bridge to better and more equitable systems, practices, and policies. Our core initiative areas include system development and integration, evidence-based and best practice treatment dissemination, comprehensive school mental health, and data analysis & quality improvement.

Primary strategic work activities include project coordination and management, data analysis, evaluation, quality improvement, research, consultation, training, technical assistance, and policy/system advocacy.

CHDI is seeking a Senior Project Coordinator to work on a five-year grant awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to CHDI entitled Project BRIDGE (Building Recovery through Trauma-Informed Detection, Guidance, and Early Intervention). There are two main activities for Project BRIDGE:

• First, the project aims to improve child-serving staff’s capacity for early identification of children suffering from traumatic stress. This will be done through updates to online courses on trauma screening best practices; by expanding trauma screening resources to address populations and contexts in which guidance is limited, with an initial focus on developing an online course focused on children with intellectual and developmental disabilities;
  
  and through in-person and virtual trainings.
• Second, the project aims to develop and disseminate a very brief evidence-informed trauma intervention intended for any youth age 6-17 experiencing traumatic stress across a range of settings in the United States where traditional, long-term evidence-based treatments are not feasible or available. This will include developing training curricula, practice manuals, implementation resources, and an online course. Following this, the intervention will be disseminated through four Learning Communities and a train-the-trainer.

• Independently reviewing, synthesizing, and translating research to understand best practices in the field and inform project activities;
• Designing and coordinating data collection through surveys, focus groups, and interviews;
• Leading the development of synchronous and asynchronous trainings for the children’s behavioral health workforce in partnership with trainers and content experts;
• Leading or independently developing materials to support implementation (e.g., practice manuals, implementation resources);
• Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with national experts, state experts, families, and other stakeholders to ensure best practices and lived experiences are incorporated into training materials;
• Serving as a primary point of contact for partners, trainers, consultants, or participating organizations;
• Leading the development, testing, launch and ongoing improvement of engaging online training content within a learning management system to increase the knowledge and skills of the behavioral health workforce;
• Oversee the coordination of in-person and online trainings, including registration, managing CEUs, providing support for users, and administering surveys and assessments;
• Independently managing assigned project work streams, workplans, timelines, and deliverables: monitoring progress and working with leadership to ensure all project deliverables and contract requirements are met on time;
• Planning, convening, and facilitating virtual and/or in-person team meetings;
• Supporting the planning and implementation of learning communities, train-the-trainer activities,…