At The Connecticut Women’s Consortium, our mission is to ensure that the behavioral health system responds to the needs of women and the people and organizations that affect them.

We strive to eliminate discrimination in behavioral health and to promote excellence in care for all people through education, training, advocacy, and policy development.

The Consortium provides education for nonprofits, state agencies, social workers, clinicians, and others interested in learning about gender, trauma, substance use, and mental health. In our infancy, The Consortium offered a minimal catalog of ten annual trainings; in recent years, however, we have grown to host hundreds of annual trainings and multiple national level conferences.

In 2023, we reached over 2,215 behavioral health professionals with our in-person, virtual trainings, on-demand online trainings, and private virtual events. The Consortium continues to add to our on-demand online trainings, 5 of which are currently nationally approved.

In addition to educating those who serve some of Connecticut’s most vulnerable residents, The Consortium also pioneers advocacy efforts on trauma, gender, and behavioral healthcare in the state of Connecticut. Our advocacy work involves community relations, policy advocacy, and initiative development. We are active members on statewide committees and workgroups focused on behavioral health, women and children, addiction and recovery, and criminal justice reentry and reform. We also partner with state departments, nurture relationships with champions in the state legislature, and submit testimony about issues at public hearings to promote evidence-based and best-practices in the behavioral health field.

We provide Continuing Education Credits across many events and trainings for different agencies, private organizations, and through our own training catalog last year.

We envision a world in which behavioral health care systems serving women are accessible, effective, and practice holistic, trauma-informed and gender-responsive care.

Help us make that vision a reality by supporting us in The Great Give 2024!