February 2025 Message from Jodi Hill-Lilly
THANK YOU for an AMAZING first year as Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families!
In the first 12 months, we established the Employee of the Month Award, placed greater focus on the 0-5 and Transitional Aged Youth (TAY) populations, enhanced our Behavioral Health and Prevention frameworks all while working out of a staffing crisis.
This work cannot be done alone, and I remain grateful for the relationships established with our sister state agencies and community partners across Connecticut. I could not be prouder to work with such a great group of people - inside and outside - of the Agency.
February brings Black History Month celebrations where we recognize the contributions of Black people throughout our country. We still have much work to do in addressing disproportionality and disparate treatment of those in the Black and Brown communities as they remain overrepresented in our systems.
Jodi Hill-Lilly
Commissioner, Department of Children and Families