Connecticut Report On 2012 Sandy Hook Shooting Finds Systemic Gaps In Communication Between School & Private Mental Health Care

After a two-year examination of factors related to the young adult responsible for the Sandy Hook Elementary School murders, the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate (OCA) identified systemic gaps in communication between the education system and private health care. As a result of the gaps, the shooter, Adam Lanza, who had been diagnosed with developmental challenges in early childhood and with increasingly severe social-emotional problems as he aged, had remained without any treatment for diagnosed anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and autism. Although his parents sought evaluation from the Yale Child Study Center when he was 14, his . . .