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All-Network Meeting
Former Grantee Sites Gains and Losses
NIMH Outreach Partnership Program
ANM Sneak Preview: Core Data Set
Homocide Outreach Project Empowering Survivors

All-Network Meeting (Cont.)

Several workshops will also highlight evidence-based interventions being developed and implemented across the NCTSN, including Trauma-Focused CBT, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress, Child Parent Psychotherapy, and Psychological First Aid.

NCTSN collaborative groups will also meet during the three-and-a-half day conference to develop workplans for the coming year. (Collaborative groups address topics such as childhood traumatic grief, acute interventions, complex trauma, and the child welfare system.) The NCTSN Advisory Board and Steering Committee will meet as part of the All-Network Meeting as well.

Former Grantees (Cont.)
 
These new approaches included use of outcome measures, a greater awareness of the need for better client assessment, addition of a cognitive behavioral model, and improved data collection. One center said that staff are much more open to and are integrating evidence-based practices and a trauma focus into their work.

Most centers also said that new services were in place in their communities because of the Network, and that at least some of the evidence-based practices started with grant funds were being continued.

Several states -- including New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Maine and Washington -- said that their Network activities had resulted in larger statewide initiatives to bring evidence-based practices or trauma specific interventions into their states.

When asked what specific services or improvements would change or be discontinued when grant funding ended, centers most often said that training for new staff would be curtailed or limited and that they would be less able to offer training to their communities. Many centers also said that they would no longer be able to collect data or collect it at the same rate. Many centers lost staff and, as a result, had to curtail or cut back service delivery. Others commented on lost opportunities for collaboration with other organizations across the country.

“We created a huge desire throughout our community for evidence-based practices,” said one center. “But it takes hard work and coordination to keep people going. Three years is not enough time to reform a community. You can bring an individual center up to speed in three years, but not the community.”