Mercy Family Center - Project Fleur-de-lis [1]
Project Fleur-de-lis (PFDL), a program of Mercy Family Center, began as an intermediate and long-term school-based mental health service model for youth exposed to traumatic events in the Greater New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina. PFDL has evolved over the past 16 years to provide evidence-based treatment to youth, families, and communities who have been impacted by community violence, grief, complex trauma, and suicide to enhance personal and community resilience. PFDL’s population of focus is low-income, urban, Black youth ages 5-21 who are underserved in the Greater New Orleans (GNO) area (Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany Parishes (counties)). Project Fleur-de-lis proposes the following goals: Goal 1: Increase access for trauma-exposed, culturally diverse youth and their families to culturally responsive, evidence-based trauma treatment (Bounce Back, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) + Racial Trauma Model (RTM), and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS). Goal 2: Increase access for youth and their families to culturally responsive, evidence-based bereavement and traumatic bereavement treatment (Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCTA). Goal 3: Establish a trauma-, bereavement-, and suicide-informed community for youth by building the capacity of mental health professionals, community members, and youth with lived experience in PFDL’s geographical catchment area.