The School Crisis Recovery and Renewal (SCRR) project supports educators, school staff, and school-based clinicians to effectively implement trauma-informed crisis response, recovery, and renewal strategies. The Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS), in partnership with Trauma Transformed (T2) and leading researchers, create curricula, training opportunities, and best-practice resources to promote long-term recovery and renewal after school crisis. Nationally, the SCRR Team provides training and technical assistance (TTA) services and resources to state and local education agencies (SEAs/LEAs); district teams; school leaders; school mental health providers, support staff, and educators; community partners; and other school mental health stakeholders. We offer intensive consultations to a small number of districts and schools, with attention to ensuring parity across U.S. regions and promoting equitable access for schools. Working with school crisis experts, including students and families with lived experience, the SCRR Team will co-create a practice-oriented curriculum for schools navigating school crisis recovery and renewal. Into the project, we will deliver the curriculum through Regional Training Collaboratives (RTCs) of educators, youth and families, school staff, and other personnel who have been impacted by a school crisis. Integrating their recommendations, we will create a train-the-trainer curriculum and a set of national standards for school crisis recovery and renewal best practices. The SCRR project website, distance learning events, and resources will promote effective adoption and implementation for student and educator-driven school crisis recovery and renewal practices and policies at a national level.
Network Members
This listing of NCTSN members includes current grantees as well as NCTSN Affiliates, former grantees who have maintained their ties to the Network.
Center for Applied Research Solutions
UCLA-Duke Adolescent Suicide/Self Harm & Substance Abuse Prevention (CA)
The UCLA-Duke Adolescent Suicide/Self Harm & Substance Abuse Prevention (ASAP) will serve as a resource for information related to safety, suicidal/self-harm behaviors, and substance use among trauma-exposed youths. We prioritize services for emergency/acute care and brief time-limited treatments, adapting for the trauma-exposed population and then disseminating two brief evidence-based interventions for suicide/self-harm risk (Emergency/Family Intervention for Suicide Prevention; SAFETY) and two for substance abuse (Screening/Motivational Interviewing(MI); CBT with MI/optional contingency management). To inform and develop optimal service strategies for improving outcomes for trauma-exposed youths, the Center will also work to develop and strengthen trauma informed care that integrates care for adolescent behavioral health within primary care, emergency, and other medical settings, as well as other mental health, school, and community settings. We will utilize surveillance data on suicide/self-harm and substance abuse risk in the NCTSN population to guide this work. Intervention training and dissemination will include technology-enhanced tools/materials and data-informed supervision systems and clinical dashboards to enhance quality of care and client outcomes. Through trainings/dissemination activities, the Center aims to serve diverse youths, across racial and ethnic groups. sexual identities and orientations, socioeconomic groups, and address needs of youths in military families. Our Center goal is to support providers and service systems in addressing safety issues and substance misuse effectively, thereby enhancing the benefits of other treatments that specifically target post-traumatic stress disorders/reactions.
University of California, Davis/ Dept. of Pediatrics/ CAARE Center
UC Davis CAARE Center's PCIT & PC-CARE Training Center has provided quality training, consultation and technical assistance to agencies and individuals in understanding how trauma impacts children and their families since 1999 and now provides training and trainer certification in a brief parenting intervention, Parent-Child Care (PC-CARE), using these same empirically supported strategies. There is a strong demand for training in trauma-informed, evidence-based parenting treatments suitable for young children and a deficit of mental health providers. At the same time, mental health service needs among children, particularly in vulnerable low-income and immigrant populations, is increasing. Thus, many agencies look to paraprofessionals, home visitors, and case managers to provide services to children and families in need. Whereas training and implementation of EBTs has become more effective and engaging for mental health professionals, training in trauma-informed care and practices for paraprofessionals has lagged. This Category II project is designed to overcome these barriers to training paraprofessionals and non-mental health professionals that work with traumatized children with training in PC-CARE and PC-CARE Toolbox. PC-CARE is a brief, effective parenting intervention that demonstrates high retention rates (90%) and can be delivered by non-licensable mental health providers. It provides an early and rapid screening, assessment, and intervention for traumatized children in diverse settings. PC-CARE Toolbox, for workers in child-serving but non-mental health settings, uses a web-based interactive platform to teach about child development, child trauma, and PC-CARE skills, as well as consultation and documentation to give experiential training and support.
University of California, Los Angeles (Szilagyi)
The Pediatric Approach to Trauma, Treatment and Resilience (PATTeR) is a multi-site project. The three project sites include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UCLA's Section on Developmental Studies. The focus of PATTeR is to develop curricula focused on trauma and resilience specifically for pediatricians who are the first child professionals family encounter and the most frequent gate-keepers to subspecialty care, including trauma-informed mental health care, and to supportive community-based services. During year one, we will focus on developing two levels of curricula: Trauma Aware and Trauma Informed. Through the AAP, which is the professional home of over 60,000 pediatricians across the United States, we will recruit pediatricians serving children and families in a variety of settings but focus on those serving certain high risk groups: those living in poverty, involved with child welfare or social services, those living in resource-poor areas and military families. Case-based learning designed to lead to practice change will occur in a group on-line format (using ECHO Technology) with an expert panel. Trauma Aware training will occur over 6 sessions. Pediatricians seeking to become trauma training resources in their own communities or AAP chapters will complete the more detailed Trauma-Informed training over 12 sessions. We will also recruit residency program leaders through the Academic Pediatrics Association to engage in both curricula since they are the educators who will transform pediatric residency education. We will also infuse curricula into multiple AAP education venues and anticipate reaching thousands of pediatricians during the grant cycle.
University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Areas of expertise is infant/early childhood trauma, including child maltreatment, domestic violence, loss of a loved one; community violence; traumas related to undocumented migration and refugee status; war and terrorism. We focus on the impact of early childhood trauma on child-parent relationship and family functioning as a risk factor that derails healthy developmental trajectories and increases the likelihood of mental health problems. Activities involve developing, testing, implementing, and disseminating evidence-based and promising relationship-based trauma treatments and interventions, including Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP), Attachment Vitamins, and Semillas the Apego. The site has specific expertise in Latinx populations. It provides services and develops materials and products in English and Spanish.