Clifford Beers Guidance Clinic, Inc. (CB), a 107-year-old institution providing trauma informed mental health services for children and adults throughout the lifespan has been strategically growing its whole family, trauma informed integrated care, model of care designed to reduce chronic stress. Focusing our work on the systemic and structural changes related to the delivery of mental health services, this project proposes to develop and implement and infuse anti-racist training in our model of care, developing a tool kit for replication of Trauma Informed Anti-Racist (TIAR) Whole Family Approach to Care. The main purpose of the project is to integrate whole family anti-racist thinking and social determinants of health perspective in trauma-informed service system design, to ensure the trauma treatments are responsive to inequity, sensitive to systemic racism and care is contextualized to the needs of the people served.
Clifford Beers Guidance Clinic, Inc.
Coalition for Compassionate Schools at Tulane University
The Coalition for Compassionate Schools at Tulane University goals are to increase the capacity of New Orleans K – 8 public schools to implement and sustain a trauma-informed, healing-centered service delivery model to improve outcomes for youth exposed to trauma and prevent new exposure in schools; expand implementation of our model to afterschool programs and coordinate training and consultation across service systems to support service providers and youth affected by traumatic events; and develop additional products to support a trauma-informed, healing-centered service delivery model and provide training, consultation, and implementation support for the replication and dissemination of our model to schools across the country.
Cornell University - Creating Conditions for Change Therapeutic Foster Care
The Creating Conditions for Change - Therapeutic Foster Care project strives to improve the quality of therapeutic foster care (TFC), an essential undertaking as the Family First Prevention Services Act restrictions will increase the number and acuity of children placed in TFC. The goals are: 1) increase Therapeutic Foster Parents (TFPs) access to training that improves their capacity to meet their children’s trauma-specific needs, 2) increase the capacity of agency staff to support and mentor TFPs as they apply new skills and knowledge regarding trauma-informed care, and 3) increase the capacity of voluntary and public agencies to train, support, and retain qualified TFPs in their TFC programs. Two existing programs – the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Families (TCIF) and Children and Residential Experiences: Creating Conditions for Change (CARE) - will be adapted, integrated, and updated based on a review of current scientific literature and stakeholder focus groups. CARE, a trauma-informed, evidence-based program model provides a set of evidence-informed principles that emphasize building developmental relationships, maintaining trauma-sensitive environments, and working effectively with biological families. TCIF is an evidence-informed curriculum that prepares foster parents to therapeutically prevent, de-escalate, or manage challenging behaviors. To improve accessibility, both TFP and Staff trainings will include materials to facilitate learning in three modalities: in-person training, live virtual training, and self-paced E-learning. Training a cadre of 240 3C-TFC Trainers will accelerate the adoption of this new trauma-informed, relationship-focused program in agencies nationwide.
Family Service of Rhode Island/Victim Services
Family Service of Rhode Island's (FSRI) mission is to advance equity, opportunity, and hope in our communities. We believe all children and families have limitless potential. But for those growing up surrounded by poverty, family instability, and physical or emotional stress, life is too often about survival, not possibility. FSRI responds alongside police to provide crisis response to victims at crime scenes, offering crisis intervention, stabilization, language support, and service referral. In addition to crime victims, the Police Partnership program assists homeless individuals, wayward juveniles, people with mental health or substance use issues, and others in crisis. The program also helps prevent crime by defusing community conflicts. Family Service of Rhode Island, the Roger Williams University Justice System Training and Research Institute and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research will create a Center for Trauma-Informed Policing to improve outcomes for traumatized children encountered on crime scenes. A state-of-the-art, virtual law enforcement training program will be developed and the FSRI Go Team police/mental health partnership program will be formally evaluated. A Project Advisory Committee including child trauma experts, law enforcement, clinicians, and family with lived experience will advise on all project activities. Following a New England-based pilot to test the initial training and technical assistance program and two Learning Communities involving police departments across the country to improve upon and refine the program and related intervention products, the final trauma-informed law enforcement Learning Management System (LMS) will be launched and broadly disseminated.
Florida International University - Network for Enhancing Wellness in Disaster-Affected Youth (NEW DAY)
The Network for Enhancing Wellness in Disaster-Affected Youth (NEW DAY) at Florida International University provides national expertise, training, and technical assistance on the behavioral health needs and intervention of youth in disaster-hit and disaster-prone communities. NEW DAY works to improve professional knowledge, skill, adoption, and implementation of evidence-based, trauma-focused disaster services and supports for youth, with a primary emphasis on meaningfully reducing racial and ethnic disparities in post-disaster behavioral health and service provision. NEW DAY engages with school systems, youth-serving professionals, families, community agencies, stakeholder partners, and technology to broaden the reach and sustainability of supported behavioral health programs for trauma-exposed youth, including Psychological First Aid (PFA), Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR), and Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE).
Gallaudet University - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child Resilience Center
Deaf and hard of hearing children and youth are typically at a higher risk for trauma exposure than the general child population due to the unique trauma experienced from everyday communication barriers. Yet, the number of trauma-informed and linguistically accessible treatments and mental health measures for deaf and hard of hearing remain severely limited. We're here to change that. The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child Resilience Center at Gallaudet University was created to address the gap between children who have experienced trauma and the mental health services they deserve. We've developed a multi-tier approach to improve the outcome of services and to eliminate health disparities for traumatized deaf children, adolescents, and their families. The goals our center is focused around adapting and translating child behavioral and trauma measures, developing a new screening measure of language deprivation, adapting evidence-based treatments, and providing training and ongoing consultation for clinicians.
Georgia State University - The National Center on Child Trafficking
The National Center on Child Trafficking (NCCT) is a collaboration of professionals who use a science-driven approach to guide the development, adaptation, implementation and evaluation of trauma-focused interventions and resources to improve the lives of children and families impacted by commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking for sex and labor (CSET). The NCCT will (1) develop and disseminate national practice standards and consensus guidelines for Mental Health treatment crosscutting Evidence-based Practices, (2) deliver and evaluate training of TF-CBT for CSET and develop resources for therapists and trainers to enhance dissemination and service delivery, (3) develop and disseminate standards, guidelines, and training addressing co-occurring trauma and substance use problems and integrate the guidelines into an existing evidence-based trauma and substance use treatment (Risk Reduction through Family Therapy), (4) adapt and disseminate training in trauma-informed parenting, the Resource Parent Curriculum, adapted for youth who have experienced CSET, (5) adapt and disseminate training in trauma-informed residential care, Think Trauma. for staff at targeted CSET congregate care/residential treatment placements, (6) develop and disseminate resources for MDT and CSET specialist professionals, including practice guidelines and training curricula (FORECAST) incorporating CSET response, (7) develop Secondary Traumatic Stress/Compassion Satisfaction awareness materials and strategies and disseminate to professionals serving youth who have experienced CSET.
International Rescue Committee - Center for Adjustment, Resilience and Recovery (CARRE)
The Center for Adjustment, Resilience and Recovery (CARRE), housed within the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Resettlement, Asylum and Integration (RAI) department, represents a collaborative effort between the IRC and multiple NCTSN Cat. II and Cat. III Centers. CARRE seeks to ensure that refugee, asylum-seeking, and other forcibly displaced children, youth, and families receive culturally responsive, evidence-based, and trauma-focused treatments and service interventions across a wide array of systems to mitigate the long-term, negative impacts of childhood traumatic stress. CARRE seeks to do so by 1. Developing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and resources to effectively serve forcibly displaced children, youth and families coping with traumatic stress; 2. Effectively implementing culturally adapted, evidence-based and trauma-focused evidence-based treatments with forcibly displaced children, youth, and families; and 3. Increasing knowledge exchange between intervention, population, and systems experts in the fields of child traumatic stress, forced migration, refugee and asylum services and systems, cultural adaptation and responsiveness, and communities with lived experience.
Justice Resource Institute - Building Resilience through Residential Communities
The Building Resilience through Residential Communities (BRTRC) project is a Category II Treatment and Services Adaptation Center. The BRTRC's central aim is to develop, adapt, and disseminate trauma-informed care (TIC) approaches and evidence-based practices (EBPs) for residential treatment centers (RTCs) nationwide that serve high risk, trauma-impacted youth and their families. The BRTRC's mission is to address key gaps in available strategies for implementation of TIC in RTCs, increase access to effective EBPs for youth in residential care, and bolster workforce development in RTCs. Through these activities, the BRTRC will raise the standard of care, increase resiliency of programs, staff and clients, and improve client clinical outcomes. The primary goals of the BRTRC project are: (1) wide scale dissemination, implementation and sustainability of Building Communities of Care (BCC), a trauma and evidenced informed, strengths based model designed to address the unique needs of RTCs, through training and TA with all staff (front line, clinical, educational, medical, administrative); (2) to increase access to EBPs for trauma in RTCs serving trauma-impacted youth through intensive training and technical assistance in EBPs that have demonstrated effectiveness with YRC, including Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC), Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT), and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS); and (3) to build a trauma-informed workforce in RTCs through education, training and technical assistance via both intensive RTC partnerships and national dissemination activities. The BRTRC expert staff provide intensive training and technical assistance to RTCs across the nation.
Kennedy Krieger Institute - Collective for Antiracist Child and Family Systems
The Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute and the University of Maryland School of Social Work will establish an NCTSI Category II TSA center, the Collective for Antiracist Child and Family Systems (CACFS), to transform child and family-serving systems by supporting organizations and providers to adopt antiracist, anti-oppressive practices to prevent trauma exposure and repair trauma effects among Black and Latinx children, youth, and families. Target population: CACFS will train and support human services providers, including social workers and mental health clinicians, supervisors, and administrators, from child and family serving organizations and systems, including child welfare agencies. Strategies/ Interventions: The CACFS will develop, model, and expand the implementation of three culturally responsive trauma approaches, SHARP, Radical Healing, and HEART. Goals and objectives: CACFS will: (1) expand the knowledge base for, and increase the number of organizations working to reduce trauma in Black/African American and Latinx children by effectively institutionalizing antiracist, anti-oppressive practices; and (2) address behavioral health disparities by developing and promoting antiracist, anti-oppressive trauma-informed care approaches, to support Black/African American and Latinx children and families to heal from trauma by engaging providers to increase knowledge and skills, and adopt new practices; and organizations to increase readiness for and/or commit to adopting practices, policies, and strategic plans that centralize racial equity and healing.