National Initiative for Trauma Education and Workforce Development at University of North Carolina School of Social Work

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - North Carolina
Funding Period:
2021-2026

The National Initiative for Trauma Education and Workforce Development at the UNC School of Social Work is committed to better enable mental health treatment providers to use common trauma-informed practice elements (CTIPE) in their treatment of traumatized youth and their families. The objectives are to (1) increase the capacity of clinicians at all NCTSN Category II and III sites to employ common trauma-informed practice elements in their treatment of traumatized youth and their families; (2) annually increase this capacity via a new course at 15-20 schools of social work reaching; and (3) strengthen and expand the national impact of the Center's initiatives through broad collaborations with NCTSN Centers, among mental health professionals, and across disciplines. These collaborations will further disseminate information about and best practices for trauma-related care among developers, practitioners, service providers, and consumers with a focus on reducing health disparities. To achieve these goals, we will develop a new intervention product, a case-based curriculum examining common trauma-informed practice elements that will form the foundation of 1) a free online training resource for mental health providers and 2) a 3-credit clinical graduate course for MSW programs. The new intervention product will build on existing resources in the NCTSN, specifically the Core Concepts training and common trauma informed practice elements and will prioritize agencies with a majority BIPOC client population and MSW programs in HBCUs. The national impact will be activated by a diverse 14-15-member Advisory Board consisting of representatives from youth trauma survivors and family members, students, faculty, practitioners.

Location:
325 Pittsboro St
Chapel Hill , NC 27599 ,
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Northwestern University/Center for Child Trauma Assessment, Services and Systems Integration

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Illinois
Funding Period:
2010-2012, 2012-2016, 2016-2021, 2021-2026

The Center for Child Trauma Assessment, Services, and Systems Integration (CCTASSI) at Northwestern University offers national expertise on addressing the complex, developmental effects of trauma for system-involved youth and developing trauma-informed, child-serving systems and agencies. Our target population includes frontline and other providers in child welfare and juvenile justice and the youth and families served, focusing on minority youth and subpopulations at-risk due to systemic oppression and racial trauma. This includes racial and ethnic minority immigrants and refugees (I/R), multisystem involved youth (MSIY), transition age youth (TAY), and commercially sexually exploited (CSE) youth. Our goals are: 1) Increase awareness, knowledge, and skill of frontline providers to identify and respond to complex, developmental effects of trauma; 2) Develop comprehensive, system-wide trauma-informed services in child-serving settings; 3) Increase capacity for trauma-informed, cross-system coordination for MSIY; 4) Increase providers' awareness, knowledge, and skills to prevent and respond to youth and families impacted by systemic trauma, including oppression, disparities, racism, and other forms of identity-based discrimination; 5) Increase provider understanding of and responsiveness to the unique needs of subpopulations of youth and families impacted by complex, developmental trauma, including I/R, CSE, and TAY. Our activities focus on adaptation and dissemination of evidence-supported, trauma-informed approaches and curricula (including Think Trauma), and specialized training/consultation to support systems transformation. We also work to increase provider knowledge and enhance responses to systemic trauma and oppression through our films on TAY and Race & Trauma.

Location:
710 N. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago , IL 60611 ,
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Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Oklahoma
Funding Period:
2003-2007, 2012-2016, 2022-2026

The Families Increasing Resilience, Strength and Trust through positive relationships (FIRST) Program will leverage training expertise, program evaluation, and product development to further the NCTSN's mission to positively influence the lives of families impacted by trauma. The program will increase availability of two evidence-based interventions—Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and Sexual Behavior Problems: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment (SBP-CBT)—delivered with high fidelity to traumatized families. Both PCIT (a SAMHSA-recognized intervention) and SBP-CBT (a comprehensive family-based intervention for children with inappropriate sexual behaviors) can be uThe Stronger Together: Attachment, Resilience, & Support (STARS) project seeks to promote resilience of children impacted by trauma by expanding the EBT workforce through training, consultation, and technical assistance in evidence-based treatments, specifically Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Problematic Sexual Behaviors for school-age children (PSB-CBT-S) and adolescents (PSB-CBT-A), as well as Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) to ameliorate the behavioral sequelae of trauma. To fill identified gaps in standard training, the training team will also provide Advanced training in PCIT-PSB and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for PSB to allow cross-pollination of provider skills in EBT with interventions to treat behavioral sequelae of trauma. As part of the project, we also seek to enhance resilience of our EBT workforce through management and reduction of secondary traumatic stress (STS) by providing specialized training to clinicians and supervisors in the Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) model. STARS will further facilitate sustainability of EBT within agencies through the provision of trainer training or advanced clinical populations in EBT (e.g., preschool). Finally, the STARS project seeks to address systemic racism and inequities in agencies responding to PSB of youth and enhance engagement of families in EBT through culturally congruent communication and therapy practices. To this end, we will develop the STARS Equity Workgroup with treatment leads, existing PSB Youth Partnership and Caregiver Partnership Boards, and partners across the country. The workgroup will assess current programming, develop plans to address equity, and create and disseminate resources for equity practices and policies.tilized to address child behavioral problems common among children affected by sexual and nonsexual trauma, and among families dealing with military deployment–related trauma. Implementation methods include innovative telehealth applications and Learning Collaborative strategies. The FIRST Program will expand treatments to military families experiencing deployment stressors and will enhance family resilience. The collaboration will contribute to the Network's understanding of the implementation process for family-based interventions including integrating new research findings from the program’s studies of telehealth-based implementation. Additionally, the program will provide support and leadership to Category III sites and other agencies seeking to expand their portfolio of trauma-informed services. Project deliverables will include: 1) PCIT and SBP-CBT Learning Collaborative models, 2) uniform training methods and materials, 3) telehealth protocols, and 4) development of a model of care for families of children with trauma exposure and secondary behavior management problems.

Location:
1100 NE 13th St
Oklahoma City , OK 73117 ,

Public Health Institute - Lotus Project

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - California
Funding Period:
2016-2021, 2021-2026

In the collaboration of two key agencies, Public Health Institute (PHI) and Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS), the Lotus project aims to provide training, education, and technical assistance based on the wide-scale dissemination and implementation of effective, evidence-based treatment and service approaches in child trauma specific to Asia American and Asian immigrant (AAAI) populations. The issues of trauma-informed care and prevention for AAAI children and families have been neglected and a large number of AAAI have been suffering from traumatic experience because SAMHSA's EBPs do not address cultural issues specific to AAAI and very few service agencies are equipped to efficiently provide services to AAAI. Cultural issues among AAAI (e.g., stigma, shame, and language barriers) must be addressed through coordinated efforts among health service agencies. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AAAI have been exposed to violence and harassment. AAAI children are suffering from the trauma caused by violence and harassment. The Lotus project will serve as a continuing resource for training, consultation, and technical assistance to service providers, officers of child-serving systems, and AAAI and other racial/ethnic communities affected by traumatic events including those due to the pandemic. 

Location:
555 12th Street
Oakland , CA 94607 ,
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Residential Child Care Project/College of Human Ecology

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - New York
Funding Period:
2022-2027

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.

Location:
3M402 MVR Hall 37 Forest Home Dr.
Ithaca , NY 14853 ,
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Simmons University School of Social Work

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Massachusetts
Funding Period:
2021-2026

Simmons School of Social Work (Simmons) designs and delivers a comprehensive training program for both pre-service (future, i.e., MSW students) and in-service school-based social workers, counselors, and clinicians, preparing them with knowledge and skills on trauma, its treatment, mitigation of trauma symptoms, building resilience skills, and shaping supportive school environments. The training emphasizes implementation of evidence-informed and evidence-based treatments and approaches. In particular, the project targets rural or otherwise under-resourced clinicians who may lack local trauma-training resources or professional supports. Simmons and the Alliance for Inclusion & Prevention (AIP) will be partners in the Institute for Trauma Treatment in Schools. Simmons will focus on in-service training for MSW students. Out of respect for MSW students’ many competing responsibilities (i.e., MSW coursework and 18-24 hour per week field placements, full-time or part-time employment), as well their position as introductory learners, the curriculum will be focused on three pillars: Understanding of the evidence-informed ARC Framework, skill-building with Trauma-Informed Yoga (an EBP) and engagement using the CARE model. Simmons curricular designers have more than 45 years of combined practice and training experience and have had repeated success in engaging MSW students in this approach. Given that AIP in-service curricula is aimed at the existing workforce, the curriculum provides more advanced-level training, consistent with the needs of clinical practitioners. AIP’s curricula use multiple EBPs (e.g., Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools, BounceBack for Classrooms, Trauma Systems Therapy, Core Concepts of Childhood Trauma, Coping Cat, Trauma Sensitive Yoga and Mindfulness) many of which have been tested for use with urban minority sub-populations.

Location:
300 The Fenway
Boston , MA 02115 ,
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Texas Christian University/Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Texas
Funding Period:
2022-2027

The Center for the Adaptation and Implementation of Trust-based Relational Intervention (CAIT) is located in the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University. CAIT aims to provide national expertise in the training and implementation of Trust-based Relational Intervention (TBRI) and to support the continuum of care in child welfare and juvenile justice systems through specialized adaptations of TBRI. TBRI is an attachment-based, trauma-informed, whole-child approach to meeting the needs of children and youth who have experienced early adversity, toxic stress, and/or relational trauma. The TBRI model was developed at TCU to address the effects of trauma through three sets of practice principles: Connecting, Empowering, and Correcting. CAIT will address current gaps in trauma treatment, service delivery, and workforce development through (1) the development of an integrated trauma treatment model incorporating trauma assessment with current TBRI intervention practices; (2) the specialized adaptation of TBRI training and consultation for delivery in distinct service settings (child welfare & juvenile justice) and to be appropriate for different caregiver roles and diverse family structures (bio parents, resource parents, residential direct care staff); and (3) strategic collaboration to equip the child/youth-serving workforce through the NCTSN and through a wide established network of practitioners in the field.

Location:
2901 W. Lowden
Fort Worth , TX 76109 ,
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The Baker Center For Children and Families

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Massachusetts
Funding Period:
2021-2026

Judge Baker Children's Center (Judge Baker; an affiliate of Harvard Medical School) is a non-profit multi-service mental health and special education organization that serves children by promoting their developmental, emotional, and intellectual well-being. With over a century of proven leadership in children's mental health issues, Judge Baker helps children and families chart their own best course to grow and thrive. Judge Baker is nationally recognized as a leader in children's mental health training and education. We work to create lasting improvements in the quality of mental health care and other services for all children and families by disseminating evidence-based practices (such as MATCH, PCIT, and TF-CBT); interventions that have been proven to be effective to treat targeted behavioral health problems in children and families. Our expert training staff work collaboratively with families, service providers, schools, state agencies, academic institutions, and funding organizations to help ensure that all children and families have access to the highest quality evidence-based psychotherapy services. We translate the most cutting-edge research and proven strategies for helping children and families into sustainable practice changes in real world settings. By using thoughtful, evidence-based, and carefully planned implementation strategies, we work to close the gap between research and practice. In addition to providing high quality training to providers around the country, Judge Baker also provides direct outpatient and community-based services in the greater Boston community.

Location:
53 Parker Hill Avenue
Boston , MA 02120 ,
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The Center for Equity and Resilience in Trauma-Responsive Organizations at University of Denver Colorado Seminary

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Colorado
Funding Period:
2022-2026

The Center for Equity and Resilience in Trauma-Responsive Organizations at University of Denver Colorado Seminary develops and implements a comprehensive approach to addressing health disparities and systemic inequities cause child traumatic stress to have a disproportionate impact on marginalized communities. Addressing these disparities requires a diverse, skilled, well-supported, and resilient workforce. The Center will be a partnership between the University of Denver Butler Institute for Families, and the University of Colorado Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect. Butler and Kempe have developed an approach with promising initial evaluation. The Center will expand, evaluate, refine, and disseminate this approach to build a diverse, skilled, well-supported, and resilient workforce among across child-, youth-, and family-serving systems in Colorado and nationwide. The central activities for the project include the development, implementation, and dissemination of the comprehensive approach which will strengthen the resilience and well-being of the workforce to support a diverse workforce by advancing equity and addressing race-based traumatic stress in the workplace. These efforts will be complemented by improving the knowledge and skills of the workforce to care for children and families impacted by trauma with a lens of equity. Additionally, the project will develop materials addressing the above outcomes for national dissemination in partnership with the NCTSN. The comprehensive approach will be evaluated using equitable evaluation principles and refined to ensure effectiveness. 

Location:
Denver , CO ,

Trauma and Community Resilience Center

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Massachusetts
Funding Period:
2001-2005, 2007-2012, 2012-2016, 2016-2021, 2021-2026

Over the past two decades, our center has developed, adapted and disseminated evidence-informed trainings, resources, and intervention models with refugee and immigrant youth that support providers across diverse community and service-system settings. This includes Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R), an evidence-based multi-tier intervention that is effective in both engaging and treating traumatized refugee and immigrant youth. The purpose of this project is to provide national expertise on trauma-informed services for refugee and immigrant children and their families, and to support the continued adaptation and widespread dissemination of Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R), an empirically-supported clinical and organizational treatment model. The TCRC will provide widely-accessible training on trauma-informed best practices with refugee and immigrant children, and serve as a resource for providers working with other traumatized populations.

Location:
21 Autumn St.
Boston , MA 02115 ,
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