The Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice (CTRJJ) provides training and education to initiate and enhance trauma-informed services and treatment for youth in or at risk for involvement in juvenile justice that is: (1) grounded in implementation science; (2) supports active partnership with youth and families; (3) prioritizes racial/ethnic and identity-related diversity, equality, and inclusion; and (4) enhances systemic engagement of system stakeholders in change process via three elements. (E1) Trauma-Informed Resource Enhancement and Development for Youth and Families (TI-READY): disseminating NCTSN resources to enhance knowledge of trauma-informed practices. (E2) Trauma-Informed System Engagement (TI-PREP): a system-level engagement model utilizing innovative trauma-informed trainings including Think Trauma and needs assessment and strategic planning using the Trauma-Informed Juvenile Court Self-Assessment (TI-JCSA). (E3) Trauma-Informed System Transformation (TI-ATTAIN): supporting collaboration between behavioral health and juvenile justice providers and organizations to effect trauma-informed system change through implementation of evidence-based practices with youth and families including, Trauma Affect Regulation-Guide for Education and Therapy (TARGET) and Trauma and Grief Components Therapy for Adolescents Grief Modules (TGCTA-GM). CTRJJ will provide resources, training, and technical assistance to more than 2000 youth/family serving programs and 10,000 professional/peer service providers to enable them to more effective serve > 50,000 traumatized youth and family/caregivers, as well as provide more than 400 public and professional TIJJ training, education, prevention, and mental health promotion products and presentations.
University of Connecticut Health Center - Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice
University of Connecticut Health Center - Center for Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders
The Center for Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders (CTDTD) brings together developers of leading evidence-based trauma treatments (EBTT) for children victimized by developmental trauma and professional and lived experience experts on culturally responsive trauma-informed services, to enhance clinical and peer providers therapeutic competence nationally and to enhance public understanding of and reduce stigma associated with DTD.Over the 5-year funding period, CTDTD will expand, and develop training curricula based on, its groundbreaking 35-webinar series Identifying Critical Moments and Healing Complex Trauma providing experiential training that will enhance the ability of more than 25,000 peer and professional counselors to treat more than 125,000 children safely, culturally responsively, and effectively for DTD-as well as creating a permanent archive of the Critical Moments webinars showing films with professional or peer therapists handling moment-to-moment therapy crises with dramatized child/family clients of diverse ethnoracial/cultural backgrounds who are recovering from developmental and historical trauma. CTDTD will produce and disseminate nationally: (a) 25 webinars with new films of dramatized crisis therapy sessions (and post-session commentary), (b) a companion set of 25 dramatized multi-disciplinary family service planning session films including parents/caregivers, teachers, child welfare workers, probation officers, healthcare providers, and mentors; (c) a companion set of 50 Digital diary films highlighting key developmental dilemmas and evidence of youths' resilience; (d) a Core Skills Checklist based on the filmed therapy sessions; (e) annual updates of the the DTD Clinician Toolkit and DTD Assessment & Treatment Update.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Urban Youth Trauma Center, Institute for Juvenile Research
The Urban Youth Trauma Center (UYTC) at the University of Illinois, Chicago, is a Treatment Service Adaptation Center that promotes and disseminates comprehensive, integrated, and coordinated care for multi-problem, high-risk youth affected by trauma and community violence. UYTC aims to increase awareness about the needs youth who are affected by community violence, youth with co-occurring substance abuse, disruptive behaviors, and those who are involved with court, juvenile justice, and law enforcement systems, while emphasizing the enhancement of community resources and service system collaboration. UYTC disseminates trauma informed intervention models designed for multi-problem youth experiencing traumatic stress, violence exposure, and co-occurring substance abuse (using Trauma Systems Therapy for Adolescent Substance Abuse or “TST-SA”) and disruptive behavior problems (using S.T.R.O.N.G. Families and Hip Hop H.E.A.L.S.) as well as prevention training and programming which promotes the use of best practices for trauma-informed violence prevention among youth service providers within targeted communities. Through its newly funded grant, the Innovative Guidance for Neighborhood Initiatives for Trauma-Informed Effectiveness (IGNITE) aims to provide specialized training, education, and consultation to youth-serving providers enabling evidence-based intervention and prevention approaches across the continuum of behavioral health needs of underserved urban youth - especially low-income ethnic minorities - who are impacted by traumatic stress, community violence, and co-occurring conditions of internalizing substance abuse and externalizing behavior problems.
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center
Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center (a National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) - Treatment and Service Adaptation (TSA) Center comprised of team members from the University of Maryland Schools of Medicine (UMSOM) and School of Social Work (UMSSW) and the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute (CCFTS)) will use a multi-tiered, ecological approach to increase access to and impact of family interventions, share power and decision making with all stakeholders, and further advance trauma- and resilience-informed resources needed to address the complex of needs of families Over the past 9 years, The FITT team has advanced scientific discoveries, clinical innovation and dissemination efforts in trauma responsive family interventions by elevating family voices and strengthening the role of families in recovery from child traumatic stress by providing access to resources and family interventions. FITT interventions are delivered in clinics, homes, and communities, or are embedded in systems (e.g. interpersonal violence (IPV), drug courts, schools and social services) and are designed to be flexible, attuned to families’ readiness for change and safety needs. FITT Interventions include Strengthening Families Coping Resources (SFCR), Trauma Adapted-Family Connections (TAFC) and Family Assessment of Needs and Strengths (FANS). In addition to these clinical interventions, the FITT Center will led Breakthrough Series Collaboratives and the development of peer to peer interventions (SFCR Peer to Peer Model) and training resources (Climbing Out of Poverty) as well as disseminate NCTSN products in multiple workforce initiatives in universities and across the child and families services to increase capacity to address the needs of families who experience chronic trauma related to poverty and discrimination.
University of Missouri St Louis-Project ASSIST
The University of Missouri-St. Louis houses Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis, an accredited Child Advocacy Center embedded within a university. As a long time member of NCTSN, our site focuses on direct service delivery of trauma informed forensic and clinical care as well as workforce development. Our current Category II project, Project ASSIST (Access, Skills and Support for Implementation Science in Trauma-informed Training) will broaden access to trauma-informed care for youth by increasing child-serving professionals' access to competent trauma-informed trainers. ASSIST will support and sustain trainers by improving their training skills and increasing their access to resources. A primary component of Project ASSIST will be to implement Trainer Enhancement Cohorts aimed at improving trainers' skills with adult learning principles, expanding their pedagogical and online training strategies, integrating a DEI lens throughout their trainings and preventing secondary traumatic stress in their learners. ASSIST will host several Communities of Practice, including one specifically aimed at mentoring trainers from underrepresented minorities and those with lived experiences. We will continue to train facilitators in FORECAST problem based learning simulations by hosting learning collaboratives for teams across the country. Additionally, ASSIST will develop a Simulation Studio to convene and collaborate with others interested in creating and distributing additional problem based learning simulations relevant to the child-serving workforce. Finally, ASSIST will host a Resource Repository for trainers and a Trainer Access Map for organizations seeking trainers in trauma-informed models and practices.
University of Montana National Native Children's Trauma Center
The National Native Children's Trauma Center will pursue two goals: 1. Provide culturally centered, evidence-based, trauma-informed training and technical assistance (TTA) along the full spectrum of needs/readiness in Tribal communities and across all types of Tribal child-serving systems; and 2. Enhance our center infrastructure to increase scale of training/education dissemination, to fill gaps in product offerings, to broaden access to resources, and to promote data-driven program improvements. Our project's population of focus consists of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and youth at a national level, both in Tribal reservation communities and in urban areas. This population is disproportionately affected by trauma exposure and disproportionately lacking in access to effective mental health services. Our project seeks to address these disproportions by supporting youth-serving agencies in Tribal communities as they troubleshoot their resource limitations. Since the time of our initial funding as a Category II NCTSN TSA Center in 2007, we have developed numerous trauma-focused interventions and products for tribal communities, including an array of foundational trainings, culturally adapted clinical interventions, and non- clinical curricula enabling wide-scale dissemination of trauma supports.
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center - The Trauma informed to build Resilient, Indigenous, Balanced communities Enhanced with Strength
The University of New Mexico’s (UNM) Division of Community Behavioral Health (CBH) has established over a decade of working with tribal and state partners to provide trauma informed care, including historical trauma (HT). The Trauma informed to build Resilient, Indigenous, Balanced communities Enhanced with Strength (TRIBES), will build on the outstanding services, training, and community outreach that CBH has accomplished, including two cycles as a National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) category III awardee. The purpose of TRIBES is to increase education, training and knowledge about HT and its impact on parenting practices, child abuse and neglect, and suicide in AI/AN populations. The goals and objectives associated with TRIBES include: (1) collaborate with NCTSN sites, tribal, state, and federal organizations to increase awareness and understanding of impact of HT on parenting practices, child abuse and neglect, and suicide; (2) increase capacity of tribes and their partners to prevent and respond to suicide and related trauma in a culturally appropriate manner; (3) development and implementation of an Intergenerational Trauma Focused Parenting Curriculum for AI/AN Families; (4) expand the workforce capacity to provide culturally relevant trauma focused interventions for AI/AN families; and (5) implement a project evaluation including process and outcomes evaluation.
University of Rochester Mt. Hope Family Center - Sustaining Change
Sustaining Change provides training, consultation, and technical assistance for child- and family-serving organizations and systems to improve dissemination and implementation of evidence-based child trauma treatment models. Focusing on organizational supports for sustainability promotes longer-term accessibility to services and enhances supports for best practices in child-serving systems. Goals of Sustaining Change include to: 1) expand access to evidence-based trauma treatment and assist organizations in adopting and sustaining evidence-based interventions, 2) support organizations in identifying evidence-based interventions that fit their populations' needs, and in achieving successful evidence-based implementation through Implementation Science principles, 3) facilitate sustainability of evidence-based interventions through consultation and Leadership Forums, and 4) assist organizations in embedding trauma-responsive care within their organizations and systems. Evidence-based training for clinicians in Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents and Child-Parent Psychotherapy will improve access for traumatized youth with depressive symptoms and children under age six and families. Through a partnership with the TRANSFORM National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Sustaining Change synergistically leverages existing resources that translate research into best practice. Consultation on trauma-informed organizational transformation supports reflective supervision, improves prevention of secondary traumatic stress, and changes agency climate to enhance workforce development and integrate SAMHSA's trauma-informed principles into practice.
University of Utah, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Safe and Healthy Families
Pediatric Integrated Post-trauma Services (PIPS) developed the Care Process Model for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPM-PTS), the first and only empirically-supported model guiding providers in pediatric settings to screen for trauma, identify risk for traumatic stress and suicidality, and provide a trauma-informed approach that guides referrals for at-risk children to evidence-based trauma treatment as well as targeted, brief in-clinic interventions. As of January 2023, the CPM-PTS has been successfully implemented in >94 separate clinical settings in 21 US states, reaching tens of thousands of youth. For the funding period (2022-2027), PIPS activities center on training and implementation strategies for wide-scale dissemination, adoption, and sustainability of the CPM-PTS in diverse pediatric and advocacy center settings through: 1. Establishment of regional Technical Assistance Centers, 2. Development of enhanced implementation strategies for rural and non-rural service settings, and 3. Adaptation of the CPM-PTS for children in foster care. PIPS partners with national professional organizations, large healthcare systems, and the National Children's Alliance (NCA). Ultimately, the goal of the PIPS center is to remediate mental health disparities by supporting best practice identification and response on a national scale for children at risk for traumatic stress and suicide.
WestCare Foundation
Based in Nevada with programs in 19 states and three territories, WestCare Foundation will be responsible for bringing together trauma and capacity-building experts as well as faith-and community-based organizations to develop and implement TIMM. The population that WestCare Foundation is seeking to address is children and adolescents impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). These experiences may include having divorced or separated parents, a deceased parent, living with someone with a substance use or mental health disorder, having a parent who served time in jail, or exposure to domestic or neighborhood violence. Our grant activities will address the SDOH domains of Health Care Access and Quality. TIMM specifically will address Healthy People 2030 objectives AH-D02(Increase the proportion of children and adolescents with symptoms of trauma who receive evidence-based treatment), MHMD-D01 (Increase the number of youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) who are identified and receive treatment), and IVP-D03 (Reduce the number of young adults (aged 18 to 25 years) who report 3 or more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). WestCare Foundation will increase the access to trauma-informed care and mental health services and improve outcomes of children and adolescents experiencing ACES by offering training to 620 unduplicated clergy and congregational leaders across the 5-year funding period. WestCare initially will implement the TIMM model in Milwaukee, WI and Atlanta, GA during the first two years of operation, using data and feedback to refine and perfect the model as needed. During the last three years of funding, WestCare will roll out the model throughout its regions, focusing on communities of color with the highest risk and the most need.