Wherever primary providers encounter children and families, there are opportunities to integrate trauma-informed practices into the care families receive.
Trauma intersects in many different ways with culture, history, race, gender, location, and language. Trauma-informed systems acknowledge the compounding impact of structural inequity and are responsive to the unique needs of diverse communities.
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All families experience trauma differently. Some factors such as a child’s age or the family’s culture or ethnicity may influence how the family copes and recovers from a traumatic event.
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Partnership among family, youth, and providers merges professional expertise and the experiences of trauma and healing.
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Secondary traumatic stress is the emotional duress that results when an individual hears about the firsthand trauma experiences of another.
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Raising public awareness about the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress is central to raising the standard of care and increasing access to quality services for traumatized children and their families.
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The National Child Traumatic Stress Network is made up of three components.
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The UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) provides leadership, organizational structure, and coordination to the current grantees, Affiliates, and partners of the NCTSN.
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The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress works closely with National Child Traumatic Stress Network members to develop and expand comprehensive external partnerships.
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Collaborative work with policymakers has been an essential part of the mission and activities of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network since it began in 2000 as part of the Children’s Health Act.
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