Is a centralized resource for providers and resource parents who are using or interested in using Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents in their communities.
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Describes the impact of traumatic separation, attachment, and attachment disruption on children and adolescents.
Provides a picture of the challenges experienced by families caring for youth with trauma and substance use.
Widens the trauma-informed care lens by focusing on familial responses to trauma.
Discusses the differences between offering mental health services on site at a CAC versus partnering with other organizations to provide care.
Offers information on the assessment of complex trauma in children.
Provides strategies for establishing and expanding partnerships, discusses considerations for networking in rural and frontier communities, and highlights the role of health care coalitions and schools.
Helps Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) directors deliver the highest quality care to children and families.
Identifies existing NCTSN resources related to traumatic separation, refugee and immigrant trauma, and best practices in trauma-informed care for refugee and immigrant children and families.
Highlights findings and recommendations from the convening of an Institute of Medicine expert committee charged with identifying key steps to ensure evidence-based care is provided to individuals receiving both mental health and substance use serv