Trauma-informed screening and assessment practices help providers identify children’s and families’ needs early in the process and to tailor services to meet those needs.
Search
Enhancing cultural competence and encouraging cultural humility are essential to increasing access and improving the standard of care for traumatized children, families, and communities across the nation.
Training curricula developed by the NCTSN are designed to facilitate the delivery of comprehensive workshops for various audiences on child traumatic stress.
Wherever Healthcare Providers encounter children and families--whether in a clinic, hospital ER, school, or at a private outpatient practice--there are opportunities to integrate trauma-informed practices into the care families receive.
June was first declared as World Refugee Awareness Month in 2001. Since then, June has been a time to acknowledge strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees who live around the globe.
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.
Children and families become known to the child welfare system because of suspected abuse or neglect, experiences which can result in traumatic stress reactions.
As awareness increases about the effects of traumatic experiences, it has become more important for medical and behavioral health providers to integrate their care for children and families.
The NCTSN Young Adult Collective is a national youth advisory board comprised of youth (ages 18-26) across the US.