Trauma intersects in many different ways with culture, history, race, gender, location, and language. Cultural awareness, responsiveness, and understanding are essential to increase access and improve the standard of care for traumatized children, families, and communities across the United States. Eliminating disparities in trauma services requires culturally responsive involvement across service sectors, communities, organizations, neighborhoods, families, and individuals, thereby, reducing barriers, overcoming stigma, addressing social adversities, strengthening families, and encouraging positive ethnic identity.

Adopting Trauma-Focused Treatments for Culturally Diverse Populations
Discusses the general principles, at the level of culture, family, and the individual child, that clinicians should consider when adapting a trauma treatment for minority populations. Michael de Arellano presents viewers with a focused case study that highlights the effort to adapt Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for Latino Families.

The Organizational Journey toward Cultural and Linguistic Competency
Addresses the critical role that cultural competency plays in providing effective therapy.
This two-part fact sheet helps readers learn the organizational journey towards cultural and linguistic competency.

Part One:
Part one in a series focused on cultural competency, this fact sheet describes how to identify your service population, external and internal sources of information to support that population, and understanding the communities your populations belong to.

Part Two:
Part two in a series focused on cultural competency, this fact sheet describes how to attract and keep the right staff, cultivate cross-cultural awareness, ensure accountability, and reward improvements.

Implementing Cultural Competence
Discusses how therapy is the interaction of two or more cultural identities, making cultural competence an essential part of providing effective therapy. This fact sheet describes the importance of cultural competence and ways to implement it into a provider's work.

Grief, Loss, and the Path of Healing Among American Indian Youth and Communities
Framed within the context of intergenerational trauma, grief, and loss, this webinar discusses how to recognize the uniqueness of the loss and grief of American Indian children and communities experience.  Presenters highlight the importance of grounding interventions, assessments, and research in culture and community. With the help of specific examples, presenters demonstrate the process of adapting interventions to accommodate culture and evaluating instruments for cultural effectiveness.

Newly Released Webinar for the Developmental Trauma Disorder Series!
Trauma and Race: Opportunities and Challenges for Therapists of Color Working with Families of Color
Presenters: Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD, UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress; Maureen Allwood, PhD, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Rocio Chang, MA, PsyD, University of Connecticut; Julian Ford, PhD, University of Connecticut

This newly released webinar shows viewers critically important moments from three dramatized therapy sessions. Seasoned trauma therapists share and reflect on their own experiences in working with clients of similar and different racial and ethnic backgrounds to their own. Through thoughtful discussion, participants explore the intersections of developmental trauma, clinical work, and race/ethnicity. Participants are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences in working across similar cultural backgrounds and will have the opportunity to share questions to further this important discussion.

 

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This project was developed by the developed by the NCTSN Core Curriculum Task Force, and funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).