www.NCTSN.org Gets an Overhaul
After months of planning, the NCTSN launched a reorganized website in early December 2005. The new site presents the wealth of NCTSN resources clearly and efficiently to a wide audience of consumers, professionals, researchers, and policy makers. Although the colors and graphics of www.NCTSN.org are the same, site navigation has been completely reorganized. Information can now be found more easily, and the site can accommodate future growth without sacrificing ease of use.
An expanded yet streamlined resources section is the door to numerous reports, guidelines, and materials presented both by audience and by topic. The resources section also allows visitors to dig deeper into the field of child traumatic stress through its online research track.
Upgraded navigation allows readers quick access to new introductory materials about child traumatic stress, updated information about specific types of trauma,and in-depth information about the Network itself.
Many people played an important role in the reorganization effort. An advisory group that provided input at the beginning of the process included Stephanie Schneider, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Ron McDaniel, DePelchin Center; Joe Benamati, Parsons Center; Nicole Morin, NYU Child Study Center; and Dawn Moses, Center for Homelessness.
A Parents and Caregivers Webpages Advisory Group provided hands-on editing and reviewing help as well as overall advice. The group’s members were Frank Bennett, Aurora Mental Health Center; Shannon CrossBear, Federation of Families; Alessia Gottlieb, NCCTS-UCLA; Libby Jones, Success for Families and Federation of Families; Ana Laidley, Children's Institute
International; Kristi Porter, Federation of Families; Bill Saltzman, Millers Children's Institute; and Jim Van Den Brandt, Mental Health Center of Dane County.
In addition, Steve Williams and Peter Kung, NCCTS staff, chaired an NCCTS Website Team comprising National Center colleagues.
www.NCTSN.org Recognized in The National Center has been notified that www.NCTSN.org will be included in "Pocket Guide to Evidence-Based Practices on the Web,” a SAMHSA publication to be released later this year. The inclusion of our website follows an analysis by the Human Services Research Institute of Evidence Based Practices on the Internet. |
New Staff at the National Center
Nick Tise, MPH, joins the National Center at Duke as a network liaison. An alum of both Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nick is native to North Carolina and has project management, emergency medical services and counseling experience. Nick can be reached by email at ntise@psych.duhs.duke.edu.
Tonya Elliott joins the National Center at Duke as a research assistant. She can be reached at telliott@psych.duhs.duke.edu.
Welcome Nick and Tonya!