Community Treatment and Service Centers

The 19 newly funded Community Treatment and Services Centers, which provide services to children who have experienced traumatic events and evaluate the effectiveness of trauma treatment and services in community and service system settings, are:

Anchorage Community Mental Health, Anchorage, AK, will collaborate with community partners to establish a trauma-focused coalition and treatment network to establish best practices-based services for children and adolescents (ages 3 to 18), who have suffered trauma.

Jewish Family and Children’s Services, Tucson, AZ, will improve the availability and quality of services and treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced trauma by implementing and evaluating evidence-based interventions in a variety of community settings, including schools, residential treatment facilities, and out-patient counseling centers.

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, will establish and sustain evidence-based clinical treatment and trauma services for runaway and homeless youth in the Hollywood community. The grant will enable the program to transform the service delivery system so that the entire system of care is more educated about trauma and its impact, and more able to effectively respond to these needs.

Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic, New Haven, CT, will improve the quality of the treatment services available to those families within the greater New Haven region by assisting other human service agencies in implementing evidence-based practices.

Department of Services for Children and Youth, Wilmington, DE, will expand statewide capacity to identify and assess child traumatic stress and increase access to effective, community-based trauma-specific treatment. The target population is children in public child welfare, juvenile justice, and child mental health systems with acute trauma related to sexual abuse, physical abuse, or witnessing violence.

La Rabida Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, serves inner city African Americans and other Chicago area children exposed to the full range of traumatic events, including medical trauma and complex trauma. The Chicago Child Trauma Center will increase program capacity and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions modified for urban African-American children.

The Justice Resource Institute, Inc., Boston, MA, in collaboration with the Child Trauma Recovery Foundation, will establish the New England Trauma Services Network. The network will expand the training and services of the program to high-need, under-resourced communities.

Minnesota Child Response Center, Minneapolis, MN, will work to raise the standard of care for traumatized minority, homeless, and formerly homeless children by embedding evidence-based treatment models into the community system of care. The program will extend its impact throughout Minnesota and the upper Midwest

Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, will implement and evaluate best practices for severely emotionally disturbed adolescents who have experienced trauma and who are served by the community mental health system in New Hampshire.

International Institute of New Jersey, Jersey City, NJ, will promote the well-being of refugee children and their familiesin northern New Jersey through culturally and linguistically accessible services designed to reduce the effects of trauma associated with the refugee experience and resettlement.

Jewish Board of Family and Children, New York, NY, will develop, improve, and systematize trauma-focused assessment and treatment services for traumatized children from low-income and racially diverse neighborhoods. The program will address needs seen at both inpatient and outpatient services.