Treatment and Service Adaptation Centers

The eight newly funded Treatment and Service Adaptation Centers, which provide national expertise on specific types of traumatic events, population groups, and service systems, as well as support the specialized adaptation of effective treatment and service approaches for communities across the country, are:

Miller Children’s Hospital, Long Beach, CA, will use funding to support collaboration with the University of Southern California to form a Child and Adolescent Trauma Program. The program will now provide leadership, program development, and training in the treatment of multiply traumatized children and adolescents.

Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles, CA, will disseminate sustainable school-based trauma services. The district will identify evidence-based and promising practiceprograms for use in school settings; assess school and community needs and capacity to deliver trauma-informed services; and support adaptation, implementation, and sustainability of practices and interventions in schools across the country.

Children’s Hospital and Health Center, San Diego, CA, will expand its role in the identification and dissemination of the Trauma Assessment Pathway (TAP) model and other evidence-based practices, for children traumatized by maltreatment, neglect, or exposure to interpersonal violence. The center will adapt the model and practices for Spanish-speaking clientele.

The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco, CA, will support the efforts of the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a collaborative of four national programs that have pioneered trauma treatment, training, and dissemination for children ages birth to five exposed to family/community violence, physical/sexual abuse and traumatic bereavement. The network will also sponsor trainings in this area nationwide.

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, will use funding for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of prevention models for children exposed to potentially traumatic events. Intervention protocols developed by the center are employed collaboratively by police officers and mental health providers for children and families impacted by violence.

North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY, will use funding to focus on alleviating the impact of traumatic stress in adolescents. It will continue to develop, adapt, and disseminate interventions for chronically traumatized adolescents. It will also develop an Adolescent Traumatic Stress Resource Center for professionals, teens, and families on adolescent trauma, development, and trauma interventions.

Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, will concentrate on improving the standard of care and access to culturally proficient mental health services for children and families affected by mass trauma resulting from terrorism and disasters.

Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, will use funding to support the hospital’s Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents. The center will emphasize collaborative efforts to further disseminate specialized models of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the treatment of sexually abused and multiply traumatized children, physically abused children, and children experiencing traumatic grief. They will also expand training activities and nationally disseminate childhood traumatic grief products.