NCCEV Press Releases

For immediate release: October 3, 2005

Almost $70 Million Awarded to Help Children and Adolescents Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events

Charles Curie, Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced almost $70 million in grant awards to provide help to children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic events. These grants will fund a network of community-based treatment and services centers that are supported by national expertise.

SAMHSA’s National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative has three components. The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress advances the network structure, coordinates network activities, and promotes national education and training efforts. The Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers provide national expertise on specific types of traumatic events, population groups, and service systems and supports the specialized adaptation of effective treatment and service approaches for communities across the country. The Community Treatment and Services Centers provide services to children who have experienced traumatic events and evaluate the effectiveness of trauma treatment and services in community and service system settings..

Nineteen Community Treatment and Services Centers were awarded grants for a total of $30.4 million over four years. Eight Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers were awarded grants for a total of $19.2 million over four years. The University of California Los Angeles was awarded $20 million over four years to operate the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress in partnership with Duke University..

“These grants will strengthen the nation’s capacity to provide help to children of all ages who experience traumatic events whether natural disasters or acts of terrorism to build on their strengths and develop resilience to overcome their difficulties,” said Charles Curie, SAMHSA Administrator. “Most children and adolescents who experience trauma rebound and grow from the experience. Nevertheless there are many others who need some extra help. Studies have shown up to 15 percent of girls and 6% of boys who experience trauma could develop serious mental health needs. This national network will improve our ability to provide needed services.”

The 19Community Treatment and Services Centers funded are:

Alaska

Anchorage Community Mental Health -- $398,037 in the first year, and similar amounts thereafter, to establish the first Alaska Child Trauma Center in Anchorage. The Center 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.

Arizona

Jewish Family and Children’s Services, Tucson -- $400,000 per year to support

the Child and Adolescent Traumatic Stress Services Center of Southern Arizona, which 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.

California

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles -- $400,000 per year to 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.

Connecticut

Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic, New Haven -- $400,000 per year to create a community-based clinical center for excellence for the treatment of children and families who have been exposed to trauma. The program 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.

Delaware

Department of Services for Children and Youth, Wilmington -- $400,000 per year to 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.

Illinois

La Rabida Children’s Hospital, Chicago -- $399,268 in the first year, and similar amounts thereafter, to serve 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.

Massachusetts

The Justice Resource Institute, Inc., Boston -- $400,000 per year to the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, in collaboration with the Child Trauma Recovery Foundation, to 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

The Tubman Family Alliance, Minneapolis -- $400,000 per year to develop the Minnesota Child Response Center 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

New Hampshire

Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover -- $383,220 in the first year, and similar amounts thereafter, to 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.

New Jersey

International Institute of New Jersey, Jersey City -- $400,000 per year to promote the well-being of refugee children and their families in Northern New Jersey through culturally and linguistically accessible services designed to reduce the effects of trauma associated with the refugee experience and resettlement

New York

Jewish Board of Family and Children, New York -- $400,000 per year to 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.

Safe Horizon Inc., New York -- $400,000 per year to provide innovative, evidence-based treatment and services to traumatized children and adolescents in New York City by adapting and implementing a range of evidence-based engagement and treatment models in agency programs for children and youth

St. John’s University, Queens -- $397,647 in the first year, and similar amounts thereafter, to develop and sustain a community-wide network of providers who are trained in implementing trauma-informed, evidence-based services. The goal is to train primary care personnel to use trauma-informed, evidence-based services and provide these services with underserved, inner city, traumatized children.

Ohio

The Toledo Hospital -- $400,000 per year to provide direct services using Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and adaptations for very young and physically or mentally disabled children. The program will expand the array of trauma-informed treatments by extending agency reach to high-risk children in school and juvenile justice setting.

Oregon

Children’s Relief Nursery, Portland -- $399,943 in the first year, and similar amounts thereafter, to implement an Early Childhood Community Treatment Center to meet the needs of children ages birth through three in North Portland by identifying, implementing, and adapting evidence-based and research-informed interventions for children ages birth through three who have experienced trauma, and their families.

Willamette Family Treatment Services, Eugene -- $399,970 in the first year, and similar amounts thereafter, to integrate a program of gender sensitive trauma services into currently offered substance abuse treatment services for adolescent girls in Lane County. Services will also reach into numerous rural Oregon communities and onto several Native American Reservations.

South Dakota

Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc., Porcupine -- $400,000 per year to develop a Community Treatment and Services Center to serve children and youth ages 3-18 who have experienced trauma on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota.

Texas

Serving Children and Adolescents in Need, Laredo -- $400,000 per year to improve and expand the service delivery system in Webb County for children and adolescents experiencing traumatic stress through the design and implementation of trauma-informed services. The targeted population is composed almost entirely of first generation Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants who are bilingual or primarily Spanish speaking.

West Virginia

Youth Health Services Inc., Elkins -- $388,249 in the first year, and similar amounts thereafter, to improve the mental health status of children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma and to improve community practices and collaborations for the care of traumatized children and adolescents. Training, public education and community collaboration will be combined to create an environment that supports and sustains the delivery and use of effective best practices for trauma-focused treatment and care services.

The 8 Treatment and Service Adaptation Centers funded are:

California

Miller Children’s Hospital, Long Beach-- $600,000 per year to support collaboration between the Miller Children’s Abuse and Violence Intervention Center and the University of Southern California to form a Child and Adolescent Trauma Program. The program will provide leadership, program development and training in the treatment of multiply traumatized children and adolescents.

Los Angeles Unified School District-- $599, 814 per year to disseminate sustainable school-based trauma services. The district’s center will identify evidence-based and promising practice programs 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-- $600,000 per year to expand their center’s 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--$600,000 per year 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.

Connecticut

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven -- $600,000 per year will be used by the school’s Childhood Violent Trauma Center 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.

New York

North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset -- $600,000 per year to enable the hospital’s Adolescent Trauma Treatment Development Center 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.

Oklahoma

Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City -- $599,999 per year to establish and manage the Terrorism and Disaster Center. The center 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.

Pennsylvania

Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh -- $599,970 per year 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.

SAMHSA, is a public health agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency is responsible for improving the accountability, capacity and effectiveness of the nation’s substance abuse prevention, addictions, treatment, and mental health services delivery system.