The purpose of National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) – Category III, Community Treatment and Services (CTS) centers grants program is to provide and increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and services systems in communities for children, adolescents, and their families who experience traumatic events throughout the nation. The overall goal of the program is to improve the quality of trauma treatment and services for children, adolescents, and their families who experience or witness traumatic events; and to increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and services for children and adolescents throughout the nation. The work of this initiative is carried out by a national network of grantees – the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) – that works collaboratively to develop and promote effective trauma treatment, services, and other resources for children, adolescents, and families exposed to an array of traumatic events. The NCTSN members collaborate with one another, and partner with systems of care where children, adolescents, and families who have experienced trauma receive services in their communities.
The NCTSI program seeks to address behavioral health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities by encouraging the implementation of strategies to decrease the differences in access, service use, and outcomes among the racial and ethnic minority populations served.
The Category III CTS centers provide leadership on child/adolescent trauma issues and serve as a resource to help their communities promote trauma-informed treatment and services. In addition, CTS centers will develop and maintain the capacity in their communities or in partnership with child-serving service systems to implement traumainformed service practices, such as public and professional trainings on the impact of trauma, outreach/screening of children/adolescents for trauma exposure, and referral/triaging of identified trauma-exposed children to the appropriate intensity of clinical services. The CTS centers will use evidence-based and evidence-informed trauma interventions, products, and resources developed by the NCTSN that are appropriate to their service populations and service settings. The Category III CTS centers are expected to primarily use trauma interventions, products, and resources developed by the NCTSN that are appropriate to their populations and service settings. It is expected that the key staff will contribute to the programmatic development or execution of your project in a substantive, measurable way. The key staff for this program will be the Project Director, who will be required to commit to a minimum level of effort of fifty percent.
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