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Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
Susan Ko, PhDDirector, Service Systems
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
NCTSN Service Systems Program
• Increase awareness about the impact of child traumatic stress and the intersection of culture and trauma.
• Build strategic partnerships.• Provide education / training.• Develop products to address gaps in
knowledge and skills across a wide range of child-serving service systems (e.g., schools, child welfare, health care) and the general public (e.g., parents/families).
Major Accomplishments
• Developed a conceptual framework for how to create trauma-informed systems: submitted Creating Trauma-Informed Child-Serving Systems paper in Professional Psychology Research and Practice (in press).
• Strategic and systematic dissemination of existing products.– Cops, Kids Domestic Violence: Protecting Our
Future.– Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress Toolkit for
Health Care Providers.• Developed and launched Service Systems Briefs
Series.
Ongoing Activities
• School Committee: Trauma Educational Toolkit.• Child Welfare Committee: Policy guide for child
welfare administrators; Training toolkit for child welfare agencies; Resource parent training materials; Guide to trauma mental health for child advocacy centers; Trauma profile and referral tool.
• Released an RFP for a mini-grant in under-funded priority areas (i.e., creating trauma-informed systems, cultural competence, youth and family engagement): 12 proposals were funded $5000 each. Projects will be complete by August 2008.
Upcoming Activities
• Develop distance learning Speaker Series with a focus on child-serving systems beyond mental health (e.g., schools, child welfare, juvenile justice).
• Launch a Learning Collaborative focused on systems (e.g., child welfare).
Key Program Staff
• Susan Ko, PhDDirector, Service Systems310.235.2633 [email protected]
• Cally Sprague, MA Program Coordinator
