SM-16-003 Individual Grant Awards

The UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) will extend the national reach and impact of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), advancing its mission to improve quality of and access to care for traumatized children and their families across the United States. The NCCTS provides leadership, organizational structure, and coordination to funded centers and Affiliates; strategic and community partners; family, consumer, and youth advocacy groups, and representatives of major child serving systems and professional organizations. The NCCTS will: 1) maintain and improve the Network's information technology infrastructure, program management, and procedures for collaborative NCTSN functioning and public access to information and training; 2) working collaboratively to transform child-serving systems into trauma-informed systems of care; 3) strengthen and expand support for Network product development and dissemination; 4) incorporate implementation science into NCTSN training and dissemination efforts; 5) expand programs to disseminate in-person and virtual training to support child trauma education and training across all ten SAMHSA regions; 6) ensure proposed activities adhere to national standards for providing services across demographic, language, literacy, culture, and disability groups; 7) support data collection and dataset management and storage from the NCTSN and partnering service organizations; 8) summarize, analyze, and report results describing trauma history profiles of NCTSN service populations, characteristics of prevalent trauma responses, outcomes of trauma assessments and interventions, and adoption of trauma-informed interventions and practices; 9) provide consultation and technical assistance on data collection, scoring and interpretation of measures, and treatment protocols; 10) ) utilize NCTSN data to refine NCCTS understanding of the impact of trauma and trauma interventions to inform the NCCTS work.