Penfield Children's Center- Behavior Clinic [1]
Penfield Children's Center (PCC) will use SAMHSA funding to provide evidence-based home-based trauma-focused treatment in Milwaukee County, WI, as well as expand services to neighboring Waukesha County, for children, ages 0 to 6, who have been exposed to (experienced or witnessed) potentially traumatic events and have trauma symptoms. A total of 1,625 children and their families will be served (275 in Year 1, 300 in Year 2, and 350 in each of years 3-5). The EBP, Early Pathways (EP), was developed specifically at PCC to treat very young children exposed to trauma by Marquette University (MU) faculty. The success of this home-based approach for this population has been well-documented in multiple studies, including four randomized controlled trials (RCTs) documenting effectiveness for reducing disruptive behavior disorders and externalizing/antisocial behaviors, improving the family-child relationship, improving general functioning and well-being, improving social functioning/competence, reducing unspecified and other mental health disorders, and improving parenting behaviors.