Long Island Jewish Medical Center [1]
Our Category II site at LIJ Medical Center is promoted by our STRYDD Center which as its name implies defines our mission: Supporting Trauma Recovery for Youth with Developmental Disabilities. We seek to increase the capacity of communities in awareness, cross systems collaboration and trauma informed intervention on behalf of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families who have been impacted by trauma. We strive to create a best fit in terms of community needs with an individualized dissemination plan to include increase in knowledge of trauma & IDD (by means of Road to Recovery Toolkit, Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma IDD case examples), enhancing trauma informed clinical care (consultation on screening/assessment, training in TF-CBT) and advanced training for tailoring trauma informed intervention for youth with IDD. We encourage all network members to become familiar with the unique challenges impacting this vulnerable population by accessing our several fact sheets for providers and caregivers on the NCTSN website. Additionally, clinicians can review a series of webinars on adapting trauma based interventions for these youth. Our goals for this current funding cycle include the construction of various clinician guides to accompany our advanced trainings in Tailoring TF-CBT, Adapting Evidence-Based Trauma treatments more generally, and Trauma-Informed ABA. Additionally, we are implementing a school based approach in Stress First Aid (SFA) in support of the impact of COVID-19 on the school community, especially involving those serving special education students.