Pause-Reset-Nourish (PRN)* to Promote Wellbeing: Use as Needed to Take Care of Your Wellness
Provides information about the specific self-care strategy of Pause-Reset-Nourish, or PRN. This fact sheet acknowledges the levels of stress that professionals may be currently experiencing and offers a way to address unwanted symptoms and promote and replenish wellbeing and enhance resilience.

Preparing Children After a Wildfire Damages Your Community
Offers guidance to parents and caregivers on deciding whether or not a child should return to their home or neighborhood after it was damaged in a wildfire.

New Season: Directors' Download With Guest Sarah Gardner
In the first episode of season two, listeners hear from Sarah Gardner, MSW, Director of Clinical Services at the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute and a funded member of Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center at the University of Maryland. Sarah’s area of expertise is intergenerational trauma patterns and engaging families who have experienced marginalization related to racism, poverty, and other negative social conditions. She has been a part of the Network since 2003 and is the developer of FamilyLive, an innovative family therapy model which helps caregivers with trauma histories develop parenting skills. Since joining the Network, Sarah has played important roles in the NCTSN, including as a former longtime co-chair of the Partnering with Youth and Families Collaborative Group where she worked to help develop and disseminate a number of key products including, Sharing Power: A Tool for Reflection, What's SHARING POWER Got to Do With Trauma-Informed Practice?, and Compensation for Family and Youth Involvement: Why It’s Critical.

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New Webinar Series! Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Who Have Experienced Trauma
In the US, an estimated one in six children has a developmental disorder, including intellectual disability, autism, and other genetic and brain-based conditions. Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience traumatic events at a rate that is at least equal to their typically developing peers and are at increased risk for some types of traumatic events, with serious negative impacts. This series will provide clinicians with the foundational knowledge to adapt their practices and provide trauma-informed care to children with IDD.

● First Webinar: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of a Vulnerable Population 

Date/Time: Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 9:00 AM PST/12:00 PM EST 

Presenters: Juliet M. Vogel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Consultant for the STRYDD Center—Supporting Trauma Recovery for Youth with Developmental Disabilities, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Northwell Health System; Daniel Hoover, Ph.D., ABPP, Director of Psychology Training—Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Peter D'Amico, Ph.D., ABPP, Principal Investigator for STRYDD Center, Director, Child and Adolescent Psychology, LIJ Medical Center, Northwell Health 

This first webinar in the series will address basic issues in trauma-informed care for children with IDD. The presenters will provide an overview of the challenges and strengths these children often present as clients (and the benefits and challenges of working with them), types and causes of IDD, diagnostic and assessment issues, and practical suggestions for tailoring evidence-based treatments. The discussion will include particular concerns about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on this population.  

New Webinar Series! Surviving and Thriving: Conversations About Community Violence and COVID-19
Community violence is an ongoing crisis in society as many youth and families feel the destructive repercussions of peer conflicts, gun and other weapon attacks, gang fights, and public violence incidents. The COVID-19 pandemic and increased police misconduct in populations affected by community violence must be addressed for organizations to provide effective services. In this series, experts will provide their perspective on helping youth and families navigate these traumatic stressors for their own health and wellness by examining the links between community violence, COVID-19 and community unrest/protest.

● First Webinar: Institutional Responses to the Current Crisis 

Date/Time: Friday, January 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM PST/2:00 PM EST 

Speakers: Jaleel Abdul-Adil, Co-Director of the Urban Youth Trauma Center & Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Melissa Brymer, Director of the Terrorism and Disaster Program at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress; Julian Ford, Director of the Center for Trauma Recovery and Juvenile Justice & Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Christopher Mannino, Chief of Police at the Park Forest Police Department; Rachel Wax, Community Engagement Coordinator at the Park Forest Police Department 

Speakers will provide perspectives on the institutional responses to the links between community violence and COVID-19 including law enforcement, juvenile justice, national disaster, and mental health systems.

Upcoming Identifying Critical Moments Webinar -  A Young Black Man’s Dilemmas: Loss, Loyalty, and Family Relationships

Date/Time: Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 10:00 AM PST/1:00 PM EST 

Presenters: Wisdom Powell, PhD, UConn Health, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Health Disparities Institute; Rocio Chang, PhD, UConn Health, Assistant Professor/Clinical, Department of Psychiatry; Co-I, Center for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders; Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University; and Monique Khumalo, PhD, Principal Owner at Youth Trauma & Justice Solutions, LLC 

In this webinar, viewers will meet 17-year-old Terrell, who is in his fourth therapy session—a teletherapy meeting with Dr. Wizdom Powell. During this session, Terrell realizes that he has been avoiding his feelings about his recent, challenging relationship with his stepfather. Dr. Powell also helps Terrell open up about his feelings of anger and sadness associated with the memory and deep loss of his foster father, who died in an automobile accident when Terrell was just a boy. Terrell discovers a path in his family relationships that allows him to honor and sustain a connection with both of his fathers.

New Webinar now Available on Demand! Navigating Racial and Gender Identity Violence as a Young Black Man With Developmental Trauma

Speakers: Julian Ford, PhD, UConn Health, Professor of Psychiatry and Law/ Clinical Department of Psychiatry; PI, Center for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders (CTDTD); Rocio Chang, PsyD, UConn Health, Assistant Professor/Clinical, Department of Psychiatry; Co-I, Center for the Treatment of Developmental Trauma Disorders; Chantel Kufeji, LMSW, CHRIS 180, PROJECT 180; Glenn Saxe, MD, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Child Study Center 

Features James, a 16-year-old African American youth who has been living with his maternal uncle, Patrick, since he and his two younger sisters were removed from their biological parents three years ago when James reported to a teacher that his father physically abused him. The teacher filed a report with Child Protective Services (CPS), quickly leading to the removal of James and his two younger sisters (ages seven and nine at that time) from the family home. CPS has been the legal guardian of all three children ever since. CPS gave Patrick physical custody of James, but James’ sisters were placed with a foster family. Patrick believes James needs help and sends him to see Dr. Julian Ford. During his first telehealth session with Dr. Ford, James is skeptical about whether his older White therapist can understand what it’s like as a young African American man. Together, Dr. Ford and James discuss these differences. Their discussions allow James to open up and share some of his deep frustrations and fears, including how his experiences affect his sense of safety and trust and how Patrick can accept and support him as he navigates these complex issues.

Issue Brief: Human Trafficking Prevention – Strategies for Runaway and Homeless Youth Settings
This Issue Brief from the Family Youth Services Bureau recognizes the vital role that runaway and homeless youth (RHY) programs can play in the prevention of sex and labor trafficking among runaway and homeless youth. It also highlights the importance of integrating public health, trauma-informed, and positive youth development principles into human trafficking interventions. In addition to highlighting human trafficking (HT) risk factors, this brief offers a variety of HT prevention components that can be easily integrated into programmatic activities, such as discussing with youth how to recognize a "too good to be true" job or building safety nets to support.

Preparing for the COVID-19 Second Wave: 
An Overview of the New Prolonged Grief Disorder Through the Lenses of Multidimensional Grief

Date/Time: Friday, January 29, 2021 at 9:00 AM PST/11:00 AM CST/12:00 PM EST 

Speaker: Christopher M. Layne, Ph.D., Director of Education in Evidence-Based Practice, UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress 

Although COVID-19 and other epidemics are exerting devastating effects globally, a “second wave” of secondary mental health consequences is emerging. This presentation will discuss converging demands on the mental health care system and new opportunities to raise the standard of bereavement care. It will review the new Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD; scheduled for release in DSM-5-TR in 2021) and key risk factors. Multidimensional grief theory offers useful lenses for analyzing PGD symptoms and clarifying their implications for creating bereavement-informed systems of care that promote positive adjustment in the majority of bereaved individuals and identify and provide specialized assistance to a significant minority experiencing severe distress and impairment. Key activities include risk screening, referral, clinical assessment, case conceptualization, intervention, and public outreach. This webinar offers two CE credits: CAMFT/APA, NASW.

RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Listen, Don’t Tell: Partnership and Adaptation to Implement Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Low-Resourced Settings, written by Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo, Regan W. Stewart, Bianca T. Villalobos, Juventino Hernandez Rodriquez, Aubrey R. Dueweke, Michael A de Arellano, and John Young describes the implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) in three separate low-resourced settings (rural South Carolina, Puerto Rico, and El Salvador) utilizing the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework and guided by a community-based participatory research framework. Emphasis is placed on description of program development, building collaborative and responsive partnerships, and the use of implementation strategies to guide continuous quality improvement. Program evaluation data comparing baseline to posttreatment trauma symptoms and treatment completion rates for all sites are also presented, which suggests that treatment was associated with a large reduction in symptoms, exceeding that noted in many TF-CBT randomized trials. The implications of attention to context, adaptation, and methods of building partnerships with global communities are discussed, with a particular focus on propelling more refined models and controlled studies in the future. 

Authored by Katelyn Donisch, Yanchen Zhang, Chris Bray, Sophia Frank, and Abigail H. Gewirtz, Development and preliminary validation of the University of Minnesota’s Traumatic Stress Screen for Children and Adolescents (TSSCA) describes the development and preliminary validation of the Traumatic Stress Screen for Children and Adolescents (TSSCA), a six-item screening measure for trauma exposure and traumatic stress symptoms. Using two samples of youth presenting at community practice settings (n1 = 134, n2 = 137), reliability, discriminative validity, and criterion-related validity were calculated for the TSSCA. Results support the TSSCA as an empirically derived, reliable, and valid screening measure for exposure to trauma and symptoms of traumatic stress for youth ages 7 to 18.

 

   

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This project was funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The views, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS.