NCTSN Military Family Program: Building Partnerships with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network is supported through funding from the Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, administered by the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

National Child Traumatic Stress Network

The mission of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States

National Child Traumatic Stress Network Vision StatementThe NCTSN will raise public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of our nations children and families.We will improve the standard of care by integrating developmental and cultural knowledge to advance a broad range of effective services and interventions that will preserve and restore the future of our nations traumatized children.We will work with established systems of care, including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare and juvenile justice systems, to ensure that there is a comprehensive continuum of care available and accessible to all traumatized children and their families.We will be a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the Network to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills create a national resource to address the problem of child traumatic stress.

Military Families Learning Community: Goals and Objectiveshttp://learn.nctsn.orgNCTSN Learning CenterExpert based Speaker SeriesPartnerships/Communities of PracticeNCTSN, DoD/TRICARE, Department of Veterans AffairsGoals include: Provide information and resource sharing with community providers to serve military families throughout the country. Implement and disseminate adapted evidenced based interventions and prevention.Joint planning and coordination.Partnerships with offers opportunity for financial sustainment.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)Military Families Learning Communitywww.nctsn.orgWorking with USUHS CSTS, identify and develop evidence based practices and interventions to support military families and children.BibliographyProvide developmental guidance and training on military on NCTSN Learning Center.

Email Distribution for routine dissemination of information to sites.

Military Families Knowledge Bank (mfkb.nctsn.org)Searchable, organized directory dedicated to military family and child resources

Traumatic Grief in Military ChildrenInformation Series

Target AudienceParents, caregivers, family membersEducators, school personnelMedical providers

DescriptionProvides culturally competent materials for educating families, medical professionals, and school personnel about how to better serve military children who are experiencing traumatic grief

FormatPDF

Child and Family PsychotherapiesEvidence Based Approaches Parent Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT)Trauma-Focus Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT)Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)Traumatic Grief Component TherapyFOCUS/FOCUS CIStructured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS)

Alignment of Programs with Military Families and VeteransFamilies are important gateway to services, given the multiple barriers to care

Opportunity for screening, prevention and intervention

Destigmatizing framework for promoting psychological health

Supporting readiness, recovery, and reintegration

Military and Veteran Families Engagement Strategies

De-stigmatize efforts family program in family friendly settingsFocus on strengths of familyEducation for those who might encounter Military Families and Veterans Appreciation for all, care for those at greatest riskFlexibility (things change)Family friendly hoursAppreciation for military culture as well as all other self-identifying attributesTransitions Continuum of care and supportSustained efforts over time

Thank you very much!

*NCTSN Military Families Learning CommunityOn-demand podcastsMaster speaker seriesPartnerships/Communities of Care Product Development and Dissemination Knowledge Bank*