Friday, April 19, 2024
4/19/2024
Metro Louisville, a thriving metropolitan city, has experienced recent escalations in community violence and civil unrest that threaten to destroy its most vulnerable neighborhoods. The Louisville Metro Trauma Resilient Community (TRC) Initiative is a city-wide program that seeks to promote resilience and equity for Louisville’s high-risk youth and families most affected by trauma, violence and civil unrest. To address this growing crisis, the TRC Initiative will utilize a comprehensive, community based approach consisting of 1) capacity building, 2) community, first responder, and referral source education, 3) youth and family centered, evidence-based trauma-focused interventions, and 4) consumer feedback and evaluation to help youth and their families overcome the effects of trauma. Specifically, this project will 1) increase knowledge and skills of personnel who make referrals and provide services to children and families regarding trauma, community violence, and related services, 2) provide trauma-focused intervention services to children and their families exposed to community violence, and 3) evaluate the impact of the project on consumers of this proposed project. The TRC Initiative will develop a community-engaged advisory board (Champions of Community Challenges) to increase trauma awareness among community leaders, enhance outreach and training across multiple sectors, and identify the effects of adverse community experiences in order to address their manifestations in the community. Additionally, TRC will engage in trauma-informed community and referral source training in order to develop a common language, build engagement within the community, and establish a safe communication process for all collaborators to follow. Project-related activities, services, and outreach efforts will target West and South Louisville communities, where high-risk youth and families most affected by trauma, violence, and civil unrest reside. By the completion of the project, 250 clinicians will have been trained in evidence-based trauma interventions (e.g. AF-CBT, CBITS, Parent University), 475 children and their families in West and South Louisville will have been provided trauma treatment and education, 40 service providers, public school officials, and leaders will become local trainers in the Sanctuary Model® (Champions for Community Change), and 50 community agencies serving youth exposed to community violence and trauma will have become trauma-informed, including 12 “backbone” agencies that will become certified Sanctuary Model® organizations. Project evaluation findings will be disseminated through presentations and publications, with an emphasis on the project’s impact and lessons learned regarding how to best respond to the needs of youth and fami
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