Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Service-partners Promoting Awareness, Resilience, and Knowledge-based Solutions (SPARKS) project proposed by the Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic (PSADC) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) aims to increase access and provision of evidence-based trauma services for youth in the Chicagoland area by expanding the capacity of the Colbeth Child Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic for serving youth in clinic and community settings. The high levels of traumatic stress, community violence exposure, co-occurring behavioral health challenges, chronic socio-economic adversity, and the COVID-19 pandemic crisis have combined to expose the scarcity of trauma informed services among youth and families residing in the identified catchment areas (e.g., Chicago and its adjacent communities especially the Park Forest suburb). Consequently, the SPARKS project aims to provide a comprehensive, coordinated, and collaborative set of evidence-based trauma informed services to address this multiplicity of clinical care needs among targeted Chicagoland youth and families. In particular, SPARKS adopts the following goals and related measurable objectives: 1) increase access to care for youth and families impacted by trauma in Chicago and surrounding communities by reaching 1,735 total youth and families for the 5-year period) by a) utilizing evidence-based outreach and engagement strategies (520 youth/families total), b) administering evidence-based trauma screening and assessment tools (660 youth total), and c) providing trauma-focused prevention and intervention services (555 youth/families annually); and 2) engage in local and national partnerships to increase staff expertise and contribute to services adaptations to reach youth in school, community, and law enforcement systems by a) sustaining implementation of evidence-based, trauma-focused prevention and treatment services and increasing staff cultural competence in collaboration with NCTSN national training partners with minimum 80% training participation, b) expanding the reach of PSADC by ensuring between 20%-50% of proposed SPARKS program services are delivered at local partner outreach sites for key child-serving systems, and c) contributing to the coordination of services across child-service systems and the development of products, webinars, trainings, and resources in collaboration with NCTSN sites and local partners (minimum 4 collaborative activities annually). Through these goals and activities, SPARKS will increase evidence-based strategies for outreach, engagement, screening, assessment, prevention, and intervention strategies along with supporting continued protocol implementation, increased cultural competence, child service system coordination and resource exchange in the Chicago metropolitan and suburban areas.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
