Monday, November 25, 2024
11/25/2024
Summary of Project: Volunteers of America, Dakotas (VOAD) will provide and increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and services for children and adolescents ages 4-17 and their families who have been impacted by traumatic events, with a focus on those who have experienced multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences and/or COVID-related trauma. The project with serve the Sioux Falls metro area and surrounding counties. Project Name: Volunteers of America, Dakotas Youth and Family Trauma Center. Population to be Served: This project will serve children and adolescents ages 4-17 and their families who have been impacted by traumatic events, with a focus on serving those who have experienced multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences and/or COVID-related trauma, including American Indian and other populations impacted by health disparities. Strategies/Interventions: VOAD will provide and increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and services by: training therapists in evidence-based, trauma-focused, culturally responsive interventions; working with referral sources to ensure children, adolescents and their families who have experienced trauma are connected with services; providing free, low-barrier initial trauma screenings; screening and assessing children and adolescents for trauma using Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire, the PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version, the Pediatric Symptoms Checklist and the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen; providing evidence-based trauma treatment and services using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Honoring Children Mending the Circle; and collaborating with child and family-serving agencies to provide trauma-focused training. Services will be delivered in outpatient and residential settings and via telehealth. Project Goals and Objectives: Goal: Ensure children and adolescents and their families who have experienced multiple ACEs are able to access effective, evidence-based trauma-focused treatment and services that will help them to live healthy, fulfilling lives. Objective 1: Enhance the ability to effectively provide trauma-informed services by training 8 VOAD staff in trauma-informed, evidence-based, culturally responsive practices. Objective 2: Establish a referral protocol with stakeholders to ensure children, adolescents and their families are connected with a trauma-trained therapist. Objective 3: Develop media targeted for populations affected by behavioral health disparities. Objective 4: Screen and assess 100 children and adolescents in Year 1 and 125 annually in Years 2-5. Objective 5: Provide evidence-based, trauma-informed, culturally responsive treatment and services to 75 children and/or adolescents and their families in Year 1 and 100 annually in Years 2-5. Objective 6: Collaborate with child and family-serving agencies and stakeholders to provide trauma-focused training to 50 individuals annually to increase the community’s capacity to identify and treat child trauma. Objective 7: Implement program evaluation and quality improvement Number of individuals served: 75 in Year 1, 100 annually in Years 2-5 for a project lifetime total of 475.
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