Tuesday, May 7, 2024
5/7/2024
Project Name and Summary: Aurora Community Mental Health Center, d/b/a Aurora Mental Health Center (AuMHC) proposes funding through the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative - Category 3 to expand and enhance the Trauma Resilience Youth Program (TRYP) to provide treatment needs specific to cultural adaptations and implementation in a service system that effectively engages and retains refugee, immigrant, and asylee populations in Colorado. Population to be Served: Children and families who are immigrants, refugees, and asylee who are in need of effective, culturally competent and linguistically accessible therapeutic services to recover from trauma and re-engage in activities that support health development. Strategies and Interventions: We will integrate best practices for refugee and immigrant populations to elevate our standard of care, building our staff experience, evidence-based treatment modalities, and population health management capacity. Key activities include: providing outreach and engagement strategies to increase participation in and access to treatment and prevention services; providing direct evidence-based mental disorder treatment and services including screening, assessment, case management, therapy, and prevention; collaborating with other NCTSI centers to improve engagement and outcomes for youth that have experienced trauma; provide services to populations of child-serving systems; and conduct a program evaluation to TRYP which will be submitted and shared with SAMHSA by the end of the project period. Project Goals and Measurable Objectives: Goal 1 is to increase TRYP capacity to deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate therapeutic services to improve the mental and physical health of refugees and immigrants in the Aurora community. TRYP will hire two new clinicians, identify enhancements for the electronic health record to improve documentation, monitoring, and client outcomes, and will develop a sustainable financial plan for Health Navigator services. Goal 2 is to increase capacity for an implementation of the Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R) including meeting fidelity in each of the four Tiers. TRYP will collaborate with Boston Children's Hospital to train TRYP Clinicians in TST-R, develop and offer TST-R trainings to AuMHC staff and partners, and establish fidelity of each TST-R Tier. Goal 3 is to develop and pilot a collaborative Two-Generation (2Gen) approach to enhance family well-being by intentionally and simultaneously working with refugee and immigrant children and their caregivers. This will include assessing feasibility of implementing a 2Gen model, identifying treatment options through a family systems approach, integrating an adult refugee-serving clinician to the TRYP team, and piloting the model with up to 10 families, evaluating its effectiveness and capacity.
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