Wednesday, March 12, 2025
3/12/2025
Funding Opportunity Number: SM-23-010 Descriptive Title: Northwest Indiana Identification and Management of Pediatric Experiences of Trauma and Underlying Stress (NWI IMPETUS) Project Abstract The Northwest Indiana (NWI) Identification and Management of Pediatric Experiences of Trauma and Underlying Stress (IMPETUS) program seeks to implement routine screening of pediatric traumatic stress and increase access to evidence-based interventions throughout an under-resourced region of Indiana. NWI contains the second largest county in the state, spans both urban and rural counties, and records disproportionately high rates of poverty, food insecurity, and child maltreatment fatalities relative to state averages. IMPETUS recognizes that insecurity, and child maltreatment fatalities relative to state averages. IMPETUS recognizes that pediatric primary care clinics have become the key entry point for trauma-exposed children and families in NWI. Accordingly, the Care Process Model for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPM-PTS) will be implemented to empower pediatric healthcare providers to identify and distinguish trauma exposure and symptoms from other behavioral health issues and to more effectively and efficiently facilitate access to evidence-based treatment. IMPETUS will accomplish this by: 1) implementing routine pediatric trauma screening for 9,000 youth per year; 2) providing immediate access to brief trauma-informed secondary prevention interventions and and group interventions for 200 families per year; and 3) increasing access to longer-term evidence-based trauma interventions by training 50 NWI clinicians per year to subsequently provide trauma-focused services (TF-CBT and TARGET) to 100 youth per year. In collaboration with two NCTSN Category II TSA Centers, the IMPETUS project team, expert consultants, and community partners are uniquely positioned to provide these services across the rural-urban geographic continuum and to change the trajectories for some of Indiana's most vulnerable youth and families.
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