Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4/29/2025
CarePlus NJ's Community Treatment and Service Center - The Care Plus New Jersey (CPNJ) Community Treatment and Service (CTS) Center will serve underserved and under-resourced English- and Spanish-speaking children and adolescents ("youth") aged 7-17 who experience traumatic events and their families who reside in three northern NJ counties. Building upon its current CTS Center in Bergen County and aligning with the purpose of the CTS initiative, CPNJ will increase access to effective, evidence-based, and culturally and linguistically appropriate trauma treatment and service systems for 900 youth aged 7-17 and their families in three NJ counties who experience traumatic events. As a current CTS grantee, CPNJ has spent the past five years implementing all required activities and is viewed as the local expert in trauma-informed care. CPNJ has established a system to screen all youth that come through its doors, ensuring those with trauma histories can access EBP models of treatment while also building community capacity and infrastructure to respond to those impacted by trauma. Grant funds through this current procurement will allow CPNJ to meet the following goals: (1) Increase access to effective EVP trauma-focused treatment and services among English and Spanish-speaking youth in Bergen, Passaic, and Essex Counties aged 7-17 and families who experience trauma; (2) Improve the quality of trauma treatment and services for English and Spanish-speaking youth in Bergen, Passaic, and Essex Counties aged 7-17 and families who experience trauma through training, supervision, and support of clinicians; and (3) Provide leadership on youth trauma issues and serve as a resource to help community partners identify, support, and refer to services English and Spanish-speaking youth in Bergen, Passaic, and Essex Counties aged 7-17 and families who experience trauma. Goal 1 will be met through the following objectives: Screen 2100 youth using the Traumatic Stress Screen for Children and Adolescents (TSSCA); Provide assessment, care management, and evidence-based therapy to 900 youth who score 6+ on TSSCA; Partner with 125 youth-serving organizations through collaboration, coordination, and sharing resources; increase the number of referrals made by youth-serving organizations to CPNJ by 5% each year. Goal 2 will be met through the following objectives: six CPNJ clinicians will be trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to achieve the EMDRIA Certified Clinician status; four EMDR certified clinicians will train to become EMDRIA Approved Consultants.; the creation of an EMDRIA Credit Provider training for Basic EMDR will train an additional 15 clinicians; train 50 CPNJ clinicians on evidence-based Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT); ten supervisors trained in the Attachment Regulation Competency (ARC) framework will meet two times to conduct the ARC-Based Milieu Program Self-Evaluation Form and share results; and provide 500 hours of supervisory consultation to clinicians on EMDR, TF-CBT, and ARC. Goal 3 will be met through the following objectives: the CTS team will conduct 250 hours of outreach and community education to help community partners understand trauma, its impact on youth development, and CPNJ resources; and conduct 1,500 outreach engagements or training each to help child-serving entities representing schools, child welfare, child protective services, juvenile justice, behavioral health, schools, grassroots entities, religious institutions, and others understand trauma, its impact on youth development, and CPNJ resources. By implementing these goals and objectives, CPNJ will meet all requirements for the CTS initiative, including mental health treatment, coordination with child-serving systems, professional development and training, community outreach and engagement, and collaboration with NCTSI Partners.
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).