Sunday, November 24, 2024
11/24/2024
The program proposes to establish trauma-informed mental health screening in NYC's secure juvenile detention centers, to establish evidence-based skills groups to reduce trauma related problems, and to build collaborative partnerships in the child-serving systems associated with juvenile detention to increase trauma responsiveness in those systems. The program will (1) establish systematic trauma-informed mental health screening, evaluate that process, and develop and disseminate a product through the NCTSN network; (2) Adapt the STAIR-A skill-building group protocol for use in juvenile detention centers by juvenile detention center staff and mental health clinicians and evaluate the approach; (3) Infuse into NYC secure juvenile detention an awareness of trauma and a common language and methodology for handling trauma related emotional and behavioral issues; and evaluate this approach; and (4) Build a collaborative partnership among major youth-serving systems that interact directly with NYC juvenile detention centers (e.g., probation, family courts, foster care agencies providing non-secure detention) and extend trauma knowledge and trauma-informed care into those systems. Each center will run 34 STAIR-A sessions per week. 7,200 unduplicated residents will be screened and 4,320 will participate in STAIR-A groups during the project.
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