Thursday, January 2, 2025
1/2/2025
Kristi House, Inc., the Children's Advocacy Center serving the large, ethnically diverse Miami-Dade County, proposes to expand its Community Treatment and Services Center, named CSTART in 2012, to build agency and community-wide capacity to deliver evidence-based, trauma-informed, culturally competent practices for victims of child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation trauma in Miami-Dade County.C-START will take a three-pronged approach:o Capacity-building training and practice in adapting Trauma-Focused CognitiveBehavioral Therapy for commercially sexually exploited children (CSEC);o Training and practice in addressing child trauma and co-occurring substance use disorders using the Risk Reduction Family Therapy approach (RRFT); ando Continued expansion of the community's capacity to provide evidence-based services and practices for child sexual abuse trauma using Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Culturally Modified CBT.Training and supervision in TF-CBT, CM-CBT, TF-CBT for CSEC and RRFT will be provided to therapists and front-line practitioners at Kristi House and other Miami service providers, especially those serving children involved in child welfare. Outreach to children at risk and especially to underserved and marginalized populations will be conducted. The goal of the project is to increase the capacity of Kristi House and service providers to treat child and youth sexual abuse and exploitation trauma, and co-occurring substance use disorders, for high quality and evidence-supported services reaching all sectors of Miami-Dade County from a competent, steady, and sustainable workforce. The children and caregivers in this program will come from diverse ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds reflective of the population of South Florida. The project anticipates providing EBPs to 1,250 children through the grant period.
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).