Friday, June 6, 2025
6/6/2025
Resilient Scholars Project (RSP) - The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing proposes to expand its Resilient Scholars Project (RSP) to increase the impact of, and access to, evidence-based mental health services for low-income minority youth and their families exposed to trauma in the District of Columbia. The Center's existing school-based RSP mental health program will be expanded to include a home-based component implementing Trauma Adapted Family Connections (TAFC). TAFC will be provided to a subset of youth ages 12-17 (75-96 students/year). This subset of students and their families (385 individuals/year) will receive evidence-based mental health services in a home-based setting in addition to school-based TF-CBT provided to all RSP students. Up to 1,740 individuals are served over the lifetime of the grant. Six hundred individuals will be trained over the lifetime of the grant. A critical policy piece is included, as is a research component comparing results of RSP students receiving with those not receiving home-based services.The goal of this project is to significantly increase the impact and reach of mental health services for low-income, underserved minority youth and their families in the District of Columbia, including veterans and military, who are suffering the adverse consequences of exposure to trauma through a holistic, community-based program of evidence-based interventions delivered at home and in school. Measurable objectives include: 1) promoting stability and facilitating readiness to benefit from clinical services; 2) helping youth/families impacted by trauma overcome mental health barriers to healthy functioning and increasing resilience; 3) improving the ability of school staff/community members to understand, and more effectively respond to, the needs of children impacted by trauma; and 4) effecting systemic change (i.e., developing trauma-sensitive schools in DC) to improve educational outcomes for DC's children and youth.
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).