Wednesday, December 4, 2024
12/4/2024
The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPTS) is a national leader in identifying and reducing health-related traumas in the lives of children and families. The Center’s mission is to reduce medical traumatic stress by promoting trauma-informed health care, integrating practical evidence-based tools into pediatric medical care, and ensuring that health care providers are knowledgeable and skilled in trauma-informed care with diverse youth and their families. Building on cutting-edge clinical research on traumatic stress in ill and injured children, and our strong connections with key health provider constituencies, CPTS provides national leadership on medical trauma and integrated care (injury, illness, medical problems) and is a resource to the NCTSN on working with health care systems. Medical traumatic stress includes child and family responses to pain, injury, illness, and frightening treatment experiences. Trauma-informed pediatric health care reduces traumatic stress and promotes positive adaptation when children and families face difficult medical events. CPTS develops, evaluates, and supports implementation of evidence-based brief interventions integrated within pediatric health care. CPTS’ work in the 2016-2021 project period focuses on three goals / key constituencies: Goal 1. Engage and provide national expertise to health care providers and health care systems, improving outcomes for children and families with medical trauma by promoting evidence-based trauma-informed health care services. Goal 2. Engage and provide national expertise to mental health and psychosocial providers regarding evidence-based interventions for children and families experiencing medical trauma, and provision of integrated care within hospital and emergency medical settings. Goal 3. Ensure that children and families across the US have access to evidence-based resources and interventions that address the impact of medical trauma and how medical and other trauma may impact children’s health and health care. Goal-related activities include: Promoting awareness of medical trauma via our active web and social media presence (e.g., www.HealthCareToolbox.org reaches 50,000 providers/year); Promoting policy changes (and their implementation) that require trauma-informed services in pediatric medical care; Delivering training (online and in-person) in trauma-informed pediatric health care to 27,500 providers; Partnering with health provider organizations to create new training resources (i.e. for medical interpreters), and with family-led organizations to create new online resources for families facing life-changing pediatric illness; Supporting implementation of effective trauma-informed care and medical trauma interventions in over 150 diverse health care settings; Disseminating resources in English and Spanish to children and families experiencing medical trauma (e.g. 150,000 visits/year to www.AfterTheInjury.org). This multi-pronged approach ensures comprehensive impact on health care system infrastructure to improve access to trauma-informed services for children affected by medical trauma.
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).
