CPRR
Project Objectives
- Capacity Building: Increase the competency of mental health personnel to provide screening, assessment, and treatment of traumatized children using trauma focused intervention services. Create a Community Advisory Board consisting of neighborhood/faith based personnel and parents, child welfare, mental health and justice organizations that meet on a regular basis to serve in an advisory capacity to the project and promote community-wide buy in to the approach.
- Community and Referral Source Education: To make the community "trauma informed" through community education, with specific emphasis on understanding the needs of children/youth targeted in this proposed project in order to identify and refer children for trauma focused services
- Child/Youth Centered Trauma Focused Interventions: To provide trauma focused intervention services to chidden and youth
- Consumer Feedback and Evaluation: To evaluate the impact of the project on service providers, children and youth
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Project Goals
- 80 providers will have increased their knowledge about trauma focused services
- 375 military, refugee, and maltreated children and youth will receive treatment
- 40 community agencies serving children and youth will have become trauma informed
Services Offered
- Free trauma based treatment for children and youth
- Free community/agency trauma training
Who We Serve
This project focuses on three primary populations within the meta-context of the childhood experience of complex trauma:
- children victimized by child abuse (e. physical, psychological and/or sexual), neglect and/or witnessing violence in the home;
- refugee children; and
- children of current or former US Military personnel.
The Center also provides free training within Jefferson County to anyone who is interested.
Milestones & Accomplishments
- Four-year federal grant project funded by SAMHSA, (September 30, 2012)
- 70 children and youth have received evidence based clinical services
- 76 clinicians have been trained in evidence based clinical interventions
- 24 community agencies and 482 individuals have received trauma specific training this past year.
- A Trauma Informed Community Advisory Board has been established consisting of 45 experts that represent the following systems within the community: parents/consumer groups, school personnel, neighborhood personnel, child welfare administrators, military consultants, refugee agencies, community health care, local police department representatives, mental health and justice organizations and lastly representatives from all key stakeholder agency/programs identified within the grant.
- CPRR co-sponsored the Second Annual Multidisciplinary Trauma Symposium. Over 250 professionals from the community attended this day long training
CPRR Partners
Seven Counties Services, Inc. Somali Bantu Community Association Jefferson County Public Schools Kentucky Youth Advocates Home of the Innocents Catholic Charities of Louisville, Inc. Americana Community Center Family Court Kentucky National Guard Louisville Metro Police Department Kentucky Refugee Ministries University of Louisville Military Initiatives and Partnerships | PEACC Program Louisville Free Public Library Neighborhood Place Restorative Justice VA Medical Center Department for Community Based Services Family and Children's Place The Center for Women and Families Kosair Children's Hospital Bingham Child Guidance Center East End Psychological Associates |
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Contact Information
Dr. Bibhuti Sar, Principal Investigator/Project Director
How You Can Help
- Volunteer
- Refer a Client
- Make a Donation