Mitigating the impact of adverse childhood experiences - morgan county partnership (MCP) will employ a comprehensive evidence-based initiative that addresses generational and root causes of trauma…

Mitigating the impact of adverse childhood experiences - morgan county partnership (MCP) will employ a comprehensive evidence-based initiative that addresses generational and root causes of trauma in this underserved, appalachian community. The project will include family-centered, community-based interventions to provide trauma-informed evidence-based programming to youth in both school and after-school settings and provide parent psychoeducation, therapeutic supports, and family navigation services. This grant will also support therapeutic interventionists to provide school-based ACES screenings and follow-up therapeutic supports. Adverse childhood experiences (ACES), trauma-informed responses for children and families, school-based strategies through our existing, handel with care program and evidence-based sbirt program in morgan county schools. This will address the current dramatic influx of youth-based trauma related to parental substance use in our community. The project will provide ACES mitigation strategies and respond to identified ACES by providing free therapeutic supports directly within the framework of our public education system. Morgan county partnership will implement programs and services that mitigate the impacts of ACES and expand evidence-based interventions focused on ACES prevention, diversion, therapeutic treatment, and family navigation case management services for youth and families impacted by trauma and suds. We will form an innovative consortium to provide wrap-around services to traumatized and opioid affected youth in morgan county schools (MCS) and youth involved in juvenile abuse and neglect cases due to parental neglect and abuse. This grant will also support therapeutic interventionists to provide school-based ACES screenings and follow-up therapeutic supports. Adverse childhood experiences (ACES), trauma-informed responses for children and families, school-based strategies through our existing, handel with care program and evidence-based sbirt program in morgan county schools. This will address the current dramatic influx of youth-based trauma related to parental substance use in our community. The project will provide ACES mitigation strategies and respond to identified ACES by providing free therapeutic supports directly within the framework of our public education system. Morgan county partnership will implement programs and services that mitigate the impacts of ACES and expand evidence-based interventions focused on ACES prevention, diversion, therapeutic treatment, and family navigation case management services for youth and families impacted by trauma and suds. We will form an innovative consortium to provide wrap-around services to traumatized and opioid affected youth in morgan county schools (MCS) and youth involved in juvenile abuse and neglect cases due to parental neglect and abuse. The first goal of this project is to provide psychoeducation and mental health services to youth in morgan county schools with the objective of providing access to social emotional learning curriculum, sbirt and mental health screening instruments to identify youth in need and provide follow up therapeutic services to improve social, emotional, and behavioral health outcomes for morgan county schools' students. The second goal is to provide preventive interventions to improve the mental health of morgan county school's students with the objective of students will have access to behavioral health screening measures, and access to behavioral health supports in a K-12 setting. The program will reach approximately 1,150 students in the pre K-5TH grades in the morgan county schools. IT is further estimated that an additional 30-40 family engagements for parent navigator service will be utilized.