Westchester jewish community services' (wjcs) trager lemp center for treating trauma and promoting resilience (TLC) will increase outreach, engagement, and treatment for youth 8 to 21 and their…

Westchester jewish community services' (wjcs) trager lemp center for treating trauma and promoting resilience (TLC) will increase outreach, engagement, and treatment for youth 8 to 21 and their families who have experienced trauma, with a focus on those impacted by covid-19; black, indigenous, and people of color (bipoc), including those who are undocumented; lgbtq+ youth; and youth with intensive mental health needs resulting from multiple traumas. The award-winning TLC is westchester's only comprehensive, outpatient trauma treatment center. The project's goals are to: (1) improve the capacity of child-serving service systems to identify and refer children experiencing trauma and serve them in a trauma-informed way; (2) improve the capacity of TLC staff to provide evidence-based trauma treatment; (3) improve outcomes for children and youth served by TLC; and (4) improve the experience of care for TLC clients and their caregivers. We plan to address these goals by annually providing trauma-informed care training to 170 staff of our partner child-serving service systems in westchester county and teaching them to identify and refer children in need of trauma treatment to the TLC. We will collaborate with the child health and development institute of connecticut, an nctsi category II treatment and service adaptation center, to utilize their screentime (screen, triage, inform, mitigate, engage) trainer training learning collaborative. In addition, we will enhance the training of our staff to offer an innovative evidence-based model of care: cognitive behavioral intervention for trauma in schools (cbits) adapted for use in a clinical setting. Using these evidence-based practices, we will seek to reduce TLC client (8 to 17 years old) trauma symptom checklist (tscc) scores by at least 25%, and TLC client (17 to 21 years old) trauma system inventory 2 (TSI 2) scores by at least 25% by the conclusion of their treatment, as well as improve net promoter score (NPS) of children served by the TLC and caregiver satisfaction with trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy questionnaire scores by 4% each grant year. Finally, we will conduct an organizational assessment using the national clas standards and the communication climate assessment toolkit (c-CAT) to ensure trauma informed communications that are culturally appropriate and meet our populations of focus with respect, sensitivity and skill. The project will serve 90 unduplicated individuals in the first year of the project and 555 individuals throughout the lifetime of the project.