Community health & resilience initiative (chri) - the community health & resilience initiative (chri) will increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and prevention services for children,…

Community health & resilience initiative (chri) - the community health & resilience initiative (chri) will increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and prevention services for children, adolescents and families (ages 3 to 18) who have experienced trauma in greene county ohio. Over the life of the grant, this project will reach 4,075 individuals through direct treatment, prevention, promotion and outreach strategies. Chri will embed trauma-focused mental health services into the crisis oriented child serving systems of child welfare, juvenile justice and law enforcement, reaching 1,875 youth through direct treatment by project end. The expansion of mental health treatment into these services systems puts access to care at the front door of system involvement for children, adolescents and families who have experienced trauma. The primary strategies are direct trauma treatment and trauma prevention and promotion. One goal of the project is to increase the use of ebps in direct trauma treatment. Ebps selected for this project include: trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy, child and family traumatic stress intervention, and the attachment, self-regulation, and competency intervention. Prevention and promotion strategies will change over time the daily practices of key systems that are often the first points of formal contact for children and families in times of crisis and trauma. All partner system staff will be trained to administer trauma screenings and the project will provide trauma informed trainings to 200 of these system staff annually. To increase healthy coping skills and improve family functioning, prevention and promotion services will be provided directly to 200 children and families experiencing trauma per year, and 1,000 over the life of the grant. The final goal of the project is to use resources to increase understanding of trauma and build trauma focused and sensitive policies, procedures and practices in local child serving systems of child welfare, juvenile justice and law enforcement using real-time consultation (1,000 over the life of the grant) and trauma-informed organizational assessment.