Building resilience through residential communities - building resilience through residential communitites (brtrc) justice resource institute national child traumatic stress initiative CAT II TSA…

Building resilience through residential communities - building resilience through residential communitites (brtrc) justice resource institute national child traumatic stress initiative CAT II TSA the building resilience through residential communities (brtrc) project, a category II nctsn training and technical assistance center, will develop, adapt, and disseminate trauma-informed care (TIC) approaches and evidence-based practices (ebps) for residential treatment centers (rtcs) nationwide, serving high risk, trauma-impacted youth (ages five to 21) and their families. The brtrc will address key gaps in available strategies for implementation of TIC in rtcs, increase access to effective ebps for youth in residential care (YRC), and bolster workforce development in rtcs, in order to raise the standard of care, increase resiliency of programs, staff and clients, and improve client clinical outcomes. The primary goals of the brtrc project are: (1) wide scale dissemination, implementation and sustainability of building communities of care (BCC), a trauma and evidenced informed, strengths based model designed to address the unique needs of rtcs, through training and TA with all staff (front line, clinical, educational, medical, administrative); (2) to increase access to ebps for trauma in rtcs serving trauma-impacted youth through intensive training and technical assistance in ebps that have demonstrated effectiveness with YRC, including attachment, regulation, and competency (ARC), trauma focused CBT (TF-CBT), and structured psychotherapy for adolescents responding to chronic stress (sparcs); and (3) to build a trauma-informed workforce in rtcs through education, training and technical assistance via both intensive RTC partnerships and national dissemination activities. To accomplish these goals, the brtrc project will provide intensive training and technical assistance (t/TA) to 24 rtcs across at LEAST10 states and 1 US territory that collectively span all 10 HHS/samhsa service regions and engage in national dissemination through a webinar series, training over 1,200 RTC providers per year (at least 6,000 RTC providers over the project period). An implementation science driven, phase based approach will be used to realize project objectives through incrementally building capacity for integration and delivery of TIC and ebps within RTC partner programs. We will engage cohorts of six RTC partner programs per year that will be recruited through outreach via our extensive national network of providers. We will engage in a multitier project evaluation in order to assess impact at the organizational, provider, and client levels and inform project activities and approaches in an ongoing way. The brtrc faculty are experts in residential care systems, EBP developers and trainers, and clinical researchers, including hodgdon, kinniburgh, forrest, corens, sagor, martin, griffin, habib, blaustein, hopper, and brymer.