Fmrs cares increases access to effective trauma & grief-focused treatment/service systems for children, adolescents & their families, who have experienced traumatic events living in fayette, monroe,…

Fmrs cares increases access to effective trauma & grief-focused treatment/service systems for children, adolescents & their families, who have experienced traumatic events living in fayette, monroe, raleigh & summers counties in underserved rural southern west virginia by expanding evidence-based services to include PC-care, family acceptance project (FAP)/TF-CBT & FAP family support model. The program serves 430 clients (75-Y1/80-Y2/85-Y3/90-Y4/100-Y5). Project goals (interventions/strategies) include: (1) increase access to effective trauma and grief-focused treatment for target area children, adolescents and their families who experience traumatic events by (a) expanding workforce capacity to serve the target population by hiring a project director, therapist & care coordinator; (b) coordinating annual therapist and bachelors level staff training in PC-care; (c) providing PC-care to the target population; (d) coordinating annual therapist training in FAP/TF-CBT for lgbtqi+ children & youth; (e) providing FAP/TF-CBT to the target population; (f) adding PC-care and FAP/TF-CBT to the advertised continuum of care; (g) working with lgbtqi+ & african american communities to identify culturally competent referral pathways & (h) obtaining training/consultation to implement FAP's family support model (FSM) to mental health practitioners who provide services for children and families to the target population. (2) increase access to effective trauma and grief-focused service systems for target area children, adolescents and their families who experience traumatic events by (a) continuing to ensure that all fmrs staff receive trauma 101 training; (b) partnering with local child serving systems to obtain initiative referrals; (c) partnering with PC-care developers to adapt/enhance PC-care to improve target population engagement and outcomes; (d) partnering with FAP to implement FAP/TF-CBT & FAP's family support model to improve caregiver engagement & youth outcomes; (e) providing FAP general training to fmrs referring entities/partner organizations to increase capacity to help families to support lgbtqi+ youth, especially those who are racially diverse & (f) working with the family acceptance project to increase community capacity to do upstream prevention to decrease prevalence of family rejection and increase support among the target population. (3) improve mental health outcomes for target area children, adolescents and their families who experience traumatic events by (a) empowering clients to have statistically significant improvements in noms mental health outcomes at 3-month follow-up & (b) monitoring disparity group outcomes to ensure equal access/services/outcomes/retention. (4) sustain access to effective trauma and grief-focused treatment & service systems for target area children, adolescents and their families who have experienced traumatic events by creating a sustainability plan.