National RISE TSA center for school-based trauma-responsive emotion regulation (national RISE TSA center) - CMI's national RISE TSA center for school-based trauma-responsive emotion regulation will…

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded $600,000 to Child Mind Institute Inc. on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532).

Child Mind Institute will adapt, manualize, evaluate, and nationally disseminate RISE (Recognize, Identify, Soothe, and Empower), a dialectical behavior therapy-informed, trauma-responsive emotion regulation protocol for school-based and school-connected mental health settings. The National RISE TSA Center will strengthen provider and system capacity to support children and youth ages 5–18 affected by complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, and related functional impairment. Initial capacity development will occur in New York City and San Mateo County and the Bay Area, California, with national reach through the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, CMI's digital training infrastructure, and dissemination to school-based mental health and other child-serving systems.

The workforce and systems trained and supported will include school counselors, social workers, psychologists, mental health clinicians, supervisors, NCTSI Category I and III grantees, community behavioral health partners, and other K–12 child-serving providers. Ultimate beneficiaries are children and adolescents ages 5–18 with trauma histories, emotional dysregulation, interpersonal or behavioral health concerns, risk behaviors, or impaired school functioning. The project will address the lack of a manualized, school-contextualized protocol; limited training, consultation, and fidelity infrastructure; and the need for caregiver materials, implementation guidance, and scalable dissemination resources.

Period of performance runs through September 29, 2031. Place of performance is New York, New York.

National RISE TSA center for school-based trauma-responsive emotion regulation (national RISE TSA center) - CMI's national RISE TSA center for school-based trauma-responsive emotion regulation will adapt, manualize, evaluate, and nationally disseminate recognize, identify, soothe, and empower (RISE), a dialectical behavior therapy-informed, trauma-responsive emotion regulation protocol for school-based and school-connected mental health settings. The project will strengthen provider and system capacity to support children and youth ages 5-18 affected by complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, and related functional impairment. The national RISE TSA center will initially focus capacity development in new york city and SAN mateo county and the BAY area, california, with national reach through the national child traumatic stress initiative (NCTSI), CMI's digital training infrastructure, and dissemination to school-based mental health and other child-serving systems. These urban, suburban, and semi-rural communities need practical, fidelity-supported tools to identify, refer, engage, and support youth affected by trauma and chronic stress. The project will address the lack of a manualized, school-contextualized protocol; limited training, consultation, and fidelity infrastructure; and the need for caregiver materials, implementation guidance, and scalable dissemination resources. The direct population of focus is the workforce and systems that will be trained and supported, including school counselors, social workers, psychologists, mental health clinicians, supervisors, NCTSI category I and III grantees, community behavioral health partners, and other K-12 child-serving providers. Ultimate beneficiaries are children and adolescents ages 5-18 with trauma histories, emotional dysregulation, interpersonal or behavioral health concerns, risk behaviors, or impaired school functioning. RISE will address complex and overlapping trauma, including abuse, neglect, domestic violence exposure, community or school violence, traumatic loss, family separation, homelessness, housing instability, displacement, and chronic adversity. Samhsa funds will not support direct clinical services. Pilot implementation through existing school-based or school-connected systems will assess feasibility, fidelity, acceptability, and outcomes. CMI will use a phased strategy that includes a field scan and needs assessment; input from national and family advisory panels; protocol refinement and manualization; pilot implementation in 10 school-based or school-connected sites; workforce training, consultation, and technical assistance; fidelity monitoring; youth, family, and provider feedback; gpra and performance measurement; continuous quality improvement; and national dissemination through NCTSI channels and CMI's learning platform. Project goals are to: (1) adapt, manualize, pilot, and validate RISE for school-based delivery and national replication; (2) build workforce capacity for school-based RISE implementation; (3) disseminate scalable tools and implementation supports nationally; and (4) evaluate implementation, fidelity, acceptability, and youth outcomes to support continuous improvement and evidence building. Measurable objectives are to convene a 12-member national advisory panel by month 6; complete a needs assessment across 10 pilot schools by month 12; produce RISE protocol materials and publish a toolkit by month 18; complete pilot implementation in 10 sites by month 30, with 80% of participating providers meeting fidelity benchmarks; train 600 school-based providers during years 2-5; reach 1,500 child-serving professionals through dissemination by project end; provide annual training, consultation, or technical assistance to at least five NCTSI category III grantee sites; document training, consultation, adoption, or implementation planning with 20 NCTSI-affiliated or school-connected sites by year 5; and use validated measures and available school functioning indicators to assess implementation quality and youth outcomes.