Project Grant H79SM091321

The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded New York University School of Medicine $599,600 on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532).

The award funds the Center for Safe and Effective Trauma Treatment (CSETT), which will operate as a National Child Traumatic Stress Network Category II treatment and service adaptation center. CSETT will adapt and disseminate Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) and the Never Look Away Trauma Training Program (NLA TTP) across four U.S. regions: the South, Northeast, Midwest, and West. The center will focus on traumatized children and adolescents aged 3–18 who exhibit high-risk behaviors such as aggression, self-harm, running away, or substance abuse, or who are at risk of maltreatment from caregivers. These populations are frequently excluded from clinical trials and pose safety challenges that create care gaps within the existing knowledge base.

CSETT will build workforce capacity by establishing new specialized treatment teams, delivering scalable training, and expanding implementation of evidence-based interventions, beginning with National Child Traumatic Stress Network Category III centers in each region. The work addresses insufficient access to safe and effective childhood trauma treatments in these regions.

The period of performance runs from September 30, 2026, through September 29, 2031. Performance takes place in New York, New York.