Project Grant H79SM091540

The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded LUK Crisis Center, Inc. $500,000 on September 30, 2026, under the Center for Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.532) to operate Developing Resilience and Well-Being (DRAW), a screening, assessment, diagnosis, mental health promotion, and intervention program serving infants and young children ages 0–12 and their families in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

DRAW delivers direct clinical services to trauma-affected children and training to the early childhood education and mental health workforce. The program uses evidence-based trauma treatments including Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC), ARC Grow (a caregiver adaptation), and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), supplemented by consultation competencies from the Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. LUK Crisis Center will raise awareness of mental health needs among infants and young children and their caregivers by training mental health providers and early childhood education providers and providing individualized consultations. Program goals include increasing adults' knowledge of trauma symptoms, increasing referrals for evidence-based trauma treatment, improving functioning of trauma-impacted children and their caregivers, and building early childhood education providers' skills in managing children with trauma and other stressors.

Performance runs through September 29, 2031, with place of performance at Fitchburg, Massachusetts.