Healing Americas Children: Building a Library for the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress 200

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Healing Americas ChildrenBuilding a Library
for the National Center for Child Traumatic
Stress2004 MAC/MLA Annual MeetingRaleigh,
North CarolinaRobert JamesAssociate Director
of Public Services Duke University Medical
Center Library
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• NRC Library
• The Library is located at the National
  Resource Center (NRC) for Child Traumatic Stress
  in Durham, North Carolina. The NRC is part of the
  National Center for Child Traumatic Stress,
  jointly coordinated by the medical schools at the
  University of California at Los Angeles and Duke
  University, with offices in LA and NC. The
  Center provides leadership for the National Child
  Traumatic Stress Network. There are currently 54
  centers in the Network throughout the United
  States. Funding for the Network is provided by
  the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance
  Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
  through the Congressional Donald J. Cohen
  National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative.

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History of the Network

• The Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic
  Stress Initiative was established in 2001 to
  improve access to care, treatment, and services
  for children and adolescents exposed to traumatic
  events and to encourage and promote collaboration
  between service providers in the field, through a
  series of grants totaling more than 30 million.
• Cohen, a pioneer in the field of children's
  mental health, was the Sterling Professor of
  Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at
  Yale University and Director of the Yale Child
  Study Center. He died on October 2, 2001.

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Network Mission

• To raise the standard of care and improve access
  to services for
• traumatized children, their families and
  communities throughout
• the United States.

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Network Vision

• The NCTSN will raise public awareness of the
  scope and serious impact of child traumatic
  stress on the safety and healthy development of
  our nation's children and families.
• We will improve the standard of care by
  integrating developmental and cultural knowledge
  to advance a broad range of effective services
  and interventions that will preserve and restore
  the future of our nation's traumatized children.
• We will work with established systems of
  care, including the health, mental health,
  education, law enforcement, child welfare and
  juvenile justice systems, to ensure that there is
  a comprehensive continuum of care available and
  accessible to all traumatized children and their
  families.
• We will be a community dedicated to
  collaboration within and beyond the Network to
  ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills
  create a national resource to address the problem
  of child traumatic stress.

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National Child Traumatic Stress Network

• 54 Centers in the Network throughout the Unites
  States
• Three components
• Category I
• Category II
• Category III

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Category I

• National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
• Designated to lead the NCTSN as the National
  Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS), the
  UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and the Duke
  University School of Medicine have individually
  and collectively provided leadership in the
  developmental understanding of child traumatic
  stress, have pioneered evaluation and treatment
  of children, families, and communities, and are
  at the forefront in developing public mental
  health strategies to reach the large population
  of children, families, and communities affected
  by traumatic events. The National Center for
  Child Traumatic Stress, as a joint program of
  UCLA and Duke University, is supported by the
  vast resources of two of the country's preeminent
  learning institutions, their medical schools, and
  departments of psychiatry and university-level
  programs.

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Category II

• Intervention Development and Evaluation Centers
• Intervention Development and Evaluation
  (IDE) Centers are charged with identifying,
  supporting, improving, and developing treatment
  and service approaches for different types of
  child and adolescent traumatic events. IDE
  Centers emphasize developmentally appropriate
  trauma evaluation and intervention for children
  and adolescents of all ages, as well as the
  identification, assessment, and appropriate
  treatment of children in specialty child service
  sectors, such as schools, the juvenile justice
  system, the refugee service system, and the child
  welfare and protective service systems.

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Category III

• Community Treatment and Services Centers
• The third category of grantees, Community
  Treatment and Services Centers, will implement
  and evaluate effective treatment and services in
  community settings, collect clinical data on
  traumatized children receiving treatment, develop
  expertise related to effective practices,
  financing and other service issues, and provide
  leadership and training on child trauma for
  service providers in the community and staff in a
  range of child service sectors.

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NRC Mission

• The National Resource Center for Child Traumatic
  Stress (NRC) supports the National Child
  Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) by raising
  professional and public awareness and knowledge
  of child traumatic stress through providing
  relevant, practical information that promotes
  improved standards of care and increased access
  to services of affected children, their families
  and communities.

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NRC Vision

• The NRC is to be the leading national resource
  for professionals, the public, and people
  affected by child traumatic stress through
• Acquisition, coordination, and management of
  existing materials in the field of child
  traumatic stress.
• Development and production of initiatives
  and products within the NCTSN, including
  initiatives in education, training, technical
  assistance, data collection, marketing, and media
  relations.
• The widespread distribution of the
  resources, services, and products of the NCTSN.

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NRC Team

• Director
• Executive Editor
• Resource Librarian
• Marketing/PR/Media Specialist
• Administrative Assistant
• Media Consultant (external 25)
• Research Associate (external at NCPTSD)
• Writing Team

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NRC Librarian

• Invitation from Dr. Robert Franks, NRC Director
• Duke Medical Center Library
• Sharing a librarian
• A full time position
• Interim librarian
• The search

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NRC Functions

• Repository of informational resources
• Developing, producing, and disseminating
  materials
• Facilitating internal and collaborative
  communications across the
• network (website, listservs, e-mail, mailings,
  newsletter)
• Core, collaborative group and center level
  support
• Research and informational resources support
• Media Relations, marketing, and public awareness

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NRC Informational Resources

• The NRC helps coordinate the creation of and
  serves as a repository for a wide range of NCTSN
  and related resources in both physical and
  virtual formats. These resources include
• A comprehensive Web site for NCTSN members and
  the general public (www.nctsnet.org)
• Scholarly materials, such as journal articles,
  books, book chapters, and white papers
• Training manuals, toolkits, and other training,
  professional development, and educational tools
  for both NCTSN and external audiences
• Resource catalogs
• Books for popular audiences
• Guides, fact sheets and other resources for
  numerous audiences
• Resources for the media
• Videos, public service announcements, and other
  media

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NRC Library Services

• Collection development for the non-circulating
  research collection
• Recommendations for the Network web site
• Information and reference assistance
• Literature searches
• Document delivery to Network members
• Annotated bibliographies
• Team work

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Resources and Support Network Website

• Includes a public section and a
  password-protected section for Network
• members
• Serves as a primary communication vehicle and
  source of information
• for Network partners and the public
• Major resource in the area of child traumatic
  stress
• Establishes the Networks identity to greater
  public
• A platform for education, training and sharing
  research data
• Links to individual Network sites and affiliated
  organizations

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PILOTS Databasehttp//www.ncptsd.org/publications
/pilots/index.html

• The PILOTS database is an electronic index
  to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic
  stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health
  consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It
  is produced by the National Center for PTSD, and
  is available to the public on computer systems
  maintained by Dartmouth College. There is no
  charge for using the database, and no account or
  password is required. For more
  information contact
• Fred Lerner, D.L.S., Information
  ScientistNational Center for Post-Traumatic
  Stress DisorderVA Medical Center (116D)White
  River Junction, Vermont 05009
• Phone [phone] -- Fax (802)
  296-5135E-Mail fred.lerner_at_dartmouth.edu

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Duke University Medical Center Library

• Supervision and mentorship for NRC Librarian
• Cataloging NRC Library material
• Inter-library loan and document delivery
  assistance
• Reference and database searching advice
• Publicity and marketing support

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How can you participate?

• Read and distribute information disseminated by
  the NRC and the
• NCTSN on our website
• Provide the NRC Library with relevant information
  materials and
• resources
• Create links between your library and the NRC
  Library
• Identify a contact person at your site
• Communicate with the NRC Librarian

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For more information about the NRC Library
please visit our websitewww.nctsnet.orgE-ma
il NationalResourceCenter_at_duke.edurobert.jam
es_at_duke.eduPhone 919-660-1157