Framing the Issues: A Template for Systems Serving Traumatized Children

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Framing the Issues A Template for Systems
Serving Traumatized Children

• Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD CHoP
• Sheryl Kataoka, MD UCLA/LAUSD
• Susan Ko, PhD NCCTS-UCLA

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Service Systems CoreMISSION

• To promote the well-being of children and
  families by strengthening the ability of
  child-serving systems to identify and respond to
  traumatized children and their families by
  improving access to effective, developmentally-app
  ropriate, and culturally competent,
  evidence-based interventions.

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Service Systems CoreVISION

• Enhance awareness of child traumatic stress on
  the part of all child-serving systems
• Expand access of children within various
  child-serving systems to effective,
  developmentally-appropriate, and culturally
  competent trauma assessment, intervention and
  treatment services
• Integrate a continuum of care for traumatized
  children and their families.

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Re-Cap of Service Systems Committee Meeting

• August 25, 2003 in Falls Church, VA (CMHS)
• Presented questions
• How do we expand access in a time of shrinking
  resources?
• How do we define unserved underserved
  populations of children?
• How do we assess measure unmet need?
• What do we mean by the termservice system
  integration?
• How do we evaluate system change (e.g.,
  functional outcomes vs. symptom reduction)?
• Discussed definitions indicators of access
• Conclusions different systems have different
  needs

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Re-Cap of Service Systems Committee Meeting

• Discussed definitions indicators of access
• Logistical issues
• Provider indicators
• Appropriate available array of resources
• Politics policy
• Individual family factors
• Conclusions
• Different systems have different needs
• Need to identify areas of overlap gaps

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Activities Already Underway
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Activities Already Underway
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Template

• Purpose
• Guide the work being done by the WGs/TFs, which
  addresses common important elements that support
  trauma-informed services across systems
• Components (examples)
• Trauma-informed practice
• Identification screening procedures
• Education/training
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Identifying/creating links to other organizations
• Policy recommendations