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Many Faces of Trauma: Community Engaged Trauma Research

These initiatives are intended to facilitate development of partnerships and approaches that can remediate the psychological impact of trauma.

Goals:

• Increase the awareness among BB policy makers and practitioners of the impact of trauma on the well-being of Florida’s citizens across the lifespan.
• Disseminate state-of-the-art information on trauma assessment, intervention and community and system responses to trauma.
• Implement trauma-informed care in Medicaid funded out-of-home settings in Florida.
• Contribute to the evidence base regarding group interventions for adolescent girls with mental health, substance use, and violence, abuse, or trauma.

Recent Accomplishments:

• Member of the Statewide Interagency Workgroup on Trauma, presented to the Children’s Cabinet in 07/09.
• Completion of trauma-informed curriculum and model for a Learning Collaborative to implement change in Medicaid-funded out of home treatment programs.
• Recruited two additional sites to implement and evaluate a trauma-specific group intervention for adolescent girls.
• Facilitated the collection and professional presentation of artwork by adolescent trauma survivors in out of home treatment settings.
• Developed an on-line module on trauma for dissemination.
• Developed a model of “Trauma-Informed Behavior Support” combining principles of trauma-informed care with applied behavior analysis.