| National Center to Offer Live Streaming Video Broadcast of NCAC Conference Next Week
The National Center will offer live streaming video broadcasts of select presentations at next week's 20th National Symposium on Child Abuse. This symposium is produced by the National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC), a not-for-profit agency and NCTSN member providing prevention, intervention, and treatment services to physically and sexually abused children. The National Center will provide live streaming video to NCTSN members of sessions focusing on the interface between trauma and child welfare and forensic assessment and exam along with sessions conducted by other NCTSN members. Viewing instructions will be available on the NCTSN Website by Monday, March 15. All content-related questions regarding these sessions may be e-mailed to Cassie Kisiel, training director, and all technical questions regarding member access may be e-mailed to Peter Kung, computer support coordinator.
Core Data Set News: Regulatory Submission Documents Posted Soon to NCTSN Web Site
The Duke University Health System Internal Review Board (IRB) has notified the National Center that the
collection of NCTSN Core Data qualifies as a "Quality Improvement and Program
Evaluation" activity, rather than as research.
By mid-March the National Center plans to post on the NCTSN Web site copies of all of the documents that were submitted to the
Duke IRB. "Each NCTSN center should
submit documentation and obtain written notification of whether their own IRB
views this data collection activity as quality improvement or research," said Patrick Loebs, project leader at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). "Hopefully, these documents will assist NCTSN centers in their submission
processes and save time."
Loebs added that NCTSN centers should allow ample time and effort for the submission process as many IRBs only meet at scheduled times
for review of documents.
Third Quarter NCTSN Performance Report Now Available Online
The NCTSN Performance Report for the third quarter of fiscal year two is now available under "Network Performance" on the members-only NCTSN Website. The fourth quarter report should be available by mid-March. Any questions or concerns with this report may be e-mailed to Andrew Broughton, consultant of the National Center's Technology and Measures & Evaluation Core.
Designated Media Contacts and Area of Expertise Needed for Each NCTSN Center
The National Resource Center (NRC) requests that each NCTSN center identify and provide the name of its designated media relations contact. Please include the contact name(s), daytime phone, e-mail, pager, and cell phone information.
Finally, the NRC is also collecting information on the area(s) of expertise each center represents in the field of child traumatic stress. This information, along with any questions, may be e-mailed to the NRC or faxed to 919-667-9578. |
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Translation Services Now Available From NCTSN Chicago Center
Heartland Cross-Cultural Interpreting Services (CCIS) is now providing translations of written documents in over 80 languages. "CCIS recently completed a project that translated 14 clinical documents into six languages, further ensuring that the majority of traumatized refugee children and families served by Heartland International FACES will have a document in their primary language," said Elizabeth Colón, director of CCIS. These translation services are available to NCTSN centers for a fee. For additional information on this service, along with on-site interpreters and cultural competency training, e-mail CCIS or call 773-751-4094.
NRC Calls for Assistance in Building
the National Library
The NRC is continuing the important process of collecting
materials for the NCTSN’s National
Library. To achieve this goal, the
NRC requests that any relevant resources
from Network centers relating to the topic
of child traumatic stress be shipped to the
NRC librarian as soon as possible since the physical library will be completed this month. Materials to be submitted
include, but are not limited to, journal
articles, book chapters, guides, manuals,
training curricula, white papers, videos,
DVDs, etc. Materials can be sent to:
Smyth Lai, Assistant Librarian
National Resource Center
NCCTS—Duke University School of Medicine
905 West Main Street, Suite 23-D
Durham, NC 27701
Phone: 919-682-1552 ext. 240
Fax: 919-667-9578
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| Trauma, Dissociation, and Clinical Practice: Childhood and Adult Manifestations of Psychological Trauma
May 14, 2004, New York City, New York
The International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) in conjunction with the William Alanson White Institute will feature NCTSN members Frank W. Putnam, M.D. and Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. at their spring seminar. To register for this seminar, please visit the ISSD Website or contact Conference Co-Chairwoman Daphne Simeon, M.D. at 212-241-7477.
Fifth Annual National Conference on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
June 23–25, 2004, Nashville, Tennessee
NCTSN's National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC) and the Association to Prevent Child Abuse will present state-of-the-art prevention practices for a cross section of child abuse professionals. To register for this conference, visit the NCAC Website or contact Marilyn Grundy at 256-327-2863.
The NCTSN Exhibiting at APA 2004
July 28–August 1, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii
The NCTSN has arranged to be a first-time exhibitor at the 112th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. National Center leadership invites all attendees of this event to visit the display booth for information on the latest NCTSN products and materials. If NCTSN members plan to attend, please notify Bob Franks, director of the NRC, so the National Center may track how many NCTSN members plan to attend. For additional information about this event, visit the APA Website.
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Smyth Lai, joins the National Center at
Duke as the assistant librarian for the National Resource Center.
Smyth can be reached at 919-682-1552 extension
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Wahlberg, L., Kennedy, J., and Simpson, J. (2003). Case Study: Impaired Sensory-Emotional Integration in a Violent Adolescent Sex Offender. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 12(1).
Osofsky, Joy D. (2003). Prevalence of Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment: Implications for Prevention and Intervention. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 6, 161-170. |
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| Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, New York City, New York
This urban, fully comprehensive medical and psychiatric center serves as a role model for interdisciplinary care for children and adolescents exposed to trauma. This center also plays a key role within the NCTSN, partnering with other groups, such as the Centers for Excellence and the Partnership for After School Education (PASE), on innovative projects to enhance the treatment of traumatized youth.
In its clinical role, the center has designed a set of interventions geared to identify trauma and to be used by clinicians in every discipline. It has developed a sensitive strategy to engage youth who have experienced trauma and move them quickly into the treatment process.
This NCTSN center cares for youth from 10-to-21 years and offers an adolescent-friendly milieu by encouraging treatment through policies and interventions such as:
• An “open-door” policy, providing care to all youth regardless of their financial status
• Walk-in care and care by appointment available
• Evaluations provided to adolescents without requiring parental consent
• Use of a structured self-report questionnaire (ADQUEST) to facilitate eliciting traumatic experiences
• Immediate follow-up when a child or adolescent discloses a traumatic experience during a medical visit involving the center's primary health care social worker
• Constant communication between primary care workers and psychiatric workers to ensure high quality comprehensive care
Current projects that this NCTSN center is committed to include the following:
• Downstate “Center of Excellence,” within the center's projects such as the Partnership for After School Education, in which a coalition including other NCTSN members are working to establish a curriculum for after school childcare programs in New York City that have been affected in the events of 9/11.
• "ADQUEST,” an 80-item self-report questionnaire developed at the center, is facilitating disclosure of traumatic experiences by children and adolescents. To date, this specialized assessment tool has been effectively used over 760 times by medical and mental health clinicians to collect data. A manuscript is currently being prepared with these findings.
• A collaboration with NCTSN's Center for Multicultural Human Services to establish comprehensive services for child and adolescent refugees in New York City.
For additional information about this NCTSN Center, e-mail Cori Zagarell, program administrator, or call 212-423-2855. |
NCTSN Centers Collaborate for CBITS Training
The New Mexico Alliance for Children with Traumatic Stress (New MACTS) and the University of Montana's Division of Educational Research and Service recently participated in a joint training on Cognitive Behavioral Trauma Intervention for Schools (CBITS), an intervention program developed by the Los Angeles Unified School District and RAND Corporation. Both of these NCTSN centers are serving children in Native American populations. New MACTS is working with children of the Acoma, Laguna, and Navajo traditions. The Montana center plans to implement CBITS with members of the Chippewa-Cree tribe on the Rocky Boy Reservation.
The training, hosted by New MACTS, covered issues such as how to adapt school-based trauma treatment protocols to meet local cultural practices. "One Navajo counselor explained that a strategy needs to be developed for her community to respond to the community members' beliefs that one never speaks about people who have died," said Richard van den Pol, director of the Division of Educational Research and Service. "Obviously, the charge to be culturally responsive is more complex than a simple application of 'cognitive behavioral therapy,' or trying to modify how people think and talk about individual and group traumatic experiences. We are very grateful to have been invited as guests by the New MACTS staff and their Navajo colleagues, and we're actively discussing these issues with CBITS developers Jaycox, Stein, and Wong."
Further training is planned for the Montana NCTSN center within the next few months and both centers plan to share their information with the American Indian Working Group and other members of the NCTSN. Additional questions regarding this training can be e-mailed to Richard van den Pol or Sarthak Das of New MACTS.
Mississippi NCTSN Center Launches Kick-Off Event
On March 23rd, the Mississippi-based TRY–Trauma Recovery for Youth Program (previously known as the Mississippi Child Trauma Therapeutic Services Center) plans to kick-off a community planning event to engage local and state community leaders on the issue of child traumatic stress and to begin the development of a local trauma resource network. "We're looking to educate our community on the serious ramifications of trauma on community health and establish a blueprint for action," said Jennifer Sigrest, program director of Crisis Response and Trauma Services with Catholic Charities, Inc. in Jackson, Mississippi. For additional information about this event, e-mail Jennifer Sigrest or call 601-948-4493 extension 115.
NCTSN Rural Consortium Under Development
A new consortium, consisting of 10 NCTSN centers, is forming to identify existing models for providing treatment and outreach to traumatized children in rural, frontier, and tribal areas throughout the United States. These centers, who specialize in developing interventions or providing services for rural areas, are planning their first meeting next month. Additional objectives for this consortium will be to discuss strategies for training professionals in rural areas and how to partner with other organizations serving rural and frontier areas. Any questions regarding this consortium may be e-mailed to Jan Markiewicz, network liaison. |
