心理健康计划

我们的方法

We strive to promote and foster safety, healing and justice for children and families. The common focus of the our entire team is to foster healing and avoid potential re-traumatization of children and families by the systems designed to respond to their needs. Our response begins at first contact with the child and family. Without effective therapeutic intervention, many children who have experienced trauma may suffer ongoing or long-term adverse social, emotional, developmental and health outcomes. Evidence-based treatments and other practices with strong empirical support help reduce the impact of trauma and the risk of future abuse and other negative consequences. For these reasons, our team response includes screening for trauma exposure and/ or symptoms by identified members of the team, who then use that information to link to mental health services for assessment and trauma-focused mental health treatment for child victims and caregivers.

National Standards

We adhere to all of the CAC national accreditation standards of the National Children’s Alliance. Mental health services are provided by professionals trained in delivering trauma-focused, evidence-supported mental health treatment. All mental health providers for our clients, whether providing services onsite or by referral and linkage agreement with outside individuals and agencies, meet the requirements of the National Children’s Alliance for training and education/licenses. Clinicians providing mental health treatments to clients complete the required continuing education in the fields of child abuse, trauma, clinical practice and/or cultural applications. Mental health services are available and accessible to all our clients regardless of their ability to pay. Our written protocols and guidelines include provisions about the sharing of mental health information and how client confidentiality and mental health records are protected in accordance with state and federal laws.