Bridgette M Rice, Emily Schaffer, Sara Fernandez-Marcote, Natalie Dallard, Donna Bailey, Margaret Brace
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Abstract
The Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services III (PACTS III): Fortifying the Future is designed to change the trajectory of trauma experiences for children and youth and build an effective and sustainable trauma system for Philadelphia children, youth and their families. The initiative is led by the City of Philadelphia's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) and Community Behavioral Health (CBH) and has been implemented in community behavioral health agencies in Philadelphia, PA. Here, we provide an update on the program's progress and outcomes. Since 2012, 601 clinicians and supervisors have been trained in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), approximately 23,000 youth were screened for trauma, and 8,420 youth received TF-CBT. Access expanded as the provider network grew from 3 to 21 agencies. An ongoing evaluation will determine the client-level impact of these efforts. Altogether, this system overhaul has greatly enhanced trauma identification and intervention.
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Child Maltreatment is the official journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the nation"s largest interdisciplinary child maltreatment professional organization. Child Maltreatment"s object is to foster professional excellence in the field of child abuse and neglect by reporting current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from mental health, child protection, law, law enforcement, medicine, nursing, and allied disciplines. Child Maltreatment emphasizes perspectives with a rigorous scientific base that are relevant to policy, practice, and research.