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National Crime Victims Center > Grants & Publications > current_grant_abstracts > Service Systems Models Intervention Development & Evaluation Center 

Service Systems Models Intervention Development and Evaluation Center

Principal Investigator: Benjamin Saunders, Ph.D.  <bio sketch>  < e-mail>
Funding Source:  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Dates of Project:  9/03 - 9/07

The NCVC and two community partners, the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center (LCC) and the Charleston/Dorchester Community Mental Health Center, propose to establish the Service Systems Models Intervention Development and Evaluation Center (SSM) as part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. 

The purpose of this center is to collaborate with other NCTSN and community centers to develop, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based, trauma-informed interventions that can be used by youth-serving service systems such as schools, juvenile justice programs, mental health centers, medical centers, child advocacy centers, and rape crisis centers to help children and adolescents who have been exposed to traumatic events.  

The NCVC and its community partners will collaborate with current NCTSN members, the National Resource Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NRC-CTS), and additional community service agencies to conduct four projects that will have significant community and national impact. 

  1. Develop, evaluate, and disseminate a Web-based course for training counselors in the evidence-based, standardized intervention protocol Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). We also plan to develop a system of supervision, consultation, and continuing education to support counselors learning to use TF-CBT.
  2. Expand the use of, evaluate, and disseminate an empirically-supported video-based early intervention for sexual assault victims receiving forensic and clinical medical examinations. 
  3. Implement, evaluate, and disseminate a Child Abuse School Liaison program (developed by LCC) designed to train school personnel how to identify and respond to situations of suspected child abuse and neglect.
  4. Develop a set of Guidelines for Culturally Competent Treatment. 

Each of these proposed projects will produce specific products that will be refined and disseminated in collaboration with the NRC-CTS. 

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