California Area Office

Brings together experts on the impact of community violence on youth and families. This series highlights best practices for prevention and trauma intervention for youth affected by community violence, and features NCTSN members representing viewpoints from service providers, to researchers, to youth and family members.

This speaker series focuses on describing and advocating for creating trauma-informed child-serving systems. The various service systems that are covered include; juvenile justice, child welfare, healthcare, mental health, school, and law-enforcement. The presentations are designed for; clinicians, researchers, policy makers, advocates, and the general public wishing to better understand the interaction of trauma within a service system.

The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform present a 3-part webinar series on Crossover Youth, youth who are known to—and move between—the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The first presentation discusses findings from research on Crossover Youth and how traumatic stress plays a role in the trajectory of Crossover Youth, and implications for policy and practice. The following webinars expand on these policy and practice implications with discussions of strategies for policy reform and ways to translate research into promising practices.

In this webinar Dean Fixsen sheds light on the growing science of implementation and on the activities required to make full and effective use of evidence-based programs in typical human service environments. He also provides an overview of implementation stages, drivers, and improvement cycles.

In this webinar John Landsverk explains to participants how to understand implementation research as both an emerging science and an extension of services research. The webinar helps participants learn about the current development of implementation science methods in the selected areas of implementation processes, fidelity measurement, and use of randomized designs by time and context. During the presentation the speaker encourages participants to consider the use of methods developed for implementation research in real-world dissemination and implementation initiatives within service systems.

In this webinar experts will explore policy challenges and lessons learned in promoting and supporting trauma-informed schools. Speakers will share key NCTSN resources related to the development and implementation of trauma-informed schools; discuss the relationship between practice and policy in the sustainability of trauma-informed school models; and share examples and insights gained from the creation and implementation of a trauma-informed school in Los Angeles, California.