The Minnesota Child Response Center (MNCRC) aims to integrate evidenced-based treatment models into the community systems of care for traumatized homeless and formerly homeles children in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and to create a continuum of care for highly diverse groups of underserved children and families.
MNCRC will work closely with The National Child Traumatic Stress Network and its treatment services and community treatment sites to disseminate and expand the use of best practices, to offer knowledge regarding uptake of best practice treatments in the target community, and to significantly contribute to network efforts to implement screening in order to enhance the capacity of frontline providers to access mental health services for traumatized children.
MNCRC is based in part on a four-year old multi-system partnership meeting the mental health and trauma-informed service needs of children exposed to violence in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Collaborating agencies participated in community needs assessments, mapping community needs and resources, and the development and implementation of the Child Development Policing Program.
The following are current collaborators with MnCRC:
- African American Family Services
- Center for Victims of Torture
- Centro
- Family and Children's Service
- Healthy Families Housing Provider Network
- Hennepin County Children's Mental Health
- Minneapolis City Attorney's Office
- Minneapolis Police Department
- Minneapolis Public Schools
- Minnesota Department of Human Services, Children's Mental Health Division
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- SAVE (Suicide Awareness Voices of Education)
- Tubman Family Alliance
- University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development (Fiscal Agent)
- Washburn Child Guidance Center
- Women of Nations/Eagle's Nest
For more in-depth information on these partners and MnCRC, please read more about it here.
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