• Minnesota Child Response Center (MnCRC)

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Goals:

1. Increase access to trauma-informed services through acute police-mental health intervention, screening, and referral of traumatized children in our target community

2. Adapt and disseminate two best practice treatment approaches: Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Parenting Through Change

3. Establish broad community and provider consensus on the mental health needs of traumatized children and the best practices to address these needs

4. Create sustainable change

5. Work with NCTSN to expand reach throughout Minnesota and the upper Midwest.

The Minnesota Child Response Center will work closely with the National 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.

With a broad base of community expertise via mental health providers, culturally specific and mainstream social service providers, supportive housing agencies, schools, police, child service systems, and University of Minnesota researchers, Minnesota Child Response Center partner agencies reach more than ten thousand traumatized children annually, predominantly homeless and formerly homeless inner city African-American, American Indian, Latino, and war-surviving refugee/immigrant children and families.

More information about the current collaborators of MnCRC can be found here.

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