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Description:
The Border Traumatic Stress Response Center focused on several local, regional, state and national strategies. Locally, SCAN focuses on the provision of trauma-focused treatment for children and adolescents of all ages and on developing local systems of care that are trauma-informed. The Program also focuses on integration of trauma and substance abuse treatment in SCAN’s adolescent residential programs. Regionally and at the state level, the project also focuses on impacting the protective and mental health systems by creating trauma-informed systems and disseminating best practices and products. The interventions and products to be disseminated include the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit, the Trauma and Adolescent Substance Abuse Toolkit and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. At the national level, the projects wants to increase resources for Latino families that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.
Services/Activities:
Individual and family therapy; residential substance abuse and trauma treatment; training and consultation and translation of trauma products.
Funding Source:
SAMHSA- CMHS:
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services
Contact Person:
Susana Rivera, PhD. 956-725-2522
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