Indian
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Child Trauma Center
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Native American Post Doctoral Fellow Opportunity click here for more info
The Indian Country Child Trauma Center (ICCTC) was established to develop trauma-related treatment protocols, outreach materials, and service delivery guidelines specifically designed for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children and their families. The Indian Country Child Trauma Center is part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network funded by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. It is housed at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. A current program includes Project Making Medicine (PMM).
Project Making Medicine Training
Regional Training Locations and Dates in Indian Country:
Click here for training application and Eligibility is limited to employees of Indian Health Service, tribal youth program, an urban Indian center, a tribal/IHS Youth Residential Treatment Center, and/or a reservation based, tribal endorsed Native organization serving American Indian/Alaska Native children who are victims of child physical or sexual abuse. (Other training options available).
Limited scholarships will be available for each training. Targeting the following professionals working in Indian Country: tribal and IHS licensed mental health providers, child focused licensed psychologists, social workers, family counselors, residential youth treatment providers, adolescent focused substance abuse counselors and others working with American Indian/Alaska Native children and their families who are victims of child physical and sexual abuse. Training is limited to those providers working in Indian Country (training is not available to private practitioners). Faculty: For more information email Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD or Janie Braden or call (405) 271-8858. Sponsored by the Indian Health Service and the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau and the Indian Country Child Trauma Center
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Indian Country Child
Trauma Center (ICCTC) has adapted four (4) trauma-related treatment
protocols, outreach materials, and service delivery guidelines specifically
adapted and designed for AI/AN children and their families. The treatment protocols, outreach
materials and service delivery guidelines developed by ICCTC incorporates
both common and tribal-specific Native cultural perspectives and traditions;
focuses on principles of current evidence-based models; and will accommodate
the substantial individual-to-individual variability in cultural identity
among AI/AN people. For a fee, ICCTC provides training in the different models developed. Click this link for details of training for a fee .
The four models include:
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Trauma Exposure in American Indian/Alaska Native Children - A factsheet developed for the February 28, 2008 Congressional Hearing on Trauma Exposure in Children. |
Honoring Children, Mending the Circle - cultural adaptation
of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Honoring
Children, Mending the Circle is the clinical application of the
healing process in a traditional framework that supports the belief
of American Indians and Native Alaskan culture of spiritual renewal
leading to healing and recovery. Training involves a four-day intensive
session, follow-up weekly case consultation, web-based training
and resources. 
Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
Native American Programs
PO Box 26901 - OUCP, 3B 3406
Oklahoma City, OK 73190
(405) 271-8858
(405) 271-2931 Fax