The CEBC Presents:  
 

 "Creating a Trauma-Informed Mental Health Assessment Process"

 

A webinar with Al Killen-Harvey and Brent Crandal

 

Many children served in mental health agencies experience traumatic events. Some of these experiences happen only once while others may re-occur throughout the child’s life, but not all children respond to traumatizing experiences in the same way. Conducting a trauma-informed mental health assessment is a crucial step for offering services to help strengthen children, youth, and families impacted by trauma. This webinar will offer a brief overview of The Trauma-Informed Mental Health Assessment Process (TI-MHAP) Resource Guide, which offers guidelines on how to incorporate a trauma-informed approach to assessment and treatment planning. The TI-MHAP Resource Guide was developed through the California Screening, Assessment, and Treatment (CASAT) project at the Chadwick Center for Children and Families with funding from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and has been implemented in 2 of California’s countybased children’s mental health systems.

By the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to do the following:

• Understand the benefits of a trauma informed mental health assessment process
• Establish familiarity with the core components of trauma-informed mental health assessment 
• Explore at least two ways they can integrate components of this process into their current assessment protocol

 

Al Killen-Harvey, LCSW, is a Lead Trainer at The Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital on the California Screening, Assessment, and Treatment project, a federally funded grant designed to improve Trauma-Informed care in Child Welfare and Mental Health systems across the United States. He is also the co-founder of The Harvey Institute, a training and consultation company whose mission is improving health care outcomes through integrating sexual health.

Brent Crandal, PhD, is co-principal investigator of the California Screening, Assessment & Treatment Initiative at the Chadwick Center for Children and Families and Interim Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Manager for Behavioral Health Services at Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego. In these roles, he expands access to evidence-based treatments, advances trauma-informed care, and contributes to the research literature on treatment outcome measurement, mental health and trauma screening, cross-system collaboration, and caregiver engagement in children’s behavioral health services.

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The CEBC is one of the California Department of Social Services’ (CDSS) targeted efforts to improve the lives of children and families served within the child welfare system. The California Department of Social Services contracted with Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, Chadwick Center for Children & Families to create the CEBC.