Communities Preventing Childhood Trauma (CPCT) program

The goal of the Communities Preventing Childhood Trauma (CPCT) program is to identify and provide support for disenfranchised minority youth and mitigate the trauma they already experience. A social determinants based trauma-informed intervention model focused on education and social supports is intended to provide minority children, adolescents and their families programming that equips them to remediate unhealthy behaviors with coping strategies, confidence building, approaches to communication, resilience, self-esteem building , problem-solving skills, education attainment, and leadership skills that can transform their lives. FY2016 CPCT competitively funded grantees will serve minority and other disenfranchised children, adolescents and their families living in communities with significant rates of acute traumatic events such as school shooting/stabbing, gang-related violence, sudden/violent loss of loved ones, physical or sexual assaults, and serious accidents. They may be exposed to chronic traumatic situations repeatedly over long periods of time such as domestic violence, some forms of physical abuse or long-standing sexual abuse. These exposures to traumatic events and traumatic situations may result in child traumatic stress due to exposure that overwhelms their ability to cope with such experiences.