The Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will provide nearly $2.8 million to seven organizations to support minority and disadvantaged children and youth who have been exposed to childhood trauma.
The grants were made under the Communities Addressing Childhood Trauma (ACT) program, which aims to develop and evaluate new approaches to promoting healthy behaviors among youth who have experienced significant incidents of trauma. The ACT program hopes to address poor health outcomes that may result because of child trauma. TheAdverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study and other work has linked child trauma to depression and other mental health disorders, substance abuse, high rates of school dropout and chronic absenteeism, post-traumatic stress disorder, incarceration and violence, among other health issues.
The grantees will target youth and families that have experienced traumatic situations such as physical abuse and neglect; sexual abuse; violence, including domestic violence; disasters; and some types of emotionally damaging incidents. By encouraging new approaches that can teach youth between the ages of 5 and 15 coping skills and how to make healthier life choices, the seven organizations funded by the Office of Minority Health hope to prevent long-term physical and mental health consequences.
[For more of this story, written by Jeremy Loudenback, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...d-trauma-grant/19928]
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