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State of Delaware Mental Health Transformation Grant on Trauma-Informed Care (TIC)

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The State of Delaware obtained a five-year federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to develop a trauma-informed system of behavioral health care statewide. The grant period began in October, 2010, and ends in September, 2015.

There are three goals:

  • Prepare outpatient proiders and peer support specialists to appply a set of principles and values that integrate the impact of trauma history into treatment and support services.

  • Provide universal trauma screening and assessment for all service recipients.

  • Prepare peer support specialists to provide trauma-informed peer support.


  • Activities:
  • Develop a statewide Trauma Informed Care Advisory Council.

  • Identify provider staff attitudes, values and knowledge of TIC.

  • Employ trauma expert consultants to provide supprot and technical assistance to all stff in the basic principles of TIC.

  • Offer TIC consultation to clinicians and peer specialists to improve recovery outcomes.

  • Evaluate the effects of the TIC program on the systems's effectiveness in addressing trauma and achieving recovery.


  • TIC Principles:
  • State policy statement defining trauma, describing its connection to the development of psychiatric conditions, and endorsing TIC as a DSAMH priority.

  • Worforce training and orientation to TIC, development of job competencies and standards, and support for implementation of TIC.

  • Full inclusion and involvment of Consumers, Trauma Survivors and persons in Recovery.

  • Implementation of TIC policies and services that respect culture, race, ethnicity, gener, age, sexual orientation, disability and socio-economic status.

  • Integration and coordination between and among systems of care serving persons with trauma histories, including a life-span perspective.




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