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.