Indian Country
Child Trauma Center

 

 

The Indian Country Child Trauma Center (ICCTC) was established to develop trauma-related treatment protocols, outreach materials, and service delivery guidelines specifically designed for Native American children and their families. The Indian Country Child Trauma Center is part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network funded by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. It is housed at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect.

The treatment protocols, outreach materials and service delivery guidelines developed by ICCTC incorporates both common and tribal-specific Native cultural perspectives and traditions; focuses on principles of current evidence-based models; and will accommodate the substantial individual-to-individual variability in cultural identity among Native people. ICCTC provides training in the different models developed.

Indian Country Child Trauma Center (ICCTC) has adapted four (4) trauma-related treatment protocols, outreach materials, and service delivery guidelines specifically adapted and designed for Native American children and their families.

The four models include:

Honoring Children, Mending the Circle - cultural adaptation of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Honoring Children, Mending the Circle is the clinical application of the healing process in a traditional framework that supports the belief of American Indians and Native Alaskan culture of spiritual renewal leading to healing and recovery. Training involves a four-day intensive session, follow-up weekly case consultation, web-based training and resources.

Honoring Children, Respectful Ways - cultural adaptation of Treatment for Children with Sexual Behavior Problems. This model was developed for American Indian/Alaska Native children with sexual behavior problems and is designed to honor children and promote their self-respect as well as respect for others, for their elders, and for all living things.

Honoring Children, Making Relatives - cultural adaption of Parent Child Interaction Therapy. ICCTC has incorporated American Indian/Native Alaskan teachings, practices, rituals, traditions, and cultural orientation into PCIT while maintaining the guiding principles and theory of this specialized treatment in Honoring Children, Making Relatives.

Honoring Children, Honoring the Future - revision of the American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum. The American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum (AILSDC) developed by LaFromboise (1995) used risk and protective factors specific to AI/AN youth to inform the development of prevention strategies, provided details of how culture-specific factors are related to an increased risk of suicidal behavior, and contained material for work with students at risk for suicidal behaviors as well as students in general. Revisions from high school to middle school age students have been made.

Congressional Briefing on
Native American Children's Health

The Committee on Native American Children's Health held a Congressional Briefing on April 14, 2008. There were at least 50 attendees and strong representation from both the House and the Senate office. Below you will find the information from Indian Country that was distributed.

Indian Country Child Trauma Center's Report on American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Child Welfare and Trauma

National Indian Child Welfare Association Report - 1

National Indian Child Welfare Association Report - 2

National Indian Child Welfare Association Report - 3

Time for Reform: A Matter of Justice for American Indian and Alaska Native Children

Letter to Honorable Dave Obey, Chairman, Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services

 

Trauma Exposure in American Indian/Alaska Native Children - A factsheet developed for the February 28, 2008 Congressional Hearing on Trauma Exposure in Children.
 
 

   
 

Indian Country Child Trauma Center
Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
Native American Programs
PO Box 26901 - OUCP, 3B 3406
Oklahoma City, OK 73190
(405) 271-8858
(405) 271-2931 Fax