The Treatment Collaborative for Traumatized Youth (TCTY) successfully kicked off its second learning collaborative on July 15-16, 2009. Nearly 40 clinicians representing 19 different mental health facilities across the state of North Dakota gathered at the Radisson Hotel in Fargo to begin their training in Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Over the course of one year, these clinicians will receive ongoing consultation from the TCTY Training Team as they begin to utilize these new evidence-based treatment models in their practice.
The TCTY is a network of clinicians whose mission is to raise the standard of care and improve access to mental health treatment for traumatized children in North Dakota. The TCTY now consists of over 100 clinicians from over 30 mental health facilities in North Dakota. These clinicians are committed to learning trauma-specific, evidence-based, mental health treatments for treating childhood trauma. The TCTY provides these clinicians with a mechanism to share and learn from other professionals doing similar work.