Grief-enhanced Trauma-informed Care process(GTC)Grief-enhanced Trauma-informed Care process(GTC)

Our approach to Assess Traumatic Stress and Bereavement

Olive View Medical Center – Los Angeles County (OVMC-LAC) is implementing a broad range of traumatic stress services to increase access and quality of care. This includes the implementation of a Grief Enhanced Trauma Informed Care Process Model (GTC) of effective evidence-based trauma screenings and trauma-reminder focused interventions for adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their families in North Los Angeles County (LAC) and within schools, other child-serving systems, pediatric and psychiatry clinics, and psychiatry emergency rooms. This project will expand and enhance the capacity of OVMC-LAC to deliver more effective and linguistically/culturally competent trauma screening and treatment to underserved adolescents with PTSD and their families, especially among minorities (e.g., Hispanic and African American youth, LGBTQ youth, and veteran families.) We have GTC, and trauma-reminder focused interventions, including Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCTA), a Family Intervention for Suicide Prevention (FISP), and a Reminder Focused Positive Psychiatry intervention (RFPP) – in collaboration with NCTSN Category II Centers for adolescents with PTSD and their families. We will provide direct service and supervisory consultation using the NCTSN Core Curriculum to providers at OVMC-LAC. Clinicians and nurses at Pediatric Clinics, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall mental health clinics will achieve trauma-informed skillset and competency to implement trauma-informed screenings.