Institute for Educational Research and Service

IERS at U.S. Administration for Children & Families Washington D.C. meeting

Dr. Rick van den Pol, director of IERS, Dr. James Caringi, Professor of Social Work & IERS Dir. of Qualitative Evaluation, and Marilyn Bruguier Zimmerman, director of NNCTC will be attending a two day grantee kick-off meeting in Washington D.C. hosted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration of Children and Families (ACF).  The meeting is entitled "Integrating Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Focused Practice in Child Welfare Service Delivery."  IERS/NNCTC recently received a 5 year grant award from ACF to initiate such work in three reservation settings in Montana and later, at three more sites across the U.S.  The work will build upon many of the research and resources of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and ' work within that network having delivered school-based childhood trauma reduction interventions and having provided community-wide education on the impacts of childhood traumatic stress and historical trauma in Indian Country.