What is CPTS?
The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPTS) is a three-site (Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and University of Kentucky) Treatment and Services Adaptation Center (Category II) in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network funded by SAMHSA.
How is CPTS a resource?
At Nemours Children’s Health, CPTS is a “center within a center” of our Center for Healthcare Delivery Science. Members of CPTS maintain a website related to medical traumatic stress used by more than 320,000 professionals, providing resources for providers and families in the delivery of trauma-informed healthcare. CPTS serves as a training and dissemination arm for related research and scholarly activity which have surged since its inception.
Who does CPTS support?
Importantly, CPTS seeks to support the 80 percent of kids and parents who report post-traumatic stress reactions in the first month after an acute medical event. The Center supports the national and international use of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT), and trains and supports health care providers nationally in the use of the Surviving Cancer Completely Intervention Program (SCIIP).
What is the reach of CPTS?
Over the past two decades, CPTS has become the worldwide go-to resource for evidence-based information and tools to help health care teams implement trauma-informed pediatric care.
Is CPTS expanding?
Yes. Initiatives currently underway include expanding partnerships with the pediatric rare disease community and with medical interpreters; collaborating with nursing school faculty to expand the teaching of trauma-informed care; developing new online tools to teach trauma-informed interventions; and consulting with health care teams to improve and evaluate their trauma-informed practices.
20 Year Quick Facts
Trained 21,000 health & mental health
providers
16,000 families screened using PAT across 350 institutions
15,000+ parent tip sheets and workbooks downloaded
200,000 families accessing AfterTheInjury.org
Anne Kazak, PhD, ABPP
“We’ve always focused on ensuring that kids in health care settings are understood from a trauma lens. But kids don’t just visit one system; they move throughout the social ecology. So, we’re working to make sure our interventions and evaluations continue to keep an eye on multi-system work.”
— Anne Kazak, PhD, ABPP, Director of the Nemours Center for Healthcare Delivery Science and Co-Director of the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress
