Improving Linkages Between Sexual and Reproductive Health and Substance Use Providers: The Partnership to Advance Integrated Referrals.

Background And Objectives: Women of reproductive age with substance use (SU) disorders have lower rates of contraceptive use and higher rates of unintended pregnancy than women without SU disorders and are less likely to access treatment than men. Integration of SU and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, using a model known as Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), has been proven effective in reducing SU and improving health care equity. The SBIRT model includes screening, brief intervention (a short client-centered conversation providing an opportunity to identify/discuss concerns), and referral to treatment.

Training experienced mental health practitioners to deliver foundational trauma education: The core curriculum on childhood trauma.

Objective: The majority of U.S. mental health practitioners receive little to no foundational trauma education, and instead rely on in-service or continuing education to fill this deficit.

How do we get to trauma-informed practice? Retention and application of learning by practitioners trained using the core curriculum on childhood trauma.

Most mental health practitioners receive minimal trauma training in their degree curriculum and rely on supplemental training to build additional skills. Since 2016, the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) has been used for brief in-service training of more than 2,000 mental health practitioners. Prior evaluation showed statistically significant learning outcomes posttraining, yet little was known about retention of learning or impact on clinical practice.

Building a trauma-informed national mental health workforce: Learning outcomes from use of the core curriculum on childhood trauma in multidisciplinary practice settings.

Objective: The impact of trauma on mental and physical health has long been recognized as a significant public health issue, yet there has been little unanimity about how to best develop a trauma-capable national workforce. The Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) is being used to train a wide variety of mental health professionals and child-serving staff; however, prior data on its effectiveness have been limited to small pilot studies with master's in social work students.

Method: We used 1,908 retrospective pre-post-training evaluations collected from 168 CCCT trainings delivered in multidisciplinary or practice settings between October 2016 and August 2019.