AI Article Synopsis

  • Effective teamwork is essential for Child Advocacy Center (CAC) teams, and tailored interventions like TeamTRACS, adapted from TeamSTEPPS, can enhance collaboration.
  • The pilot study involved community engagement and feedback from team members through surveys and interviews, which showed that TeamTRACS was well-received and deemed practical for CAC contexts.
  • While TeamTRACS appears feasible and valuable for CAC teams, further research is necessary to evaluate its effectiveness and develop strategies for optimal implementation.

Article Abstract

Background: Effective teamwork is critical to the mission of Child Advocacy Center (CAC) multidisciplinary teams. Team interventions designed to fit the unique cross-organizational context of CAC teams may improve teamwork in CACs.

Methods: A collaborative, community-engaged approach was used to adapt TeamSTEPPS, an evidence-based team training for healthcare, for CAC multidisciplinary teams. The adapted training was piloted with one team and evaluated using mixed methods. Team members completed pre-training (n = 26) and follow-up surveys (n = 22) and participated in qualitative interviews (n = 9).

Results: The adaptation process resulted in the creation of TeamTRACS (Team Training in Roles, Awareness, Communication, and Support). Participants rated TeamTRACS as highly acceptable, appropriate, feasible, relevant, and useful for CAC teams. They identified positive and negative aspects of the training, ideas for improvement, and future uses for TeamTRACS.

Conclusions: TeamTRACS is a feasible approach to team training in CACs, and team members find the content and skills relevant and useful. Additional research is needed to test the effectiveness of TeamTRACS and identify appropriate implementation strategies to support its use.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10437145PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107096DOI Listing

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