UK CTAC’s consultation and coaching services include several projects designed to enhance and increase the capacities of child welfare, mental health, legal, educational, and other professionals in child serving systems to respond to the needs of children and families affected by trauma. The CATS, Breaking the Cycle, and Adoption Support Kentucky projects are the primary sources of case-based consultation, though other CTAC programs may serve these functions either to assist with sustaining changes initiated through service provision or via requests for more general consultation from systems and community partners.
The UK CTAC consultation and coaching projects offer:
Referrals or additional info
For all consultation services, please contact Adrienne Whitt-Woosley at adrienne.whitt-woosley@uky.edu or Ginny Sprang at sprang@uky.ed
- Case-based consultation, coaching, and support for child welfare professionals in investigative and ongoing case management roles regarding assessing and intervening to improve functioning and reducing risks for maltreatment with families struggling with physical abuse/violence, sexual abuse, substance abuse/dependence, mental health problems (specifically trauma/traumatic stress), medical or psychiatric conditions, intellectual disabilities, chronic poverty or other related challenges.
- Case-based consultation, coaching, and support for child welfare professionals in foster care, adoption, and transitional support roles regarding strategies to address placement stability/preventing disruptions, specialized treatment concerns regarding trauma and loss for children in foster-adoptive homes, medical or psychiatric conditions, sibling separation decisions, permanency barriers for difficult to place children, trauma-informed coaching/support needs for foster or adoptive parents, planning for transitional aged youth or other related challenges.
- Case-based legal consultation and expert testimony regarding assessments of high-risk families or children impacted by trauma.
- Case-based consultation for mental health professionals working with children affected by trauma regarding evidence-based approaches to assessment and treatment and implementation of effective services.
- Case-based and/or organizational consultation for school professionals on trauma-informed and secondary trauma-informed practices.
- Case-based and/or organizational consultation for other child-serving professionals on trauma-informed and secondary trauma-informed practices.
- Consultation regarding research and evaluation practices in the field of traumatology.