Learning Center for Professionals

International experts have identified best practices in the assessment and treatment of emotional stress and trauma.  Unfortunately, many people working with children and families have not had the opportunity to learn them. 

The Child HELP Partnership aims to train professionals and lay community members on how to: 

• identify children and families who have been through traumatic events
• screen for the various mental health responses to traumatic events
• find and make appropriate referrals                                 

The Child HELP Partnership aims to train mental health professionals on how to:

• administer evidence-based assessment tools for children and caregivers who have been through traumatic events
• implement trauma-specific therapies that have been proven to help children and caregivers who have been through traumatic events
• read, critique, and conduct research on children and families who have been through stress and trauma

Training mental health professionals

The Child HELP Partnership leadership is dedicated to training mental health professionals at every stage of their career.  Through the PARTNERS Clinic Externship, Clinical Supervision Classes offered by the Department of Psychology, and Child HELP Partnership research endeavors, we train graduate students in clinical, counseling and school psychology to provide clinical services and conduct innovative research.  We also work with senior clinicians in various settings representing the continuum-of-care.  State-of-the-art technology is used to further the training, including the internet, audio taping, and videotaping.