National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public
awareness of the scope and serious impact
of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development
of America's children and youth;
advancing a broad range
of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard
of care; working with established systems
of care including the
health,
mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum
of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resource.