Raising the standard of care & improving access to services for traumatized children, families, & communities.

Core values

- **Addresses Societal Needs and Issues**: The NCTSN focuses on a critical public health issue, childhood traumatic stress, which has significant societal implications, including poverty, crime, low academic achievement, addiction, mental illness, and chronic disease[1][4].
- **Improves Quality of Life**: By providing effective, culturally sensitive, and evidence-based assessment and treatment, the NCTSN helps children recover from trauma and gain the tools to cope with future stress, thereby improving their quality of life[1][4].
- **Promotes Positive Change**: The NCTSN works to transform trauma assessment and treatment, and brings a trauma-informed perspective to various systems that serve children, such as healthcare, education, and child welfare. This leads to systemic changes that benefit communities[1][2].
- **Contributes to Community Well-being**: The network has trained nearly a million providers, treated hundreds of thousands of children, and influenced community-wide adoption of trauma-informed approaches, which collectively enhance community well-being[1].