NCA Learning: The Child And Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI)

The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI)

The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) is a brief (5-8 session) evidence-based treatment that can help lower the stressful symptoms children experience after a traumatic experience so they can heal and recover. It’s an invaluable treatment to add to the list of services offered by our CACs. Because CFTSI is both short and effective, it can help reduce the need for longer term care, cut down on waitlists, and allow clinicians to serve more children.

Support for the NCA Institute and the development of these resources comes from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), supporting quality health care accessible to all through its Global Health Initiative (GHI).

Add CFTSI to your menu

NCA can help your CAC providers learn to use CFTSI, potentially treating more children and shortening waitlists.

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CFTSI explainer videos for caregivers and therapists

From NCA and SNF's Global Health Initiative (GHI) comes a new collection of short explainer videos for caregivers and therapists. Learn about how CFTSI works and why it's worth adding as a model for therapists to learn and for caregivers to consider.

For Caregivers

Here are the basics on CFTSI caregivers and families need to know. Therapists and advocates: feel free to download, share, use, and show this video in session with your clients to help them understand what to expect with CFTSI and why, and to grow your own ease with talking about it.

For Providers

Therapists, CAC leaders, advocates, and clinical staff: Here's an explainer video about CFTSI that will help you understand this brief model, when it's appropriate, and why you might want to consider training on the model, adding it to your clinical protocol, or learning more about how you can bring it to your CAC.

CFTSI fact sheets for therapists and caregivers

Get the facts on telehealth for caregivers and families, and for therapists. Print and share these with clients and clinical staff about how (and why) CFTSI works in a brief course to help kids get back to being kids.

For Caregivers

Download This Fact Sheet

For Providers

Download This Fact Sheet

CFTSI resources in Spanish

Both our videos and fact sheets for caregivers and providers are now available in Spanish to reach more families than ever before.

For Caregivers

Providers and advocates: feel free to download, share, use, and show this video to your Spanish-speaking clients to help them understand what to expect with CFTSI and why.

For Providers

Providers and advocates: feel free to download, share, use, and show this video to your Spanish-speaking clients to help them understand what to expect with CFTSI and why.

Fact sheet for caregivers in Spanish

Download This Fact Sheet

CFTSI Fact Sheet for providers in Spanish

Download This Fact Sheet

Implementing CFTSI explainer videos for caregivers and therapists

With a CFTSI through telehealth, families and kids can get back to better faster than ever, reducing waitlists and ensuring more treatment slots are available. And now, families don’t even have to leave the home to get this next-generation help for their kids.

For Caregivers

Here is what caregivers and families need to know about implementing CFTSI through telehealth. Therapists and advocates: feel free to download, share, use, and show this video in session with your clients to help them understand what to expect with CFTSI through telehealth and why, and to grow your own ease with talking about it.

For Providers

Therapists, CAC leaders, advocates, and clinical staff: Check out this explainer video about implementing CFTSI through telehealth that will help you understand this brief model, when it's appropriate, and why you might want to consider training on the model, adding it to your clinical protocol, or learning more about how you can bring it to your CAC.

Implementing CFTSI through telehealth fact sheets for therapists and caregivers

Get the facts on implementing CFTSI through telehealth for caregivers and families, and for therapists. Print and share these with clients and clinical staff about how (and why) CFTSI works in a brief course to help kids get back to being kids.

For Caregivers

Download This Fact Sheet

For Providers

Download This Fact Sheet

Implementing CFTSI through telehealth resources for caregivers and providers in Spanish

Both our videos and fact sheets for caregivers and providers are now available in Spanish to reach more families than ever before.

For Caregivers

Providers and advocates: feel free to download, share, use, and show this video to your Spanish-speaking clients to help them understand what to expect with implementing CFTSI through telehealth and why.

For Providers

Providers and advocates: feel free to download, share, use, and show this video to your Spanish-speaking team to help them understand what to expect with implementing CFTSI via telehealth and why.