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The Implications of Untreated Childhood Trauma

Through the Trauma Informed Schools Learning Collaborative, LPHI's Family Health and Behavioral Health Portfolios are working to lessen the gap in care by helping local schools to build their organizational capacity to implement, improve and sustain the delivery of trauma-focused services.

Please take a moment to read the article below. In it, two of our partners, Paulette Carter, Director of the Children's Bureau and Dr. Rochelle Head-Dunham, Executive Director of Metropolitan Human Services District, speak to the impact of untreated trauma exposure among Louisiana's most vulnerable children and the implications further exascerbated by multi-million dollar state budget cuts to mental health services.

NOLA.com's "The Children of Central City" project - Treating Trauma