Sprang Named to National Child Trauma Group
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 28, 2008) − Ginny Sprang, the Buckhorn
Professor of Child Welfare and Children's Mental Health and director of the University of Kentucky Center for the Study of
Violence Against Children (CSVAC), recently was selected to serve on the National Child Traumatic Stress
Network (NCTSN) Steering Committee. Sprang will serve as one 16 members on the committee
that sets the vision and priorities of the NCTSN and the child trauma field in
general.
Sprang, an associate professor at the UK College of Social Work with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine, received her doctoral degree from the University of Texas in 1991. Considered a national expert on child trauma and children’s mental health, she has been recognized as a leader in organizing, designing and executing multi-site, statewide collaborations in these fields.
In September 2007, Sprang was named a principal investigator and director of CSVAC, a center whose mission is dedicated to the enhancement of the health and well-being of children and their families through research, service and dissemination of information about child abuse and trauma.
She is also the principal investigator and a co-director of UK's Comprehensive Assessment and Training Services project, a statewide, translational research center within CSVAC that focuses on testing and refining best practices technologies in a “living laboratory” setting, then disseminating these practices to service providers in an effort to build community capacity to identify, assess and treat traumatized children and their families.
Sprang also serves as one of CSVAC's principal investigators for a $1.6 million Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration grant that funds the center's Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment Institute.
Sprang has also received additional research funding as a principal investigator on the Health Resources and Services Administration grant for Kentucky's Behavioral Health Disaster Response Project. This statewide collaboration between UK, the University of Louisville, and the state’s Department of Public Health serves the entire Commonwealth. Sprang has published extensive research in the fields relating to trauma, maltreatment and victimization of adults and children.
NCTSN is an exclusive partnership of academic and community-based service centers whose mission is to raise the standards of care and increase access to services for traumatized children to families in the United States. The network encompasses 70 member centers.
Sprang, an associate professor at the UK College of Social Work with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine, received her doctoral degree from the University of Texas in 1991. Considered a national expert on child trauma and children’s mental health, she has been recognized as a leader in organizing, designing and executing multi-site, statewide collaborations in these fields.
In September 2007, Sprang was named a principal investigator and director of CSVAC, a center whose mission is dedicated to the enhancement of the health and well-being of children and their families through research, service and dissemination of information about child abuse and trauma.
She is also the principal investigator and a co-director of UK's Comprehensive Assessment and Training Services project, a statewide, translational research center within CSVAC that focuses on testing and refining best practices technologies in a “living laboratory” setting, then disseminating these practices to service providers in an effort to build community capacity to identify, assess and treat traumatized children and their families.
Sprang also serves as one of CSVAC's principal investigators for a $1.6 million Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration grant that funds the center's Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment Institute.
Sprang has also received additional research funding as a principal investigator on the Health Resources and Services Administration grant for Kentucky's Behavioral Health Disaster Response Project. This statewide collaboration between UK, the University of Louisville, and the state’s Department of Public Health serves the entire Commonwealth. Sprang has published extensive research in the fields relating to trauma, maltreatment and victimization of adults and children.
NCTSN is an exclusive partnership of academic and community-based service centers whose mission is to raise the standards of care and increase access to services for traumatized children to families in the United States. The network encompasses 70 member centers.