About the CITY Grant
The Culturally Informed Trauma sensitive practices for Youth (CITY) Program is an innovative partnership between the School Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University and the Department of Education (NYC DOE) to prepare school based mental health providers to provide evidence-based, culturally-informed, trauma-sensitive mental health services to culturally and linguistically diverse youth in high needs schools.
The CITY program will increase the availability of well-trained, culturally and linguistically-diverse school psychologists (32 students over 5 years) who are underrepresented as mental health providers in NYC schools.
The CITY Program Objectives
- Recruit school psychology masters students who (a) reflect the background and experience of the students they will serve in NYC DOE and (b) are committed to pursuing school psychology careers addressing the mental health needs of youth in high-need schools.
- Prepare school psychology masters students to provide evidence-based, culturally-informed, and trauma-sensitive mental health services to culturally and linguistically diverse youth in high-needs schools
- Prepare school psychology masters students to provide contextually-relevant services within the urban landscape of NYC.
- Increase the capability of NYC DOE schools to meet student mental health needs with evidence-based, culturally informed, and trauma-sensitive mental health services.
- Identify and serve NYC DOE students with mental health needs from special education, general education, and by parent referral.
Funding Acknowledgement:
This project is made possible by the support of the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program from the U.S. Department of Education (S184X240057). The information presented here was developed by the CITY leadership team and does not necessarily represent views of Teachers College or the U.S. Department of Education.
