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Launching a Competency-Based Training Program in Evidence-Based Treatments for PTSD: Supporting Veteran-Serving Mental Health Providers in Texas

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Community mental health providers play an essential role in delivering services to veterans who either have limited access to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities or who prefer to seek care outside of the VA. However, there are limited training opportunities in evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) outside of the VA. In 2017, the STRONG STAR Training Initiative was established to develop competency-based training in two evidence-based therapies for PTSD and to provide that training for mental health providers serving veterans and their families in community settings in Texas. This article describes the program’s development and implementation, baseline characteristics of participating clinicians, and lessons learned toward the scale-up and extension of this competency-based training effort to include other interventions and locations.

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  1. The term “garrison” refers to troop stationed in a particular location or military installation.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Texas mental health providers and their organizations for their enthusiastic engagement in this project and the important care they provide every day to veteran and non-veteran trauma survivors. We would like to thank our regional Learning Community partner organizations which include: University of Texas at San Antonio, University of North Texas, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Baylor University, Texas State University, Innovative Alternatives, and University of Texas at Austin. The authors thank Julie Collins and Joel Williams, who provided editorial support for this manuscript and Jeremy Karp and Arthur Marsden, who provided project management support.

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Funding for this project was made possible by the Texas Health and Human Services Texas Veterans + Family Alliance Grant program and the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

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    Katherine A. Dondanville, Brooke A. Fina, Casey L. Straud, Erin P. Finley, Hannah Tyler, Vanessa Jacoby, Tabatha H. Blount, John C. Moring, Kristi E. Pruiksma & Abby E. Blankenship

  2. Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA

    Casey L. Straud

  3. South Texas Veterans Health Care System, 7400 Merton Minter Blvd, San Antonio, TX, USA

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  4. VA North Texas Health Care System, 4500 S Lancaster Rd, Dallas, TX, USA

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  5. James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital, 13000 Bruce B. Downs Blvd, Tampa, FL, USA

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Dondanville, K.A., Fina, B.A., Straud, C.L. et al. Launching a Competency-Based Training Program in Evidence-Based Treatments for PTSD: Supporting Veteran-Serving Mental Health Providers in Texas. Community Ment Health J 57, 910–919 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00676-7

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