The UnidosUS, formerly National Council of La Raza, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, created this report to serve as a blueprint for practitioners, policy makers and others in understanding the cultural issues that must be considered not only in the design and delivery of services but also in building an evidence base of treatment effectiveness.

These Adaptation Guidelines represent a collaborative effort between the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN).  These were designed to identify key priority areas that should be addressed when adapting evidence-based practice, and mental health practice in general, to fit the needs of Latina/o/x/e or Hispanic children and families affected by trauma. 

This toolkit was prepared by Family Bridges for the National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families. This toolkit will help service providers acquire cultural competence. Having cultural competence is defined as, “conducting one’s professional work in a way that is congruent with the behavior and expectations that members of a distinctive culture recognize as appropriate among themselves” by Sabin (as cited in Rice-Rodriguez & Boyle, 2006).