Caritas grant will fund virtual reality therapy system
Jan. 14, 2021
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BELLEVILLE Caritas Family Solutions’ has received a $25,000 grant from the Tracy Family Foundation to purchase and install a virtual reality therapy system at St. John Bosco Children’s Center, a residential treatment facility for children who have experienced profound trauma.
The grant will also provide funds to train the clinical manager and five therapists on the new system.
The therapy approach known as Virtual Reality (VR) Prolonged Exposure will allow trained clinicians to work with youths who have experienced profoundly traumatic abuse and/or neglect and have developed significant mental health diagnoses such as ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder or most commonly, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result. VR therapy is a promising practice that has been studied with combat veterans and is now being applied to others with significant trauma histories.