Defense Center of Excellence (FHP&RP)
Abstract
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) organization that provides guidance across DoD programs related to psychological health (PH) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) issues. The organization’s mission statement is: “DCoE assesses, validates, oversees and facilitates prevention, resilience, identification, treatment, outreach, rehabilitation, and reintegration programs for PH and TBI to ensure the Department of Defense meets the needs of the USA's military communities, warriors and families.” DCoE focuses on education and training; clinical care; prevention; research; and service member, family and community outreach. In collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the organization supports the Department of Defense’s commitment of caring for service members from the time they enter service and throughout the completion of their service. DCoE also seeks to mitigate the stigma that still deters some from reaching out for help for problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder and TBI. The organization has a leadership role in collaborating with a national network of external entities[1] including non-profit organizations,[2] other DoD agencies, academia, Congress,[3] military services and other federal agencies.[4] Public health service and civil service workers, including personnel from the Department of Veterans Affairs and individuals from all the military services as well as contract personnel comprise the staff of DCoE. DCoE’s goals include providing the necessary resources to facilitate the care of service members who experience TBI or PH concerns and ensuring that appropriate standards of care exist and are maintained across the Department of Defense. DCoE seeks to create, identify and share best practices, conducting necessary pilot or demonstration projects to better inform quality standards when best practices or evidence based recommendations are not readily available. Other DCoE goals include ensuring that program standards are executed and quality is consistent and creating a system in which individuals across the United States expect and receive the same level and quality of service regardless of their service branch, component, rank or geographic location. DCoE comprises eight directorates and six component centers responsible for TBI/PH issues. These DCoE entities execute programs, provide clinical care, conduct research, identify and share best practices and provide strategic planning for PH and TBI across the DoD.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- 423A_0605013HP_2_0130_PB_2016
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