Anchorage Community Mental Health Services Child Trauma Center [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The Anchorage Community Mental Health Services Child Trauma Center provides evidence-based therapeutic services to children and families who have experienced complex trauma, and works to promote implementation of prevention and intervention services, based on best practices, throughout Anchorage. The center has developed and organized a Child Trauma Coalition—including service providers, educators, community leaders, advocates, and consumers—to advance systems change, build capacity, and promote community awareness.

In addition, the center serves as an expert resource regarding child trauma for Coalition members and the community at large. Working with the Coalition, the Trauma Center of Massachusetts, and the University of Alaska at Anchorage, the center is also helping to adapt, pilot, and evaluate the Trauma Center of Massachusetts's Attachment Self-Regulation and Competence (ARC) model to reflect local community needs, particularly those of Alaska Native children and children in the Alaska foster care system.
Contact: Joshua Arvidson
Phone: (907) 762-2817
Email: jarvidson@acmhs.com
Web: http://www.acmhs.com

Child and Adolescent Traumatic Stress Services Center of So. Arizona [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The Child and Adolescent Traumatic Stress Services Center of Southern Arizona (CATTS) is a collaboration of Jewish Family and Children's Service of Southern Arizona, Arizona's Children Association, the Pima County Attorney's Office/Victim Witness Program, and La Frontera Center. The center provides services to children and adolescents and their families in Tucson/Pima County, Arizona, who have been exposed to trauma including sexual or physical abuse, domestic violence, school and community violence, and natural disasters. With particular sensitivity to Latino and Native American cultures, CATTS provides culturally informed, evidence-based, socioecologically valid, developmentally appropriate services. CATTS also collaborates with and trains key community stakeholders such as child welfare agencies; law enforcement; schools; family resource and wellness centers; social/behavioral health agencies; and consumers including caregivers, children and adolescents, and their families. The center also works with children and families at Davis Monthan Air Force Base and Fort Huachuca.
Contact: Barbra Quade
Phone: (520) 886-5111 x419
Email: barbraq@jfcstucson.org
Web: http://jfcstucson.org

Chadwick Center for Children and Families Trauma Counseling Program [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2002 - 2004]

The Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, California, identifies and disseminates evidence-based treatments for children traumatized as a consequence of child abuse, neglect, or exposure to interpersonal violence in the home. With extensive experience serving Latino children and families, the Chadwick Center improves therapeutic services for the Spanish-speaking community through evidence-based treatments adapted for this population. The center also serves as a resource on trauma-informed practice to public child welfare and child advocacy agencies across the country. A key feature of the Chadwick Center, in partnership with the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and other NCTSN sites, is the dissemination of the Treatment Assessment Pathways (TAP) model.
Contact: Linda Wong Kerberg
Phone: (858) 576-1700 x5727
Email: lkerberg@rchsd.org
Web: http://www.chadwickcenter.org

Children's Institute, Inc., Central Los Angeles Child Trauma Collaborative [Funding periods: 2007 - 2010 and 2001 - 2004]

Children's Institute, Inc. (CII), in partnership with the University of Southern California Medical Center, is a Community Treatment and Services Center serving Los Angeles County. The project, called the Central Los Angeles Child Trauma Collaborative (CLACTC), improves access to trauma-specific mental health treatment for high-risk urban children and adolescents, many of whom are ethnic minorities. CLACTC also promotes the local use of clinical treatments, services, and practices that intervene directly with children or that address trauma by intervening with the professionals, organizations, and service systems that serve children who witness or experience traumatic events.
Contact: Leslie Ross
Phone: (213) 385-5100 x183
Email: Lross@childrensinstitue.org
Web: http://www.childrensinstitute.org

Community Trauma Treatment for Runaway and Homeless Youth [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The Community Trauma Treatment Center for Runaway and Homeless Youth establishes and sustains evidence-based clinical treatment and trauma-informed services for runaway and homeless youth aged 13 to 21 in the Hollywood community. The Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, collaborates with four community agencies—the Los Angeles Free Clinic, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, the Los Angeles Youth Network, and My Friend's Place—and the larger Hollywood Homeless Youth Partnership.

Approximately 300 youth per year receive varying levels of service, ranging from case management and wellness groups in drop-in centers to intensive clinical treatment in shelters and transitional living programs. Approximately 25 percent of the youth served are minors (17 years of age and younger) and 60 percent are young men; the majority are youth of color. The center is adapting several evidence-based intervention models to serve its population of homeless and runaway youth.
Contact: Arlene Schneir
Phone: (323) 660-2450 x3901
Email: aschneir@chla.usc.edu
Web:

Early Trauma Treatment Network [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

The Early Trauma Treatment Network (ETTN) is a four-site collaborative that includes the Child Trauma Research Project at the University of California San Francisco, the Child Violence Exposure Program at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, and the Tulane University/Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority Infant Team. All sites work with children aged birth to 6 who have experienced interpersonal traumas, with a focus on lower-income, ethnic-minority populations who suffer from chronic or multiple traumas. The ETTN also disseminates information to other service providers regarding how traumatic experiences affect young children; provides Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP); adapts CPP for other service systems and for specific populations of young children including children with traumatic grief; and refines, evaluates, and disseminates a model for training clinicians in working with culturally diverse groups.
Contact: Chandra Ghosh Ippen
Phone: (415) 206-5312
Email: chandra@itsa.ucsf.edu
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Los Angeles Unified School District Trauma Services Adaptation Center for Schools and Communities [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2002 - 2004]

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Trauma Services Adaptation (TSA) Center for Schools and Communities—in partnership with RAND Health, UCLA Health Services Research Center, and the UCLA Child Anxiety Program—provides national leadership to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate trauma-informed mental health services for schools. The students served are racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse, and have experienced interpersonal and mass traumas including terrorist attacks, school shootings, and natural disasters. LAUSD TSA continues to disseminate Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) throughout the nation and conduct training on this intervention. In addition, LAUSD TSA works in close partnership with entities that serve the interests of children and their families—including schools, school districts, local and state education agencies, and federal departments—and with other NCTSN centers.
Contact: Marleen Wong
Phone: (213) 740-0840
Email: marleenw@usc.edu
Web: http://www.tsaforschools.org

Miller Children's Abuse and Violence Intervention Center - University of Southern California (MCAVIC-USC) Child and Adolescent Trauma Program [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

Miller Children's Abuse and Violence Intervention Center (MCAVIC) at Miller Children's Hospital, Long Beach, California, and the University of Southern California (USC) collaborated to form the MCAVIC-USC Child and Adolescent Trauma Program, which provides leadership, program development, and training in the treatment of multiply traumatized children, adolescents, and their families. MCAVIC is the primary site for clinic- and school-based trauma-specific treatment, focusing on trauma associated with child abuse, family and community violence, medical trauma, and traumatic bereavement. Direct services further develop, pilot, and evaluate interventions in Long Beach that can be adapted to other underserved populations. A consumer/family advisory council provides input regarding adaptations and expansions that are most effective for the culturally diverse population served. MCAVIC-USC has developed and is disseminating an intervention for multiply traumatized youth called Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma for Adolescents (ITCT-A).

MCAVIC-USC's nationally recognized trauma specialists train, consult, and provide collaborative research opportunities to other NCTSN centers, as well as to the Guidance Center of Long Beach, California State University Long Beach, the Long Beach Unified School District, law enforcement, and child protection agencies in the Long Beach community.
Contact: Cheryl Lanktree
Phone: (562) 933-0590
Email: clanktree@memorialcare.org
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National Center for Child Traumatic Stress - UCLA [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

The UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and the Duke University School of Medicine jointly host the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS), leading the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) in transforming treatment and services to meet the needs of traumatized children and their families across the United States. Through extensive expertise, resources, organizational experience, and vision, the NCCTS guides and supports the NCTSN. The NCCTS also provides strong technical assistance to support Network data collection, cross-site collaborative activities, product development and dissemination, training, adoption and adaptation of interventions, communications, policy analysis and initiatives, and program evaluation.
Contact: Jenifer Maze
Phone: (310) 235-2633 x226
Email: JMaze@mednet.ucla.edu
Web: http://www.nctsn.org

Aurora Mental Health Center [Funding period: 2001 - 2004]

The Aurora Mental Health Center is a nonprofit community mental health center that serves more than 5,000 people annually in Aurora, Colorado. Services are provided in eight counseling and specialized service centers; seven residential facilities; twenty-five public schools; two county departments of human services; and in homes, foster homes, and at other community locations. The center helps abused and neglected children and children who have witnessed interpersonal violence. The center's Intercept program works with children with mental illness and developmental disabilities, an underserved population with an extremely high prevalence of abuse, and has adapted Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for children with developmental disabilities.
Contact: Kathie Snell
Phone: (303) 617-2733
Email: KathieSnell@aumhc.org
Web: http://www.aumhc.org

Mental Health Corporation of Denver's Family Trauma Treatment Program [Funding period: 2001 - 2004]

The Mental Health Center of Denver's Family Trauma Treatment Program provides access for low-income children and families to community mental health services through a network of more than thirty locations throughout the Denver area. The program improves services and treatment for children who have experienced trauma by implementing and evaluating evidence-based interventions in a variety of community settings including schools, shelters, juvenile detention centers, day care centers, and neighborhood clinics.
Contact: Lydia Prado
Phone: (303) 504-6647
Email: Lydia.prado@mhcd.org
Web: http://www.mhcd.org

The Denver-Kempe Trauma Collaboration [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

The Denver-Kempe Trauma Collaboration makes Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) available to abused and neglected children aged birth to 3 and their families from within Denver's Child Welfare System. By adapting and fully integrating CPP into the collaboration's citywide community-based services network, CPP is being delivered in conjunction with neighborhood-based services.

The Denver-Kempe Trauma Collaboration is built on a partnership between the Denver Department of Human Services, The Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect, and a remarkable community-based network of child and family-serving agencies throughout the city of Denver. The Denver Department of Human Services has been recognized nationally for its innovative child welfare services, and the Kempe Center is well known for its expertise in child abuse and neglect and early intervention programs. Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) will be embedded in the community-based network to ensure the adoption and delivery of CPP in conjunction with neighborhood-based services. To facilitate the adoption of evidence-based practices by mental health and child welfare systems in the U.S, the collaboration is sharing with other cities what it learns.
Contact: Kimberly Shipman
Phone: (303) 864-5366
Email: shipman.kimberly@tchden.org
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Childhood Violent Trauma Center [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

The Childhood Violent Trauma Center (CVTC), a trauma-focused clinic, evaluates and treats children and families who have been exposed to violent, criminal, or other potentially traumatic events. CVTC is at the forefront of developing, evaluating, and disseminating both acute intervention models and secondary prevention models for children exposed to potentially traumatic events including its Child Development-Community Policing Program and the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention.
Contact: Steven Marans
Phone: (203) 785-7047
Email: steven.marans@yale.edu
Web: http://www.nccev.org

Clifford Beers Clinic Child and Family Trauma Center [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

Established in 1913, and now the oldest outpatient clinic in Connecticut, the Clifford Beers Clinic Child and Family Trauma Center (CFTC) is a community-based clinical center of excellence for the treatment of children and families who have been exposed to trauma. CFTC improves the quality of life for trauma-exposed children and their caretakers; strengthens and creates advocates within the community for and with survivors; and improves the quality of treatment services available to those families within the greater New Haven region through assisting other human service agencies to take root and implement evidence-based practices. Working with New Haven community child service agencies, school-based clinics, and community agencies, CFTC serves families that typically live under enormous stress.
Contact: Alice M. Forrester
Phone: (203) 772-1270
Email: aforrester@cliffordbeers.org
Web: http://www.cliffordbeers.org

University of Connecticut Child Traumatic Stress Services [Funding period: 2001 - 2004]

The University of Connecticut Child Traumatic Stress Services provides training and technical assistance to enable all juvenile detention centers—as well as a network of community-based juvenile justice and children's mental health outpatient and residential programs in Connecticut, and seven pilot program sites overseen by Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice—to adopt and implement TARGET (Trauma Affect Regulation: Guidelines for Education and Therapy). Two research projects are ongoing, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs: a randomized clinical trial of TARGET individual psychotherapy (versus enhanced treatment as usual) for girls involved in delinquency who have PTSD, and a field demonstration study evaluating the statewide implementation of TARGET in Connecticut's juvenile detention centers.
Contact: Julian Ford
Phone: (860) 679-8778
Email: ford@psychiatry.uchc.edu
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Delaware Child Traumatic Stress Center [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

Through the Delaware Child Traumatic Stress Center, the state's Children's Department expands statewide capacity to identify and assess child traumatic stress and increase access to effective, community-based, trauma-specific treatment for acutely traumatized children and adolescents served by the child welfare/protection and juvenile justice systems. The center collaborates locally with families, providers, schools, the family court, and others to increase its capability to identify, assess, and effectively treat children with acute trauma. As an established, statewide provider and community-education program, the center facilitates the transfer of best practice across Delaware, advancing the goal to make evidence-based child trauma treatment available to all public mental health outpatient providers.
Contact: Nancy S. Widdoes
Phone: 302-368-6726 x3542
Email: Nancy.Widdoes@state.de.us
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Wendt Center for Loss and Healing [Funding period: 2002 - 2004]

The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing is a nonprofit agency that has been providing mental health services to children and families since 1977. The Wendt Center serves people throughout the Washington D.C., metropolitan area who have experienced the death of a loved one or are living with life-threatening illness. Individual counseling, grief support groups, a summer grief camp for children, and training for mental health professionals are at the heart of the Wendt Center services. The Wendt Center started the D.C. Homicide Coalition in the city and now operates the D.C. Crisis Response Team, which has more than seventy volunteers and responds to all homicides. In 1999 the Wendt Center created the first program in the United States to provide on-site grief counseling to families who must visit the city morgue to identify a deceased loved one. Through this work the Wendt Center has developed an expertise in serving children from families who have experienced a traumatic death.
Contact: Susan Ley
Phone: (202) 624-0010
Email: sley@wendtcenter.org
Web: http://www.wendtcenter.org

Healing the Hurt, Directions for Mental Health, Inc. [Funding period: 2002-2004]

Directions for Mental Health, Inc. is a community mental health center in Clearwater, Florida, serving children and adolescents, aged birth to 18, who present with mental health symptoms and a history of trauma. Healing the Hurt is a partnership with Hospice of the Florida Suncoast and Family Service Centers, organizations that provide interventions to children and adolescents who have recently experienced trauma related to death or serious illness of a family member, or from sexual assault. Healing the Hurt works closely with the local school board, Safe Start Initiative, and the juvenile justice system; and participates in a replication of the Child Development-Community Policing program. In addition to expanding services and improving access, Healing the Hurt focuses on increasing community awareness of the effects of trauma on children and on training other providers in the region.
Contact: Christine Bergman
Phone: (727) 524-4464
Email: christine.bergman@directionsmh.org
Web: http://www.directionsmh.org

Project Etc.: Enhancing Services to Traumatized Children [Funding period: 2008 - 2011]

Through Project Etc.: Enhancing Services to Traumatized Children, Gateway Community Services will expand and enhance its trauma-focused services to children living in Northeast Florida who have symptoms of PTSD, or who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event or series of events producing sub-threshold symptoms of PTSD. The children served through Gateway include 1) young children aged 0-12 accompanying their parent to residential substance abuse treatment; 2) adolescent males aged 12-18 under the supervision of the Department of Juvenile Justice and placed in a secure residential program; 3) adolescents aged 12-18 who are in residential treatment for a substance use or co-occurring substance and mental health disorder; and 4) adolescents who are receiving substance abuse outpatient treatment in a community setting. The project plans to serve 120 youth annually (80 the first year) for a total of 440 for the life of the funding. Goals include: 1) implement and evaluate effective trauma-focused and trauma-informed treatment and services for children at Gateway Community Services; 2) facilitate local use of trauma-informed and trauma-focused services in youth serving agencies in Northeast Florida; and 3) promote community awareness of the need for trauma-informed services for children in Northeast Florida.
Contact: Candace Hodgkins
Phone: (904) 387-4661 x195
Email: chodgkins@gatewaycommunity.com
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Trauma Recovery Initiative Center [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

Children's Home Society of Florida, in partnership with the Florida Mental Health Institute, developed the Trauma Recovery Initiative Center (TRI-Center). The goal is to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of sustainable, culturally competent, trauma-focused interventions and trauma-informed system approaches to ameliorate adverse consequences of complex trauma experience for abused and neglected youth in foster care and other out-of-home family care. The TRI-Center project focuses on how to address child and family trauma issues to promote placement stability, expedite permanency, and prepare youth to successfully transition to independent living when they age out of foster care.

The TRI-Center also incorporates innovative approaches to trauma screening, training, and treatment for foster parents, adoptive parents, and relative and nonrelative caregivers; and works to involve biological parents in the intervention Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) in situations with a child welfare concurrent plan.
Contact: Cynthia Blacklaw
Phone: (850) 266-2700
Email: cynthia.blacklaw@chsfl.org
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Chaddock Trauma Initiative of West Central Illinois [Funding period: 2008 - 2011]

The Chaddock Trauma Initiative of West Central Illinois (CTIWCI) will provide trauma-informed services to under-served children and adolescents who live in the rural community of Quincy, Illinois, and the surrounding tri-state area (Illinois, Iowa, Missouri). Using school and community settings, the project will focus on treating traumatic stress, and will also provide training for parents, foster parents, educators, and other professionals. The project will serve more than 1,780 clients, aged 0-19, and their families who have experienced trauma due to child abuse and neglect, violence, poverty, catastrophic events, and/or separation and loss, particularly among families of military personnel who have been deployed to the Middle East. The project's training component will serve approximately 1,500 adults each year. The goals are to: 1) infuse the tri-state area with specialized evidence-based practices including Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS); 2) train parents and child-serving professionals to implement specialized trauma services; and 3) further develop best practice models of trauma-related services through collaboration and coordination with local, state, and national organizations.
Contact: Angel Knoverek
Phone: (217) 222-0034
Email: Aknoverek@chaddock.org
Web: http://www.chaddock.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139&Itemid=74

Heartland International Family, Adolescent and Child Enhancement Services (FACES) [Funding period: 2002 - 2004]

Heartland International Family, Adolescent and Child Enhancement Services (FACES) is a program of Chicago Health Outreach, a community-based health organization providing services to disenfranchised individuals and families in Chicago. The program enhances the quality of life for refugee children, adolescents, and families by providing culturally and linguistically appropriate, comprehensive mental health services for individuals suffering from trauma-related distress or emotional stress exacerbated by the refugee experience. Direct services include psychiatric assessment and treatment, individual and family counseling, psychotherapy; occupational, art, and dance/movement therapy; theater work; case management (typically provided by a case manager from the child's country of origin); and outreach programs to sensitize the children's wider communities to their needs. All services are available in the home, school, community, and on-site.
Contact: Joan Liautaud
Phone: (773) 751-4054
Email: JLiautaud@heartlandalliance.org
Web: http://www.heartlandalliance.org

La Rabida Children's Hospital - Chicago Child Trauma Center [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The Chicago Child Trauma Center at La Rabida Children's Hospital (LRCH) serves inner-city African Americans and other Chicago-area children exposed to traumatic events including medical trauma, sexual abuse, witnessing violence, and complex trauma. For decades, LRCH has been a leader in the development and provision of abuse- and trauma-related psychological services for children. Now serving more than 400 children per year, the center also adapts and disseminates evidence-based NCTSN interventions for urban African-American children; collaborates on developing new treatment models; provides outreach, training, and consultation to child service system stakeholders on the effects of trauma; and works with fellow NCTSN members to explore the links among race, urban poverty, and trauma.
Contact: Brad Stolbach
Phone: (773) 256-5735
Email: bstolbach@larabida.org
Web: http://larabida.org/

Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment Institute [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

The Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment Institute (CATTI) is a multidisciplinary university-community collaboration housed at the University of Kentucky's Center for the Study of Violence against Children. CATTI's mission is to facilitate child and family recovery from psychological trauma through statewide service delivery, and to help the mental health community provide services that are empirically based and culturally relevant. In partnership with public child welfare, the judiciary, and the Department of Mental Health, the project is developing a clinical nucleus for clinical training and for dissemination of trauma-informed evidence-based practices in four rural to urban areas in Kentucky.

The University of Kentucky's Center for the Study of Violence Against Children will select and train clinical associates as regional partners using a Breakthrough Collaborative Model in the delivery of clinical services. CATTI has the support of key stakeholders (including the state's public child welfare system, school system, consumer groups, community mental health, and advocacy groups) who have expressed their commitment and support and who will serve as advisors to the project.
Contact: Ginny Sprang
Phone: (859) 257-9420
Email: sprang@email.uky.edu
Web: http://csvac.uky.edu/catti

Louisiana Rural Trauma Services Center [Funding periods: 2008 - 2011 and 2003 - 2007]

The Louisiana Rural Trauma Services Center (LRTSC) provides and enhances urgently needed crisis and mental health services for underserved children, adolescents, and families in rural Louisiana who have experienced traumatic stress as a result of disasters, community and family violence, accidents, loss of family members, and medical conditions. LRTSC works directly with rural hospitals and with school districts to conduct professional trainings that are developmentally sensitive and specific to aspects of crisis response. In schools, LRTSC professionals train staff to recognize the signs of trauma exposure, to differentiate children's responses to crisis situations, and to mitigate the impact of trauma. In 2004, at the request of the Louisiana 24th Judicial District, LRTSC expanded its mission to include work with trauma-exposed children and families who present in court. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, LRTSC has been providing services to children and families evacuated from New Orleans and now residing in rural parishes. Community advisory boards comprising community stakeholders provide input to LRTSC and collaborative partners for the LRTSC including the Louisiana State Department of Education, the Office of Mental Health, and public and community hospitals.

Refunded in 2008, LRTSC will provide and evaluate a continuum of care of trauma-focused trainings, interventions, and services for children and adolescents aged 3?{18, including children of military families, in schools in Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines parishes that were heavily impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Due to the extent of the devastation and the complexity of recovery, training and service models will be adapted, modified for cultural sensitivity, and implemented to meet needs at this time. LRTSC has a strong commitment to providing culturally competent, evidence-based services, collaborating with Network members in meeting the goals of the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative. Services are offered within school and preschool settings with parent, student, and school support. LRTSC will work at consensus building with input from families, school and military personnel, community, service providers, and other stakeholders in modifying trauma-focused practices and services with sensitivity to cultural competence.
Contact: Joy Osofsky
Phone: (504) 568-4450
Email: josofs@lsuhsc.edu
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Project Fleur de lis [Funding period: 2008 - 2011]

Mercy Family Center's Project Fleur-de-lis (PFDL) is an intermediate and long-term school-based mental health service model for children who have been exposed to traumatic events as a result of natural and man-made disasters. PFDL is a collaborative program linking local social service agencies and schools with nationally recognized researchers, program developers, and clinicians to provide state-of-the-art mental health services within the Greater New Orleans area schools and community. PFDL services will be offered to the 25,000+ students in fifty-six participating schools, which encompass a seven parish (county) area, with expectations of serving 750 students a year, with a total of 3,000 served by the end of the grant period. The goals are to: 1) implement school intervention services to children exposed to trauma; 2) establish a mechanism for identification of and services to children with mental health and psychoeducational needs beyond what can be addressed or identified in the school setting; 3) partner with national leaders to provide increased access to mental health care and effective trauma treatments for children in schools and the community; and 4) provide evidence that treatments for traumatized children can be effectively delivered in a three-tiered stepped approach model of care utilizing school-based interventions, classroom-based interventions, and specialized community-based interventions in communities significantly impacted by natural or man-made disasters.
Contact: Douglas W. Walker
Phone: (985) 727-7044
Email: dwalker1@mercyfamilycenter.com
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Greater Portland Children's Trauma Response Initiative (The Children's Initiative) [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

The Community Counseling Center, as lead agency for the Greater Portland Children's Trauma Response Initiative (The Children's Initiative), is developing a community-wide trauma-informed system of care for children who are suffering as a result of witnessing violence in or out of the home and/or experiencing violence outside of the family. As part of a coalition of twenty-four organizations in Greater Portland, Maine, The Children's Initiative's trauma-informed services include outreach, community education, assessment and triage, training, and treatment. Using Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), the Initiative serves children aged 5 to 18 residing in twelve cities and towns in southern Maine. Most children served will be identified by police, school personnel, Family Court, health care workers, family support workers, or child protective services workers.

Goals include: 1) developing an inclusive community-based coalition with active participants from Greater Portland; 2) forming a consensus on TF-CBT; 3) implementing the TF-CBT model throughout the Greater Portland area; 4) developing a systems-wide infrastructure to facilitate the referral, treatment, and coordination of care for children and their families who have experienced and/or witnessed violence; and 5) conducting evaluation performance improvement activities.
Contact: Rebecca Hoffmann Frances
Phone: (207) 874-1030
Email: RHFrances@commcc.org
Web: http://www.commcc.org

Mid-Maine Child Trauma Network [Funding period: 2002 - 2004]

Mid-Maine Child Trauma Network has worked closely with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and private mental health service providers/agencies to strengthen the infrastructure of rural community services to children who have experienced traumatic stress and their families. Network membership is open to organizations that serve traumatized children and their families. Network activities include: 1) identifying community resources, needs, and coordination opportunities among foster care, domestic violence, emergency health care, mental health, and terrorism/disaster response services; 2) piloting triage assessment and outcome evaluation protocols in the above areas; 3) providing training and consultation to increase trauma assessment and intervention resources; and 4) facilitating interagency development and coordination of child trauma services.
Contact: Jean Youde
Phone: (207) 621-2304
Email: jyoude@mainegeneral.org
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Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [Funding period: n/a]

The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), works to create an effective community-based mental health service infrastructure in the U.S. The center's foremost goals are to improve the availability and accessibility of high-quality care for people with or at-risk for mental illnesses and their families. CMHS also supports a portfolio of grant programs that develop and apply knowledge about best community-based practices to reach people at greatest risk: adults with serious mental illnesses and children with serious emotional disturbances. Issues of stigma and consumer empowerment are also on the center's agenda. Furthermore, the center collects and disseminates national mental health services data, designed to help inform future services policy and program decision-making.
Contact: Malcolm Gordon
Phone: (240) 276-1856
Email: mgordon@samhsa.gov
Web: http://www.samhsa.gov

Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

The Family-Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center is developing, implementing, evaluating, and disseminating theoretically sound, family-based interventions for underserved urban and military populations. All interventions apply accepted methods of trauma treatment within a systemic model of family process to support positive outcomes for children and families.

The FITT model embeds the core components of trauma-informed care within a comprehensive framework of service delivery for families. These family treatments and the model are being evaluated in collaboration with NCTSN Community Treatment and Services (CTS) centers and in the VA system with military families. FTT is developing a knowledge bank, reflecting its experience in Baltimore and with its CTS partners, on the effectiveness of these interventions, with comprehensive reports, lessons learned, and findings shared on a continuous basis with the NCTSN. This center represents a unique collaboration among Baltimore's major academic and service institutions including the University of Maryland's Schools of Medicine and Social Work and the Kennedy Krieger Family Center.
Contact: Laurel Kiser
Phone: (410) 706-2490
Email: Lkiser@psych.umaryland.edu
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Kennedy Krieger Family Center - Integrated Trauma Approaches [Funding periods: 2007 - 2010 and 2003 - 2007]

The Kennedy Krieger Family Center (KKFC) is a program of Kennedy Krieger Institute, a Johns Hopkins University-affiliated specialty hospital internationally recognized for improving the lives of children and adolescents with developmental disabilities through patient care, training, research, and special education. Located in an urban community in Baltimore, KKFC has three programs: outpatient mental health, therapeutic foster care, and early Head Start. The KKFC Integrated Trauma Approaches program is being implemented in the outpatient program, a high-volume clinic that provides comprehensive, trauma informed, culturally sensitive mental health evaluation and treatment to children and families who are survivors of simple or complex trauma.
Contact: Elizabeth Thompson
Phone: (443) 923-5918
Email: thompsone@kennedykrieger.org
Web: http://www.kennedykrieger.org/

Uniformed Services University Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress Child and Family Program [Funding period: n/a]

The challenges of military children and families are substantial and require greater understanding, education, and services than they are currently receiving. Some of the most severe experiences that military children face are related to wartime stress: specifically, deployment of military parents to combat, parental injury or illness, or parental death. Little if any data exist in many of these areas. The Uniformed Services University Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (USU CSTS) Child and Family Program is responsible for developing knowledge related to military childhood experiences, developing effective public education materials, and expanding and studying effective intervention strategies, all using a strength-based approach.

Though USU CSTS does not receive funding from SAMHSA, it functions as a Treatment and Service Adaptation Center within the NCTSN. The center serves as a consultant to the Network, acts as a knowledge development and dissemination center, and creates trauma-focused products specific to military families.
Contact: Pat Martinez
Phone: (540) 856-2760
Email: skipat@shentel.net
Web: http://www.centerforthestudyoftraumaticstress.org/home.shtml

Adolescent Traumatic Stress and Substance Abuse Treatment Center [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]

The Adolescent Traumatic Stress and Substance Abuse (ATSSA) program is housed within the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) at Boston University. ATSSA's mission has been to improve the standard of care for adolescents with co-occurring traumatic stress and substance use through the identification and development of treatment and service approaches for this underserved population. An integrated intervention for traumatic stress and substance abuse was developed, piloted, and implemented among several Network sites. The resulting intervention—Trauma Systems Therapy for Adolescent Substance Abuse (TST-SA)—employs a socioecological approach to address emotional regulation and environmental stability needs of youth and families.

In collaboration with NCTSN centers, the ATSSA program has led the development of Understanding the Links between Adolescent Trauma and Substance Abuse: A Toolkit for Providers. The Adolescent Traumatic Stress and Substance Abuse Treatment Center at CARD continues to provide evidence-based treatments for youth and families with a wide range of anxiety disorders. In addition, CARD continues to make significant contributions to the understanding of anxiety disorders, as well as the development, evaluation, and dissemination of effective treatment programs.
Contact: David H. Barlow
Phone: (617) 353-9610
Email: dhbarlow@bu.edu
Web: http://www.bu.edu/anxiety

Children's Hospital Boston Center for Refugee Trauma [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

Children's Hospital Boston has developed the Center for Refugee Trauma, a Treatment and Service Adaptation Center focused on refugee children and families. The center's primary role is helping other Network centers adapt, evaluate, and disseminate effective interventions and services for children with refugee trauma. In addition, the center is building reciprocal partnerships with NCTSN Community Treatment and Services Centers that strengthen the Network, promote innovation, and increase the quality and accessibility of trauma-informed interventions and practices.

Goals include: 1) developing a toolkit to help refugee resettlement agencies, schools, and other service systems to better identify and understand the mental health needs of refugee youth; 2) developing evaluation methodologies and instruments appropriate to refugees; and 3) adapting Trauma Systems Therapy and the Refugee Family Preventive Intervention for a variety of communities/service settings through partnerships with community agencies around the country that are serving refugee youth.
Contact: Glenn Saxe
Phone: (617) 919-4677
Email: glenn.saxe@childrens.harvard.edu
Web:

Latino Child Trauma Stress Initiative (LCTSI) Project [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

Through the Latino Child Trauma Stress Initiative (LCTSI) Project, Latino Health Institute, Inc. (LHI) is improving access to and quality of treatment and intervention services for Latino children and their families living in the Greater Boston area who have been impacted by traumatic events. The program is also focused on working with mental health providers that serve Latinos in Greater Boston and in other areas of Massachusetts to increase their knowledge of evidence-based interventions. The target population has experienced losses, domestic and community violence, disasters, severe and chronic neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and chronic trauma. Using a consensus-building model, LHI works closely with community stakeholders, and the NCTSN centers to enhance its capacity to adapt, implement, and evaluate evidence-based interventions.

To gain a better understanding of the needs of the target population and to implement strategies to address those needs, the project is working with consumers; community providers; trauma experts; and representatives from state agencies and from other service agencies in the fields of child welfare, trauma, and Latino mental health. In addition, LIH is educating and training private and governmental providers on treatment needs of trauma-exposed Latino children, and on effective trauma-informed services and trauma-focused interventions, beginning with Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
Contact: Ruben Montano- Lopez
Phone: 617-350-6900 x156
Email: ruben.montano@lhi.org
Web:

National Collaborative for Homeless Children and Trauma [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]

The National Collaborative for Homeless Children and Trauma was formed by the National Center on Family Homelessness in partnership with the Trauma Center and the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies. In conjunction with three community-based domestic violence and homeless agencies, the collaborative provides trauma-related services to homeless children and their families, and builds on local work to increase knowledge within NCTSN and beyond about the range of trauma experienced by homeless children and their parents (e.g., physical and sexual assault, witnessing violence, abrupt separation). The collaborative also helps develop effective cross-system partnerships that meet survivors' needs; creates effective services in Boston area shelters; and advocates locally and nationally to improve society's response to homeless families.
Contact: Phoebe Soares
Phone: (617) 964-3834 x12
Email: phoebe.soares@familyhomelessness.org
Web: http://www.familyhomelessness.org

The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, in collaboration with the Child Trauma Recovery Foundation, utilized the Trauma Center's extensive expertise and leadership as an original member of NCTSN to establish the New England Trauma Services Network (NETSN). The network helps individuals, families, and communities impacted by trauma and adversity reestablish a sense of safety and predictability in the world by providing them with state-of-the-art therapeutic care as they reclaim, rebuild, and renew their lives. The NETSN has engaged in widespread dissemination, adaptation, and evaluation of sustainable, evidence-based services for children and families impacted by complex trauma as well as by school and community violence. Training and services are provided to high-need, underresourced areas including western and southern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and southern Maine. Building consensus with community partners, with input from stakeholders and consumers, NETSN also identifies and implements evidence-based practices adapted for cultural relevance within each venue.
Contact: Joseph Spinazzola
Phone: (617) 232-130 x215
Email: spinazzola@traumacenter.org
Web: http://www.traumacenter.org

Children's Trauma Assessment Center, Western Michigan University [Funding periods: 2008 - 2011 and 2003-2007 ]

The Southwest Michigan Children's Trauma Assessment Center (CTAC) serves traumatized children through comprehensive assessments and subsequent interventions. To address the potential combined harmful effects of trauma and prenatal alcohol exposure, CTAC offers a unique neurodevelopmental trauma assessment for children aged birth to 15 that includes fetal alcohol assessment and diagnosis. Following the assessment, CTAC offers family meetings to discuss assessment results, pharmacological consultations, in-home interventions, participation in school meetings, and court testimony. Through its membership in the NCTSN, CTAC builds on its current services by developing an inclusive school intervention protocol that maximizes learning potential and improves social functioning for traumatized children; provides extensive training to strengthen child-responsive systems of care for children; and develops an alexithymia (deficit in emotional cognition) instrument for children. Service systems that are impacted include mental health and educational services, residential treatment facilities, and child welfare agencies.

Refunded in 2008, the Southwest Michigan Children's Trauma Assessment Center will implement the Trauma Informed Child Welfare Systems Project into existing Michigan county systems and two Native American tribal courts. The project aims to deliver trauma-informed child welfare practices that are culturally competent, evidence-supported, evidence-based, and responsive to the needs of traumatized children. This project is the first to design a collaborative implementation of the trauma-informed Child Welfare Curriculum, developed in collaboration with the NCTSN Accelerated Child Welfare committee, and Essential Elements. Participants will include child welfare workers, judges/referees, mental health personnel, and caregivers (biological and resource parents). Also addressed will be the unique needs of children entering the child welfare system whose parents have served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The project will target change at three levels—system change, service delivery, and child well-being—through a series of collaborative trainings and service implementation.
Contact: James Henry
Phone: (269) 387-3175
Email: james.henry@wmich.edu
Web: http://www.wmich.edu/traumacenter/

Project Return Home [Funding period: 2008 - 2011]

Project Return Home will expand the reach and impact of Bethany Christian Services' existing child trauma center to serve urban Grand Rapids and the metropolitan Kent County area of West Central Michigan. The target population is traumatized children aged 3-18 who have been removed from their homes due to child abuse, neglect, or maltreatment, and who live in foster care or other out-of-home placement. Trauma treatment will also be delivered to their parents, most of whom struggle with their own unresolved sources of childhood trauma. The project will adapt/replicate an empirically based trauma-informed treatment model to help foster children achieve four measurable outcomes: 1) reduce behavioral problems extending from childhood trauma; 2) increase the rate and timeliness of child-family reunification; 3) reduce the number of disrupted foster placements; and 4) reduce the rates of recidivism for repeat out-of-home placement of children.

Bethany will partner with the Child and Adolescent Traumatic Stress Center of Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, to replicate the Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) model for foster children, and will draw on the resources of its own Child and Family Traumatic Stress Center that has successfully implemented two other U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-funded clinical models for treating traumatized adopted youth and youth aging out of the foster care system.
Contact: Mark Peterson
Phone: (616) 224-7478
Email: mpeterson@bethany.org
Web:

Ambit Network, University of Minnesota [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The Ambit Network is a community-university partnership that works to raise the standard of care for traumatized minority, homeless, and formerly homeless children by embedding evidence-based treatment models into the community system of care. The Ambit Network's partner agencies—mental health providers, social service providers, supportive housing agencies, schools, police, child service systems, and University of Minnesota researchers—collectively reach more than 10,000 traumatized children annually: predominantly homeless and formerly homeless inner-city African American, Native American, Latino, and war-surviving refugee/immigrant children and families. The Ambit Network's work includes 1) increasing access to trauma-informed services through acute police/mental health intervention, screening, and referral of traumatized children in the target community; and 2) and working with the NCTSN to expand its reach throughout Minnesota and the upper Midwest.
Contact: Abigail Gewirtz
Phone: (612) 624-1475
Email: agewirtz@umn.edu
Web: http://www.ambitnetwork.org

Trauma Informed Disaster and Evidence-Based Services (TIDES) [Funding period: 2008 - 2011]

Trauma Informed Disaster and Evidence-Based Services (TIDES) will develop proficiency in evidence-based trauma practices and will treat Katrina survivors by centrally organizing staff to be prepared for inevitable hurricanes. The target population is children of military personnel living on the two military bases on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The project will address other therapy needs specific to this population including incorporating Child Parent Conjoint-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT) and Trauma Assessment Pathways (TAP) for assessing and addressing already traumatized populations, and Psychological First Aid (PFA) for preparing for future disasters within their site. Clinicians will educate the community on trauma and formally centralize crisis response for future events. TIDES staff will continue training to become trauma-based experts, and will sustain gains made in TF-CBT by continuing to provide therapy to a traumatized region while working with TF-CBT co-developer Esther Deblinger to modify the therapy to include trauma specific to military families. Four TIDES therapists currently trained in TF-CBT will be developed as experts for the region.
Contact: Shelley S. Foreman
Phone: (228) 865-1712
Email: shelleyforeman@hotmail.com
Web:

Trauma Recovery for Youth - Catholic Charities, Inc. [Funding periods: 2007 - 2010 and 2003 - 2007]

Trauma Recovery for Youth (TRY) was established by Catholic Charities and a constellation of Mississippi state government and nonprofit organizations to serve a wide range of primarily rural and geographically isolated child trauma survivors. Based on the lessons learned through participation in a Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) Learning Collaborative in its first funding period, TRY implemented a Gulf Coast TF-CBT Learning Collaborative to build capacity in agencies to treat children and families affected by trauma after the region's devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

In the current funding period, TRY is developing a statewide trauma-informed system of care to meet the needs of children and families throughout Mississippi. Evidence-based practices are disseminated to public mental health clinicians via the Learning Collaborative model, with an emphasis on systems serving those least likely to have access to quality mental health care. TRY is collaborating with NCTSN experts to provide at least four TF-CBT Learning Collaboratives, three Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) Learning Collaboratives, and three Learning Collaboratives on the treatment of physically abused children. TRY is also working on providing an assessment protocol, training, and consultation to at least 200 clinicians in Mississippi, and on establishing a training unit within Catholic Charities to ensure that further dissemination of these interventions is a part of Mississippi's continuum of care.
Contact: Kelly Wilson
Phone: (601) 326-3745
Email: kelly.wilson@catholiccharitiesjackson.org
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Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis [Funding period: 2002 - 2004]

The Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis (CASGSL) collaborated with the Center for Trauma Recovery of the University of Missouri-St. Louis to develop a program for providing assessment and therapy free of charge for children and adolescents who have experienced sexual and physical abuse, assault, accidents, homicide, domestic violence, and community violence. Services include therapy (individual, family, and group), forensic interviews, medical exams, abuse-prevention education, research, consultation, and professional education and training programs.
Contact: Jerry Dunn
Phone: (314) 516-6798
Email: dunnjer@umsl.edu
Web: http://www.stlouiscac.org/

Kansas City Metropolitan Child Traumatic Stress Program [Funding period: 2001 - 2004]

The Kansas City Metropolitan Child Traumatic Stress Program was initially sponsored by the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The program is a partnership between a multiservice children's agency called The Children's Place, and a large community collaborative of family-serving organizations in the metro-Kansas City area. Goals include promoting identification, assessment, and treatment for traumatized children and adolescents in the Kansas City area; increasing public awareness of and promoting the utilization of trauma treatments and services to underserved populations including those in specialty service settings; and emphasizing policy and advocacy at the local and state levels.
Contact: Alan Murray
Phone: (816) 363-1898
Email: murraya@tcpkc.org
Web: http://www.tcpkc.org

The National Native Children's Trauma Center [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

Montana Center for the Investigation and Treatment of Childhood Trauma [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]
The Montana Center for the Investigation and Treatment of Childhood Trauma, established by the University of Montana, provided crisis response, trauma intervention, and PTSD management to Native American children, chiefly through working in schools. In partnership with expert researchers, tribal leaders, and school clinicians, the Montana Center adapted the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Children in Schools (CBITS) intervention model to be culturally responsive to the Native American children on the Rocky Boy reservation in Montana, and then spread this intervention to other reservations.

Refunded in 2007 as a Trauma Services Adaptation center, the Montana Center has expanded to become the National Native Children's Trauma Center (NNCTC). It will serve as a national leader in the dissemination and evaluation of culturally adapted, evidence-based trauma treatment for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children, particularly in reservation schools. Types of trauma to be addressed include exposure to violence, natural disasters, accidents, family violence, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, child maltreatment, bullying, and symptoms of traumatic loss and grief. NNCTC staff will adapt and disseminate six interventions that focus on child traumatic stress, traumatic grief, psychological first aid, suicide prevention, and community policing. Staff are also adapting and disseminating six promising treatments, three of which have already been used successfully with AI/AN children and youth. Plans include implementing programs on nineteen reservations in six states.
Contact: Rick Van Den Pol
Phone: (406) 243-6756
Email: Rick.vandenPol@mso.umt.edu
Web: http://www.dersum.org/projects.aspx?projectID=63&id=304

New Hampshire Project for Adolescent Trauma Treatment [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The New Hampshire Project for Adolescent Trauma Treatment (PATT) evaluates and implements best practices for trauma-exposed severely emotionally disturbed adolescents served by New Hampshire's community mental health system. PATT is the product of multiple collaborations among the Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center, West Central Behavioral Health, and the New Hampshire Bureau of Behavioral Health. The largely rural, economically disadvantaged adolescents served by these agencies suffer high rates of trauma exposure and commensurate rates of posttraumatic sequelae. Evidence suggests that community agencies and providers have typically lacked the information and skills to provide best-practice adolescent trauma services. PATT educates, trains, and supervises community mental health child and family providers; provides outreach to traumatized adolescents and their families; and fosters the implementation of best practices for trauma treatment across the New Hampshire mental health system.

The project piloted Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) through West Central Behavioral Health, which serves 500 to 600 adolescents each year, 95 percent of whom are classified with serious emotional disturbance. The goal is to create a sustainable model for nine other leading New Hampshire community mental health centers.
Contact: Kay Jankowski
Phone: (603) 653-0740
Email: Kay.Jankowski@Dartmouth.edu
Web: http://dms.dartmouth.edu/prc/trauma/

International Institute of New Jersey - Cultural Adjustment and Trauma Services [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

Since 1918, the International Institute of New Jersey has been the gateway of resettlement for hundreds of thousands of immigrants arriving in America. Low-cost and confidential, all programs aim to accelerate each new immigrant's journey to self-sufficiency. The International Institute of New Jersey Cultural Adjustment and Trauma Services program promotes the well-being of refugee and immigrant children and their families in northern New Jersey through culturally and linguistically accessible holistic services designed to mitigate the effects of trauma associated with the refugee and immigrant experience and acculturation in resettlement. Intervention is offered at multiple levels to children and their families in their homes, schools, and communities to encourage individual and systemic understanding of the cultural and psychosocial challenges facing refugee children and families, and to foster pathways to healing and adaptation.
Contact: Ruth Campbell
Phone: (201) 653-3888 x135
Email: rcampbell@iinj.org
Web: http://www.iinj.org

New Jersey CARES Institute Center for Children's Support [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]

The New Jersey CARES Institute Center for Children's Support is a nationally recognized facility for its leadership in the development of evidence-based services for children who have suffered child abuse. Through this initiative, the institute disseminates Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), enhances public and professional efforts toward early identification and protection of potential abuse victims, and improves children's access to evidence-based and developmentally and culturally sensitive treatment services. Through collaboration with local constituencies and NCTSN members, the institute helps increase awareness of, identify obstacles to, and improve access to effective mental health services for children who have suffered abuse or other violent crime. New Jersey CARES has also developed and tested an intervention for physical abuse. In addition, the institute provides ongoing training and consultation on TF-CBT and physical abuse to mental health staff at New Jersey's three other Child Abuse Diagnostic and Treatment Centers and to centers associated with the NCTSN.
Contact: Esther Deblinger
Phone: (856) 566-7036
Email: deblines@umdnj.edu
Web: http://som.umdnj.edu/centers/cares/

Adolescent Trauma Treatment Development Center, North Shore University Hospital [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

North Shore University Hospital's Adolescent Trauma Treatment Development Center (ATTDC) helps alleviate the impact of traumatic stress on adolescents. The center develops, adapts, and disseminates Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS), its primary group intervention method for adolescents. ATTDC also created an Adolescent Traumatic Stress Resource Center for professionals, teens, and families, which includes the development of web-based resources for these audiences. An additional priority for ATTDC is collaborating with Network members to create a treatment model based on Psychological First Aid for the state health system to better respond to the mental health needs of children and families after disasters or terrorist attacks.
Contact: Sandra Kaplan
Phone: (516) 562-3240
Email: sandrak@nshs.edu
Web:

Center for Trauma Program Innovation, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2002 - 2004]

The Center for Trauma Program Innovation at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services (JBFCS) develops, improves, and disseminates trauma-focused assessment and treatment services for traumatized children and adults, with special emphasis on those from low-income and racially diverse neighborhoods who have been exposed to interpersonal and community violence, and present with both acute and chronic traumatic stress consequences.

The center builds the evidence base for promising treatments for trauma in collaboration with other NCTSN member sites, as well as with JBFCS programs. It works to build the capacity of organizations to provide best practices in assessing and treating trauma, and to field-test trauma services. Working with the New York City mental health, child welfare, and educational systems, the center enhances the ability of professionals within these systems to provide trauma-informed services to the city's children; and reaches out to businesses and community organizations to provide guidance on workplace psychological preparedness, active coping, and crisis intervention.
Contact: Christina Grosso
Phone: (212) 632-4698
Email: cgrosso@jbfcs.org
Web: http://www.jbfcs.org

Children's Trauma Institute Treatment & Service Adaptation Center [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

The Children's Trauma Institute (CTI), a collaboration between the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) and the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS), operates an NCTSN Treatment and Service Adaptation (TSA) Center that is dedicated to developing, adapting, evaluating, and disseminating evidence-based trauma-informed interventions for use with child welfare populations. The CTI currently has several projects—currently in various stages of implementation—that address opportunities at different key points in the child welfare system.

In the area of preventive services, the institute is working to establish a stakeholder learning community in the neighborhood of East Harlem that will design, implement, and evaluate an evidence-based trauma-informed intervention for families receiving preventive services in which the mother has a history of trauma exposure and significant posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology. This project will adapt the STAIR (Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation) intervention model to improve parenting capacity and to prevent maltreatment and removal of children from their families.

The CTI's foster care project includes two components: an early intervention with children who have just been removed from their families (designed to assist the children in managing the trauma associated with removal), and an intervention that supports children and foster care parents in adapting successfully to the early phase of placement in foster care. This project will be in collaboration with the Children's Center in Manhattan.

Finally, the institute will work with other NCTSN Centers to develop and disseminate resiliency interventions for child protective services workers. These interventions were pilot-tested in Manhattan, and measure job satisfaction, burnout, optimism, resilience, reactivity to stressful events, and staff support.
Contact: Claude Chemtob
Phone: (212) 659-8970
Email: claude.chemtob@mssm.edu
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Community PARTNERS (Prevention of Adverse Reactions to Negative Events and Related Stress) [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

Community PARTNERS (Prevention of Adverse Reactions to Negative Events and Related Stress) at St. John's University developed and sustains a community-wide network of providers implementing trauma-informed, evidence-based services. Primary care personnel provide these services to underserved, inner-city traumatized children throughout Queens and eastern Brooklyn, New York. Each year, more than 29,000 children are screened and more than 1,500 abused and/or bereaved children receive assessment and treatment services. The majority of these children are Latino, African American, Caribbean American, or Asian.

Community PARTNERS worked with members of the local community and NCTSN to 1) adapt screening, assessment, and treatment procedures and components to be culturally informed and language accessible; 2) train pediatrics staff and community providers to screen and refer children for child sexual abuse (CSA), child physical abuse (CPA), and traumatic bereavement (TB); 3) train mental health staff to provide evidence-based, culturally informed assessments and treatment of children exposed to CSA, CPA, and TB; 4) identify leadership staff of the mental health clinics who then inform, promote, and sustain the program; and 5) extend the training on and implementation of trauma-informed, evidence-based services beyond Community PARTNERS into the Queens and eastern Brooklyn communities.

In 2007, the program expanded to include a second site at the Child Abuse Program at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD) in Norfolk, Virginia. The CHKD site is implementing the project with military families. This collaboration allows the NCTSN to gain information on working with traumatized children from military families, and provides the opportunity for creating collaborations among trauma providers and military service providers (e.g., Family Advocacy Program, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Naval Criminal Investigative Services). Finally, given the mobile nature of military family life, the collaboration will help provide additional information on methods of adapting the evidence-based services to improve access among military children (e.g., cross-site trainings or improved continuity of care among service providers at different commands).
Contact: Carole L. Campbell
Phone: (718) 990-2367
Email: campbec1@stjohns.edu
Web: http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/centers/psychology/partners

Parsons Child and Family Center [Funding period: 2002 - 2004]

Parsons Child and Family Center provides treatment services to children and adolescents in northeastern New York State. The Parsons treatment continuum includes residential and foster care, outreach to schools and day care centers, and mental health and prevention services for children who have been physically and sexually abused and/or exposed to domestic and community violence. The center used its participation in NCTSN to disseminate information about best-practices assessments and treatments of traumatized children and adolescents to its extensive collaborative network, as well as to improve the treatment provided at Parsons's own treatment programs.
Contact: Richard Kagan
Phone: (518) 426-2600
Email: kaganr@parsonscenter.org
Web: http://www.parsonscenter.org

Safe Horizon's Child Trauma Care Initiative [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

Safe Horizon's Center for Child Trauma Intervention (CCTI) provides treatment and services in New York City to traumatized children and adolescents up to 21 years of age. CCTI creates agency-wide and citywide opportunities to enhance the capacity for identification and response to child trauma at every level of contact—including crisis education and support, and mental health treatment—no matter how emergent or brief the trauma. The target population of Safe Horizon CCTI includes youth who have developed significant emotional or behavioral difficulties following exposure to a traumatic life event such as physical and sexual abuse, domestic and community violence, stalking, homicide, and terrorist attacks. Services are provided in a variety of settings including schools and homeless shelters. Safe Horizon CCTI adapts and implements evidence-based engagement and treatment models such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS).
Contact: Carrie Epstein
Phone: (347) 382-8110
Email: cepstein@safehorizon.org
Web: http://www.safehorizon.org

Center for Child and Family Health - NC [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]

The Center for Child and Family Health (CCFH) is a consortium comprising Child and Parent Support Services (a prevention-focused nonprofit), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina Central University. CCFH also collaborates with the Department of Social Services, law enforcement, public schools, juvenile justice, and private medical and mental health providers to support children and families affected by maltreatment and trauma through a coordinated and integrated system of model clinical service, professional education, research, and policy initiatives. The center applies a family- and child development perspective to risk and protective factors related to maltreatment and trauma.

In addition, CCFH provides direct service, education, and research in the areas of primary and secondary child abuse prevention; improvement of assessment and standards of care; and evidence-based practice. Providing coordinated services to nearly 3,500 children and their family members each year, the center has received national recognition for its effective interventions and integration of services with community providers. Through research and education, CCFH helps health professionals in other regions establish similar innovative community-based services, and evaluates interventions designed to reduce family and community rates of maltreatment and related adverse events.
Contact: Robert Murphy
Phone: (919) 419-3474
Email: robert.murphy@duke.edu
Web:

National Center for Child Traumatic Stress - Duke [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

The UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and the Duke University School of Medicine jointly host the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS), leading the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) in transforming treatment and services to meet the needs of traumatized children and their families across the United States. Through extensive expertise, resources, organizational experience, and vision, the NCCTS guides and supports the NCTSN. The NCCTS also provides strong technical assistance to support Network data collection, cross-site collaborative activities, product development and dissemination, training, adoption and adaptation of interventions, communications, policy analysis and initiatives, and program evaluation.
Contact: Mary Mount
Phone: (919) 682-1552 x246
Email: mary.mount@duke.edu
Web: http://www.nctsn.org

Cullen Center for Children, Adolescents, and Families [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

The Cullen Center for Children, Adolescents, and Families provides field-tested and evidence-based, multisensory, trauma-focused therapies to help traumatized youth and their families reduce trauma symptoms, maximize their daily functioning, and restore their abilities to develop and enjoy healthy interpersonal relationships. Serving northwest Ohio, the center offers clinic-based services for youth and families exposed to any type of trauma including community violence, child abuse, traumatic loss, serious illness and injuries, and witnessing domestic violence. Through an outreach program, the center serves youth in the juvenile justice system who have been exposed to trauma and charged with domestic violence. An additional outreach program, funded through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, provides assessment and trauma-focused treatment to families with infants and young children who are exposed to domestic violence. Through its educational, advocacy, and abuse-prevention work, the center helps develop the community's capacity to respond to the needs of children and families exposed to trauma.

Consumers, families, and survivors work in partnership with the center—offering their input at all phases of planning, program development, service provision, evaluation, and community advocacy. Training, support, and other resources are shared with clinical professionals nationwide, so that youth and families exposed to trauma can access evidence-based, trauma-focused services locally, across Ohio, and in other regions of the United States.
Contact: Monique Marrow
Phone: (419) 291-8438
Email: monique.marrow@promedica.org
Web:

Transforming Care for Traumatized Youth in Child Welfare [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

The Children Who Witness Violence Program [Funding period: 2002 - 2004]

The Children Who Witness Violence Program and the Transforming Care for Traumatized Youth in Child Welfare program are both projects of Mental Health Services for Homeless Persons, Inc. (MHS) in Cleveland, Ohio. The Children Who Witness Violence Program provides immediate, 24-hour trauma-response services to children and families who have been referred by police officers from participating communities in the greater Cleveland area. Police officers refer families who are involved in domestic or community violence. A crisis intervention specialist is assigned to the family, makes contact with them within an hour or two, and schedules an initial visit to stabilize the situation and provide immediate trauma intervention. Children are referred to therapy if needed.

Transforming Care for Traumatized Children is a collaborative project between MHS and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) of Cuyahoga County. MHS staff is conducting assessments for 600 children annually aged 4 to 18 believed to be at risk for traumatic stress disorders and is providing evidence-based interventions for 400 of the children. MHS is also training DCFS staff and supervisors to help them integrate trauma-informed practices into their work.
Contact: Rosemary Creeden
Phone: (216) 274-3303
Email: Rosemary@mhs-inc.org
Web:

Trauma Treatment Replication Center [Funding period: 2002 - 2004]

The Trauma Treatment Replication Center is part of the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children, a child abuse evaluation, treatment, and research center located in Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati. The center is focused on acquiring expertise in the replication of child treatment models in community settings. Its goal is to transfer evidence-based child and adolescent trauma treatments from their developers to community-level providers.
Contact: Lisa Connelly
Phone: (513) 636-7001
Email: Lisa.Connelly@cchmc.org
Web: http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/TTTC

Indian Country Child Trauma Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]

Established in 2003 at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the Indian Country Child Trauma Center (ICCTC) develops culturally appropriate interventions to improve treatment and services for children and adolescents in Indian Country who have experienced traumatic events. The ICCTC develops trauma-related treatment protocols based on current evidence-based models that have been adapted for use with Native populations; provides training in the protocols and disseminates the developed materials throughout Indian Country; and provides treatment providers with resources to intervene with Native children and their families exposed to various types of trauma. The center uses three evidence-based treatment protocols to serve its clients: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Treatment for Children with Sexual Behavior Problems (CSBP), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
Contact: Janie Braden
Phone: (405) 271-8858
Email: janie-braden@ouhsc.edu
Web: http://www.icctc.org

Oklahoma Child Traumatic Stress Treatment Collaborative [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]

The Oklahoma Child Traumatic Stress Treatment Collaborative (OCTSTC) is a synergistic private/public partnership that serves child and adolescent trauma victims by improving the quality, effectiveness, provision, and availability of therapeutic services delivered to all children and adolescents within the public/private Oklahoma mental health services delivery system who have been exposed to trauma. Three organizations participate in the collaborative: Family & Children's Services offers general and child sexual abuse outpatient treatment through its Community Mental Health Center and Community Outreach Psychiatric Emergency Services (COPES) for Kids. The Oklahoma Youth Center—the state's only public psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents—is committed, through its involvement in the collaborative, to training its entire staff in best-practice interactions and interventions with child and adolescent trauma victims. Domestic Violence Intervention Services provides comprehensive domestic violence services—including outpatient, shelter, and transitional living programs—victimized women and their children.
Contact: Roy Van Tassell
Phone: (918) 587-9471
Email: rvantassell@fcsok.org
Web:

University of Oklahoma Terrorism and Disaster Center [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The University of Oklahoma Terrorism and Disaster Center (TDC) works to improve the standard of care and access to culturally proficient mental health services for children and families affected by mass trauma resulting from terrorism and disasters. The center also provides leadership in developing, promoting, and disseminating culturally informed disaster mental health services, interventions, and resources for children and families, schools, and communities; and serves as a national resource for training, consultation, and technical assistance related to mass trauma.

Taking a leadership role within and beyond the NCTSN, the TDC adapts and evaluates promising evidence-informed interventions, resilience building training, screening and intervention, and enhanced services. In conjunction with the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and the National Center for PTSD, TDC has developed Psychological First Aid (PFA), a modularized intervention, appropriate for administration by mental health clinicians. TDC is adapting this intervention for use by first responders, disaster relief workers, schools, faith-based organizations, and other service systems to address the initial distress associated with disasters and to foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning. TDC works with schools; primary care and public health agencies; child care and preschool programs; faith-based, cultural, and neighborhood programs; and social welfare and child protection services to adapt, implement, evaluate, and disseminate the three interventions.
Contact: Brian Houston
Phone: (405) 271-5121
Email: brian-houston@ouhsc.edu
Web: http://tdc.ouhsc.edu

Children's Relief Nursery Child Trauma Center [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The Children's Relief Nursery (CRN) Child Trauma Center, based on the nationally successful relief nursery model designed to stop child abuse, provides comprehensive trauma-informed treatment to abused children aged birth to 3 and their families. Drawing on research from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, CRN's model is characterized by early intervention, provision of multiple services, center-based preschools, home visitation, respite care, parent support, and counseling. CRN services work to: 1) ameliorate the effects of trauma on young children in terms of children's affect, behavior, and self-regulation; 2) reverse developmental delays resulting from child abuse and neglect; 3) prepare fragile children for successful entry into preschool; and 4) enhance parenting skills and capacity through parent education, parent-child relationship building, coaching, role modeling, and stress reduction.
Contact: Chris Otis
Phone: (503) 595-4500
Email: chrisotis@crn4kids.org
Web: http://www.crn4kids.org

Willamette Family ITS-GIRLS Program [ Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The Willamette Family Integrated Treatment Services-Girls (ITS-GIRLS) Program integrates a responsive program of gender-sensitive trauma services into currently offered substance abuse treatment services for adolescent girls in Oregon's Lane County, surrounding rural communities, and nearby Indian reservations. Willamette Family offers a full continuum of treatment services—from residential to outpatient to aftercare—and provides clients and their families with long-term connections to caring staff and the healing principles of gender-specific recovery. The ITS-GIRLS Program, designed for girls aged 12 to 18, is based on a holistic philosophy of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

Treatment for complex and acute trauma using the evidence-based model Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) occurs in a safe environment and within the context of an already-successful program that includes schooling, socialization, and health care. Girls who are pregnant or who have children can access treatment services along with prenatal care, parent training, a child development center, and other wraparound services.
Contact: Lucy Zammarelli
Phone: (541) 343-2993
Email: lucy@wfts.org
Web: http://www.wfts.org

Allegheny General Hospital Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents [Funding periods: 2005 - 2008 and 2001 - 2004]

The Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents treats children experiencing interpersonal violence, multiply traumatized children, and traumatically bereaved children including those impacted by disasters or military related trauma. The center employs evidence-based models including: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Abuse-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Traumatic Grief (TG-CBT). In collaboration with NCTSN and others, AGH develops, tests, adapts, disseminates, and implements these and other evidence-supported treatments for traumatized children, adolescents, and families. AGH markets and tests these models; develops educational materials for parents and professionals; conducts train-the-trainer programs; and participates as faculty in NCTSN Learning Collaboratives. Working collaboratively across service systems, AGH provides services in outpatient, inpatient, and community-based settings; schools; homes; juvenile justice facilities; foster homes and group homes; and with child protective services agencies. AGH has collaborated with the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina to produce TF-CBT Web.
Contact: Judith Cohen
Phone: (412) 330-4321
Email: JCohen1@wpahs.org
Web: http://www.Pittsburghchildtrauma.org

Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress [Funding periods: 2007 - 2010 and 2002 - 2004]

The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (CPTS) addresses medical trauma in the lives of children and their families. The objective is to reduce medical traumatic stress by promoting trauma-informed health care, integrating practical evidence-based tools into pediatric medical care, and ensuring that health care providers are knowledgeable and skilled in this area. Medical traumatic stress includes the psychological and physiological responses of children and their families to pain, injury, illness, medical procedures, and invasive or frightening treatment experiences. CPTS works collaboratively within the NCTSN and via partnerships with national health care organizations.

CPTS serves as a resource to NCTSN partners developing tools or protocols about other types of child trauma for health care providers or health care settings. The work with the NCTSN builds on cutting-edge clinical research regarding traumatic stress in ill and injured children that is conducted by the CPTS team at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and on the strong connections with key health care provider constituencies.
Contact: Stephanie Schneider
Phone: (267) 426-5205
Email: schneiders1@email.chop.edu
Web: http://www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=77740

Children's Crisis Treatment Center [Funding period: 2002 - 2004]

The Children's Crisis Treatment Center (CcTC) provides high-quality, comprehensive mental health services to Philadelphia's neediest children and families. The center assists children in reaching their full potential within their homes, schools, and communities. The services—tailored to meet the needs of each child and provided in a culturally sensitive environment—address the effects of abuse, neglect, trauma, and other challenges to early childhood development. CcTC offers an array of center- and community-based programs/services including a Preschool Partial Hospitalization Program, Trauma Assistance Program, Sexual Trauma Treatment Program, West African Refugee Assistance Program (Project Tamaa), Outpatient Program, Filial Therapy Program, Behavioral Health and Rehabilitation Services, School-Based Behavioral Health Services, Intensive Case Management, Emotional Support Classrooms, and a Summer Therapeutic Enrichment Program.
Contact: Anne Holland
Phone: (215) 496-0707 x1427
Email: anne.holland@cctckids.org
Web: http://www.cctckids.com

National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, Medical University of South Carolina [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]

The National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) is a division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. Through its Family and Child Program, NCVC provides evidence-based mental health services to abused and traumatized children and their families. The center also conducts considerable scientific research on the impact of various forms of victimization and trauma on children and adolescents, and provides intensive training on trauma treatment approaches to interns and fellows in psychiatry and psychology.

NCVC, in partnership with the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center, disseminates its child abuse school liaison program and has established a web-based training program for licensed mental health professionals on Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). The center's videotape of protocols for adolescents undergoing forensic exams following rape is being adapted for use with younger children and victims of chronic sexual abuse.
Contact: Benjamin Saunders
Phone: (843) 792-2945
Email: saunders@musc.edu
Web: http://www.musc.edu/cvc/

Oyate Ta Woakipa Etan Woasniye (Healing From the People's Trauma) [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

Oyate Ta Woakipa Etan Woasniye (Healing From the People's Trauma) is a program of Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc. (The Children First, Inc.), a nonprofit corporation chartered by the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The agency is located in the community of Porcupine in the heart of the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc. promotes the rebirth of the Lakota lifeways and laws through education, healing, and collaboration. The program's Community Treatment and Services Center provides effective interventions for children and youth aged 3 to 18 who have experienced trauma. Each year the program serves thirty to fifty children and their families, many of whom are survivors of complex trauma. Through consultation with the NCTSN Treatment and Service Adaptation (TSA) Centers, Oyate Ta Woakipa Etan Woasniye identifies and adapts appropriate evidence-based practices to serve its clientele.
Contact: Eileen H. Iron Cloud
Phone: (605) 455-1226
Email: eicloud@rap.midco.net
Web: http://www.wakanyeja.org

Trauma Intervention Center for Children & Adolescents [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]

The Trauma Intervention Center for Children & Adolescents (TICCA) is a partnership between Family & Children's Service and the Nashville Child Advocacy Center, two agencies with expertise in responding to traumatized children. TICCA provides expanded services–including 24-hour crisis response; individual, family, and group therapy; and advocacy—to children and adolescents aged birth to 18 who have been exposed to traumatic events. Through collaborations with the Davidson County Department of Children's Services, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, and the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, the center increases early identification of, expands access to, and improves effective intervention for highly vulnerable, traumatized children.

In addition, TICCA: 1) provides trauma-informed clinical service to traumatized children through child protective and foster care agencies, police domestic violence intervention programs, and public schools; 2) reduces barriers to service by providing training, consultation, and response to secondary trauma for the service providers and other key personnel in these venues; 3) increases local professional and community knowledge about trauma and its impact on children and adolescents; 4) evaluates and improves accessibility to and effectiveness of service providers; and 5) contributes to the body of knowledge on childhood traumatic stress by participating in and collaborating with NCTSN and its members.
Contact: Adrienne Ewing-Roush
Phone: (615) 327-0833 x103
Email: adrienne.ewingroush@fcsnashville.org
Web:

Aliviane Community Treatment and Services Center [Funding period: 2007 - 2010]

The Aliviane Community Treatment and Services (CTS) Center in El Paso, Texas, collaborates intensively with NCTSN in project activities. At the local level, Aliviane is guided by a steering committee, a subcommittee of youth serving organizations, and a client advisory board. Aliviane also works with community and national partners to create a trauma-informed community and an array of research-based services and activities. The goals are to increase children's safety, relieve symptoms resulting from exposure to complex trauma, improve social competence and emotion management, alter developmental trajectories in a healthy direction, and foster healthy primary attachment relationships. To accomplish these goals the center is providing training to the staff, other programs, and the community in how to better respond to traumatized children. Incorporating and embedding research-based best practices in the treatment services Aliviane provides to children will remain an ongoing and sustainable part of the center's programming for children.

The target population is 150 children and 100 adolescents exposed to complex trauma including emotional abuse, severe neglect, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and witnessing family or community violence. The clinical treatment approaches and trauma-informed service approaches used include Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
Contact: Dante Jimenez
Phone: 915-782-4023
Email: djimenez@aliviane.org
Web:

Border Traumatic Stress Response (Border TSR), Serving Children and Adolescents in Need (S.C.A.N.) [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

Border Traumatic Stress Response (Border TSR), Serving Children and Adolescents in Need (S.C.A.N.) works to improve and expand the service delivery system in Webb County, Texas, for children and adolescents aged 2 to 18 who have experienced any type of traumatic event. S.C.A.N. is a community-based, nonprofit organization with more than more than twenty years of experience providing services to children and adolescents and their families. S.C.A.N.'s trauma-informed system allows children and adolescents to have immediate access to a wide array of trauma-informed services and treatment, tailored to their individual needs. Webb County is located along the Texas–Mexico border, and most of the children served are first-generation Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants who are bilingual or primarily Spanish-speaking.

Working with other NCTSN members, the project developed a best-practice treatment strategy into a comprehensive trauma-informed system of care responsive to this community. In addition, SCAN provides training to coalition members, consumers, and community stakeholders about the needs of the adolescent and child trauma survivors and their families living along the Texas–Mexico border.
Contact: Luis E. Flores
Phone: (956) 724-3177
Email: luis@scan-inc.org
Web: http://www.scan-inc.org

DePelchin Children's Center Child Traumatic Stress Program [Funding periods: 2008 - 2011 and 2003 - 2007]

The DePelchin Children's Center Child Traumatic Stress Program delivers screening, assessment, case management, and mental health services to traumatized children residing in four southeast counties in Texas. Services are provided through DePelchin's foster care, adoption/postadoption, residential treatment, outpatient mental health counseling, and home-based therapy programs. DePelchin focuses on children who are the victims of complex trauma or who suffer from trauma related to traumatic loss, abuse (physical, psychological, or sexual), maltreatment, or neglect. As a result of its participation in the NCTSN, DePelchin has integrated an emphasis on trauma-informed practices throughout the agency. DePelchin works with the community to provide information and training on best practices in child trauma treatment, and to increase the availability of and improve access to mental health services in the Greater Houston metropolitan area. DePelchin has also been actively involved in supporting evacuees in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Refunded in 2008, DePelchin will implement the Child Trauma Program (DCTP) to mobilize Houston/Gulf Coast communities to help children and families address and overcome the unwanted effects of trauma. The DCTP will target 1) children affected by trauma and in need of trauma-informed and trauma-focused treatment including referral to culturally adapted services (240 children), 2) children and families impacted by the effects of natural disasters including Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (360 children), and 3) children and families of military personnel deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan (100 families). The primary service area is Greater Harris County, Texas, including Houston, parts of the Gulf Coast, and surrounding counties. The DCTP will bring together community leaders serving the target populations to expand access to and expertise in child trauma. Major goals are to: 1) establish a coordinated framework of community services, training, and leadership; 2) expand access to the delivery system of trauma-focused mental health care in the Houston/Gulf Coast area to children and families suffering the long-term effects of natural disaster and deployment trauma; and 3) provide leadership for the dissemination of information on the impact of trauma on children and families and the utilization of trauma-focused interventions.
Contact: Lou Ann Mock
Phone: (713) 802-3839
Email: LMock@depelchin.org
Web: http://www.depelchin.org

Center for Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children's Medical Center [Funding period: 2001 - 2004]

Center for Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children's Medical Center improves treatment and services for children who experience trauma related to child maltreatment. It used its grant funds to create and maintain a regional network of child therapists in seven Western states who participated and collaborated in training and consultation. This network is no longer being maintained, but the initiative is being sustained through regional collaboration for training on the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of child abuse. Safe and Healthy Families continues to use evidence-based trauma treatment practices, maintains active collaboration with other centers, and has developed a protocol to help nurses educate parents about evidence-based trauma treatment practices as a part of forensic medical examinations.
Contact: Kevin Gully
Phone: (801) 265-3095
Email: kevin.gully@ihc.com
Web: http://www.ihc.com/xp/ihc/primary

Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress [Funding period: 2002 - 2004]

The Harborview Child Traumatic Stress Program is located at the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress (HCSATS), a specialty program of the Harborview Medical Center, a University of Washington teaching hospital. The center serves children and adults affected by child maltreatment, rape and other violent crime, and other traumatic events.

Among its accomplishments as part of the NCTSN, the center: 1) increased its capacity to deliver evidence-based interventions at HCSATS; 2) improved mechanisms for identifying and linking affected children served within the medical center to other services; 3) created a collaboration with specialized community providers serving victims in diverse settings to increase identification, access, and availability of culturally specific treatments; and 4) constructed and managed a website for distance learning that also serves as a clinical resource for practitioners across the state.
Contact: Lucy Berliner
Phone: (206) 521-1800
Email: lucyb@u.washington.edu
Web: http://depts.washington.edu/hcsats/

Strength Builders, Youth Health Service, Inc. [Funding period: 2005 - 2008]

The Strength Builders program, developed by Youth Health Service, serves children and adolescents aged 2 to 17 who have experienced complex trauma and their families in the rural Appalachian highlands, where poverty and child maltreatment and other forms of trauma are prevalent. The program also improves community practices and collaborations for the care of traumatized children and adolescents. Increasing local expertise in trauma-focused outreach, diagnosis, and care with evidence-based interventions for children suffering from posttraumatic stress or traumatic grief, the program builds on the expertise, training, and resources available through the NCTSN to expand the reach of the Network into the rural areas of West Virginia.
Contact: Margy E. Burns
Phone: (304) 636-9450
Email: yhsmargy@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.youth-health.org

Adolescent Trauma Treatment Project, Mental Health Center of Dane County, Inc. [Funding period: 2003 - 2007]

The Adolescent Trauma Treatment Project (ATTP) is one of seven programs within the Child, Adolescent and Family Services program at the Mental Health Center of Dane County, Inc. Seeking to improve the quality and availability of services for traumatized adolescents in the Dane County area, the ATTP's focus is on adolescents aged 11 to 17—a group that historically has received less attention in the trauma field compared with younger children. ATTP staff members recognize that each individual adolescent's experience is unique and is influenced by numerous cultural, religious, and socioeconomic factors. The project targets adolescents who have survived interpersonal violence and trauma, who may also have survived other traumatic events including serious car accidents, house fires, tornadoes, invasive and lengthy medical procedures, war, or refugee trauma. The ATTP has offered several evidence based interventions: Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS), and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS). They have also served children with substance abuse and trauma as co-occurring disorders.
Contact: Lynn A. Brady
Phone: (608) 280-2561
Email: lynn.brady@mhcdc.org
Web: http://www.mhcdc.org/