Current and Affiliated NCTSN Organizational Members

Below is a roster of organizational NCTSN members arranged by state. This list includes current grantees as well as affiliated members—former grantees who have maintained their ties to the Network. For each site the funding period(s) by Federal fiscal year, abstract, and contact information are listed. This roster will change as the funding status of these sites changes.

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Click here (PDF) for a complete listing of Network members by federal fiscal year. This listing includes current grantees, affiliates, and formerly funded sites that are no longer active in the Network.

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Children's Trauma Institute Treatment & Services Adaptation Center

 
Funding Period: 
[2007 - 2011]
Description: 

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: 
(646)754-4816
Email: 
claude.chemtob@nyumc.org

Children’s Hospital LA, Community Trauma Treatment Center for Runaway and Homeless Youth

 
Funding Period: 
[2009 - 2012 and 2005 - 2009]
Description: 

The Community Trauma Treatment Center for Runaway and Homeless Youth is using knowledge about trauma to transform service delivery to homeless youth ages 13 - 21 in the Hollywood community. This work includes the implementation of evidence-based and practice-based clinical treatment; the development, implementation, and evaluation of trauma-informed services; and capacity building activities directed at direct care and clinical staff. The Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles is the lead agency and is collaborating with five community Agencies—Covenant House California, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, the Los Angeles Youth Network, My Friend's Place, and the Saban Free Clinic—and other agencies within the Hollywood Homeless Youth Partnership.

Approximately 300 youth per year receive service, ranging from case management and wellness groups in drop-in centers to intensive clinical treatment in shelters and transitional living programs. Hundreds more young people are affected by the policy and program changes that have been implemented since our inception. 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. Approximately 40% of homeless youth are gay, lesbian, or bisexual. In addition to the work done to improve local services for homeless youth, the Community Trauma Treatment Center for Runaway and Homeless Youth is developing products and training curricula (including web-based training) and is partnering with national technical assistance organizations to transform services for homeless youth nationally.

Contact: 
Arlene Schneir
Phone: 
(323) 361-3901
Email: 
aschneir@chla.usc.edu
Web: 
http://www.hhyp.org

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children

 
Funding Period: 
[2009 - 2012]
Description: 
The Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children will adapt two evidence-based interventions to serve young children in deployed military families and traumatized adolescents in juvenile justice and residential treatment settings. Both groups include children at risk for or displaying trauma-related problems—such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, and/or behavior problems—due to extended parental deployments; and adolescents with complex trauma histories including child maltreatment, and family or community violence. Called A Continuum of Trauma Care: Adapting Evidence-based Practices to Promote Resiliency from Military Families through Juvenile Justice Settings, the program will adapt Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and Trauma- and Grief-Focused Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCT-A) for Juvenile Justice Settings (JJSs) and Residential Treatment Centers (RTCs). For each group, the center will provide training protocols and resources, implementation strategies, train-the-trainer toolkits, and a web-based training. Beginning with pilot sites in Ohio (JJS/RTC) and at Fort Hood and Tripler Army Medical Center (military families), scores of children, adolescents, and families will be served in the first year, expanding to directly serving hundreds in years two and three.
Contact: 
Frank Putnam
Phone: 
(513) 636-0041
Email: 
frank.putnam@cchmc.org

Clifford Beers Guidance Clinic, Inc., The Morris A. Wessel Program for Military Families

 
Funding Period: 
[2012 - 2016 and 2005 - 2009]
Description: 
The Morris A. Wessel Program for Military Families will provide: 1) Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), 2) Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), 3) Strengthening Families Coping Resources (SFCR), 4) a Family Support Program, and 5) community trainings. The project will serve 670 unduplicated individuals (clients and providers).
Contact: 
Alice M. Forrester
Phone: 
(203) 772-1270 x214
Email: 
aforrester@cliffordbeers.org
Web: 
http://www.cliffordbeers.org

Colorado Judicial Branch, Denver Juvenile Probation Department

 
Funding Period: 
[2009-2012]
Description: 
Through the Identifying Child and Youth Trauma in the Court System Project, Denver Juvenile and Family Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities and the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect will develop and implement a standard protocol to identify, screen, assess, and treat children and adolescents who have been exposed to trauma and who are children of a court-involved, substance-abusing parent. The project will serve a target population of 200 Denver families with children and youth aged 4-17, as part of a comprehensive prevention and intervention approach for families involved in the city's justice system. Services to the target population—55% Latino, 20% African American, 23% Anglo, and 2% other—will include Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) to treat trauma and trauma-related symptoms. The project will also work collaboratively in Denver and across the Network to develop and promote effective practices and services including trainings for and collaboration with Denver's treatment, law enforcement, and justice communities.
Contact: 
Lilas Rajaee-Moore
Phone: 
(720) 913-4248
Email: 
lilas.rajaee-moore@judicial.state.co.us

Colorado State University, School of Social Work, Prevention, Empowerment, and Resiliency Collaborative (PERC) Center

 
Funding Period: 
[2009 - 2012]
Description: 
The Prevention, Empowerment, and Resiliency Collaborative (PERC) Center at Colorado State University will be established to address the needs of children, youth, and families from four neighborhoods where trauma is precipitated by chronic poverty, community violence, child maltreatment, and the immigration experience. PERC will advance the provision of culturally appropriate, evidence-based treatment and care for youth impacted by trauma by collaborating with NCTSN treatment centers, mental health organizations, and child welfare systems to implement and evaluate two evidence-based trauma interventions: Trauma Adapted-Family Connections (TA-FC) and Culturally Modified Trauma-Focused Treatment (CM-TFT). PERC is grounded in the principle of building on the strengths and developing the capacity of youth, families, and neighborhoods to facilitate recovery and promote resilience; and will emphasize project accountability and continuous assessment of objectives and outcomes. Goals include developing a system that engages stakeholders in decision-making about implementation of trauma-informed services for youth; and creating a sustainable trauma-informed service delivery approach in serving hard-to-reach, underserved, at-risk diverse populations in Larimer County. PERC expects to serve 286-360 youth.
Contact: 
Marilyn Thayer
Phone: 
(970) 484-2580
Email: 
mthayer@cahs.colostate.edu

Community Counseling Center, The Maine Children's Trauma Response Initiative (The Children's Initiative)

 
Funding Period: 
[2012 - 2016 and 2007 - 2011]
Description: 
The Maine Children's Trauma Response Initiative will create a statewide trauma-informed system of care for children/youth aged 3–18 who are exposed to violence. Goals include: 1) establishing culturally competent, trauma-informed clinical services throughout Maine; 2) developing a community-based coalition; 3) increasing public awareness about childhood trauma; 4) involving consumers at all levels of development and implementation; and 5) collecting requisite data and conducting performance-improvement evaluation activities. During the grant period, the initiative will train at least 100 clinicians, and will provide TF-CBT to at least 110 children/youth and families.
Contact: 
Rebecca Hoffmann Frances
Phone: 
(207) 553-9309
Email: 
hoffmr@commcc.org
Web: 
http://www.commcc.org

Cullen Center of Toledo Children’s Hospital

 
Funding Period: 
[2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]
Description: 

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: 
Adrienne Fricker-Elhai
Phone: 
(419) 291-7919
Email: 
adrienne.fricker-elhai@promedica.org

Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center, New Hampshire Bridge Project

 
Funding Period: 
[2009 - 2012 and 2005 - 2009]
Description: 
As a Community Treatment and Services Center since 2005, the Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center (DTIRC) has trained mental health center clinicians in evidence-based practices for traumatized adolescents and has disseminated these practices to each of the ten lead community mental health centers in New Hampshire. Refunding will enable DTIRC to establish the New Hampshire Bridge Project, which will integrate trauma treatment services across several state systems that serve New Hampshire youth and families who have been exposed to abuse, neglect, and/or trauma. The Bridge Project targets three care systems of key importance in the lives of abused and at-risk children: child protective services (New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth & Families), juvenile justice (New Hampshire Division for Juvenile Justice Services), and the judicial branch (New Hampshire Judicial Branch Family Division). DTIRC will provide statewide training for approximately three hundred key personnel in principles of trauma-informed services. And to increase statewide capacity to treat traumatized children, DTIRC will train forty-two providers in evidence-based practices congruent with state division goals, staffing, and population characteristics. Division personnel, including nonclinicians, will also become conversant with evidence-based trauma treatment options. Initial steps will involve needs assessments, education, and evaluation of progress toward enhancing trauma-sensitive services. DTIRC staff will prioritize service coordination and follow case disposition and treatment progress, as these children often move back and forth multiple times among divisions, residential placements, and treatment providers. Emphasis will be on collaboration among service providers, divisions, families, and communities as well as on strength-based, resiliency-oriented interventions.
Contact: 
Kay Jankowski
Phone: 
(603) 653-0738
Email: 
kay.jankowski@dartmouth.edu
Web: 
http://dms.dartmouth.edu/psych/research/ptsd/interventions/

Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center

 
Funding Period: 
[2009 - 2012]
Description: 
The Dee Norton Lowcounty Children's Center project Implementing Evidence-Based Treatment (EBT) Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Sexual Behavior Problems will increase access to treatment for children and their nonoffending caregivers traumatized by abuse who exhibit or who are at risk for exhibiting sexual behavior problems (SBPs). The goal is to reduce the negative impacts of SBP by increasing the number of direct services provided by clinicians and community partners trained in evidence-supported treatment interventions for 252 children and their nonoffending caregivers. The children and caregivers DNLCC serves come from diverse ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds from Charleston and Berkeley counties. DNLCC, a Children's Advocacy Center (CAC) will implement treatments developed by the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center through a community-based Learning Collaborative. Multidisciplinary partners of the CAC will participate as a Community Change Team (CCT). The center will train mental health professionals; and will provide evidence-based treatment plans, case management, and monitoring for children with SBPs and their families through weekly CAC multidisciplinary team case reviews.
Contact: 
Lib Hinson
Phone: 
(843) 723-3600
Email: 
lhinson@dnlcc.org
Web: 
http://www.dnlcc.org

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