Anchorage Community Mental Health Services Child Trauma Center [Funding period: 2005 - 2009]

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 - 2009]

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) 795-0300
Email: barbraq@jfcstucson.org
Web: http://jfcstucson.org

Chadwick Trauma-Informed Systems Project, Chadwick Center for Children and Families [Funding periods: 2010 - 2013, 2005 - 2009 and 2002 - 2005]

The Chadwick Center for Children and Families and the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC) at Rady's Children Hospital-San Diego will establish the Chadwick Trauma-Informed Systems Project (CTISP) to provide leadership in identifying effective treatments and in developing specialized service delivery models. The population served will be victims of child abuse and children exposed to domestic violence who are involved with the public child welfare system. The CTISP will help public child welfare agencies evolve into trauma-informed organizations and become facilitators of change in their communities. In the process the CTISP will also help transform the wider community child welfare systemincluding children's mental health and all the other major systems that impact children and families involved with public child welfareinto a multidimensional, trauma-informed, evidence-based system better able to meet the unique needs of abused and trauma-exposed children.

The Chadwick Center will build on the continuing work of the Network's Child Welfare Committee, and will develop and spread new resources and services in collaboration with the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, other Treatment and Services Adaptation (TSA) Centers, cooperating Community Treatment Sites, other related NCTSN committees, and child welfare and trauma mental health organizations across the nation. To further the growth of trauma-informed child welfare services, the CTISP will develop new resources and widely disseminate new and exciting products and services designed for front-line child welfare workers, supervisors, administrators, and policy makers, along with trauma specific models and tools needed by children's mental health and allied professionals. The Chadwick Center will also continue disseminating the Trauma Assessment Pathway (TAP) model, an assessment-based treatment for traumatized children developed and refined in partnership with the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress and other NCTSN sites during the previous two grant periods.
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 - 2011 and 2001 - 2005]

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 Center for Runaway and Homeless Youth [Funding period: 2009 - 2012 and 2005 - 2009]

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) 660-2450 x3901
Email: aschneir@chla.usc.edu
Web: http://www.hhyp.org

Early Trauma Treatment Network [Funding periods: 2009 - 2012, 2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]

The Early Trauma Treatment Network (ETTN) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is a collaborative of four national programs that pioneered early trauma treatment, training, and dissemination. Continuing their work in this grant period, ETTN will better equip systems serving children aged 0-5 exposed to abuse, domestic violence, and traumatic loss, and their families, to meet their needs. A new focus will be on young children of military families at risk due to deployment, parental injury, and parental death. ETTN will address the training and service gaps by promoting workforce development; creating culturally competent products, resources, and training protocols; and building mechanisms for intersystem collaboration across the mental health, pediatric care, child welfare, judicial, and military systems. The lead agency is the UCSF Child Trauma Research Program, a multicultural program engaged in training, model building, clinical research, and direct service in San Francisco; the other sites are Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, Child Violence Exposure Program at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and Infant Team at Tulane University Medical Center. ETTN sites will serve approximately 100 children per year—assessing the effectiveness of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) with multiple populations and monitoring the effectiveness of modifications to the model. Among the projects ETTN will do to improve access to services and raise the standard of care for traumatized very young children are: creating educational and training materials for parents, childcare providers, service providers for families in the military, pediatric providers, child welfare professionals, judges, and foster care providers; and collaborating with the Network and NCTSN centers in cross-site evaluation, training, and dissemination. Contact: Chandra Ghosh Ippen
Contact: Chandra Ghosh Ippen
Phone: (415) 206-5312
Email: chandra@itsa.ucsf.edu
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National Center for Child Traumatic Stress - UCLA [Funding periods: 2009 -2012, 2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]

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: Susan Ko
Phone: (310) 235-2633, x234
Email: SKo@mednet.ucla.edu
Web: http://www.nctsn.org

Trauma Services Adaptation (TSA) Center for Resiliency, Hope, and Wellness in Schools [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

Los Angeles Unified School District Trauma Services Adaptation Center for Schools and Communities [Funding periods: 2005 - 2009 and 2002 - 2005]

The Trauma Services Adaptation (TSA) Center for Resiliency, Hope, and Wellness in Schools was refunded as a Category II center within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Grant partners include child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and clinical social workers from RAND Health, UCLA Health Services Research Center, UCLA Child Anxiety Program, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) School Mental Health Services and the USC School of Social Work. Over the past 8 years of NCTSN funding as a Category III and Category II site, this longstanding partnership has focused its work on school-based trauma-informed programs and research, culminating in the development and dissemination of Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) and Psychological First Aid: Listen Protect Connect (PFA/LPC).

Currently, the TSA Center is tasked with facilitating the development of trauma-informed school systems by identifying, developing, evaluating, and disseminating evidence-based trauma services across a continuum from prevention services that focus on building resilience in students, to early interventions and more intensive services for youth exposed to trauma of all types. The TSA Center for Schools will improve access to quality trauma services to all K-12 students in public schools, but especially to underserved ethnic minority youth who are less likely to receive traditional community clinic based services.

In the next three years, theTSA will focus on five tasks: 1) Developing trauma informed assessments and interventions to meet the unique mental health needs of children in military families in public K-12 schools; 2) Promoting pre-service workforce development in schools of social work, clinical psychology and child psychiatry by developing child trauma curricula that better prepare the next generations of child serving mental health professionals; 3) Building and identifying elements of a school resiliency and strength-based spectrum of child trauma interventions for schools and communities; 4) Extending our work with CBITS to include a train-the-trainer and certification program; 5) Supporting our current training resources by developing a web-based platform to provide support and networking opportunities to school-based clinicians who deliver evidence-based trauma services, and by developing a sustainability toolkit to solidify support of schools in sustaining their trauma-informed systems of care.

In conducting this work, the TSA Center for Schools will develop several resources, including: resources for building resilient school environments, a curriculum for workforce training in school-based trauma services, resources for military children and families, CBITS train-the-trainer procedures and certification, web-based resources, a Spanish language child trauma toolkit for educators, a trauma in schools summit, and sustainability toolkit for schools.
Contact: Marleen Wong
Phone: (213) 740-0840
Email: marleenw@usc.edu
Web: http://www.tsaforschools.org

UC Davis - PCIT Training Center, University of California, Davis [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

The UC Davis - PCIT Training Center project will further the dissemination of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) by developing and testing a web course (PCITWeb) designed to inform professionals who may want to acquire and/or enhance PCIT skill involvement. The center will also develop a Learning Collaborative that focuses on the use of PCIT with young traumatized children and their families; and will create several products to enhance and support clinicians' use of PCIT in a broad range of settings (e.g., community mental health centers, private practice, in-home services providers). Three pathways will be used to disseminate knowledge and skills related to the application of PCIT: 1) create a 10-hour culturally competent web course for mental health providers who serve traumatized children and their families; 2) enroll ten agencies in PCIT Competency Achievement Training to deliver PCIT services and train them to use the 10-hour web courses in their communities; and 3) develop PCIT products that will support the effective use of PCIT. These objectives will be achieved through extensive collaboration with NCTSN members, and will include formation of a PCIT Learning Collaborative, a PCIT Workgroup, and a PCIT Family Consumer group.
Contact: Anthony Urquiza
Phone: (916) 734-7833
Email: anthony.urquiza@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Web:

Urban Native Center for Life Empowerment (UNCLE), Native American Health Center [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

The Native American Health Center's Community Treatment and Services Center will provide trauma-informed and trauma-focused treatment and services for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children, adolescents, and families in the San Francisco Bay area. The Urban Center for Life Empowerment (U.N.C.L.E.) will expand on existing efforts and implement community-based, culturally appropriate, trauma-informed, and trauma-focused services for AI/AN children, youth, and families. The program will consist of direct trauma treatment services; community education about trauma; training of key stakeholders from the child welfare, juvenile justice, educational, behavioral, and public health systems as well as nonprofit community-based agencies that service AI/AN children and their families; and cultural activities to build resiliency. Although trauma rates are high for AI/ANs, there are few trauma programs designed by and for Native Americans. Historical trauma poses an added burden for AI/AN children and families. U.N.C.L.E. will use "Honoring Children, Mending the Circle," a cultural adaptation of the Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) model that was developed by the Indian Country Child Trauma Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Contact: Janet King
Phone: (510) 434-5468
Email: janetk@nativehealth.org
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Aurora Mental Health Center [Funding period: 2001 - 2005]

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 - 2005]

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

Prevention, Empowerment, and Resiliency Collaborative (PERC) Center, Colorado State University [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

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
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The Denver-Kempe Trauma Collaboration [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

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
Web:

Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities, Denver Juvenile Probation Department [Funding period: 2009-2012]

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
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Childhood Violent Trauma Center, Yale Child Study Center [Funding periods: 2010 - 2013, 2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]

The Childhood Violent Trauma Center (CVTC) at the Yale Child Study Center develops and disseminates models of assessment, early intervention, and secondary prevention for children at high risk of posttraumatic difficulties based on their exposure to potentially traumatic events. The CVTC will further develop its work to meet challenges of underserved poor and ethnically diverse children and communities by: 1) disseminating the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI) for children affected by physical and sexual abuse, violence exposure, and acute physical injury; 2) creating versions of CFTSI for young children and other populations; and 3) serving as a resource for communities interested in the Child Development-Community Policing (CDCP) and Domestic Violence Home Visitation Intervention models of police-mental health response to childhood violent trauma.

Since the Network's inception, the CVTC has taken a leadership role, and the center will continue its efforts including: chairing the Acute/Early Intervention and Domestic Violence Working Groups, working with NCCTS to expand and adapt the Core Data Set to more effectively capture acute and early intervention activities throughout the Network, and serving as a resource for sites interested in establishing police-mental health collaborative response programs.
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 - 2009]

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

Delaware Child Traumatic Stress Center [Funding period: 2005 - 2009]

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 - 2005]

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: 2002-2005]

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, Gateway Community Services [Funding period: 2008 - 2012]

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, Children's Home Society of Florida [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

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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Catholic Charities Hawaii [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

The Catholic Charities Hawaii program Hawaii - Inventions, Mentoring, and Partnerships Aimed at Child Trauma (HI-IMPACT) on Oahu will provide clinical treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic events as victims and/or witnesses of domestic violence.

HI-IMPACT will utilize Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) in the treatment of children, adolescents, and their families. In addition, the HI-IMPACT program will provide community based trainings to educate state agencies, the military, schools, clinicians, and service providers on TF-CBT and working with traumatized children.
Contact: David Drews
Phone: (808) 527-4673
Email: david.drews@catholiccharitieshawaii.org
Web: http://www.catholiccharitieshawaii.org

Center for Child Trauma Assessment and Planning, Northwestern University Medical School [Funding Period: 2010 - 2013]

The Center for Child Trauma Assessment and Service Planning (CCTASP) at Northwestern University Medical School will specialize in assessment, treatment planning, and adaptation or application of evidence-based trauma interventions for underserved, children and youth, aged 0-18, and families in public sector settings who exhibit signs of complex trauma. Training and intervention approaches will be offered within child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and educational settings in Illinois, in several other states, and across NCTSN centers focusing on populations with significant minority representation. The center will use the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), a trauma-focused comprehensive assessment, treatment, service planning, and outcomes evaluation tool, in conjunction with NCTSN data collection strategies such as the Core Data Set. CCTASP will also highlight a statewide provider database as a tool for translating CANS data into trauma-informed and strengths-based service planning. The assessment-based approach will be used to develop trauma-informed treatment-planning guidelines to assist practitioners with critical decision-making, matching treatments with specific populations, sequencing treatments based on identified needs and strengths, and determining whether treatment plans are effective.
Contact: Cassandra Kisiel
Phone: (312) 503-0459
Email: c-kisiel@northwestern.edu
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Chaddock Trauma Initiative of West Central Illinois [Funding period: 2008 - 2012]

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 Health Outreach's International Family, Adolescent and Child Enhancement Services (IFACES) [Funding periods: 2009 - 2012 and 2002 - 2005]

Community-Based Refugee Trauma Treatment (Community-Based RTT) is a program of International FACES (Family, Adolescent and Child Enhancement Services) at Heartland Health Outreach, which provides services to refugee children, adolescents, and families in Chicago suffering from trauma-related distress or emotional stress resulting from and exacerbated by the refugee experience. More than half of the refugee children seen at International FACES are diagnosed with anxiety disorders, including PTSD, and experience a variety of other trauma-related problems including persistent fears of death, violent memories and nightmares, insomnia, depression, behavior disorders, developmental delays, or poor performance in school. International FACES will expand its culturally and linguistically appropriate, trauma-informed service model to include adaptation and application of the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS). IFACES, in collaboration with World Relief-Chicago's (WRC) Horizons Clinic, will provide in-school CBITS programming to help refugee students and their families manage the symptoms of trauma, develop their capacity to self-soothe, and improve their social and school functioning. Community-Based RTT services will be delivered to 200 children in four public schools located in multicultural neighborhoods on the north side of Chicago; in participants' homes; and on-site at International FACES and WRC's Horizons clinic.
Contact: Karen Batia
Phone: (773) 506-2379
Email: kbatia@heartlandalliance.org
Web: http://www.heartlandalliance.org

La Rabida Children's Hospital - Chicago Child Trauma Center [Funding periods 2009 - 2012 and 2005 - 2009]

La Rabida Children's Hospital's Chicago Child Trauma Center (CCTC) serves inner-city African Americans and other Chicago-area children exposed to the full range of traumatic events including medical trauma and complex trauma. Refunded, the CCTC now expects serve a total of 1,350 children, and will evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for urban African American children. Effective practices will then be disseminated to major child service system stakeholders. Given the CCTC's emphasis on resiliency and consumer involvement, expertise in child trauma, experience in the NCTSN, regional and national reputations, and existing collaborative relationships, the center expects to increase and enhance services to traumatized children in the Chicago area. As the only Community Treatment and Services Center in the NCTSN whose primary mission is serving urban African American children living in poverty, the CCTC brings to the Network a sophisticated understanding of societal, cultural, and multigenerational factors that shape children's responses to and recovery from exposure to trauma. Among the ten goals are: increasing capacity to provide Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), disseminating complex trauma interventions, and working with the Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition to build trauma-informed service systems across the state.
Contact: Brad Stolbach
Phone: (773) 256-5735
Email: bstolbach@larabida.org
Web: http://larabida.org/

Trauma Treatment Program, Children's Research Triangle [Funding period: 2009-2012]

The Trauma Treatment Program (TTP): Increasing Trauma Services for Youth, an expansion of the existing program at Children's Research Triangle (CRT), will increase trauma-informed therapeutic services available to children and adolescents aged 2-18 by providing and evaluating evidenced-based interventions; and by educating professionals, parents/caretakers, and other community members about the impact of trauma on youth. Participants come from a wide demographic in Illinois, and many have been prenatally exposed to drugs and alcohol, are involved in the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services foster care system, and have encountered significant traumatic events. The TTP follows the Trauma Assessment Pathway (TAP) Model, which forms the basis of the screening, assessment, and interventions utilized in the program. The TTP works in multiple community settings, and so, to best meet the needs of the clients served, uses a variety of treatment interventions including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS), Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). Taking into account some overlap in screening, assessment, and treatment, CRT will provide services to a minimum of 2,510 individuals.
Contact: Linda Schwartz
Phone: (312) 726-4011
Email: lschwartz@cr-triangle.org
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Trauma-Informed Youth Services Initiative, Youth Network Council [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

Youth Network Council (YNC), and its partner, the Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition (ICTC), will establish a Trauma-Informed Youth Services Initiative to incorporate trauma-focused and trauma-informed practices and policies into six community-based agencies serving youth in rural, suburban, and urban areas of Illinois to improve outcomes for those experiencing traumatic stress. Using Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS), the project will serve 719 youth aged 10-17—many of whom are living with trauma due to mental health issues and experience with violence—considered at-risk due to crisis situations in the family, experience with the juvenile justice system, and/or homelessness. The ICTC will also develop and assist in implementing an organizational trauma-focused self-assessment; provide training to line and clinical staff about childhood trauma; and offer consultation and technical assistance to youth services providers. Northwestern University's Mental Health Services and Policy Program will design, oversee, and manage the outcome and process evaluation; analyze data on a monthly basis; generate reports; and provide feedback to YNC to inform its work as a Network center.
Contact: Kelly Anoe
Phone: (312) 704-1257
Email: kanoe@youthnetworkcouncil.org
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Urban Youth Trauma Center, Institute for Juvenile Research, University of Illinois at Chicago [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

The Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois Chicago has developed the Urban Youth Trauma Center, a Treatment and Services Adaptation Center focused on the needs of youth and families exposed to community violence. The Center's primary goals are to: 1) disseminate treatment programs specifically developed to meet the needs of urban youth and families affected by community violence exhibiting traumatic stress, who may also be engaging in risky behaviors, including conduct problems and substance abuse; 2) provide leadership through NCTSN collaborations to develop and disseminate resources for consumers, service providers, and policy makers targeting urban community violence and associated problems, with a special focus on traumatic stress and co-occurring substance abuse and disruptive behavior problems; and 3) work collaboratively with community partners in the Chicago area to share information and resources to improve the local community's ability to organize and mobilize responses to community violence, as they impact youth and their families.
Contact: Liza Suarez
Phone: (312) 413-4628
Email: lsuarez@psych.uic.edu
Web:

Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment Institute [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

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) 543-0078
Email: sprang@email.uky.edu
Web: http://csvac.uky.edu/catti

Louisiana Rural Trauma Services Center [Funding periods: 2008 - 2012 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 - 2012]

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), Community Counseling Center [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

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 - 2005]

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 - 2011

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 - 2011 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 Services 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) 687-5576
Email: patricia.martinez.ctr@usuhs.mil
Web: http://www.centerforthestudyoftraumaticstress.org/index.php

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

Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center, LUK Crisis Center [Funding period: 2009- 2012]

LUK Crisis Center, Inc., in partnership with state and community agencies, will develop a Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center (CMCTC) to strengthen, expand, and enhance access to and availability of effective and culturally competent trauma-informed services and evidence-based trauma treatment for children aged 0-14. Focusing on children who experience the effects of trauma related to abuse and neglect, the CMCTC will target 300 children and families, implementing Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) in forty-three cities and towns in Central Massachusetts. Among the many goals are: increasing trauma-sensitive awareness and identification of trauma symptoms among child-serving agencies (e.g., schools, child welfare, pediatricians, law enforcement, probation) for youth with trauma histories; increasing the rate of referrals to appropriate CMCTC trauma recovery services; building sustainable capacity to provide evidence-based trauma treatment and trauma-informed services to local trainers within the CMCTC; actively engaging youth and families in trauma recovery; establishing a Hispanic/Latino Workgroup to address cultural and linguistic issues building on existing partnerships with community leaders and agencies; and developing culturally competent products and materials to deliver training and trauma-informing activities to contribute to the NCTSN; creating a comprehensive quality-improvement system and participating in the NCTSN Core Data Set and Cross-site Evaluation.
Contact: David Hamolsky
Phone: (978) 345-0695
Email: dhamolsky@luk.org
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Children's Hospital Boston Center for Refugee Trauma [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

Children's Hospital Boston has developed the Center for Refugee Trauma, a Treatment and Services 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: http://www.chcrtr.org/

Latino Child Trauma Stress Initiative (LCTSI) Project [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

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
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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

Project BRIGHT, Institute for Health and Recovery [Funding period: 2009-2012]

The Institute for Health and Recovery, Inc—in collaboration with Jewish Family and Children's Service's Center for Early Relationship Support and Boston Medical Center's Child Witness to Violence Project—will create Project BRIGHT, designed to address traumatic stress in children aged 0-5 and their parents in recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs) and co-occurring disorders (CODs), at eight Family Residential Treatment (FRT) programs across Massachusetts. Project BRIGHT's goals are: to address complex trauma symptoms and build resilience in young children through therapeutic interventions focused on building the parent-child relationship, and to train staff at the FRT programs in these interventions. Trained clinicians will provide Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) to 100 young children and families on-site at the FRT programs, providing therapeutic support to children and their parents in building new understandings and behaviors that promote developmental progress, resilience and emotional stability. Older children will be offered the evidence-informed WELL Child group intervention. Project activities, interventions, and implementation will be evaluated for effectiveness by Boston University.
Contact: Norma Finkelstein
Phone: (617) 661-3991
Email: normafinkelstein@healthrecovery.org
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Surviving Trauma with Evidence-Based Practices (STEP), Baystate Medical Center [Funding period 2009 - 2012]

Surviving Trauma with Evidence-Based Practices (STEP) of Pioneer Valley will develop a community-wide System of Care for children suffering as a result of experiencing abuse/violence and/or witnessing abuse/violence in the home. The Family Advocacy Center (FAC) of Baystate Medical Center is the lead agency and will partner with four local mental health centers, along with the local and regional offices of the Department of Children and Families. The primary goal is to improve the quality of life for the children and parents (including caretakers) participating in the program. To achieve this goal, STEP will disseminate Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and provide training and ongoing monitoring and consultation for the intervention. STEP will serve 248 children aged 5-18 and their families residing in the cities and towns of Hampden County, Mass., with a focus on the three largest cities: Springfield, Holyoke, and Chicopee. Other goals include creating a Hampden County infrastructure to support the STEP project; developing an inclusive community-based coalition; and conducting evaluation/performance improvement activities.
Contact: Stephen Boos
Phone: (413) 794-9816
Email: stephen.boosmd@bhs.org
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The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute [Funding periods: 2009 - 2012, 2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]

During the previous grant period, the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, in collaboration with the Child Trauma Recovery Foundation, established a Community Treatment and Services Center called 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 therapeutic care as they reclaim, rebuild, and renew their lives. Training and services are provided to high-need, underresourced areas including western and southern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and southern Maine. During this new grant period, the Complex Trauma Treatment Network (CTTN) will be established, which will be a Treatment and Services Adaptation Center. The CTTN will identify, develop, adapt, and disseminate evidence-based practices for children and adolescents with complex adaptation to chronic exposure to severe maltreatment and neglect. Providing in-depth training and technical assistance to transform systems of care in up to twenty states throughout three geographical regions, CTTN will also create a national initiative, directly impacting more than 100,000 children and families. The network will include a coordinating center (Trauma Center, Boston) and four training hubs: Northeast (University of Connecticut), South (DePelchin), Midwest (La Rabida Children's Hospital), and Pacific Northwest (Anchorage Community Mental Health Services). Goals are to 1) educate service providers on the assessment and treatment of complex trauma; 2) enhance access to and quality of treatment for complex trauma; and 3) educate service providers about the Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) construct and implications for accurate diagnosis, clinical formulation, and treatment planning. Three regional learning communities will be created, with statewide or multicounty-wide leadership, and with service providers from child protective services, juvenile justice, community health, foster and residential care, outpatient mental health, acute crisis care, school systems, and consumer constituents.
Contact: Joseph Spinazzola
Phone: (617) 232-130 x215
Email: jspinazzola@traumacenter.org
Web: http://www.traumacenter.org

Children's Trauma Assessment Center, Western Michigan University [Funding periods: 2008 - 2012 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, Bethany Christian Services [Funding period: 2008 - 2012]

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
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Ambit Network, University of Minnesota [Funding periods: 2009 - 2012 and 2005 - 2009]

The Ambit Network—a community-university partnership—was established during the previous grant period as a Community Treatment and Services Center. Raising the standard of care for traumatized minority, homeless, and formerly homeless children, the network increased access to trauma-informed services in the Twin Cities Metro area through acute police/mental health intervention, screening, and referral of traumatized children in the target community. Refunded, the Ambit Network will partner with Minnesota's Department of Human Services to develop the Minnesota Continuum of Care for Child Trauma (MC3T). MC3T will focus on subpopulations of traumatized children—those affected by parental military deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom, refugee and immigrant children, and American Indian childrenand expects to serve more than 4,100 children. To reach, recruit, and engage families and service providers, MC3T will partner with key community mental health clinics in the north, south, central, and metro regions of Minnesota; tribal leaders in Northern Minnesota (which has the highest concentrations of American Indian populations statewide); refugee/immigrant organizations in the Twin Cities Metro; and Veterans Affairs hospitals and the Minnesota Army National Guard throughout the state.MC3T will also train organizations (outpatient, inpatient, residential treatment, and therapeutic foster care facilities) across the state, and across the mental health continuum, in evidence-based treatments for trauma and in NCTSN's Core Curriculum in Child Trauma.
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 - 2012]

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
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Trauma Recovery for Youth - Catholic Charities, Inc. [Funding periods: 2007 - 2011 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 - 2005]

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 - 2005]

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: x x
Phone: (816) 363-1898
Email:
Web: http://www.tcpkc.org

The National Native Children's Trauma Center [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

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 Treatment and 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.iersum.org/National_Native_Childrens_Trauma_Center

New Hampshire Bridge Project, Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center [Funding periods: 2009 - 2012 and 2005 - 2009]

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/

International Institute of New Jersey - Cultural Adjustment and Trauma Services [Funding period: 2005 - 2009]

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: x x
Phone: (816) 363-1898
Email:
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 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]

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: Victor LaBruna
Phone: (516) 562-3245
Email: vlabruna@nshs.edu
Web:

Andrus Children's Center [Funding period: 2002 - 2005]

Originally founded as an orphanage, the Andrus Children's Center is a treatment, education, and research facility that serves families and children through campus-based programs, community-based initiatives, and mental health programs. The use of the Sanctuary Model of trauma-informed residential care is a key feature of Andrus's work. Andrus joined the NCTSN as a member of the Children's Trauma Consoritum of Westchester, a collaborative with the Center for Preventive Psychiatry, Fordham University's Children's First, and the Westchester Medical Center's Behavioral Health Center.
Contact: Brian Farragher
Phone: (914) 965-3700
Email: Bfarragher@jdam.org
Web: http://www.andruschildren.org/index.htm

BI-SLR HEARTS Program: Healing Emotions and Achieving Resilience to Traumatic Stress (HEARTS), Beth Israel Medical Center [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

The BI-SLR HEARTS Program is a collaboration between two sister hospitals in New York City: Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. Our goal is to integrate education, assessment, and treatment of child traumatic stress—particularly complex trauma—into the mental health services of our sister hospitals and the services we provide to our partner community agencies as a NYS funded Clinic Plus. Our Clinic Plus service allows us to proactively reach out to children in their communities instead of waiting for them to come to us. We currently partner with eleven public schools and three preventive service programs of the NYC child welfare agency. The target population is predominantly impoverished, urban Hispanic and African American youth and families—70% of whom live in federally designated "low primary care access areas." Through this effort, we will enhance local capacity to provide evidence-based, trauma-informed services for thousands of underidentified and underserved New York City children and adolescents suffering the effects of trauma. Interventions will primarily target treatment of complex trauma using Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competence (ARC) and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP).
Contact: Jacob Ham
Phone: (212) 420-4114
Email: jham@chpnet.org
Web:

Center for Trauma Program Innovation, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services [Funding periods: 2005 - 2009 and 2002 - 2005]

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 & Services Adaptation Center [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

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
Web:

Community PARTNERS (Prevention of Adverse Reactions to Negative Events and Related Stress) [Funding period: 2005 - 2009]

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: Elissa J. Brown
Phone: (718) 990-2355
Email: browne@stjohns.edu
Web:

National Center for Social Work Trauma Education and Workforce Development [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

The National Center for Social Work Trauma Education and Workforce Development addresses the shortage of social workers prepared to deliver culturally competent, evidence-based child trauma treatment. To overcome the limited opportunities for on-the-job training that contribute to this crisis, the center's strategy moves trauma training "upstream" from community agencies into social work education. Jointly created by Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and Hunter College School of Social Work, the center's Upstream Model will focus on increasing the supply of trauma-trained practitioners, and on enhancing the capacity of social work schools and community agencies to train 135 social work students, 90 field instructors, and 30 faculty to be trauma informed. The center will implement and disseminate the model by helping multiple Community Treatment and Services Centers to partner with local social work schools, and will collaborate with three Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers to provide trauma treatment training for field practicum participants. The center will focus on children from preschool through adolescence residing in low-income urban communities (disproportionately of color), and on rural Native American tribes who have been exposed to multiple interpersonal trauma and military family trauma among other traumas, and who are seen in child mental health, child welfare, and military family programs.
Contact: Virginia Strand
Phone: (914) 367-3435
Email: strand@fordham.edu
Web:

Parsons Child and Family Center [Funding periods: 2009 - 2012 and 2002 - 2005]

Parsons Child and Family Center (PCFC) 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. Now refunded, PCFC will establish the HEROES Project (Healing with Emotional Resilience, Opportunities, and Enduring Supports) to engage New York practitioners to develop and implement integrated services with trauma-informed and resiliency-focused strategies that are matched to the resources, risks, and cultural heritage of children and families referred to residential treatment, foster family, and home-based child welfare, as well as to affiliated mental health programs. The HEROES Project will fill critical gaps that often lead to fragmented and ineffective services. Goals include: 1) fostering enduring emotionally supportive relationships that protect children from abuse and neglect, and that help children resume healthy growth and skill development; 2) increasing and maintaining the number of child welfare practitioners in the region utilizing trauma-informed and resiliency-focused interventions; and 3) fostering skills and procedures that mitigate against the consequences of vicarious trauma that is related to working with children and family members who suffer from traumatic life experiences.
Contact: Richard Kagan
Phone: (518) 426-2600
Email: kaganr@parsonscenter.org
Web: http://www.parsonscenter.org

Promoting Positive Pathways, Mt. Hope Family Center [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

Promoting Positive Pathways, a project of the Mt. Hope Family Center, will provide services and evaluate the effectiveness of three evidence-based, trauma-informed treatments on fostering resilience in 270 aged 0-6 traumatized children in foster care, with an expected additional 450 family members served. With input from local stakeholders and the NCTSN, this project will provide Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Goals also include reducing the risks of further maltreatment and trauma, improving coordination of trauma services, and developing training materials for CPP. Promoting Positive Pathways will establish the Mt. Hope Family Center as the only member of the NCTSN in Western New York, and, in collaboration with other NCTSN members, the project will develop training materials and protocols for CPP that can be disseminated nationally. Building on existing collaborative efforts of a multidisciplinary team of community stakeholders working to improve the lives of children in foster care, the project also has important implications for policy makers and practitioners. Project results will be disseminated to members of the court system, pediatricians, caseworkers, educators, and mental health providers. And Promoting Positive Pathways supports the county's strategic plan to make evidenced-based, trauma-informed programs in Monroe County, N.Y., more accessible.
Contact: Jody Manly
Phone: (585) 275-2991
Email: jody.manly@rochester.edu
Web: http://www.mthopefamilycenter.org

Safe Horizon's Child Trauma Care Initiative [Funding periods: 2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]

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 periods: 2009 - 2012 and 2003 - 2007]

The Center for Child & Family Health (CCFH) is a consortium providing diagnostic, treatment, and preventive services for children at risk of experiencing trauma. Refunded in 2009, CCFH has now created Fostering Hope, which will increase access to and quality of trauma-focused interventions for young children and adolescents disproportionately represented in the child welfare system. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS), and the NCTSN Resource Parent Curriculum will be implemented locally and across diverse North Carolina communities. The project will serve children placed in foster, kinship, and residential care who present with multiple exposures to trauma, PTSD symptoms, and other impairments in functioning exacerbated by placement instability and lack of permanency. Among the most affected are African American youth (who account for 84% of out-of-home placements while comprising less than 30% of the state's youth). Fostering Hope's five goals are: enhancing trauma assessment expertise locally and statewide, expanding service capacity, delivering trauma-informed trainings, increasing the number of agencies committing resources through System of Care participation, and ensuring that at least 30% of CCFH staff effort is allocated to a full range of NCTSN activities. As a result of these and other training, implementation, and dissemination efforts, Fostering Hope will benefit 3,115 youth.
Contact: Robert Murphy
Phone: (919) 419-3474
Email: robert.murphy@duke.edu
Web: http://www.ccfhnc.org

National Center for Child Traumatic Stress - Duke [Funding periods: 2009 - 2012, 2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]

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

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

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) 636-7001
Email: frank.putnam@cchmc.org
Web:

Cullen Center for Children, Adolescents, and Families [Funding periods: 2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]

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:

Nationwide Children's Hospital [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH), the largest provider of mental health services to children and adolescents in central Ohio, will create a program [WB2]for children and adolescents who have experienced severe psychiatric disorders and complex trauma. A trauma-informed service system will be developed, which will enable more youth in the target population to receive evidence-based treatment. Goals are to: 1) provide training and technical support in trauma-informed services and evidence-based treatment to 125 administrators and providers from ten child and family servicing agencies; 2) serve 675 youth/families (including a large number of Medicaid clients and African American families), implementing Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) mediation treatment, and care management; 3) find local resources to assist in securing the region's commitment to implementing these practices; and 4) systematically study the need for cultural adaptations to these treatment approaches and implement these adaptations if warranted.
Contact: Jack Stevens
Phone: (614) 355-8012
Email: jack.stevens@nationwidechildrens.org
Web:

Transforming Care for Traumatized Youth in Child Welfare [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

The Children Who Witness Violence Program [Funding period: 2002 - 2005]

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 - 2005]

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

Child Trauma Center, Family and Children's Services [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

Oklahoma Child Traumatic Stress Treatment Collaborative [Funding period: 2003-2007]
Family and Children's Services (F&CS) has served children and families in Tulsa and surrounding communities for since 1925. During the previous grant period, F&CS established itself as the leading trauma expert in the greater Tulsa metropolitan area and built the capacity to implement evidence-based services. With the F&CS Child Trauma Center Project, F&CS will implement Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) to address a significant gap in trauma services for abused, neglected, and traumatized children aged 0-6 in this service area. Through dynamic partnerships with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS), the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS), the Tulsa County Juvenile Bureau, and other local child protection system organizations, this project will serve 80 children. The project will also disseminate CPP as evidence-based trauma treatment within the agency and throughout Oklahoma; and will continue and expand participation in Network collaborations and Learning Communities. Other goals are to: improve child and family well-being; sustain child and family well-being; participate in the transformation of treatment and services through dissemination of trauma-informed assessment and treatment; and enhance and expand trauma-informed collaboration at the local, state, and national levels.
Contact: Jessica Gledhill
Phone: (918) 587-9471
Email: jgledhill@fcsok.org
Web:

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

University of Oklahoma Terrorism and Disaster Center [Funding periods: 2009 - 2012 and 2005 - 2009]

Among the projects that the Terrorism and Disaster Center (TDC) focused on during the previous grant period was adapting the Psychological First Aid (PFA) 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. The TDC will now work to enhance resilience and adaptive coping in children, families, and communities affected by disaster. Objectives include refining its Resilience and Coping Intervention (RCI) to address child resilience; developing RCI for Families (RCIF) to help families identify and use family resilience and coping strategies; and developing a new Parenting and Family Adaptation and Resilience (PFAR) intervention to address the impact of disasters on parenting and thus improve family support for children. Community resilience will be addressed through TDC's Community Assessment of Resilience Tool (CART), which can be used in a variety of ways including 1) by community members/providers to assess their community's resilience attributes, interpret findings, and engage in strategic planning focused on child and family disaster mental health; 2) to assess child abuse, community violence, and deployment; and 3) as a vehicle for introducing to TDC's community partners and their networks a variety of child and family trauma interventions, training, and products into communities. TDC and its community partners expect to implement interventions, deliver training, and disseminate resources to more than 4,500 children and adults.
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 - 2009]

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 - 2009]

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: 2009 - 2012, 2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]

The Allegheny General Hospital Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents will continue as a Treatment and Services Adaptation (TSA) Center with expertise in child abuse and child traumatic grief (CTG)—adapting and disseminating Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Alternatives for Families - A Cogntive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT), with a focus on enhancing resiliency for military children and for abused children in residential treatment facilities (RTFs). During the new grant period the center will collaborate with eight Community Treatment and Services Centers (CTSs) to conduct the treatment adaptation projects. Additionally, the center will initiate a TF-CBT RTF Learning Community (LC) with five CTS centers collaborating in an RTF adaptation, using the new TF-CBT implementer's website (http://learn.nctsn.org) to share implementation challenges and innovations. Each project will focus on: 1) enhancing TF-CBT or AF-CBT resiliency skills through producing adapted TF-CBT and AF-CBT protocols and implementation materials; 2) disseminating the TF-CBT and AF-CBT models through LCs and other training and consultation activities; 3) developing the products in collaboration with the National Center and with other TSA and CTS centers; 4) initiating three sustainability projects; and 5) continuing to provide leadership for the NCTSN TSA, sexual abuse, and traumatic grief collaborative groups.
Contact: Judith Cohen
Phone: (412) 330-4321
Email: JCohen1@wpahs.org
Web: http://www.Pittsburghchildtrauma.org

Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia [Funding periods: 2007 - 2011 and 2002 - 2005]

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 - 2005]

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

Family Service of Rhode Island, Inc. [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

The Children's Treatment and Recovery Center (CTRC) at Family Service of Rhode Island (FSRI), Inc. is an integrated trauma treatment network for children who are victims of physical and sexual abuse and/or neglect and their families. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) will initially be adapted and tested with 50 to 60 children and adolescents in the first year in the FSRI outpatient population referred by Rhode Island's Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), FSRI's therapeutic foster care program, and its gender-specific residential treatment facilities. About 70 percent of FSRI's primary clients are children aged 18 and under; nearly half are minorities—primarily Latinos and African Americans; and most are poor. The primary goal is to be a resource for DCYF by implementing and evaluating TF-CBT for children residing in residential treatment centers and in foster care, and to the CTRC target population. CTRC will collaborate with other NCTSN centers to transform community mental health services, and to strengthen trauma-informed practices throughout FSRI and in the community. The Learning Collaborative Model will be utilized, which forms a core team that informs and guides the program implementation and outcomes research. The key stakeholders include Hasbro Children's Hospital, DCYF, FSRI program and evaluation staff, and family representatives from the Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG). The CTRC will also transform existing child welfare and juvenile justice systems by demonstrating the effectiveness of trauma-informed and evidence-based treatments and services, by building community consensus, and by providing educational and training resources.
Contact: Susan Erstling
Phone: (401) 331-1350
Email: erstlingsu@familyserviceri.org
Web: http://www.familyserviceri.org

Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center [Funding period: 2009 - 2012]

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: Libby Ralston
Phone: (843) 723-3600
Email: lralston@dnlcc.org
Web:

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 - 2009]

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

Aliviane Community Treatment and Services Center [Funding period: 2007 - 2011]

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 periods: 2009 - 2012 and 2005 - 2009]

The Border Traumatic Stress Response (Border TSR) Project at Serving Children and Adolescents in Need (S.C.A.N.), Inc. will continue work from the previous grant period, developing trauma-informed systems of care in Webb County and in targeted child service systems in the Rio Grande Valley and the state of Texas. The project will also maintain a Youth Trauma Coalition and Steering Committee; collaborate with experts from the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, and from Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers and Community Treatment and Services Centers about available practices for border children and adolescents, and specialized service settings and needed adaptations; implement selected project designs addressing strategic plan objectives and the best evidence-based services; and implement a tailored trauma-informed system for the targeted youth that relies on evidence-based services adapted to meet their cultural and linguistic needs. The target population is almost entirely first-generation Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants who are bilingual or primarily Spanish speaking. Border TSR will serve 300 youth: children and adolescents aged 12-17 with co-occurring substance abuse and trauma who are receiving residential substance abuse treatment at S.C.A.N., and Webb County children and adolescents aged 3-17 who have experienced a traumatic event and who will receive outpatient trauma treatment.
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 - 2012 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 - 2005]

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: Julie Bradshaw
Phone: (802) 662-3625
Email: julie.bradshaw@imail.org
Web: http://www.ihc.com/xp/ihc/primary

Safety Net Program for Families with Young Children, The Children's Center [Funding period: 2009-2012]

The Safety Net Program for Families with Young Children will transform access to care and the availability and delivery of trauma services in Utah for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and early-elementary-aged children suffering from trauma—ranging from sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect, to witnessing severe domestic violence or the death of a primary caregiver. Using Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), the program will expand services to growing populations of minority children, to refugee children and their families suffering from the loss of their home, and to families with children of deployed military personnel suffering from loss or the return of impaired caregivers. Under the direction of the Children's Center, which serves the mental health needs of families with very young children in Salt Lake City, the Safety Net Program will provide evidence-based trauma treatment for families who reside in four metropolitan counties: Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, and Weber. Approximately 325 children and their families will receive treatment. Goals include enhancing community awareness about the presence and effects of trauma on young children; increasing organizational readiness and delivery of trauma-informed practices; identifying appropriate clinical treatments for children and families who have suffered complex trauma; and improving child and family outcomes.
Contact: Goldsmith Doug
Phone: (801) 582-5534
Email: dgoldsmith@tccslc.org
Web:

Vermont Child Trauma Collaborative [Funding period: 2009-2012]

The Vermont Department of Mental Health will establish the Vermont Child Trauma Collaborative —(VCTC) twelve sites (eleven community mental health treatment centers and one private group practice) serving Vermont's fourteen counties—which will fully implement and sustain the Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) framework for complex trauma treatment. The target population is 350 children aged 3-18 who have experienced complex trauma (multiple and/or chronic exposure to developmentally adverse interpersonal victimization) and their families. The VCTC will consult with The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute for the statewide dissemination of ARC, and with the University of Vermont Connecting Cultures Program on adapting the ARC framework to better serve the VCTC's refugee communities. The VCTC has the support of key stakeholders including the state child welfare system, education system, domestic and sexual violence programs, and public/private mental health providers. The objectives are: 1) establishing a VCTC infrastructure at the local and state levels; 2) creating a Trauma-Informed Interagency Referral Network among child- and family-serving programs; 3) utilizing existing ARC Community Treatment and Services Teams to implement standardized trauma assessment and empirically based trauma treatments using the ARC framework; 4) developing in-state trauma consultation and training capacity for implementation and sustainability of ARC; 5) participating in NCTSN to incorporate lessons learned in trauma service implementation; and 6) developing systematic data collection and evaluation to monitor the quality and quantity of services and treatment.
Contact: Laurel Omland
Phone: (802) 652-2000
Email: laurel.omland@ahs.state.vt.us
Web: http://mentalhealth.vermont.gov/cafu/vctc

Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress [Funding period: 2002 - 2005]

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 - 2009]

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/