Cassie Kisiel to Leave
NCCTS in June 2006

Cassie Kisiel will be leaving her position as Training Core Director at the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress in June to return to Chicago.  Kisiel will be joining the faculty of the Mental Health Services & Policy Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where she will be continuing her training and research efforts related to child trauma.  Some of the activities she plans to focus on include the dissemination and evaluation of trauma-focused practices in collaboration with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and ongoing development and implementation of the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Trauma assessment tool.  Kisiel has served as Training Core Director for the past 3 years where her primary efforts have focused on developing a training agenda for the NCTSN, promoting training-related linkages across the Network, and directing and implementing the Breakthrough Series Collaborative on Trauma-focused CBT.  Kisiel will continue to be involved in Network training activities, including the evaluation of the Breakthrough Series Collaborative and further development of the NCTSN Child Welfare Training Toolkit.

Ramesh Raghavan to Leave
NCCTS in June 2006

After serving for almost three years as Policy Core Director, Ramesh Raghavan will leave the National Center this summer. He will join Washington
University in St. Louis as a tenure-track assistant professor, and will be cross-appointed at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, and the
Department of Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine. His primary affiliation will be with the Center for Mental Health Services
Research, an NIMH-funded services research center housed in the School of Social Work, where he will continue his current work on mental health
services and policy issues for children in the child welfare system. Raghavan oversaw the development of the Network's policy agenda in states and counties, and in recent years has worked with various NCTSN members on many local and statewide initiatives.