Las Cumbres Community Services [1]
Project Corazón: Innovating Child Trauma Treatment for Northern New Mexico Las Cumbres Community Services has been a funded member of the NCTSN since 2012, and provides trauma-focused treatment to children ages 0-18 and their families across four rural counties in northern New Mexico. Evidence-based and evidence-informed programs (EBPs) including Circle of Security ParentingTM, Child Parent Psychotherapy, Child-Centered Play Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are delivered in a staged treatment design to address a range of traumatic stressors, with focus on complex trauma. This integrated array of EBPs are offered to children and their families through a combination of individual, family, and group therapy. Project Corazón improves access to quality care in rural areas for special populations (immigrant and refugee families, women with young children in substance use recovery, and children forcibly separated from caregivers due to abuse, neglect or deportation), supports advanced clinical training, and grows the children’s behavioral health workforce in a designated Mental Health Provider Shortage Area. Direct service goals aim to improve engagement, enrollment, and efficacy outcomes for families experiencing complex trauma and parent-child separations, resolve symptoms of traumatic stress, and repair/strengthen caregiver-child relationships. EBP modification goals and workforce initiatives aim to increase access to care and improve retention rates of experienced clinicians.