Family & Children's Services (FACS) in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is providing trauma treatment and therapeutic services to children, adolescents and their families who experience/witness traumatic events. Utilizing interventions developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), Transforming Trauma will continue to provide leadership on child/adolescent issues to the provider communities throughout New Jersey, build the capacity of statewide service system to implement trauma-informed service practices (including professional training, public information, and outreach/screening, referral), and build a network of trauma-capable providers. Transforming Trauma will focus on making services accessible to military families that live on or near nearby military bases, homeless families, forensically-involved and other underserved youth and their families. We will train clinicians throughout the state of New Jersey to deliver services to children and families impacted by trauma utilizing one of four evidence-based therapeutic models including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC), Combined Parent-Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT); and Families Over Coming Under Stress (FOCUS).
Network Members
This listing of NCTSN members includes current grantees as well as NCTSN Affiliates, former grantees who have maintained their ties to the Network.
Family and Children's Service, Inc., NJ
Family and Children's Services Inc.
Family & Children's Services Child Abuse and Trauma Services (CATS) provides evidence-based, trauma-focused treatment to children/youth (ages 0-18+) and their families who have experienced, abuse, neglect or other traumatic experiences and who reside in and around Tulsa, Oklahoma. CATS offers in office and in home therapy for families who cannot access in office appointments. Intervention models used: Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Services include individual, family and group models. The CATS team specializes in providing therapy for youth with Illegal Sexualized Behaviors and offers a supportive educational group for caregivers of children who have been sexually abused. Therapists collaborate with community providers, including DHS Child Welfare, court systems, Health Home, schools, pediatricians, in-patient services, attorneys, etc.
Family and Children's Services, Inc
Family and Children's Services is a non-profit mental health counseling and social services agency that has served the residents of Union County for more than 125 years. Licensed by the NJ Department of Health, the agency provides trauma counseling, using
Family Centered Treatment Foundation, Inc.
The Family Centered Treatment Foundation (FCTF) is the nationally recognized provider of the evidence-based Family Centered Treatment (FCT). The primary purpose of the Family Centered Treatment - Trauma Series Project is to enhance evidenced-based family-systems trauma treatment and increase access to its availability to ensure high-quality treatment for families from a wide range of populations. The NREPP registered FCT model has a strong trauma focus embedded both in the theoretical framework and design and in the practical application. The service delivery system of FCT includes the public sectors of child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, and substance abuse. Male and female populations of all ages are included with histories or current involvement in Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Developmental Disabilities, Juvenile Justice systems, military families, families living in impoverished and high-risk communities. The FCT model recognizes the importance of having a cultural and contextual understanding to the traumatic experiences of youth and their families in order to effectively treat all populations, including disadvantaged groups disproportionately affected by trauma. Thus, the goals of the project are to 1) enhance and expand FCT to better serve families of complex trauma; 2) Extend the access to FCT for families/victims of complex trauma in the identified states and additional states; and 3) advance the awareness and access of FCT nationally for trauma centers. Expanding availability and implementation of trauma treatment through training programs to current FCT sites are expected to incrementally impact 1,440 families annually in 9 states and expanding training to additional sites and states serving 7,200 families over the course of the project.
Family Health Centers at NYU Langone
The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone provide mental health treatment to patients ages 5 and up. We provide services in a large OMH licensed mental health clinic, in integrated medical sites, in homeless shelters, and in school health clinics. Many of our providers are trained in evidence based practices to treat trauma related disorders.
Family Health Centers of NYU Langone Health - Brooklyn
The grant has allowed us to expand the treatment we offer to children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. We will be offering Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) and Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT) to these children and families over the 5 year period.
Family Involvement Center, Inc.
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County/Youth and Family Behavioral Health
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County provides evidence-based mental health services to trauma-impacted youth and their families in our on-site clinics, in schools, in homes, and in other community locations. In recognition of the impacts of social determinants of health on mental health, we seek to address basic needs and support for families with linkage and referrals to resources, case management, and healthy relationships, parenting, and fatherhood classes. We offer our services in English and Spanish. Our agency strives to be trauma-informed in all our policies and procedures. We partner with other local agencies to serve the most vulnerable persons in our community.
Family Service Association of San Antonio, Inc.
Family Service and Communities in Schools-San Antonio seeks to increase the availability of trauma-informed treatment and care for children and youth who have experienced multiple ACEs.
Family Service of Rhode Island/Victim Services
Family Service of Rhode Island's (FSRI) mission is to advance equity, opportunity, and hope in our communities. We believe all children and families have limitless potential. But for those growing up surrounded by poverty, family instability, and physical or emotional stress, life is too often about survival, not possibility. FSRI responds alongside police to provide crisis response to victims at crime scenes, offering crisis intervention, stabilization, language support, and service referral. In addition to crime victims, the Police Partnership program assists homeless individuals, wayward juveniles, people with mental health or substance use issues, and others in crisis. The program also helps prevent crime by defusing community conflicts. Family Service of Rhode Island, the Roger Williams University Justice System Training and Research Institute and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research will create a Center for Trauma-Informed Policing to improve outcomes for traumatized children encountered on crime scenes. A state-of-the-art, virtual law enforcement training program will be developed and the FSRI Go Team police/mental health partnership program will be formally evaluated. A Project Advisory Committee including child trauma experts, law enforcement, clinicians, and family with lived experience will advise on all project activities. Following a New England-based pilot to test the initial training and technical assistance program and two Learning Communities involving police departments across the country to improve upon and refine the program and related intervention products, the final trauma-informed law enforcement Learning Management System (LMS) will be launched and broadly disseminated.