Rebecca is an Arizona professional with over two decades of experience in child welfare and early childhood care and learning. As a former Project Director for a category III funded site focusing on Trauma Awareness, Screening, and Community Training, she now applies a trauma lens to her new role as East Maricopa Regional Director of an Early Childhood Education Council with Arizona’s “First Things First” agency. Her council represents three large urban Arizona cities around Early Literacy, Home Visitation, Early Childhood Nutrition, Family Resources Centers, Childcare, and Trauma Informed Care for Early Childhood workers. Rebecca is also a certified ACES trainer with the Arizona ACE Consortium. She is passionate about continuing education and awareness around trauma within families from a salutogenic perspective. “The family system is at the core of healing. Create awareness and understanding about traumatic experiences without shame and blame and allow the family to move toward healing guided by their own resources and solutions.”
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.
Heitkamp, Rebecca
Held, Jordan, LCSW
Jordan Held (he/him/his), LCSW is a Primary Therapist and Gender Specialist at Visions Adolescent Treatment Center. Jordan works in both IOP and residential programming, working with teenagers and their families to build resilience and cultivate positive mental health outcomes. Prior to Visions, Jordan was a Therapist and Intake Coordinator at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in the Center for Transyouth Health and Development, the largest trans youth health clinic in the USA. Jordan’s mental health practice centers around creating a trauma-informed and healing-centered space for both adolescents and their families. Jordan’s expertise is working with gender and sexual minority youth with complex histories of trauma. Jordan was a lead clinician on a SAMHSA/ NCTSN grant, which created the first therapy hub for transgender youth with complex history of PTSD. Jordan speaks internationally about creating and supporting affirmative LGBTQ+ environments with an emphasis on informed consent and enhanced family communication. As a queer identified, transgender man, Jordan brings an important dual perspective to his work as a mental health provider. Prior to social work, Jordan worked extensively in secondary school education, with a decade of experience teaching, coaching, and developing health and wellness curricula. Jordan’s work focuses on gender violence prevention, diversity, equity, inclusion and cultivating strength and belonging for teens. Jordan is on the Board of Director’s of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Laurel Foundation, JQ International and Mental Health America of Los Angeles. Jordan is also a long-time facilitator at Transforming Family, a support group for gender diverse youth and their family.
Hendricks, Alison, LCSW
Alison Hendricks, LCSW, is a trainer and consultant who specializes in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), trauma-informed systems, and Secondary Traumatic Stress. She is a Certified National Trainer for TF-CBT and the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit, a product of the NCTSN that she helped to revise in 2012. She worked with the Chadwick Center of Rady Children’s Hospital for nine years, first as a trauma therapist and then as Operations Manager of the Chadwick Trauma-Informed Systems Project. She provides training and consultation on TF-CBT, trauma-informed care, and Secondary Traumatic Stress to programs across the country. Alison is the lead author on two workbooks on TF-CBT. She also specializes in Culturally Modified TF-CBT with a focus on Latino children and families. She has presented at numerous conferences and has published several journal articles on a wide variety of topics related to childhood trauma. Alison graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Psychology from Columbia University and completed her MSW at Hunter College School of Social Work. She lives in San Diego with her husband and daughter.
Henry Ford Health System
Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is a comprehensive health system that provides an array of services at all levels of care for all age groups. Annually, care provided by HFHS includes over 2 million patient visits, 78,000 ambulatory surgeries and 93,000 hospital admissions. HFHS is also one of Michigan's largest and most experienced providers of behavioral health services, including 5 outpatient clinics, 10 integrated care clinics, an inpatient unit, intensive substance use treatment facilities, and school- and community-based health clinics. HFHS is the primary safety net hospital in Detroit. Nearly 60% of patients have Medicaid or Medicare, and the system provides ~$500 million in uncompensated care for uninsured patients each year. Our newest SAMHSA grant seeks to improve the capacity and provision of trauma-focused services within pediatric behavioral health and integrated care clinics across HFHS. Children ages 4-17 years will be served through this project and will be identified and referred for services through screening at well visits, inpatient stays, ED visits, and behavioral health care appointments. To do so, we are implementing two trauma-focused treatments, the Attachment, Regulation and Competency Framework (ARC) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), while increasing identification of and referral to treatment for child traumatic stress. Our goal is to have our Child Trauma Specialty Service become the central hub for treatment of child trauma in the metro Detroit area, which includes a population of over 850,000 children under age 18.
Hernandez, Michelle A.
Michelle A. Hernandez was a clinician at Kristi House in Miami, Florida, for ten years before going into private practice. She served as a program coordinator for children with sexual behavior problems and received specialized training in PSB-CBT from Oklahoma University as part of a collaborative program. Michelle was part of an expert panel aimed at implementation of PSB-CBT in community agencies. She is also certified in TF-CBT and provides consultation for agencies seeking to be trauma informed. Her private practice treats a diverse population seeking treatment for trauma resolution. She also works with providers that are experiencing secondary traumatic stress. She continues to be involved with the NCTSN in areas of trauma informed care and complex trauma.
Hill-Ford, Cindy
The Center for Restorative Solutions (C4RS) was founded by Cindy Hill-Ford, MFT in 2014 to promote the use of an integrated approach to Restorative and Trauma Informed Practices (known as RTIPs) as a means to enhance the capacity of those who seek to help children, youth and families in communities afflicted by chronic poverty and violence overcome adversity and thrive. C4RS partners and associates provide program development, training, and consultative services designed to promote the development of restorative and trauma informed educational, mental health, and community-based service delivery systems that seek to support those dealing with the impacts of trauma. In 2018-19, C4RS is collaborating with the Urban Youth Trauma Center of the University of Illinois-Chicago Department of Psychiatry, the California School Based Health Alliance, (RJOY) Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, the West Contra Costa Unified School District, NCTSN affiliates, and youth serving organizations in Northern California to develop and empower the development of restorative and trauma informed ervice delivery systems and promote trauma healing.
Himmeger, Marla, LSW
Marla Himmeger initially participated in NCTSN activities through the Cullen Center in 2003 and has been an individual affiliate since that time. Prior to retirement from the Ohio Department of Mental Health in 2012, she was involved in organizing Ohio's Childhood Trauma Task Force and continues to participate in several local, state and NCTSN activities. She serves as co-chair of the 0-6 collaborative group and also is a member of the CWTTT subcommittee.
Hollywood Homeless Youth Partnership
The Hollywood Homeless Youth Partnership (HHYP) is a strategic alliance of eight youth-serving agencies working to prevent and reduce homelessness among youth in Hollywood. The members of the HHYP are: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Covenant House California, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Youth Emerging Stronger, My Friend’s Place, Step Up on Second, Aviva Family and Child Services, and a partner agency, Safe Place for Youth. The HHYP works to shape the service environment, increase youth access to housing and supportive services, and advocate for policy changes needed to prevent and reduce youth homelessness. The HHYP operates from a trauma-informed lens and provides trauma training to youth serving agencies working with youth experiencing homelessness.
Homer, Dominique
Dominique Homer was the Child Trauma Prevention Coordinator for the Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services. As the child trauma initiative for the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, we worked to increase trauma-focused and trauma-informed care in Philadelphia. PACTS trained clinicians on TFCBT, educated the community on childhood trauma, and partnered with child-serving systems. Prior to her time with PACTS, she worked in Philadelphia's school system where she implemented trauma-informed practices withchildren who had been impacted by trauma. These interventions helped students to build resilience and improve their overall experiences in school. Dominique is still involved with NCTSN, and is interested in shaping traumainformed and anti-racist programs, discipline, and policies within school systems.
Hubbard, Rebecca J.
Rebecca J. Hubbard was formerly a clinician at Directions for Mental Health, Healing the Hurt, the Center for Child & Family Health, and the Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center. Currently Rebecca provides Trauma Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy to children and adults who have experienced trauma. During her time in the network she was one of the authors of the white paper on complex trauma and one of the authors of the article in Psychiatric Annals in 2005 that evolved from the white paper. Rebecca was a member of the Complex Trauma workgroup, and the Psychological First Aid workgroup. She remains involved with NCTSN activities focused on complex trauma and LGBTQ youth.