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.
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.
Las Cumbres Community Services
Lee, Lindsay, LCSW
Lindsay Lee is the Project Manager for the Restorative Justice Partnership (RJP), a coalition of racial justice, education, labor, and community groups working to ensure widespread and high quality implementation of restorative practices in Denver and nationwide. Before joining the team at RJP, Lindsay worked as the Director of Military and Restorative Programs with Project Fleur-de-lis in New Orleans, supporting individual schools as they began their journey towards becoming restorative schools and away from punitive discipline. This restorative program was built on a network of schools providing trauma counseling to students, and inspired by the need for a strong relational community in the school building to support the intensive work the young people were being asked to do. Lindsay spent three years as a school social worker advocating for restorative practices at the building level before shifting into a bigger picture role. Lindsay believes strongly in the mission of RJP, the importance of restorative justice practices as foundational to treating child trauma in education, ending the schoolto-prison pipeline and modeling the effectiveness and sustainability of community building as an alternative.
Lifebridge Community Services, Inc.
LifeBridge is a leading non-profit behavioral health organization located in Bridgeport, CT, that supports adults, children, and adolescents through mental health and substance use recovery. They offer individual, family, and group counseling, as well as medication management for their clients. All programs and services are offered through the lens of sensitivity to lived experiences, and policies, procedures, and spaces are developed with the goal of helping staff and patients feel physically and psychologically safe. Clients benefit from a team of dedicated licensed clinicians who are diverse, empathetic, warm, experienced, and effective. As a member of the Urban Trauma Provider Network, LifeBridge's clinicians receive specialized training in evidence-based practices to address urban and racial trauma known to be effective in aiding the healing process. Areas of expertise include individual and family therapy, trauma, youth and adult wellness, parent support groups, and art therapy. They partner with the Child Health and Development Institute to enhance their clinicians' competencies in treating children suffering from exposure to violence, abuse, and other forms of trauma using the evidence-based Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) model. LifeBridge embraces the importance of mental and emotional well-being, understanding it is as critical as physical health, and approaches their work with respect for the diverse cultures and backgrounds of the individuals we serve, believing that compassion is fundamental in helping individuals navigate crises, seek assistance, and achieve wellness.
LifeWorksNW/Children's Relief Nursery
Overview: LifeWorks NW™'s (LWNW™'s) Children™'s Relief Nursery™'s (CRN) purpose is to prevent abuse and neglect in children birth through five years of age by partnering with caregivers committed to strengthening their families. We provide wraparound services to families with challenging life circumstances. Our emphasis is on secure, safe and stable parent-child relationships and the social and emotional well-being of the youngest and most vulnerable of children. CRN has a range of core programs and services which include family risk factor assessments; therapeutic classrooms; respite child care; parenting classes; mental health intervention (infant-toddler mental health and Child Parent Psychotherapy-CPP); home visiting; and intensive case management. The program is tailored to engage and impact families using evidence based best practices to achieve positive outcomes. CRN serves communities with large minority and underserved populations, who are over represented in the child welfare system, and are residents living in North and Outer East Portland.
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Our Category II site at LIJ Medical Center is promoted by our STRYDD Center which as its name implies defines our mission: Supporting Trauma Recovery for Youth with Developmental Disabilities. We seek to increase the capacity of communities in awareness, cross systems collaboration and trauma informed intervention on behalf of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families who have been impacted by trauma. We strive to create a best fit in terms of community needs with an individualized dissemination plan to include increase in knowledge of trauma & IDD (by means of Road to Recovery Toolkit, Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma IDD case examples), enhancing trauma informed clinical care (consultation on screening/assessment, training in TF-CBT) and advanced training for tailoring trauma informed intervention for youth with IDD. We encourage all network members to become familiar with the unique challenges impacting this vulnerable population by accessing our several fact sheets for providers and caregivers on the NCTSN website. Additionally, clinicians can review a series of webinars on adapting trauma based interventions for these youth. Our goals for this current funding cycle include the construction of various clinician guides to accompany our advanced trainings in Tailoring TF-CBT, Adapting Evidence-Based Trauma treatments more generally, and Trauma-Informed ABA. Additionally, we are implementing a school based approach in Stress First Aid (SFA) in support of the impact of COVID-19 on the school community, especially involving those serving special education students.
Lopinski, Carol, MSW, LCSW
Carol Lopinski and Associates, LLC's is a consulting firm. Its mission is to promote positive outcomes for all of Arizona's children, families, and communities by championing trauma-informed and trauma sensitive practices through quality family support and strengthening policies, training and practice. Carol Lopinski and Associates, LLC offers skills and experience that promote the well-being, strength and stability of Arizona's children and families, and the professionals who serve them.
Lourie Center: Parent-Child Clinical Services
The Lourie Center Parent-Child Mental Health Clinic provides mental health care to children from birth until the age of 12. The Parent-Child Mental Health Clinic serves children and families with a broad spectrum of emotional and behavioral difficulties, developmental challenges, and experiences of abuse and neglect. We excel at providing therapy grounded in relational, psychodynamic, attachment, and strength-based perspectives. The Parent-Child Mental Health Clinic prides itself on being a training institution, and being comprised of a team of professionals who share an unwavering commitment to professional growth and service to our clients. The majority of the children and families that we serve are from Black and Latino/Latinx communities, and we aim to provide therapy in a manner that that is grounded in social justice principles and that addresses the psychological effects of systems of oppression. Our SAMHSA-funded FASTT program was designed to provide families with consultative evaluations that aid in making appropriate and useful referrals to services and quickly linking families to the supports that they need. Treatment modalities offered include, individual play therapy, family or dyadic therapy, parent guidance sessions, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and Circle of Security Parenting groups. Other departments at the Lourie Center include Head Start, the Therapeutic Nursery Program, the Lourie Center's Montgomery County Infants and Toddlers Team, and the Lourie Center School.
LUK, Inc. Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center (CMCTC)
The Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center (CMCTC) is a division of LUK, Inc., a non-profit social service agency dedicated to improving the lives of youth and their families. The overarching vision of the CMCTC, in alignment with this goal, is to (1) build a sustainable capacity of providers to identify and treat trauma symptoms among children and their families utilizing evidence-based practices (EBPs) such as Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC), ARC Grow, and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) ; (2) to improve the functioning of children/youth and caregiving systems; (3) to support child-serving systems' learning about and adoption of trauma-informed practices, and; (4) to enhance best practices in the field through support of the work of others. CMCTC facilitates training through Intensive Learning Communities, provides ongoing consultation, and implementation of culturally competent, evidence-based therapeutic services across four programs, including Developing Resilience and Well-Being (DRAW), Building Resilience with Youth and Caregivers (BRYC), Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (CEDV), and Rapid Response Team (RRT) services, in addition to critical incident response.
Maddock, Meagan, LMSW
I am a bilingual (Spanish and English) LMSW specialized in working with unaccompanied and separated immigrant children in a variety of roles and settings. I have worked as a case manager, advocate, outreach coordinator, and therapist with refugee children and youth who have experienced complex trauma between the ages of 4 years-21 years. I worked for an ORR shelter during and after Zero Tolerance and saw first-hand the ways that immigrant children are often further traumatized after crossing the southern border. I am trauma-informed, child-centered, culturally-attuned and justice-oriented in my approach.