We will provide a care process model for pediatric trauma stress (CMPT) and trauma-reminder focused interventions, including Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCTA), a Family Intervention for Suicide Prevention (FISP), and a Reminder Focused Positive Psychiatry intervention (RFPP) - in collaboration with NCTSN Category II Centers for adolescents with PTSD and their families at Olive View UCLA Medical Center (OVMC). Clinicians and nurses at Pediatric Clinics, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), and Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall mental health clinics will achieve trauma-informed skillset and competency to implement. Trauma-informed screening: CMPT will be primarily implemented in pediatric and mental health clinics, screening 1,500 at-risk adolescents for PTSD per year for a total of 7,500 adolescents. Adolescents at risk for PTSD will be evaluated using the Pediatric Traumatic Stress Screening Tool, and based on the adolescent's trauma symptom severity and the presence of functional impairment in the adolescent's life, adolescents with PTSD will be assigned to one of three treatment interventions, including protective – for mild symptoms, - resilient – for moderate symptoms - or restorative – for severe symptoms. Trauma Reminder Interventions: FISP, TGCTA, and RFPP interventions will be implemented at OVMC. The project will provide evidence-based interventions to 210 youth with PTSD and their families per year for a total of 1,050 youth. The population of focus is trauma-exposed adolescents 9 to 18 years old. This includes children of military families, children involved in the child welfare system, children in pediatric clinics, and adolescents with co-morbid substance use disorders across underserved youth in north Los Angeles.
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.
Olive View UCLA Education and Research Institute
One Hope United Northern Region, The Healing Path: A Trauma Treatment Program for Youth
The Healing Path: A Trauma Treatment Program for Youth provides assessment and treatment of trauma in children into the mental health, substance abuse, schools, and juvenile justice systems in Lake County. An evidence-based approach; Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) used to treat traumatic stress symptoms in children aged 3 to 18. Medicaid and some private insurance is accepted.
Ozark Center, Inc.,
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Ozark Center, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, has been providing behavioral health services since February 1965 and became an entity of Freeman Health System in 1996. We employ employees in 30 locations across Jasper, Newton, McDonald and Barton counties, and serve approximately 14,000 clients.
At Ozark Center, we continually seek new ways to provide quality services to our clients by exploring new products, services and locations in an effort to provide our clients with quality mental healthcare. We believe that a community-based system is inherently more responsive to the needs of the community and the individuals served.
Since opening, we have continued to expand services and programs in the communities we serve through innovation, pursuit of grants, fundraising activities and passion for providing gold-standard, evidence-based services. This is reflected in our mission statement. To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, trauma-informed, quality healthcare solutions. As the area™s largest and most comprehensive behavioral healthcare provider, our qualified staff provides effective, caring and confidential services for adults, families and children, including:
Individual, group and family therapy
Psychiatric services/medication management
Residential care
Acute inpatient care
24-hour crisis services
In-home support
Our goal is to assist people of all ages who are dealing with mental illness, addiction, trauma and/or abuse to develop the skills essential for living a life with dignity and purpose. Ozark Center provides a comprehensive system of mental healthcare programs from outpatient to hospitalization.
Packard, Jennifer
Jen Packard in a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in working with youth, adults, families and systems that have been impacted by trauma. She currently serves as the Social Work Coordinator for the Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program with the Atlanta Veterans Affairs (VA). Jen is a national trainer in Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) through the Center for Trauma Training, Inc. She is certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and is an approved TF-CBT supervisor. In her client-focused work, Jen incorporates her training and experience with evidence-based models such as EMDR, ARC, and TF-CBT, as well as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Jen also practices from the paradigms of interpersonal neurobiology, attachment, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy. She incorporates play and art therapy principles and techniques in her work as well as trauma-informed yoga. Jen was previously the Director of Project 180, a SAMHSA funded project through CHRIS 180, a non-profit organization in Atlanta, GA, which aimed to build the trauma-informed workforce, increase access to school-based mental health services, and develop trauma-informed schools. Jen was also a clinical supervisor, trainer, and therapist at CHRIS 180. Jen earned her BFA in Contemporary Dance from University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1999 and earned her MS in Social Work from Columbia University School of Social Work in 2008.
Parrinello, Brittany, MA, LSW
Brittany Parrinello, MA, LSW previously worked as a clinical case manager for the Kovler Center Child Trauma Program, providing culturally adapted, evidence-based individual and group therapy, as well as case management to immigrant and refugee children and youth. Brittany currently works as a clinical psychotherapist in a group practice in Chicago Illinois.
Parton, Becky, MSW, LICSW
Patti Park, PsyD
Patti Park has extensive experience in executive and senior leadership positions in community mental health organizations serving children and families throughout Los Angeles County, and has been providing direct clinical services since 2001. She was involved in the planning and implementation of Proposition 63 funded trauma-focused and evidence-based programs in L.A. County. She has served on county best practices committees to enhance assessment and treatment for children involved in the child welfare system. Her most recent agencybased leadership role was as Regional Director for Children’s Institute, Inc. In this position, she provided strategic and organizational leadership to develop and sustain comprehensive trauma-focused and evidence-based programs to children and families suffering from the intersecting effects of poverty, oppression and trauma. She integrates her clinical and leadership experiences into her teaching role at UC Berkeley, where she teaches theory and clinical practice courses through a trauma-informed lens. She has also taught at UCLA and CSU Dominguez Hills. In addition to teaching, Dr. Park maintains a private practice where she provides psychotherapy and consultation services.
Pauter, Sarah, MPPA
Sarah Pauter is the founder and CEO of Phenomenal Families, a nonprofit organization that provides pregnant and parenting youth in foster care and juvenile probation access to education and other resources which promote healthy relationships, sexual development, and positive parenting skills. After spending 17 years in the child welfare system before ultimately emancipating, Sarah earned a Bachelor’s in Social Work from San Diego State University and a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration from Northwestern University. Sarah has dedicated her life and career to improving outcomes for vulnerable children and youth, even testifying before Congress and the California Senate on mental health treatment options for young people in foster care. Sarah was previously a Trauma-Informed Systems Transformation Specialist with the Chadwick Center for Children and Families where she co-led the development of the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (3rd ed.). Her skills include partnering with children, youth, and families, policy formulation and implementation, and stakeholder engagement.
Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic
The Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic (PSADC) at the University of Illinois, Chicago, specializes in early identification, comprehensive evaluation, and evidence-based treatment of stress and anxiety disorders in diverse youth from age 4 years through older adolescents. The multi-disciplinary PSADC team strives to work with families to create an individualized treatment program tailored to each patient and their symptoms. Individualized treatment programming may include cognitive behavioral therapy, parent guidance, family therapy, coordination with schools for school-based interventions, and medication management. PSADC is a Community Treatment Center site of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Through its newly funded project, Service-partners Promoting Awareness, Resilience, and Knowledge-based Solutions (SPARKS), PSADC strives to provide a comprehensive, coordinated, and collaborative set of evidence-based trauma informed services to address this multiplicity of clinical care needs among targeted Chicagoland youth and families. Clinicians and researchers work collaboratively in the PSADC to understand risk and protective factors in diverse youth with anxiety disorders, facilitate transportability of evidence-based practices for anxiety to the school and community, and explore neurobiological correlates of childhood anxiety. Project SPARKS serves to increase evidence-based strategies for outreach, engagement, screening, assessment, prevention, and intervention strategies along with supporting continued protocol implementation, increased cultural competence, child service system coordination and resource exchange in the Chicago metropolitan and suburban areas.
Penfield Children's Center- Behavior Clinic
Penfield Children's Center (PCC) will use SAMHSA funding to provide evidence-based home-based trauma-focused treatment in Milwaukee County, WI, as well as expand services to neighboring Waukesha County, for children, ages 0 to 6, who have been exposed to (experienced or witnessed) potentially traumatic events and have trauma symptoms. A total of 1,625 children and their families will be served (275 in Year 1, 300 in Year 2, and 350 in each of years 3-5). The EBP, Early Pathways (EP), was developed specifically at PCC to treat very young children exposed to trauma by Marquette University (MU) faculty. The success of this home-based approach for this population has been well-documented in multiple studies, including four randomized controlled trials (RCTs) documenting effectiveness for reducing disruptive behavior disorders and externalizing/antisocial behaviors, improving the family-child relationship, improving general functioning and well-being, improving social functioning/competence, reducing unspecified and other mental health disorders, and improving parenting behaviors.