Betsy Rogers worked with Aurora Mental Health Center for 22 years, including participating in two NCTSN grants (awards in 2001 and 2016). Formerly the program manager for early childhood services she provided mental health services to young children and their families and supported the team in acquiring expertise in Child Parent Psychotherapy, Parent Child Interaction Therapy and Trauma Focused CBT. She provided the Child Welfare Trauma Training and the Resilience Alliance in partnership with the local child welfare agency. She is currently involved with Core Curriculum for Child Trauma and state-wide training efforts for DC: 0-5. Current work is focused on providing reflective supervision and consultation to direct service providers and supervisors who work with young children and working with training programs in Colorado including the Harris Community Fellowship at the University of Colorado Denver.
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.
Rogers, Betsy, LCSW
Rogers, Brandy, LPC, RPT-S, CPCS, CFMHE
Brandy Rogers previously worked as a Play Therapist at CHRIS 180 and the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy. Here she gained extensive training and experience in providing trauma therapy using TF-CBT and ARC therapy models. In private practice Brandy sees infants and young children exposed to trauma and adverse childhood experiences and provides Child Parent Psychotherapy to these young children and their caregivers. Brandy also continues to serve older children and adults with general mental health diagnoses as well as trauma histories. Brandy is an Affiliate Member of NCTSN and is involved in the Child Sexual Abuse, Healthy Sexual Development, and Zero to Six collaborative workgroups.
Rompala, Vikki MSW, LCSW
Vikki Rompala was the Co-Chair of the Partnering with Youth and Families Committee at NCTSN and the Program Evaluation and Consumer Initiative Coordinator at La Rabida Children's Hospital Chicago Child Trauma Center. She now oversees outcomes, program development, and professional development at Rush Medical Center. She provides training on various areas of practice including: facilitation skills, utilizing assessment tools for engagement of clients and producing outcomes, Strengthening Families Coping Resources trainer for the FITT center, and remains involved with creating trauma-informed services for many different service sectors including domestic violence, child welfare, youth development, early childhood, and outpatient mental health settings.
Rosenzweig, Kim, PhD
Dr. Rosenzweig is a Clinical Psychologist at St. Aloysius in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is certified in in TF-CBT, and also trained in other evidence-based practices such as Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy during her time working at the NCTSN Affiliate Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The majority of her current caseload consists of trauma-focused cases such as child abuse, traumatic grief, and complex trauma.
Ross, Margaret (Maggie), LPC
Maggie Ross is a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey with extensive knowledge and experience working with individuals who have experienced trauma. Maggie is trained and has experience in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Maggie has prior experience as a Trauma Trainer Specialist for the Bergen Trauma Training Center at Care Plus New Jersey providing trauma-informed trainings to clinicians, schools, and communities.
Ruisard, Debra, DSW, MSW
Dr. Debra Ruisard DSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor with extensive knowledge and experience working with individuals who have early childhood experiences of complex trauma. She has over 15 years of experience working in inpatient, outpatient, residential and private practice settings specializing in treating adolescents and caregiving adults who have experienced traumatic stress and co-occurring substance use disorders. She currently has a private practice at Ivy Counseling Group in Skillman, NJ treating adolescents and adults with trauma histories. She also provides counseling services to survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking at a permanent safe housing program in New Brunswick NJ. She is rostered as a Child Parent Psychotherapist and is certified in Attachment-based EMDR.
Runyon, Melissa, PhD
Melissa K. Runyon, Ph.D. is currently a licensed psychologist in Prospect, Kentucky. Dr. Runyon began her career in 1997 at the Miami University School of Medicine’s Child Protection Team in Miami, Florida where she founded and directed the Family and Child Treatment Services (FACTS) program. In 1999 she took a position as Treatment Services Director of the CARES (Child Abuse Research Education and Service) Institute where she achieved the rank of professor of psychiatry at Rowan SOM. For nearly 16 years, Dr. Runyon provided oversight of clinical activities related to the delivery of the two evidence-based therapies (EBTs), Combined Parent-Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT) and Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), developed at the CARES Institute. Dr. Runyon has been the principal investigator or Project Director on grants supporting research or services from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse Mental Health and Services Administration, and private foundations to support their research, training and service efforts. Dr. Runyon provides consultation in the development of systems of trauma-informed care and to organizations that are developing programs to address the needs of children exposed to trauma, abuse and violence. Dr. Runyon also provides training and consultation in the United States and abroad to mental heath therapists in CPC-CBT and TF-CBT. In order to increase children and families access to care, training is also provided to child protection case workers, intake workers, and treating therapists in evidence-based engagement strategies to increase the likelihood that children and families involved in the child welfare system seek services, attend initial intake appointments and follow through with services.
Rutgers University-Children's Center for Resilience & Trauma Recovery
The Rutgers Children's Center for Resilience and Trauma Recovery (CCRTR) is a grant funded agency focused on engaging mental health professionals, community members, and caregivers in educational opportunities that increase the knowledge of youth mental health needs and provide the practical evidence-informed skills needed to support youth with mental health concerns. It is our mission to invite all voices into discussions about youth mental health and the best strategies to support them within their communities so that we truly create healing environments.
Ryan, Caitlin, PhD, ACSW
Caitlin Ryan, PhD, ACSW is a clinical social worker, researcher and director of the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) who has worked on LGBTQ health and mental health for more than 40 years. She conducted the first research on LGBTQ youth and families and developed the first evidence-based family support model to prevent risk and promote well-being for LGBTQ children and youth. FAP's family support model helps ethnically, racially and religiously diverse families to support their LGBTQ children to prevent risk and promote well-being in the context of their families, cultures, and faith communities. Her work shows how specific family rejecting and accepting behaviors contribute to risk and well-being for LGBTQ children and youth and helps caregivers understand the traumatic impact of family rejecting behaviors that many parents use to try to change, prevent and minimize their child's LGBTQ identity to try to help their LGBTQ children fit in, stay connected with their cultural and faith traditions and be accepted by others. FAP's approach to increasing family support for LGBTQ children and youth was designed to be implemented across systems, including behavioral health, school-based services, primary care, out-of-home care and pastoral care. Dr. Ryan collaborated with Allegheny General Hospital's Center for Traumatic Stress in Children & Adolescents and the developers of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) to integrate FAP's family support model and TF-CBT to develop a new integrated family-based treatment model for care of LGBTQ children and youth who have experienced trauma. She has developed multilingual evidence-based family education resources and trains on this work across the U.S. and in other countries.
Salek, Jenna, LCSW
Jenna Salek is a licensed clinical social worker currently working in private practice with children, adolescents, and adults. She is a nationally certified provider of TF-CBT and previously worked in community mental health in Boston and Chicago. She most recently worked at the Kovler Center Child Trauma Program, an NCTSN funded site in Chicago that provides trauma-informed services to immigrant and refugee youth from around the world. She has experience providing direct clinical care, supervision to graduate students, and trainings to a variety of audiences including immigration attorneys, interpreters, and staff working in unaccompanied minor shelters. She is passionate about providing trauma-informed services to youth and training and support to professionals and looks forward to continuing her involvement with the NCTSN, especially the Forcibly Displaced Community of Practice.