As a designated Collaborative Trauma Center, The Village has expertise in trauma informed screening and treatment for children, youth and families. Recognizing that each individual who has experienced trauma responds in unique ways to treatment, the Trauma Center offers several treatment models, including: Attachment and Regulation Competency (ARC), Bounce Back, Child and Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma or Conduct Problems (MATCH), and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT). These treatment models are offered through a variety of our residential and outpatient programs and trauma history screening is provided. All of our residential and extended day treatment programs are implementing the Children and Residential Experiences Program Model.
The Trauma Center also helps to expand the capacity of schools and other child serving organizations by providing information, training, leadership development and other assistance on trauma informed care in order to strengthen the broader system of care for children affected by trauma.
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.
The Village For Families and Children
The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing - Resilient Scholar's Project
The Resilient Scholars Project (RSP) provides therapy and case management services to DC children/adolescents and their families affected by trauma and/or loss. RSP collaborates with youth, their families, and community partner staff to improve their understanding of trauma/loss and allow them to develop coping skills that are healthy and practical. Weekly sessions provide youth and their families the space to process their experiences and discover their innate resilience. RSP-Family Services are designed to supplement RSP-School Services by engaging entire families in the treatment process. Using the trauma adapted family connections (TA-FC) model, Culturally Modified Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CM-TFCBT), and/or Let's Connect (a caregiver focused model). RSP clinicians also aim to help families improve access to needed resources, increase safety skills, reduce youth absenteeism from school, and/or improve youth grades over a period of six months. RSP clinicians build on the treatment models used in RSP-School Services by incorporating principles from narrative therapy, motivational interviewing, and family systems therapy to work toward goals established with each family. By participating in activities, games, and conversations that help families learn about trauma/loss, families also work toward improving communication and family cohesion.
Thompson, Emily, MS
Emily Thompson is the Vice President of Community Programs with CHRIS 180, Inc. in Atlanta. She began her work with NCTSN in 2017. She has extensive experience in behavioral health program development and uses the ARC model in all program implementation and grant work. She serves over all foster care/adoption, TAY reentry and high-fidelity wraparound programs which are community-based. She also focuses on various federal grants addressing areas such as the opioid crisis and infant and early childhood mental health. Emily remains involved with Trauma Substance Abuse and Justice Consortium NCTSN groups.
Tonsing, Aya MPH
I have been in the field of public health and mental health; and was a part of the Improving the Wellness of Asian Youth (IWAY) project at Public Health Institute in Oakland, CA. IWAY provides Asian youth who have mild to moderate trauma with one-on-one counseling, healing-centered youth groups, and leadership opportunities.
Toyer, Tanya, MA, LPC (OH) LPC-CPCS(GA)
Ms. Toyer is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Supervisor (OH) and a Licensed Professional Counselor-CPCS (GA). Ms. Toyer is a leader in providing quality, holistic services for children, adolescents, adults and families. She specializes in evidence based practices including trauma-informed care and models as well as child-centered therapy. Ms. Toyer has over 20 years experience working with foster and adoptive children, substance exposed new born babies and their mothers, Military and Veteran families and children and families who have experienced complex trauma. Ms. Toyer is an active leader in forging community partnerships which enhance cooperation and community with the overall goal of preserving or restoring the safety, health and wellness of our nation's children.
Trauma and Community Resilience Center
Over the past two decades, our center has developed, adapted and disseminated evidence-informed trainings, resources, and intervention models with refugee and immigrant youth that support providers across diverse community and service-system settings. This includes Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R), an evidence-based multi-tier intervention that is effective in both engaging and treating traumatized refugee and immigrant youth. The purpose of this project is to provide national expertise on trauma-informed services for refugee and immigrant children and their families, and to support the continued adaptation and widespread dissemination of Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R), an empirically-supported clinical and organizational treatment model. The TCRC will provide widely-accessible training on trauma-informed best practices with refugee and immigrant children, and serve as a resource for providers working with other traumatized populations.
UAMS Project ARBEST
Arkansas Building Effective Services for Trauma (ARBEST) is a state-funded program at the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute which aims to improve outcomes for traumatized children and families through excellence in clinical care, training, advocacy, and evaluation. We work closely with child advocacy centers and other partners in the state to build a trauma-informed mental health system, and are best known for providing training to mental health professionals in treatments that are effective in helping children and families recover from trauma. We are actively training mental health professionals in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Through this training– in addition to direct services, technical support, and outreach in the community– we are transforming the delivery of mental health services in Arkansas, so that children and families who have experienced trauma can recover and move forward with their lives.
UC Davis Early Psychosis Programs, Department of Psychiatry
Comorbid trauma and psychosis are common yet under-recognized in juvenile justice (JJ), child welfare (CW), and community mental health (CMH) settings; and recognized youth do not receive appropriate services. The Trauma and Adolescent Mental Illness (TAMI) Services Project triples the capacity of service providers in Sacramento County, CA, to provide evidence-based services for youth (age 12-22) with comorbid trauma and psychosis in JJ, CW, and CMH settings. Project goals are: 1) Increase capacity of child-serving systems to identify and appropriately link youth experiencing trauma and psychosis symptoms by implementing a universal screening and referral protocol in Sac County JJ and CW settings; 2) Increase the capacity of Sac County CMH services to provide evidence-based trauma-focused care for youth with comorbid trauma and psychosis by implementing a curriculum that addresses the training needs of CMH providers. TAMI services comprise Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (TI-CBTp; Folk et al., 2019), developed in collaboration by the UC Davis (UCD) SacEDAPT clinic and UCD CAARE Center. We implemented TAMI services in the SacEDAPT clinic in 2014, have provided care to over 65 youth, and built capacity for 25 cases per year. Unfortunately, an estimated 100 system-involved youth need TAMI services annually in Sac County, and SacEDAPT is the only Sac County provider of TAMI services. This project will increase TAMI service capacity in Sac County by expanding to 6 additional CMH sites. Our team is uniquely positioned carry out this work: the SacEDAPT clinic and CAARE Center have an established partnership and are nationally recognized leaders in the development and implementation of EBPs for youth with trauma and psychosis in diverse settings.
UC Davis/ Pediatrics/ CAARE Diagnostic & Treatment Center
For more than 25 years, UC Davis CAARE Center has provided evidence-based treatment to maltreated children in Sacramento County and contributed to the evidence base supporting the use of these interventions with this vulnerable population. While mental health services are available to children in foster care, they can take months to begin, they may not receive services without obvious symptoms, and services targeted at the child rarely include the biological parent. Additionally, birth parents are often reluctant to seek help for difficult visits for fear that it will reflect poorly upon their parenting or extend the child's time in care. Resource caregivers also receive limited support for navigating the biological parent-resource parent relationship and may struggle with helping children cope with conflicted feelings and difficult visit interactions. The current Category III project screens children for trauma and comorbid disorders and provides an adaptation of the brief (7-session) Parent-Child Care (PC-CARE) intervention to all biological parents of children aged 1-10 years participating in visits. The adaptation combines three services: PC-CARE with biological parents to increase access to services and support good quality visits, consultation to resource parents around the visitation process and children's responses to trauma, and an online PC-CARE resource to promote generalization of skills to support children's well-being. PC-CARE offers a novel approach to supporting reunification and reducing children's trauma-related symptoms by providing empirically supported coping and parenting skills at a key point during the family's transition, without the family's need to seek out or wait for a referral for intervention.
UCLA - Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (CA)
The UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and the Duke University School of Medicine jointly host the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS), leading the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) in transforming treatment and services to meet the needs of traumatized children and their families across the United States. Through extensive expertise, resources, organizational experience, and vision, the NCCTS guides and supports the NCTSN. The NCCTS also provides strong technical assistance to support Network data collection, cross-site collaborative activities, product development and dissemination, training, adoption and adaptation of interventions, communications, policy analysis and initiatives, and program evaluation.