Angela Combs is a Licensed Psychological Practitioner who has over two decades of clinical experience working with children/adolescents and their families with a specialization in trauma. Specific areas of clinical interest and experience include complex trauma and traumatic grief. Ms. Combs is currently in private practice providing evidenced based treatments and trauma-informed psychological assessments for children and adolescent trauma survivors. Ms. Combs has expertise in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral, Family Therapy modalities, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and trauma-informed psychological assessments. Prior to this, she obtained a Masters in Counseling Psychology from The University of Kentucky and obtained an undergraduate degree in psychology from Kent State University. Ms. Combs has also previously worked at the University of Kentucky's Center on Trauma and Children (CTAC) in both the Child and Adolescent Trauma, Treatment, and Training Institute (CATTTI) program and at the Comprehensive Assessment and Training Project (CATS). While at CTAC she provided evidence-based, trauma-informed therapies and assessments, caregiver risks assessments, psychological testing, and trauma-informed training for child welfare workers, court system, mental health providers, and foster/adoptive parents.
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.
Combs, Angela, MS
Community Association of Progressive Dominicans, Inc.
Community Health Resources (CHR)/Child & Family Division
CHR is pleased to present Hope through Expanded Access to Local trauma treatment (HEAL), our plan to expand access to evidence-based trauma-focused treatment and services for youth and their families who have experienced traumatic events. As a comprehensive behavioral health provider, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC), and provider of 24/7 mobile crisis services, CHR is well poised to implement HEAL in a variety of clinical settings successfully. CHR has decades of clinical experience treating trauma-related mental disorders and evaluating the success of interventions. We understand the profound impact of trauma, particularly on children who have not developed the emotional and cognitive capacity to process feelings and information, often leading to significant emotional and physical health problems. CHR began providing trauma-focused EBTs for children in 2007 with our participation in a TF-CBT Collaborative, a DCF sponsored initiative to introduce EB models in CT. We currently offer the model at five of our outpatient sites. Since 2007, we have added ARC and MATCH-ADTC to our menu of treatment models.
Community, Intake, and Prevention Team (CIP)
JJPI was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Center City Philadelphia. JJPI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping individuals and their families heal, in a safe environment that promotes both recovery and resiliency. JJPI is a regional leader in the treatment of trauma and is one of only a few organizations that treats the entire cycle of sexual abuse, providing treatment for survivors of sexual abuse as well as those who have exhibited problem sexual behavior. JJPI offers several evidence-based treatments for trauma, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). JJPI also offers community outreach, training, and education to Philadelphia and surrounding communities.
Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes' Child & Youth Trauma Services Program
The CSKT Child & Youth Trauma Services Program provides Trauma Treatment to youth ages 3-18, and their families. We utilize Trauma Focused CBT, as well as other evidence-based treatments that can be adapted to serve Native American families. We also provide Trauma Training to the community and Mental Health professionals, in order to become a trauma-informed community.
Conroy, Tiffany, MSW, LISW
I am a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with 10 years experience in both mental health and public health. Currently, I work as a clinician in a private practice in the Des Moines area, and also do training and consultation on a variety of topics (e.g. The Cost of Caring, Trauma Informed Systems Change, Trauma Informed Public Health, etc.) through an LLC. Prior to joining my current practice, I worked in community mental health and a trauma-treatment program in Chicago (Children's Research Triangle) for six years, specializing in complex trauma and survivors of violent crime. After returning to Iowa in 2016, I spent four years working in public health where I specialized in injury and violence prevention and response. My years in public health enrich my clinical practice as I use the Social Ecological Model (SEM) to understand how people both interact with, and are affected by, factors at each level of the SEM: Individual (biological and personal history factors); Relationship (the close relationships that contribute to their experience); Community (the places and spaces in which people live, work, play, and learn); Societal (social/cultural norms, and the policies/practices of the broader society).
Conte, Alice, MA, PD, NCC, CAP
I have over 30 years experience working with at risk youth and families in residential, outpatient, education and juvenile justice settings. I have recently retired from my clinical work and I am now focusing on training and consulting with other agencies and organizations on trauma, vicarious trauma and trauma informed care. I have experience training in child welfare, juvenile justice, education, medical and social service agencies. I am qualified in EMDR, TF-CBT, SPARCS, Clinical Hypnosis, and Adlerian Family Therapy.
Cornell University
The high prevalence of traumatic exposure among the 56,000 youth in residential care requires provision of high-quality trauma-informed care to help address the high rates of functional impairments among these youth. The Creating Trauma Informed Residential Settings Center, located in Cornell University’s Residential Child Care Project (RCCP), will increase the reach and quality of trauma-informed services in residential settings by expanding the use of two milieu-wide, organization-level interventions developed by RCCP: Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) and Children and Residential Experiences (CARE). TCI is a trauma-informed crisis prevention and management system; CARE is a principle-based, multi-component, trauma-informed program model designed to transform the residential care setting by enhancing the social dynamics through targeted staff development and ongoing reflective practice. Specific goals of the Center are to: 1) Facilitate implementation and sustainability of the milieu-wide TCI and CARE interventions through development and dissemination of materials and processes that support high-quality, trauma-informed practices (e.g. procedures for data-informed decision making and monitoring; communities of practice for collaborative learning); 2) Provide a national platform for advocating and advancing the use of trauma informed practices in residential settings (e.g. dissemination of information and resources about trauma informed care through a website, in person networking and educational opportunities, and publications); and 3) Provide leadership and expertise in the NCTSN in assessing and applying trauma-informed practices in setting-level crisis prevention and management systems and program models in residential settings.
Corvalan-Wood, Jenny
Corwin, Dave L., MD
Dr. Corwin serves as Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is board certified in Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He has worked as a lecturer, consultant, evaluator and/or expert witness addressing child abuse cases throughout the United States and other countries including Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Israel, South Korea, Japan and Thailand. Dr. Corwin is a founder of the California and American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (CAPSAC & APSAC), the Ray E. Helfer Society, and the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA). As liaison from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, he chaired the transition of the AMA’s National Advisory Council on Violence and Abuse into the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse between 2009 and 2011. Dr. Corwin has ongoing interests in the evaluation, mitigation and prevention of the adverse health impacts associated with exposure to violence and abuse across the lifespan and currently serves as the President of the Academy on Violence and Abuse which is dedicated to increasing the education of health professionals about and research on the health impacts of violence and abuse. In 2012, he was re-elected to the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and serves currently as the Secretary for the Society. Jon Conte, APSAC’s first President referred to Dr. Corwin as the "Father of APSAC" at APSAC's its 25th Anniversary celebration. In early 2012, the AVA released a DVD entitled the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Dr. Corwin served as the DVD’s Executive Producer. Dr. Corwin continues teaching, networking, program development, professional society leadership, clinical and forensic consultation.