The Alaska Child Trauma Center at Alaska Behavioral Health provides comprehensive evidenced-based services to children and families impacted by trauma. It has served as an implementation center for ARC (Attachment Self-Regulation and Competency) Framework. The Alaska Child Trauma Center serves as a center of expertise in trauma treatment throughout Alaska with locations in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Treatment interventions include ARC treatment, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and Child Parent Psychotherapy. The center specializes in early childhood intervention, transition age youth and serving military families.
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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.
Alaska Child Trauma Center
Funding Period:
2005-2009, 2016-2021, 2021-2026
Location:
Folker Street
Anchorage
, AK
99508
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AltaMed Health Services Corp - Westlake / La Linterna
Funding Period:
2022-2027
La Linterna is an interdisciplinary clinic that is a partnership between AltaMed’s CHLA Westlake Clinic and CHLA’s Behavioral Health Institute, as well as the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law and Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. It provides trauma-informed medical care, a mental health screener, a legal consultation, and case management support to migrant children from birth up to the age of 21. The program is committed to providing strength-based, culturally-affirmative, and co-located services that can overcome healthcare barriers often faced by migrant children and families in need. La Linterna partners with other medical and mental health programs within CHLA and local agencies to best enhance children’s resilience and capacity to thrive. Mental health services delivered at CHLA may include TF-CBT, CPP, and PCIT, as well as the 10-week La Monarca intervention group for migrant youth and families. La Linterna providers also deliver workshops and trainings to other healthcare providers regarding best practices in working with migrant youth, and host an annual series of Talleres de Bienestar in for the general Spanish-speaking Los Angeles community.
Location:
2100 W. 3rd St. Suite 200
Los Angeles
, CA
90057
Staff:
Another Choice, Another Chance, Community Child Trauma Treatment Center
Funding Period:
2012-2016, 2017-2022
Another Choice, Another Chance will provide outpatient Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) to children and youth aged 3–18 from diverse ethnic backgrounds, who live at or below the poverty level, and who have been victims of sexual exploitation and abuse. The center will provide 12–20 sessions of individual, group, and/or family treatment services to 200 children/youth and their parents or other primary caregivers.
Location:
Sacramento
, CA
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Association of Africans Living in Vermont
Funding Period:
2020-2025
The Association of Africans Living in Vermont (AALV.Inc) is a community-based nonprofit organization located in Burlington, Vermont. AALV has delivered bilingual/bicultural bridging case-management services for thousands of refugees resettling in Vermont from all parts of the world. This includes immigrant youth, adults, and families since 2005, and is among the most respected providers nationally of the Office of Refugee Resettlement's Ethnic Community Self-Help model of refugee assistance. The programs offered by AALV are many, and include both a youth development program, providing tutoring and mentoring to refugee and immigrant youth with the aim of providing a safe community space for young people and to work towards improving school performance; and a health and behavioral health program, focused on health promotion, referrals to medical and mental health providers, mutual support for survivors of sexual violence, and health education.
Location:
Burlington
, VT
Staff:
Aurora Mental Health Center
Funding Period:
2001-2005, 2016-2021, 2021-2026
The Trauma Resilience Youth Program (TRYP) was established in 2016 as a five-year grantee from SAMHSA and National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative–Category 3 (2016-2021), and continues to be a SAMHSA funded NCTSI Cat III grantee (2021-2026). TRYP aims to address disparities in accessibility to mental health services for refugee and immigrant families who have resettled in Colorado, as well as to provide treatment needs specific to cultural adaptations and implementation in a service system that effectively engages and retains this specific population. Over the five year grant period, we aim to serve at least 690 children and families. Programming includes providing direct evidence-based mental disorder treatment and services including screening, assessment, case management, therapy, prevention, interpretation, and cultural brokerage.
Location:
791 Chambers Rd.
Aurora
, CO
80011
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Azusa Pacific University, Community Counseling Center
Funding Period:
2021-2026
Azusa Pacific University's Community Counseling Center (CCC) offers culturally sensitive, multidisciplinary mental health and psychological assessment services for clients of all ages across the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County. Located in the city of Azusa, CA, and working with local cities and school districts, the center is a trusted leader in mental health prevention and intervention, including trauma-informed care. The center is committed to advancing wellness by facilitating client access to care, and engaging the community through a collaborative approach to service delivery. An active leader and participant on San Gabriel Valley health consortiums, APU's CCC is committed to robust training opportunities and quality client care. Services include individual, child, family, and couples work.
Location:
918 E. Alosta Avenue
Azusa
, CA
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Baystate Health
Funding Period:
2009-2012, 2012-2016, 2016-2021, 2021-2026
The Building Resiliency in Young Children (BRYC) program at Baystate Medical Center has the overarching goal of improving access to and quality of trauma-informed services for all children 0-5 years old and their caregivers. BRYC is expanding access to and coordination of trauma-informed early childhood mental health services by providing trauma-informed mental health screening and assessments, evidence-based trauma-informed therapy (Child Parent Psychotherapy and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), and psychoeducation groups for foster parents and biological caregivers. BRYC collaborates with existing infant and early childhood systems of care to provide trauma-informed educational opportunities for child serving professionals and clinicians.
Location:
300 Carew Street
Springfield
, MA
01104
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BestSelf Behavioral Health Inc.
Funding Period:
2021-2026
BestSelf Behavioral Health, Inc. (BestSelf) is the largest community-based behavioral health organization in Western New York, serving over 41,000 children, youth, and adults in more than 70 locations. Our mission is to provide innovative, evidence-based, accessible, and family-focused behavioral health services to promote health, hope, recovery, and an enhanced quality of life. BestSelf is a trauma-informed agency that provides caring and compassionate patient-centered mental health treatment and medication therapy for those living with behavioral health diagnoses, including: anxiety, bipolar disorder, complex trauma, depression, emotional disorders, family relationship problems, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, self-harming thoughts or behavior, severe emotional disturbances, and schizophrenia. We provide many innovative evidence-based therapies including: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), trauma focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and Seeking Safety. BestSelf provides these evidence-based treatments through a variety of programs including: 12 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs); 16 school based mental health clinics; 6 pediatric office based mental health clinics; Building Brighter Futures school-based programs to provide social-emotional supports, academic assistance, and enrichment opportunities; and the Child Advocacy Center at BestSelf (CAC). The CAC provides services to sexually and physically abused children and youth. The CAC brings together law officials and medical, mental health, and child protection professionals to help children and their families with a single, child-friendly coordinated response. The CAC’s Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) has representation from law enforcement, district attorneys, child protective services, children’s hospital, mental health, and victim advocacy.
Location:
430 Niagara Street
Buffalo
, NY
14202
Website:
Care Plus NJ, Inc.
Funding Period:
2018-2023
Care Plus is a private not-for profit organization that provides a multitude of health, social and behavioral services for youth, adults and families in Northern NJ. The Bergen Trauma Treatment Center's goal is to improve upon the quality of trauma services for children, adolescents and families by increasing the access of effective treatments models, the necessary tools and by serving as a community resource to promote trauma-informed quality care. This will be done using Learning Community type approaches, where partners will work together to ensure trauma-informed practices are integrated across systems and become consistent practice. Partner meetings, training sessions, outreach effort, resource materials, consultation services, supervision and capacity developmentt are all activities that will be included. The evidenced based treatment models that we are bringing to our school, in-home and out-patient clinicians are, EMDR and ARC (Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competence). We will screen all program youth and adolescents for trauma using the TSSCA, and we will refer and treat those identified youth with trauma trained expert clinicians.
Location:
Paramus
, NJ
Staff:
CARES Institute
Funding Period:
2003-2007, 2022-2027
The CARES Institute at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine is internationally recognized for its leadership with respect to research, education, and services for children and families impacted by abuse and other traumas. Mental health services, training, and research are under the direction of Esther Deblinger, PhD, co-developer of Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). This project ultimately seeks to enhance the availability and accessibility of evidence-based therapy for trauma-exposed youth. This will be accomplished through: 1) a post-graduate fellowship program in which fellows receive comprehensive training in trauma-informed evidence-based services and related professional development activities; 2) the use of engagement strategies with caregivers that seek to overcome barriers to starting treatment to enhance initiation and completion of evidence-based trauma-focused therapy; 3) providing a self-care course for TF-CBT-trained clinicians throughout the country, particularly those working with underserved populations, designed to reduce secondary traumatic stress and burnout, and increase effective coping and clinical competency.
Location:
42 East Laurel Rd
Stratford
, NJ
08084
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