The Collaborative for Resilient Kids and Families in Minnesota is a partnership between the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, Watercourse Counseling Center, Somali American Parents Association, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio, Minneapolis Public Schools, and Boston Children's Hospital Trauma and Community Resilience Center. This collaboration aims to provide trauma-responsive, culturally, and linguistically relevant mental health support to East African and Latinx children, youth, and their families in Minneapolis. Specifically, the project objectives include (1) engaging Latinx and East African communities in trauma-responsive mental health services at all services levels; (2) improving psychosocial outcomes for East African and Latinx children attending MPS; (3) increasing capacity in Minnesota to address refugee and immigrant trauma that reflects cultural needs; and (4) utilizing outcome evaluation data to increase support and sustainability for the model statewide.
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.
Collaborative for Resilient Kids and Families in Minnesota
Alaska Child Trauma Center
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.
Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention, Center for Trauma Care in Schools
Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention (AIP) created the Center for Trauma Care in Schools (CTCS) in 2016 through Cat. III funding from SAMHSA/NCTSI. The Center continues to be a hub for training and school-based delivery of evidence-based practices (EBPs) to treat traumatic stress in children in public schools in Massachusetts. AIP collaborates with Boston Public Schools (BPS), community mental health providers, graduate schools of social work and counseling, and the MA School Mental Health Consortium (MASMHC) to train clinicians and school-based interns to deliver evidence-based treatments (EBTs) to children with traumatic stress symptoms. Training provided by CTCS increases the number of school-based clinicians who can deliver EBPs for trauma, significantly increasing access to these needed services. CTCS also trains teachers and staff in trauma-informed practices, aligning closely with many district initiatives to address trauma and promote social-emotional wellness. In addition, CTCS provides evidence-informed group trauma treatment in Spanish for immigrant children and youth using STRONG (Supporting Transition Resilience Of Newcomer Groups). CTCS has 3 main goals: (1) To increase access to trauma services via school-based interventions; (2) To improve quality of services through provision of a continuum of evidence-based treatments; (3) To foster school environments that are more culturally responsive and trauma-informed.
AltaMed Health Services Corp - Westlake / La Linterna
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.
AMIkids, Inc.
AMIkids is dedicated to empowering young people to believe in themselves and believe success is possible. They don’t give up, so we don’t give up. We stick with them. We foster relationships, care, and a sense of family. And we provide structure. Our Personal Growth Model is a proven success: tying together education and workforce development, treatment, and behavior and skills training.
Another Choice, Another Chance, Community Child Trauma Treatment Center
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.
Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
ACCESS is the most comprehensive Arab American community nonprofit in the United States. With 11 locations and more than 120 programs serving metro Detroit, ACCESS offers a wide range of social, economic, health and educational services to a diverse population. ACCESS continues to honor its Arab American heritage while serving as a nonprofit model of excellence. The agency is dedicated to community-building, focused on service to those in need.
Arbor Circle - Expanding Access to Childhood Healing
The EACH program at Arbor Circle provides evidenced-based trauma treatment services to children and youth and their families/caregivers in Kent, Muskegon, and Ottawa Counties. This organization strives to improve early childhood systems and promote health equity by raising awareness about early childhood trauma. The program also aims to expand trainings in surrounding areas and develop a robust referral network.
Association of Africans Living in Vermont
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.
Aurora Mental Health Center
The Trauma Resilience Youth Program (TRYP) at Aurora Mental Health Center 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.