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.
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.
Azusa Pacific University, Community Counseling Center
Baystate Medical Center - The Building Resiliency in Young Children
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.
BestSelf Behavioral Health Inc.
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.
BHcare Build Child Resilience
BHcare’s Build Child Resilience initiative, in partnership with the Child Health Development Institute, collaborates with local high-need public and special education schools to provide trauma-focused school-based behavioral health services and training for school support staff at six schools in South Central Connecticut. The program serves students in four high-need public schools in Derby, Connecticut, and two special education schools in Hamden and North Haven, Connecticut, which are part of Area Cooperative Education Services (ACES), a Regional Educational Service Center operating six special education schools in the southern part of the state. The initiative’s goals include building knowledge and collaboration on evidence-based trauma treatment by targeting clinician education, school personnel education, and community partner engagement; providing evidence-based, trauma-informed clinical services in six schools, with a focus on students referred for treatment, screened, and treated, including appropriate representation of Black, Hispanic, and LGBTQ+ students; and improving outcomes among youth engaged in school-based care, measured by NOMS and Ohio Scales interviews.
Boston Children's Hospital - Project EPIC (Enhancing Pediatric Integrative Care)
Project EPIC - Enhancing Pediatric Integrative Care combines the content and clinical expertise of Boston Children’s Hospital Centers in Boston, MA: the Boston Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC), its satellite community primary care clinic Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC), and the Trauma and Community Resilience Center (TCRC). More specifically, Project EPIC recognizes primary care pediatric clinics as an advantageous place for delivering mental health services for children, especially ethnocultural minority youth and is embedded within CHPCC and MEHC’s Behavioral Health Integration teams. Project EPIC aims to increase access and engagement of youth and their families who have experienced trauma, with a specific focus on racial/ethnic minority youth and refugee/immigrant youth. To achieve our aim, we will implement Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) and components of its adaptation for refugees (TST-R). TST-R is a multitier model designed to address barriers to treatment access and engagement. TST-R partners cultural brokers with clinicians for service delivery. Cultural brokers are community members who represent the cultural group intended to be engaged and ensure that the culture, language, and worldview of the client are integrated into clinical practice. Project EPIC leverages cultural knowledge through the use of cultural brokers and bi- or multi-cultural clinical staff. Importantly, we partner with other Massachusetts organizations to achieve our mission namely the Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center (RIAC) and the Home for Little Wanderers (HFLW) and other NCTSN Cat II sites, namely NYU Center for Child Welfare Practice Innovation.
Boston Medical Center - Department of Child Psychiatry
Expanding access to culturally responsive outpatient treatment of trauma for children from birth to 17 years of age and their families at a safety-net hospital.
Bridges Healthcare, Inc.
Bridges Healthcare is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic providing comprehensive and effective mental health services and addiction recovery programs for adults, children, and families. The Supporting Our Students Program expands Bridges’ existing school-based programming at various schools in Milford, CT and West Haven, CT and provides enhanced evidence-based treatment services at those schools for children and teens that have a history of trauma. The evidence-based practices employed will include TFCBT (trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy), EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing), CBITS (cognitive behavioral intervention for trauma in schools) and MATCH (modular approach for treatment of children with depression, anxiety, conduct disorder and trauma). An additional component of this program is the trauma screening and training which will be developed in collaboration with the Child Health and Development Institute so that school staff or social workers can identify students suffering from traumatic stress and refer them to this program. By providing this program in the schools, we aim to serve more students by meeting them where they are, reducing barriers to care.
Bright Harbor Healthcare
Bright Harbor Healthcare, once Ocean Mental Health Services, offers programs to adults, children, and families. Bright Harbor provides counseling for depression, anxiety disorders, and other mental health issues, addiction services, group homes, partial day services, a private school for children with emotional and behavioral challenges, and more. They also work with family members to create an atmosphere of support and understanding.
Burke Center
Burke Mental Health is the local Mental Health Authority, serving the rural population, located in deep east Texas in 11 counties. Burke employees are trained and prepared to provide case management, skills training and therapeutic care to children and adolescents. We provide office, school and home based services, depending on client need and school district attended. We provided trauma informed care utilizing evidence-based practices, to best enhance children's resilience and ability to recover, in order to live a thriving life.
Care Plus NJ, Inc.
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.