CenClear Child Services, Inc. (dba CenClear) was established in 1980 as a non-profit corporation. Head Start is the original program and the program on which CenClear's comprehensive service delivery system is modeled. Through the provision of Head Start Services, it was soon realized that there were other issues that the Head Start program alone could not address. Early on it was discovered that accessible mental health services for children, particularly under the age of five, were limited or nonexistent. As a result of this CenClear submitted an application and was awarded the contract to provide Family-Based Mental Health (FBMH) Services. Since then, CenClear has continued to expand to meet the needs of the communities we serve and now provides an arrays of mental health and drug and alcohol services. Over this time, we have recognized the importance and need to be trauma informed and to provide evidence-based trauma interventions. As an agency, we have begun the process of Sanctuary certification. We have had staff trained as Mental Health First Aid Trainers (youth and adult) and regularly offer in house and out-of-house trainings. In addition, we have increased training for staff to be certified in various EBPs, partnered with the county to develop a Child Advocacy Center (CAC), and have two mental health clinics and a drug and alcohol clinic certified as Trauma Informed Care Centers through BHARP. The SAMSHA Healing After Trauma (H.A.T.) grant is a further extension of CenClear's vision to meet the needs of the communities we serve and promote healing and recovery through the use of evidence based practices (EBPs), increased accessibility and service capacity for children and youth who have experienced 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.
CenClear
Center for Child & Family Health
The Center for Child & Family Health's (CCFH) Project REACH: Responsive, Equitable, Accessible, and Child-Focused Trauma Services will increase access to and improve the quality of trauma-focused treatments and services for children, adolescents, and their families who experience traumatic events to improve child, family, and system outcomes and address racial and ethnic behavioral health disparities. Project REACH targets youth from birth to 18 and their families who are affected by trauma and psychosocial adversity, especially those at risk for negative sequalae of trauma exposure including African American and Latinx children and those involved in the child welfare system. Project REACH will (1) increase participation and access to trauma treatment and prevention services for children and adolescents and their families through conducting outreach, providing acute prevention response to traumatic events, and reducing racial disparity in perception of care; (2) increase CCFH's capacity to provide an array of direct outpatient trauma-informed evidence-based practices (i.e., Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Parent Child Interaction Therapy, and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress,) to reduce trauma and mental health symptoms of children and adolescents and their families; (3) increase access of our child welfare system to trauma-informed services by implementing and disseminating the NCTSN's Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma (a.k.a., Resource Parent Curriculum [RPC]); and (4) advance NCTSN efforts through participation on committees, developing resources to address workforce stress, and facilitating the Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma.
Center for Child Trauma and Resilience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The Center for Child Trauma and Resilience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will use this opportunity to create the Complex Trauma Program (CTP), which will integrate trauma-informed, evidence-based treatment for child trauma throughout the Mount Sinai Health System’s Child Behavioral Health and Science Center (CBHSC) in New York City. Representing the largest child psychiatry service in NYC, services will be delivered in three outpatient clinics traversing three corners of Manhattan, an intensive day program/high school, and a newly forming clinical service located onsite at the Judith S. Kaye High School, a small transfer school for students with justice involvement and substance use issues. CTP will serve racially and culturally diverse children, adolescents, and their families from underserved, impoverished NYC neighborhoods. The CTP is also launching the Frontline Family Support Program, which will serve families in our own health system who have been on the frontline of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. We will provide short-term consultation and long-term care embedded into the CTP
Centerstone of Illinois
CT3: Centerstone Trauma Treatment and Training’s aim is to increase access to trauma-focused treatment for children, adolescents and their families who have experienced traumatic events, including children and adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system and children of veterans. The counties covered include Franklin, Jackson, Madison, Perry, Randolph, St. Clair, Union, Washington and Williamson. CT3 services include: -Direct trauma and treatment services -Therapy -Care management -Professional training and community education -Outreach and engagement -Screening and assessment -Linkages to services and supports CT3 develops and maintains local capacity to implement trauma-informed practices and provide evidence-based, informed trauma treatment interventions. The goals of the program are: - Establish a community-based, culturally competent, quality, accessible program to provide and increase access to effective trauma focused treatment and services systems for children, adolescents, and their families who witness or experience traumatic events. -Develop a sound infrastructure and increase community capacity to implement trauma-informed services for the focus population. -Improve the health status and outcomes for young children – ages 2 to 9 years old, adolescents – ages 10 to 17 years old, and families as measured at intake, 6 months and discharge follow-up. -Develop and disseminate a thoroughly documented model with measurable objectives for statewide and national replication and adoption. 1-877-HOPE123 (1-877-467-3123)
Centerstone of Indiana
Our goal towards the national epidemic of children's trauma is to provide and increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and services for children and adolescents and their families who experience traumatic events. We do this by providing outpatient evidence-based/informed trauma assessment (Assessment-based Treatment for Traumatized Children: Trauma Assessment Pathway). We also do this through providing individual and group treatment (TF-CBT, Bounce Back for Elementary School Aged Children, Coping Cat, Seeking Safety, Adolescents Coping With Depression, Sunshine Circles--Theraplay Group Modality). Finally, we do this through purposeful and close partnerships with local community stakeholders and local community systems of school corporations, juvenile justice, and our local Department of Social Services office. Through our meaningful work of addressing children's trauma, we are striving to improve health status and outcomes for children and adolescents, and their families. It is our hope that our children's trauma program is able to be thoroughly documented, in order to become a notable service model for replication/adoption. And by systematically addressing children's trauma in our local communities, through our children's trauma program/project, we believe we are truly honoring our Centerstone mission of "Providing Care That Changes People's Lives."
Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services, Inc.
Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services, Inc. provides comprehensive clinical services for individuals ranging from 5 years old to adults. The clinic has observed an uptick in referrals for children since the onset of the pandemic, resulting in a higher number of trauma cases. Families inquiring about services have expressed challenges in locating mental health care, specifically services that are suitable and effective. Thanks to a grant awarded one year ago, an intensive services track for children was established, allowing for prompt treatment for children discharged from hospitals or emergency rooms, with therapy and psychiatry services available within a week. Furthermore, the clinic operates at the INN three days per week, with clinical staff offering services to the communities specified in the grant. This initiative is designed to build relationships with families of those receiving treatment.
CHAT Clinic at the Center for Psychological Services GSAPP, Rutgers University
The Children (and Families) Healing After Trauma (CHAT) clinic is an outpatient specialty clinic at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology of Rutgers University. We serve youth ages 3 to 21 years old and their families referred from New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P), local schools, mental health partners, and general community referrals from surrounding Rutgers University. Our mission is to support children and families impacted by trauma to rebuild their identity, establish a sense of safety and foster positive relationships with others. Using a multi-systemic, collaborative treatment approach, we hope to give each individual that has faced complex trauma an opportunity to process their experiences and look toward the future with hope. CHAT's specialty areas include adjustment to resource care, impact of trauma and loss, behavior management, sexual abuse and stress management for caregivers. Our clinic provides individual, family and/or group sessions utilizing trauma and attachment informed treatment modalities that include Trauma Focused- Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) and Game-Based (CBT). CHAT attempts to overcome treatment barriers by providing transportation services to and from the clinic for DCP&P-involved families and in-home parent management training and family sessions, when needed. Additionally, CHAT provides mentors to clients to increase the opportunity for positive peer interactions.
Child Advocacy Center, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (CHKD) is dedicated to providing expert forensic, mental health, and advocacy services to children who may have experienced maltreatment and trauma. CHKD’s CAC has been Accredited by National Children’s Alliance since 2003, and includes three child-friendly facilities in which law enforcement, child protection, medical and mental health, judicial, and victim advocacy professionals work together to provide a multidisciplinary, collaborative response to children and families when there is a concern that abuse or neglect has occurred. As the largest CAC in Virginia, the program serves approximately 1,500 children annually in the eastern region of Virginia (Hampton Roads) by identifying and providing trauma-informed and evidence-based services with the goal of preventing further trauma and strengthening resilience. As a NCTSN Community Treatment and Services Center, the CHKD CAC aims to increase access to and participation in evidence-based screening, assessment, treatment, and prevention services for children through the GRowing Evidence-based Assessment and Treatment (GREAT) for Children project. Providing these vital services for our diverse community of children ages 12 months-18 years will reduce health disparities and increase individual and family resilience. The project also aims to enhance the capacity of key stakeholders and multidisciplinary partners to identify, refer, and serve children who have experienced traumatic stress.
Children and Youth Cabinet
In a climate of scarce behavioral health resources and great need, we raise and leverage public and private investments to deliver on resident-identified outcomes. We act as a nimble intermediary bringing together residents, public systems, community-based organizations, and funders. We’ve identified a suite of culturally-relevant evidence-based programs with proven successes that can be effectively implemented to achieve results. Our current programs that track specifically to symptoms of PTSD and were selected by the communities we serve, include: Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools: This evidence-based therapeutic intervention is designed to reduce anxiety, depression and the symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTSD) in adolescents. Eighty percent of participating youth show improvement in PTSD symptoms. This program integrates the performing arts to engage youth in their own healing. The youth build social problem solving skills by reenacting difficult situations. They practice combating negative thoughts through activities such as "Helpful Other Thoughts". They also learn how to reduce anxiety through relaxation techniques. Act and Adapt: This evidence-based program reduces symptoms of acute depression in adolescents through school-based therapeutic groups. The youth learn how to cope with stress by solving problems within their control and – for problems outside of their control – by adapting. The program has been successfully implemented with Latinx and BIPOC adolescents in more than 40 schools in the Chicago Public School system and has been rigorously evaluated. Positive outcomes have included high retention, high participant satisfaction, and statistically lower depressive symptoms.
Children's Advocacy Center - University of Missouri - St. Louis
Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis is a University-based, multidisciplinary center that provides trauma-focused services to youth, families, and the community. We serve children impacted by all types of traumatic events including childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect. We also serve witnesses of domestic abuse and violent crime and children who have suffered accidents, natural disasters, and traumatic bereavement. The goal of our grant, Project CONTACT (Community Operations Network for Treatment After Childhood Trauma) is to partner with community agencies to increase participation in our Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI).