The Children's Center Utah (TCCU) provides mental health services for families with infants, toddlers, and preschool aged children. TCCU provides a range of treatment including a Therapeutic Preschool Program, outpatient therapy, parenting groups, as well as psychological and psychiatric evaluations. A variety of evidence-based models are utilized to support children and families, including the following: Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT); Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP); Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competence (ARC); Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up (ABC). TCCU utilizes a multidisciplinary team to meet the needs of the children and families served. Through our 60-year history, The Children’s Center Utah has grown to be the largest agency of our type in the region. We receive approximately 1500 referrals annually and see over 300 children each year in our Therapeutic Preschool Program. Over the years we have continually expanded our programs in order to meet the increasing demands of the community. In addition, TCCU is the state’s expert in infant and early childhood mental health and provides training and consultation to early childhood providers throughout the state.
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.
The Children's Center Utah
The Children's Shelter - Harvey E. Najim Hope Center
The Children's Shelter includes licensed therapist—family support services teams trained to deliver high quality, compassionate trauma-informed care by providing evidence-based treatment, such as Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy® (TF-CBT); Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI); Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) serving children ages two to seven; and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Families are paired with a family support worker to provide aftercare for up to 12 months after discharge.
The Children's Treatment and Recovery Center at Family Service of Rhode Island
The Children's Treatment and Recovery Center at Family Service of Rhode Island provides trauma-focused, evidence-based treatments to children and families throughout the state of Rhode Island. Children and families have access to Trauma Systems Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and will soon have access to Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. FSRI has been implementing trauma treatments for over 15 years and has established partnerships with law enforcement, child welfare, school systems and various other child-serving systems to reach thousands of children. FSRI's award-winning Police Go-Team model is an adaptation of Child-Development Community Policing and has been operational for almost 20 years in Providence, RI. FSRI also provides training and consultation in the field of child trauma.
The Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina, Inc.
The Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina, Inc. (The Parenting PATH) will increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment for children, adolescents, and families, who experience trauma and traumatic events through the project Expanding Access to Trauma-Informed Services through Family Centered Treatment to Underserved and Under-resourced Families in Northwest North Carolina. The population of focus includes families in urban or rural settings; who live in low-income households; who identify as LGBTQIA+; who are historically underserved/under-resourced due to race, ethnicity or preferred language. This project serves families with children between the ages of 0-3, and families with children ages 4-18 who qualify for Family Centered Treatment (FCT) by meeting any combination of criteria.
The Family Center
Brooklyn Action for Child and Teen Success 2 or Brooklyn ACTS 2 is our child trauma program, addressing the prevalent and often unrecognized impacts of trauma on children ages 5-18 in our community. Brooklyn ACTS 2 staff are trained to identify and treat symptoms of trauma in children and to support parents and caregivers in understanding and addressing the struggles that their children are facing. Working with the child and their parent or caregiver, our evidence-based interventions help children manage and reduce symptoms and help families recover. Our services are available virtually and in our office. Services include:
Screening and Assessment
Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Psychiatric evaluation and, if indicated, medication management
Case management and advocacy to ensure families have the services and benefits that they need
Groups for parents including Parenting Journey and Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Resource Parenting Curriculum
Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR) multi-family group
Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR) Peer 2 Peer group for caregivers
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) group for teens
The Family Place Utah
The Trauma Resiliency Project of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho (TRP) is a SAMSHA funded grant for years 2021-2026. We are a program within The Family Place Utah that seeks to raise awareness about traumatic stress in children and families. For this next five year cycle, TRP has a goal to provide services to individuals from Spanish-speaking countries, refugees and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. We enjoy fostering healthy, collaborative relationships with local school districts, police officers and other community officials to serve our communities and mitigate the impacts of traumatic stress upon children, families and minority groups. We are working on incorporating new Care Process Models from Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City that will help us better serve the youth and families in our community through a stratified approach. Each member of The Family Place Utah is aware of the components of trauma-informed care and the importance of client-centered care. Each employee at The Family Place Utah is trained on the Attachment, Regulation and Competency model, a trauma-informed model that teaches helps parents support children who have been impacted by traumatic stress.
The Lourie Center Parent-Child Clinical Services
The Lourie Center Parent-Child Mental Health Clinic provides mental health care to children from birth until the age of 12. The Parent-Child Mental Health Clinic serves children and families with a broad spectrum of emotional and behavioral difficulties, developmental challenges, and experiences of abuse and neglect. We excel at providing therapy grounded in relational, psychodynamic, attachment, and strength-based perspectives. The Parent-Child Mental Health Clinic prides itself on being a training institution, and being comprised of a team of professionals who share an unwavering commitment to professional growth and service to our clients. The majority of the children and families that we serve are from Black and Latino/Latinx communities, and we aim to provide therapy in a manner that that is grounded in social justice principles and that addresses the psychological effects of systems of oppression. Our SAMHSA-funded FASTT program was designed to provide families with consultative evaluations that aid in making appropriate and useful referrals to services and quickly linking families to the supports that they need. Treatment modalities offered include, individual play therapy, family or dyadic therapy, parent guidance sessions, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and Circle of Security Parenting groups. Other departments at the Lourie Center include Head Start, the Therapeutic Nursery Program, the Lourie Center's Montgomery County Infants and Toddlers Team, and the Lourie Center School.
The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester
The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester (MHCGM)’s Trauma Recovery though Evidence-based Access and Treatment (TREAT) project will improve access and treatment for youth residing in Center and West Manchester communities (55% of Manchester youth). To achieve the desired results, TREAT has a three pronged approach: educate the community, provide access to services, and have the capacity and ability to deliver evidence based treatment. TREAT’s first prong will create a trauma informed supportive community through training community members, child-serving system workers, and police officers in these communities. By the end of this funding over 375 child-serving system staff, 150 community members, and 100 police officers will be trauma informed trained and ambassadors to refer youth to support and treatment. Through this proposal TREAT will improve access by providing therapist time in all the schools in the Center and West communities as well as time at Child-serving systems locations in the community. Beyond these on the ground access points We will also train 1 schools a year in the evidence based practice of Bounce Back (BB) and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in School (CBITS). Through this access matrix 490+ youth will be referred for services and 407+ of these youth will be assessed over the project period. With a trauma informed community and an increase in referrals the need for treatment providers will be high. So to address the 290+ youth that will receive treatment this project will add two treatment providing clinicians, 1 Intake Clinician, and 5 Family Community Support Staff over the grant life cycle. Made up of 12 different schools the youth population (about 7,775 youth) of the project impact area faces a number of challenges. Sixty-five percent of the youth population qualifies for free or reduced lunch. Forty percent of households fall in the high or extremely high poverty rate. The violent crime rate is 10 times the average rate of the 500 biggest cities in the US. The communities are considered a Medically Underserved Area. A youth residing in this community has an Opportunity Atlas forecast of continued generational poverty. Add to this that each of these factors increase the likelihood of experiencing an Adverse Childhood Experience from which trauma and trauma behaviors can arise and the need for this project is paramount to the health and well-being of these youth. To address the trauma these youth have experienced the clinicians will implement one of three evidence based treatments: Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Bounce Back (BB), Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in School (CBITS), or Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct problems (MATCH-ADTC). Determining which treatment is the best fit for the client will be done through intake and the use of the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) comprehensive multi-system assessment and the UCLA PTSD Screener. As a non-profit that has received other SAMHSA funding we will ensure to implement what we have learned and tracking progress and outcomes will be strictly followed and reported so that others can learn from this project and more youth can get the service and care they need for the trauma they have experienced.
The University of Pittsburgh - Theiss Complex Child and Adolescent Trauma Project
The University of Pittsburgh's Theiss Complex Child and Adolescent Trauma (CCAT) Project expands access to evidence-based trauma treatment for children in Western Pennsylvania. It aims to improve service access and outcomes for high-need, underserved communities including racial/ethnic minority and low-income populations. It places an emphasis on children impacted by complex trauma, particularly those in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. In collaboration with UPMC Western Behavioral Health and its Theiss Center for Trauma and Early Childhood Behavioral Health (Theiss), the CCAT Project's primary goal is to increase access to trauma-related, evidence-based practices (EBPs) in Western Pennsylvania to remediate the impact of complex traumatic stress. This goal will be accomplished by: 1) expanding the age range of Theiss trauma services (up to age 18) through the incorporation of Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma (ITCT, Child & Adolescent versions); 2) expanding the geographic reach of Theiss by leveraging UPMC's Western Behavioral Health network throughout Western Pennsylvania for the implementation of evidence-based trauma treatments to support children impacted by complex trauma (including ITCT as well as Child Parent Psychotherapy-CPP); 3) facilitating trauma-related training and professional development for the mental health and related workforce (emphasizing the fields of child welfare/juvenile justice); and 4) serving as a resource for high-need, underserved communities by collaborating with local human service agencies to provide prompt clinical consultation and support to meet the complex needs of members of their community experiencing traumatic events.
The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing - Resilient Scholar's Project
The Resilient Scholars Project (RSP) provides therapy and case management services to DC children/adolescents and their families affected by trauma and/or loss. RSP collaborates with youth, their families, and community partner staff to improve their understanding of trauma/loss and allow them to develop coping skills that are healthy and practical. Weekly sessions provide youth and their families the space to process their experiences and discover their innate resilience. RSP-Family Services are designed to supplement RSP-School Services by engaging entire families in the treatment process. Using the trauma adapted family connections (TA-FC) model, Culturally Modified Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CM-TFCBT), and/or Let's Connect (a caregiver focused model). RSP clinicians also aim to help families improve access to needed resources, increase safety skills, reduce youth absenteeism from school, and/or improve youth grades over a period of six months. RSP clinicians build on the treatment models used in RSP-School Services by incorporating principles from narrative therapy, motivational interviewing, and family systems therapy to work toward goals established with each family. By participating in activities, games, and conversations that help families learn about trauma/loss, families also work toward improving communication and family cohesion.