The Championing Access to Trauma-informed-treatments to Achieve Lowcountry Youth Services Transformation (CATALYST) project is headquartered at the Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center. The first aim of the CATALYST Project is to reduce the impact of trauma on children's lives by providing and increasing access to effective trauma treatments and services for children and their families. A second aim is to improve the quality of services delivered to children from diverse backgrounds, including racial and sexual minorities, by applying them with improved cultural and racial equity. The project will reduce the impact of trauma and increase access by: 1) providing outreach, engagement and prevention services with children and caregivers, 2) providing screening with children and effective trauma treatments (including TF-CBT, AF-CBT, PCIT, and PSB-CBT) for child victims of child abuse, and their families, in our service area, and 3) improving the quality of trauma treatment and services delivered to children from diverse backgrounds and improve child outcomes. This final goal will be achieved by convening a team that includes both experts in the field of child trauma and consumer consultants to learn more about the specific needs of our community and how to apply evidence-based practices from a cultural and racial equity lens.
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.
Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center
Department of Child Psychiatry, Boston Medical Center
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.
DePelchin Children's Center
DePelchin Children's Center (DePelchin), a private, non-profit, nonsectarian United Way agency, has served the greater Houston area for 129 years. In fulfillment of its mission to “strengthen the lives of children by enhancing their mental health and physical well-being,” DePelchin offers interventions designed to empower children, youth, their families, and their communities with the resources necessary for healthy family functioning. Since its inception, DePelchin and its range of services have continued to grow in scope, size, and complexity. Currently, more than 10,000 children, youth, and families are served annually. DePelchin provides clinical interventions, supportive services, child welfare services, training, education, and consultation through a range of programs offered across three primary divisions: Family Care Services, Behavioral Health Services, and Prevention and Early Intervention Services. Through the division of Behavioral Health Services DePelchin seeks to meet the mental health needs of children, youth, and their families. Recognized as a leader in children’s mental health, DePelchin supports children and families struggling with behavioral or emotional issues. Through its expert team of licensed counselors and therapists, DePelchin provides comprehensive care for a broad range of concerns for both children and their family members. DePelchin’s mental health services include a multi-disciplinary treatment approach that offers a full range of services including counseling services (to support children and families struggling with personal, interpersonal or social challenges, including problems in the home, school, or community); and trauma-focused treatment (as a regional leader in trauma-informed treatment, DePelchin provides comprehensive care for children suffering from traumatic stress).
Fairbanks Native Association
The Fairbanks Native Association (FNA) Youth and Young Adult Services (YYA) Healing the Hurts project will focus on acts of violence – child abuse and neglect, sexual violence, and suicide – all of which AI/AN experience at disproportionate rates. The purpose of Healing the Hurts is to provide and increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment services in the Fairbanks North Star Borough for AI/AN children, adolescents, and the families who experience trauma events.
Family and Children's Service, Inc., NJ
Family & Children's Services (FACS) in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is providing trauma treatment and therapeutic services to children, adolescents and their families who experience/witness traumatic events. Utilizing interventions developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), Transforming Trauma will continue to provide leadership on child/adolescent issues to the provider communities throughout New Jersey, build the capacity of statewide service system to implement trauma-informed service practices (including professional training, public information, and outreach/screening, referral), and build a network of trauma-capable providers. Transforming Trauma will focus on making services accessible to military families that live on or near nearby military bases, homeless families, forensically-involved and other underserved youth and their families. We will train clinicians throughout the state of New Jersey to deliver services to children and families impacted by trauma utilizing one of four evidence-based therapeutic models including Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC), Combined Parent-Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CPC-CBT); and Families Over Coming Under Stress (FOCUS).
Family Health Centers of NYU Langone Health - Brooklyn
The grant has allowed us to expand the treatment we offer to children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. We will be offering Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) and Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT) to these children and families over the 5 year period.
Family Involvement Center, Inc.
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County/Youth and Family Behavioral Health
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County provides evidence-based mental health services to trauma-impacted youth and their families in our on-site clinics, in schools, in homes, and in other community locations. In recognition of the impacts of social determinants of health on mental health, we seek to address basic needs and support for families with linkage and referrals to resources, case management, and healthy relationships, parenting, and fatherhood classes. We offer our services in English and Spanish. Our agency strives to be trauma-informed in all our policies and procedures. We partner with other local agencies to serve the most vulnerable persons in our community.
Family Service Association of San Antonio, Inc.
Family Service and Communities in Schools-San Antonio seeks to increase the availability of trauma-informed treatment and care for children and youth who have experienced multiple ACEs.
Georgia Center for Child Advocacy
Project Intersect aims to improve the well-being of children and adolescents who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking (CSET) or are at high risk of CSET through the provision of high-quality trauma-focused, evidence-based treatment. The project seeks to increase its network of mental health providers trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and advanced TF-CBT for youth experiencing CSET. Additionally, Project Intersect will collaborate with multiple NCTSN category II sites to deliver enhanced TF-CBT applications at the intersection of CSET, racial trauma, and substance use problems. Project Intersect also provides support and training to systems and individuals intersecting with youth experiencing CSET including child welfare/foster care, CSET residential programs in Georgia, as well as caregivers. CSET awareness training is also provided to professionals and community members across the state to better identify youth experiencing CSET and connect them with trauma-informed and evidence-based treatment, services, and supports.