In the “Scaling Up Access to Trauma-Focused CBT for Children in Rhode Island” Project, Gateway Healthcare will provide services across Rhode Island to all genders and racial/ethnic backgrounds, with a particular emphasis on black, indigenous, and children of color (BIPOC). RI has over one million residents with large communities of Hispanics, African-Americans, West Africans, Latin Americans and Southeast Asians1, including refugee families, and a high rate per capita of military service members. Through its Child and Family Therapeutic Outreach (CFTO) program, Gateway provides intensive home-based services to approximately 700 children in RI annually. In RI, 50% of maltreatment investigations involved children whose race and ethnicity were black, Asian, or Hispanic, a disproportionately high percent of the population. More than 30% of the children and adolescents who present at Gateway for intensive home-based services and outpatient therapy present with exposure to psychological trauma. Gateway will implement TF-CBT in its intensive home-based treatment program and clinic-based outpatient services. The proposed project will raise the standard of care available to children in RI impacted by trauma by increasing the number and capacity of providers trained to provide evidenced-based services. Additionally, Gateway’s collaboration with community organizations specific to the target populations of interest (i.e., BIPOC) will increase the level of trust necessary for families to seek and continue engagement in mental health services.
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.
Children's Services at Gateway Healthcare, Inc.
Clinical and Support Options (CSO)
The “Stress, Trauma, and Resilience” (STaR ll) project is an NCTSN Category III Trauma Center serving western Massachusetts and northern parts of Worcester County. The program is being implemented by Clinical and Support Options (CSO), which is a community-based nonprofit behavioral health agency providing individuals and families with comprehensive and holistic care. CSO embraces a trauma-informed culture in fulfillment of its mission to provide responsive and effective interventions and therapeutic services to support adults, children and families. CSO serves more than 18,000 individuals and families annually in their quest for stability, growth and an enhanced quality of life. The STaR ll project has three activity areas: 1. Implementing the “ARC Framework” (Attachment, Regulation, and Competency) as the primary treatment framework for therapy with clients from the ages of 2 to 20 who have experienced trauma, in all of our child and family programs. 2. Providing staff training on trauma-informed practices along two tracks: Track 1, training on diverse topics related to trauma informed care; and Track 2, treatment specific training on the ARC Framework. 3. Building community collaboration and awareness of trauma-informed practices through agency-to agency training and consulting, targeted events aimed at raising awareness about stress and trauma with school staff and members of other helping professions, and general public events aimed at systems change in the community as a whole.
Colorado State University Trauma and Resilience Assessment Center
The Colorado State University (CSU) Trauma and Resilience Assessment Center (CTRAC) provides resilience-based trauma assessments and offers recommendations that focus on helping youth and families recognize, understand, and value their own strengths in responding to and healing from trauma. CTRAC also offers training and consultation to professionals serving children impacted by trauma, as well as training for Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate students. The Juvenile Justice Trauma Informed Systems Program (Project JUSTIS) within CTRAC will serve Larimer and Denver county youth (ages 8-18) and their families who have experienced trauma and demonstrate risk for involvement in the juvenile justice (JJ) system. Project JUSTIS aims to increase the capacity and expand delivery of trauma screening, assessment, and treatment for youth in the target population, train local professionals in trauma-informed care principles, and improve youth and caregiver well-being.
Community Association of Progressive Dominicans, Inc.
Community Association of Progressive Dominicans' (ACDP) National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative provides evidence-based trauma treatment and prevention services to adolescents and their families living in Washington Heights and surrounding neighborhoods in Upper Manhattan, New York City (NYC), with a focus on Latino and Black individuals, who make up 79% of the service area and the majority of ACDP's client population. ACDP offers a full range of trauma screening, prevention, and treatment services to their outpatient clinic using evidence-based programs (EBPs). Specifically, ACDP will: 1) implement universal screening trauma and suicide risk though validated screening tools, 2) implement comprehensive assessment inclusive of screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and behavioral health disorders, as indicated, 3) develop tailored service and treatment plans, and 4) provide a range of evidence-based prevention and treatment services that address a combination of immediate (safety planning) and long-term needs. ACDP will provide direct outpatient mental health treatment services and will leverage its own school-based and afterschool programs to recruit clients; and will leverage primary care and additional behavioral health services provided by La Casa De Salud Inc. (LCDS), and outpatient and residential mental health and substance use treatment services provided by Promesa, both of which are Acacia Network.
Community Health Resources (CHR)/Child & Family Division
CHR is pleased to present Hope through Expanded Access to Local trauma treatment (HEAL), our plan to expand access to evidence-based trauma-focused treatment and services for youth and their families who have experienced traumatic events. As a comprehensive behavioral health provider, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC), and provider of 24/7 mobile crisis services, CHR is well poised to implement HEAL in a variety of clinical settings successfully. CHR has decades of clinical experience treating trauma-related mental disorders and evaluating the success of interventions. We understand the profound impact of trauma, particularly on children who have not developed the emotional and cognitive capacity to process feelings and information, often leading to significant emotional and physical health problems. CHR began providing trauma-focused EBTs for children in 2007 with our participation in a TF-CBT Collaborative, a DCF sponsored initiative to introduce EB models in CT. We currently offer the model at five of our outpatient sites. Since 2007, we have added ARC and MATCH-ADTC to our menu of treatment models.
Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes' Child & Youth Trauma Services Program
The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes' Child & Youth Trauma Services Program provides Trauma Treatment to youth ages 3-18, and their families. Theyutilize Trauma-Focused CBT, as well as other evidence-based treatments that can be adapted to serve Native American families. They also provide trauma training to the community and mental health professionals in order to become a trauma-informed community.
CU Boulder Center for Resilience + Well-Being
CU Boulder Center for Resilience + Well-Being is partnering with family serving agencies and schools to increase access to trauma-informed (TI), evidence-based prevention and treatment services in Boulder, Garfield and Montrose Counties of Colorado. This project will reduce behavioral health disparities for families living in low-resource rural areas. The primary aims of the project include develop a community-based prevention services hub that provides sustainable supports and services for youth, families and schools; and improve mental and behavioral health outcomes for youth and families experiencing adversity, violence, or trauma.
The evidence-based TI strategies, programs, and interventions of focus include: (1) Let’s Connect®, a parent-child intervention with demonstrated efficacy at building parents’ social emotional competence (SEC) and teaching parenting skills that promote healthy communication, supportive relationships, and youth SEC and behavioral health; (2) Supporting Caregivers, a group-based adaptation of Let’s Connect® for parents impacted by adversity, trauma or disaster; (3) Resilience in Schools and Educators, a K-12 school prevention program that builds educators’ wellbeing and SEC and teaches skills that promote supportive relationships, youth SEC and mental health, and safe supportive environments; (4) the Calm and Connected Toolkit - a prevention program that teaches adults skills to destigmatize and support youth mental health challenges; (5) Disaster Preparedness and Response Strategies; (6) Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy® for trauma-impacted youth and their caregivers; (7) Alternatives for Families: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy® for families involved in high conflict, violence, and abuse with demonstrated efficacy for increasing positive parenting, youth coping and social skills and reducing family violence, behavior problems, and abuse recidivism; (8) Alternatives for Professionals for multi-disciplinary professionals serving families in family service settings, including child welfare, juvenile justice and mental health settings.
Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center
The Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center (DTIRC) has more than three decades of experience with dissemination, implementation, and application of evidence-based practices in real world settings (i.e., child welfare, juvenile justice, pediatric and primary care, mental health practice, family resource centers, schools, residential treatment facilities). DTIRC has disseminated TF-CBT and CPP widely in Northern New England. This current project focuses on the intersection of childhood trauma and intellectual and developmental disabilities. There will be a focus on the triple intersection of trauma, neurodiversity, gender diversity, and the various ways each overlaps. The core components include training for the child-serving workforce in trauma-informed care using NCTSN's Road to Recovery, developing a differential diagnosis training, a triple intersection training, TF-CBT training, and modified TF-CBT training for the above populations. Additionally the team will offer CARE Connections to parents and caregivers, with modifications for these populations. Related to all of the above the team will support increased and improved screening practices in pediatric settings.
DBHIdS/Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services
The Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services (PACTS) serves youth in Philadelphia who have experienced potentially traumatic events and are living with traumatic stress. Over the past 10 years, we have improved access, availability and quality of trauma-specific services for Philadelphia's most vulnerable children and families. PACTS 15+ partner agencies provide city-wide coverage of Philadelphia, offering a continuum of trauma-informed services consisting of multiple entry points, including: 1) Partnerships with other child serving systems (schools; child welfare; juvenile justice; physical health; victim's advocate groups, etc.) referring trauma-impacted youth to our services. 2) Universal screening for exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and traumatic stress symptoms. 3) Delivery of evidence-based trauma-specific evidence based practices (EBPs) including ,Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and the Child and Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) program.
Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center
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.