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).
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.
DePelchin Children's Center
Drexel University - Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice
Established in Philadelphia in 2007, Healing Hurt People (HHP), a hospital and community-based violence intervention program, serves children (ages 8 to 17) and young adult (ages 18 to 35) victims of and witnesses to interpersonal violence. HHP, part of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNSJ) at Drexel University, provides trauma-focused therapy, peer support, and case management. Since 2009, HHP has been operating at the Emergency Department of St Christopher's Hospital for Children, a large pediatric hospital in Philadelphia. HHP also has long-standing partnerships with and receives referrals from local Level I and II Trauma Centers. HHP utilizes a phase-based approach to help children, youth, and their families recover from the psychological sequelae of violent injury by engaging them in culturally competent services that promote healing and resiliency. HHP uses hospital and community partnerships as points of identification, incorporating assertive outreach led by peer specialists to engage a historically marginalized population that seldom seeks behavioral health services at the traditional outpatient clinic setting. Licensed master's level professionals offer trauma-specific therapy. HHP services are provided in various settings, including home, community, hospital, office, school, and Telehealth. Since 2018, HHP has implemented an innovative approach to trauma services by integrating home and community-based Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with peer services and case management for its pediatric population. HHP also offers the Community of Young People Healing, Experiencing, Rebuilding (CYPHER)/ Safety, Emotions, Loss and Future (SELF) groups.
EasterSeals - Michigan
Easterseals Macomb-Oakland Regional Center (MORC) provides comprehensive, office and community based behavioral health services for families with children from prenatal to 18 years of age. Services are intended to increase resiliency by building on strengths and community supports to help families care for children in their own homes and provide the tools for children to thrive. They strive to provide services that are research based and proven to provide effective solutions and outcomes for the child and family.
El Paso Child Guidance Center, Inc.
The El Paso Child Guidance Center is committed to being a Trauma-Informed organization. We assume that the people we serve, all staff, and anyone else we encounter while conducting business may have experienced trauma. Trauma affects people in a variety of ways and may have short or long-term effects. It is the intention of the El Paso Child Guidance Center to maintain self-awareness of our behavior, attitudes and emotions and their impact on the people around us; practice cultural humility by being respectful, listening and observing for individual differences and adjusting our responses in a way that acknowledges and appreciates the other person’s perspective; maintain confidentiality of information pertaining to the people we serve and inform them about the limits of confidentiality from first contact; create a welcoming environment that feels physically and emotionally safe for everyone by promoting & respecting each individual’s choice & control and building upon individual strengths, abilities and potential; and acknowledge every individual’s responsibility for self-care and support individual + organizational wellness by providing opportunities and resources.
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 Center, Inc.
Brooklyn Action for Child and Teen Success 2 or Brooklyn ACTS 2 at Family Center, Inc. is a 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, 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.
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 Involvement Center (FIC), a family-run, community service agency (CSA) and licensed behavioral health outpatient clinic, providing services in Arizona for over 18 years acknowledges trauma is not simply a “now” issue, it is longstanding. SAMHSA funding will serve 2,100 children who have experienced trauma and provide 400 hours of innovative trauma informed training. Being Family-Run is our foundation to expand trauma informed, holistic health services statewide. Our Family Driven Trauma Informed Program (FDTIP) will serve children age 0-17 who have experienced traumatic events. A survey by America's Health Rankings determined over 30% of Arizona’s children, ages 0-17, have two or more adverse childhood experiences (Overcoming Adverse Childhood Events, Arizona Adverse Childhood Experiences-ACE Consortium), which lead to toxic stress affecting their long-term health and well-being. The effects of not receiving treatment are evidenced by roughly 100 percent of children entering foster care require mental health support due to trauma. (Arizona Department of Corrections, 2019). FIC will address these challenges incorporating three key programs all of which utilize a family-centered approach, to include: individual and group counseling, parent peer support and youth services. As biological, adoptive, foster, kinship, multicultural, multigenerational, and other diverse families come to trust us to help navigate their path to unity, trauma past and present are often barriers. Trauma Informed Care (TIC) involves recognizing, understanding, and responding to the effects of trauma on all family members throughout their lifespan. “To help the child, you often need to help the parent first.” – Jane Kallal, FIC Founding Mother We will outreach, engage, and assess children who have experienced traumatic events to offer services, connect to resources and educate on the effects of trauma and the healing pathways available. We will assist with access, eligibility, and service referrals, as well as provide services based on Trauma Based Relational Interventions (TBRI), Neurosequential Model of Caregiving (NMC), and other appropriate evidence based practice (EBP) as identified by the needs of the child and parent/primary caregiver. Our training department has a long history of training EBP’s Parenting Wisely and Triple P. These EBPs are foundational to our family driven approach promoting a safe, stigma- free environment for children and families who experienced trauma and may not otherwise have opportunities like these for healing. FIC will build trauma informed resources through training using certified ACE, NMC, and TRBI trainers as well as partnering with Arizona Trauma Institute to expand capacity for future trauma service provision.
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.