Since 1862, Jewish Family Services of Western New York has been providing all members of our community with critical health and human services, regardless of religion, ethnicity, cultural background, gender identification, ability, or age. JFS provides evidence-based, culturally responsive treatment and support to clients facing a wide range mental and behavioral health concerns. Our clinic is licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health and serves clients starting at the age of 5. Our licensed clinicians utilize their expertise and ongoing, specialized training to address trauma, eating disorders, problem gambling, depression, anxiety, grief, and other issues related to emotional well-being. The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Healing (R.I.C.H.) is one of JFS's signature resources that includes the Survivors of Torture and Trauma Systems Therapy programs. Each are designed to support those who have experienced or been exposed to refugee trauma or political and state-sponsored torture. The Trauma Systems Therapy program is a multi-phased initiative to address the complex mental health needs of young refugees from elementary school through high school. This program includes partnerships with Boston Children's Hospital for Trauma and Community Resilience Center, who will serve as consultant and provider of the evidence-based model; BestSelf Behavioral Health; International Institute of Buffalo; Lafayette High School; and Journey's End Refugee 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.
Jewish Family Services of Western New York / Refugee and Immigrant Center for Healing (R.I.C.H.)
Justice Resource Institute - Metropolitan Boston Complex Trauma Treatment Initiative
The Metropolitan Boston Complex Trauma Treatment Initiative (MB-CTTI) is a mobile service network delivering evidence-based trauma interventions to high-risk and underserved complex trauma-exposed children and youth ages 0-21 living in the Metropolitan Boston region. There are several groups of children and youth that we are prioritizing for services in this project, including trafficked and exploited youth, youth in state custody, LGBTQ youth, youth from military families, and urban youth of color. The primary aim of the MB-CTTI is to reduce behavioral health disparities among these consumer groups. The work of the MB-CTTI includes delivery of clinical services, including individual and family therapy, to children, youth, and their families, as well as consultation and training to programs partners. We deliver trauma-informed interventions, consultation, and training to a range of service settings, including outpatient, community based, and residential settings. A central goal of the MB-CTTI is to enhance the infrastructure and capacities of program partners in order to support sustainability of trauma EBPs over time.
La Clínica de La Raza, Inc. Behavioral Health Department
In response to the significant need for trauma treatment services, La Clínica established the Screening, Treatment and Trauma Training in Primary Care (STATT- PC) program in 2016. This program was initiated in order to expand trauma services to youth with unmet mental health needs. Through the project’s successful implementation, La Clínica has already served over 10,000 youth through screenings and evidence-based treatments and impacted hundreds more through teacher and primary care physician trainings on trauma. In this cycle of funding, La Clínica has aimed to expand the program to address the following needs: 1) adaptations to the CBITS model for newcomers, 2) 1:1 tier III trauma interventions to treat high need youth, and 3) flexible group based EBP implementation when working in close partnership with schools. We are also cognizant of the profound lasting psychological impacts of COVID-19 on our students as well as the anti-racism and cultural competency work that needs to be furthered. This cycle's project considers the current realities of our students lives and aims to build a multitiered approach in alignment with La Clínica’s 48-year history of providing culturally competent care.
La Rabida Chicago Child Trauma Center
The Chicago Child Trauma Center (CCTC) serves Chicago-area children ages one to 18 exposed to traumatic events including physical and sexual abuse, witnessing violence and complex trauma. The center's mission is to provide expert-level trauma care to children and their families and address social justice issues. Staffed by psychologists, social workers, counselors and case managers, clinicians at the CCTC have specialized training and expertise in trauma assessment and treatment models. The CCTC provides care to traumatized children through case management, advocacy and collaboration with outside providers.
Las Cumbres Community Services
Project Corazón: Innovating Child Trauma Treatment for Northern New Mexico Las Cumbres Community Services has been a funded member of the NCTSN since 2012, and provides trauma-focused treatment to children ages 0-18 and their families across four rural counties in northern New Mexico. Evidence-based and evidence-informed programs (EBPs) including Circle of Security ParentingTM, Child Parent Psychotherapy, Child-Centered Play Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are delivered in a staged treatment design to address a range of traumatic stressors, with focus on complex trauma. This integrated array of EBPs are offered to children and their families through a combination of individual, family, and group therapy. Project Corazón improves access to quality care in rural areas for special populations (immigrant and refugee families, women with young children in substance use recovery, and children forcibly separated from caregivers due to abuse, neglect or deportation), supports advanced clinical training, and grows the children’s behavioral health workforce in a designated Mental Health Provider Shortage Area. Direct service goals aim to improve engagement, enrollment, and efficacy outcomes for families experiencing complex trauma and parent-child separations, resolve symptoms of traumatic stress, and repair/strengthen caregiver-child relationships. EBP modification goals and workforce initiatives aim to increase access to care and improve retention rates of experienced clinicians.
Lifebridge Community Services, Inc.
LifeBridge is a leading non-profit behavioral health organization located in Bridgeport, CT, that supports adults, children, and adolescents through mental health and substance use recovery. They offer individual, family, and group counseling, as well as medication management for their clients. All programs and services are offered through the lens of sensitivity to lived experiences, and policies, procedures, and spaces are developed with the goal of helping staff and patients feel physically and psychologically safe. Clients benefit from a team of dedicated licensed clinicians who are diverse, empathetic, warm, experienced, and effective. As a member of the Urban Trauma Provider Network, LifeBridge's clinicians receive specialized training in evidence-based practices to address urban and racial trauma known to be effective in aiding the healing process. Areas of expertise include individual and family therapy, trauma, youth and adult wellness, parent support groups, and art therapy. They partner with the Child Health and Development Institute to enhance their clinicians' competencies in treating children suffering from exposure to violence, abuse, and other forms of trauma using the evidence-based Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) model. LifeBridge embraces the importance of mental and emotional well-being, understanding it is as critical as physical health, and approaches their work with respect for the diverse cultures and backgrounds of the individuals we serve, believing that compassion is fundamental in helping individuals navigate crises, seek assistance, and achieve wellness.
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.
LUK, Inc. Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center (CMCTC)
The Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center (CMCTC) is a division of LUK, Inc., a non-profit social service agency dedicated to improving the lives of youth and their families. The overarching vision of the CMCTC, in alignment with this goal, is to (1) build a sustainable capacity of providers to identify and treat trauma symptoms among children and their families utilizing evidence-based practices (EBPs) such as Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC), ARC Grow, and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) ; (2) to improve the functioning of children/youth and caregiving systems; (3) to support child-serving systems' learning about and adoption of trauma-informed practices, and; (4) to enhance best practices in the field through support of the work of others. CMCTC facilitates training through Intensive Learning Communities, provides ongoing consultation, and implementation of culturally competent, evidence-based therapeutic services across four programs, including Developing Resilience and Well-Being (DRAW), Building Resilience with Youth and Caregivers (BRYC), Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (CEDV), and Rapid Response Team (RRT) services, in addition to critical incident response.
Maine General Medical Center: Edmund N Ervin Pediatric Center
The Central Maine Youth Trauma Initiative (CMYTI) will enable MaineGeneral Medical Centers Edmund N. Ervin Pediatric Center to: • Provide training for up to 100 local mental health providers in well-researched, effective therapies for children who have experienced trauma or are in high-risk situations. Trainings include Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Attachment and Biobehavioral Catchup (ABC). The availability of this trio of Evidence Base Practices' will provide all families in Central Maine with the option of accessing high quality treatment for children ages zero to eighteen. • Provide education and support to foster parents who are caring for children who have experienced trauma via a series of NCTSN Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC) trainings • Create a Trauma 101 curriculum that will be provided at no cost to organizations that serve children who have experienced trauma, such as schools, day care centers and Boys and Girls clubs.
Medical University of South Carolina, Mental Health Disparities Among Trauma-Exposed Youth Center
The Mental Health Disparities Among Trauma-Exposed Youth Center is located within the Mental Health Disparities and Diversity Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. Our center focuses on increasing access to, engagement in, and completion of culturally- and linguistically-appropriate, evidence-based treatments (EBT) for trauma-exposed African American, Latino, economically-disadvantaged, and rural/urban children and adolescents residing in 9 counties across South Carolina. We have a particular focus on utilizing specialized service modalities with evidence of reducing barriers to care, in particular community-based treatment and telemental health. The center seeks to (1) increase access to EBTs, among underserved populations through community-, telemedicine-, and office-based service provision modalities; (2) increase capacity of therapists to provide EBTs (Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Culturally Modified-TF-CBT (CM-TF-CBT)) through learning collaboratives on EBTs; and (3) increase completion of services through reducing barriers to care and the provision of culturally-tailored treatment aimed at increasing engagement and reducing premature drop-out. Services are provided in a variety of community locations, including local child advocacy centers, schools, and pediatric primary care locations.