MHP was founded in 1962 dedicated to serving behavioral health needs regardless of socioeconomic status, residence, or background. In 2019, MHP successfully received attestation to meeting 100% of SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) criteria. Our treatment approach promotes partnership to build wellness and reduce health disparities. Each year, MHP reaches over 23,000 people through clinical care, community-based programs, and training. MHP partners with over 70 community organizations to provide services at sites throughout Boulder and Broomfield counties, including primary care and dental care partnerships, school-based services, infant and early childhood programming, law enforcement and judicial district partnerships, and collaboration with family assistance organizations. Specific services include: outpatient treatment, trauma-focused treatment, crisis services, child and family intensive services, addictions services, older adult specialized services, residential treatment, sexual assault support and prevention, criminal justice diversion and reentry support, and early childhood services. Our treatment approach promotes partnership with clients to support wellness, reduce health disparities, and support a full life in the community.
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.
Mental Health Partners
Mental Health Services for Homeless Persons inc. DBA FrontLine Service- Trauma Department
FrontLine Service is a three-time NCTSN Category III site that has provided decades of evidence-based interventions to victims of trauma and contributed to the scientific literature on trauma symptoms and services. In 2021, FrontLine launched Supporting Children – Trauma Systems Therapy to reduce trauma symptoms for children 5-17 years of age who have lost a caregiver to an opioid drug overdose. As the number of adults who die by opioid overdose increases, local data indicates that a minimum of 250 children per year lose a caregiver to an opioid-related overdose death. FrontLine is partnering with the Center for Child Welfare Practice Innovation and the Trauma Systems Therapy Training Center of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, an NCTSI – Category II TSA Center, to implement Trauma Systems Therapy (TST), an evidence-based, trauma-informed therapeutic intervention and to reduce traumatic grief and post-traumatic stress symptomology among those served. This project represents the first time TST will be dedicated to serving the target population and the first time it has been implemented in Ohio. This project has also established an inter-agency referral network to identify children impacted by opioid overdose deaths and refer them to services, including partnerships with the Cleveland Division of Police Heroin-Involved Death Investigation Unit, the Cuyahoga County Department of Children & Family Services, and the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office. James C. Spilsbury, PhD, MPH, of Case Western Reserve University serves as program evaluator.
Mercy Family Center - Project Fleur-de-lis
Project Fleur-de-lis (PFDL), a program of Mercy Family Center, began as an intermediate and long-term school-based mental health service model for youth exposed to traumatic events in the Greater New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina. PFDL has evolved over the past 16 years to provide evidence-based treatment to youth, families, and communities who have been impacted by community violence, grief, complex trauma, and suicide to enhance personal and community resilience. PFDL’s population of focus is low-income, urban, Black youth ages 5-21 who are underserved in the Greater New Orleans (GNO) area (Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany Parishes (counties)). Project Fleur-de-lis proposes the following goals: Goal 1: Increase access for trauma-exposed, culturally diverse youth and their families to culturally responsive, evidence-based trauma treatment (Bounce Back, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) + Racial Trauma Model (RTM), and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS). Goal 2: Increase access for youth and their families to culturally responsive, evidence-based bereavement and traumatic bereavement treatment (Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCTA). Goal 3: Establish a trauma-, bereavement-, and suicide-informed community for youth by building the capacity of mental health professionals, community members, and youth with lived experience in PFDL’s geographical catchment area.
Metrocare Services
Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving over 55,000 adults and children annually. For over 50 years, Metrocare has provided a broad array of services to people with mental health challenges and developmental disabilities. InTaCT (ITCT-C/A) at Metrocare is an “evidence-based model that integrates a variety of theoretical and clinical approaches to the treatment of complex trauma” in children, adolescents, and their families. Traumatic stress occurs when children and adolescents are exposed to multiple traumatic events, and this exposure overwhelms their ability to cope with what they have experienced. The model allows for in-depth assessments of a child’s needs in order to tailor individualized treatment plans to achieve the best possible outcome. As early intervention is critical to long term health, the target focus of this program is on youth ages 5 to 18 and their family members/caregivers. At the conclusion of services, which is based on elimination of safety concerns, risk and decreases in symptomology, the youth can be stepped down to a less intensive program for ongoing care.
Mountain Comprehensive Care Center
MCCC's Hope Initiative work includes providing services to an underprivileged, rural population of children and their families. The Hope Initiative focuses on providing education, counseling/therapy, psychiatric/psychological, and advocacy services to child and adolescent victims of traumatic events, along with their parent or non-offending caregiver when necessary. There is a barrier in our area and many people don't have access to treatment. Many people in our community don't have access to the transportation they need or have the funds to pay for their treatment. With our program, it provides people with the ability to receive the help they need/want, when they wouldn't have had the opportunity. In order to receive specialized treatment, most families have to drive an hour or more to get the help they need. Having the program in our rural area allows them to have more accessibility to mental health treatment, particularly trauma. Staff are trained in TF-CBT in order to provide treatment child trauma. Some staff are trained in Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) to address trauma with younger children. We partner with our child advocacy center in our region in order to provide treatment and advocacy to those children who are at risk. We are community partners with the school system in one of the counties in our region and this allows us to provide education and services to those that may not know about the trauma program.
Muscogee Creek Nation
Native American Health Center
NAHC will implement the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative at our health centers located in Sobrante Park & Fruitvale/San Antonio neighborhoods of East Oakland, California with expansion in the greater Bay Area. Residents of our community are highly susceptible to experiencing trauma in their lifetime due to a combination of environmental & socioeconomic factors- including elevated rates of poverty, exposure to violence, drug addiction, racial discrimination, & limited health care access. According to 2018 Census data, rates within our clinic zip code compared to county averages show: unemployment (6.4% v 4%); residents that have received federal assistance within the past 12 months (20.9% v 7%); residents that do not have health care coverage (17.9% v 6.9%); & families that live at our below the federal poverty line (23.4% v 7.4%), all which contribute to increased trauma related mental health issues such as depression, anxiety & post-traumatic stress disorder. Though trauma is often believed to be experienced in adults, the stressful social & environmental factors experienced by children in early age is likely to cause disruptions in development which can lead to substance use, anxiety, depression as well as an increase of chronic health & mental health conditions as adults. As indicated by NAHC youth trauma screenings. Among 472 youth served among UFSA/Life & Madison SBHCs in 2018, 36% were screened for trauma with 8% identified as needing follow up by a clinician. Of the youth receiving depression screenings in 2018, 75% received positive screens, demonstrating need for additional clinical services. This demonstrates the need to provide youth with not only direct trauma informed treatment services, but culturally appropriate programming.
New York Presbyterian Hospital
The Family PEACE (Preventing Early Adverse Childhood Experiences) Trauma Treatment Center (FPTTC) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Ambulatory Care Network works to help very young children and their families heal from experiences of family violence, abuse, and other forms of trauma. The program provides mental health services to children ages birth to five years of age (0-5), siblings (6-12), and caregivers who have been exposed to various forms of trauma. FPTTC is dedicated to improving the safety and well-being of children and families exposed to violence/abuse and breaking the intergenerational transmission of trauma through early identification and treatment. We believe in promoting inherent strength and authenticity of individuals and families by creating a safe, empowered community for people to feel seen, heard, and valued through self-awareness, cultural attunement, and spiritual sensitivity. FPPTC is committed to providing trauma-informed, culturally responsive programming that is rooted in anti-oppression principles. Individuals have intersectional identities and backgrounds that are integral to their trauma experience and healing journey. At the FPTTC, we use concepts from liberation psychology and ethno-healing to acknowledge the impact of oppression and racial trauma on families. Our goal is to align our interventions with the individual's cultural beliefs and values to help families form a healing narrative. Our clinic offers integrative therapies- spiritual counseling, creative arts, and somatosensory approaches. Further, we have intentionally made efforts to embed anti-racism and anti-oppression principles at all clinic levels, from hiring, training, policy/practice to clinical service delivery.
New York University School of Medicine
Northern Virginia Family Service/Youth Initiatives
NVFS' Youth Initiatives programs provide teenagers and young adults with the skills and resources needed to build healthier well-being – at school, at home and within their communities. This includes connections to healthy activities as well as the skills to build and maintain healthy relationships with friends and family. Providing our youth with these tools helps them build brighter futures not only for themselves, but for their community as well. We provide therapeutic services which include, Groups, CBITS, Individual & Family mental health services, and educational workshops to address trauma recovery needs of referred clients. We serve all of Northern Virginia at no cost.