La Linterna is an interdisciplinary clinic that is a partnership between AltaMed’s CHLA Westlake Clinic and CHLA’s Behavioral Health Institute, as well as the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law and Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. It provides trauma-informed medical care, a mental health screener, a legal consultation, and case management support to migrant children from birth up to the age of 21. The program is committed to providing strength-based, culturally-affirmative, and co-located services that can overcome healthcare barriers often faced by migrant children and families in need. La Linterna partners with other medical and mental health programs within CHLA and local agencies to best enhance children’s resilience and capacity to thrive. Mental health services delivered at CHLA may include TF-CBT, CPP, and PCIT, as well as the 10-week La Monarca intervention group for migrant youth and families. La Linterna providers also deliver workshops and trainings to other healthcare providers regarding best practices in working with migrant youth, and host an annual series of Talleres de Bienestar in for the general Spanish-speaking Los Angeles 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.
AltaMed Health Services Corp - Westlake / La Linterna
Another Choice, Another Chance, Community Child Trauma Treatment Center
Another Choice, Another Chance will provide outpatient Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) to children and youth aged 3–18 from diverse ethnic backgrounds, who live at or below the poverty level, and who have been victims of sexual exploitation and abuse. The center will provide 12–20 sessions of individual, group, and/or family treatment services to 200 children/youth and their parents or other primary caregivers.
Azusa Pacific University, Community Counseling Center
Azusa Pacific University's Community Counseling Center (CCC) offers culturally sensitive, multidisciplinary mental health and psychological assessment services for clients of all ages across the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County. Located in the city of Azusa, CA, and working with local cities and school districts, the center is a trusted leader in mental health prevention and intervention, including trauma-informed care. The center is committed to advancing wellness by facilitating client access to care, and engaging the community through a collaborative approach to service delivery. An active leader and participant on San Gabriel Valley health consortiums, APU's CCC is committed to robust training opportunities and quality client care. Services include individual, child, family, and couples work.
Campbell, Ruth, LCSW
Catholic Charities of the East Bay
Catholic Charities of the East Bay Mental Health Department provides services utilizing a trauma-informed restorative practices model serving individuals and families in urban settings. Our model is a unique adaptation of
CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and community based restorative healing practices that addresses issues common to youth and adults that have experienced intergenerational poverty, family and community violence, criminal justice system involvement, and health, housing, and educational disparities. Our clinicians are based in schools and community settings in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties in California.
Center for Applied Research Solutions
The School Crisis Recovery and Renewal (SCRR) project supports educators, school staff, and school-based clinicians to effectively implement trauma-informed crisis response, recovery, and renewal strategies. The Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS), in partnership with Trauma Transformed (T2) and leading researchers, create curricula, training opportunities, and best-practice resources to promote long-term recovery and renewal after school crisis. Nationally, the SCRR Team provides training and technical assistance (TTA) services and resources to state and local education agencies (SEAs/LEAs); district teams; school leaders; school mental health providers, support staff, and educators; community partners; and other school mental health stakeholders. We offer intensive consultations to a small number of districts and schools, with attention to ensuring parity across U.S. regions and promoting equitable access for schools. Working with school crisis experts, including students and families with lived experience, the SCRR Team will co-create a practice-oriented curriculum for schools navigating school crisis recovery and renewal. Into the project, we will deliver the curriculum through Regional Training Collaboratives (RTCs) of educators, youth and families, school staff, and other personnel who have been impacted by a school crisis. Integrating their recommendations, we will create a train-the-trainer curriculum and a set of national standards for school crisis recovery and renewal best practices. The SCRR project website, distance learning events, and resources will promote effective adoption and implementation for student and educator-driven school crisis recovery and renewal practices and policies at a national level.
Chadwick Center for Children and Families
The Chadwick Center is an accredited children's advocacy center (CAC). It is one of the largest hospital-based CACs and trauma treatment centers in the nation. Our CAC provides family-focused and trauma-informed services to children and adolescents who may have experienced or witnessed maltreatment, abuse or violence. Our multidisciplinary team (MDT), also known as the Child Protection Team (CPT), includes caring and trained professionals from law enforcement, child protection, prosecution, mental health, medical, family advocacy and other CAC staff and community partners. We provide specialized services to help children and families heal from abuse and trauma by providing a coordinated, compassionate MDT response. This ensures that children don't have to share their stories multiple times. Click on the Programs link above to get information about the services the Chadwick Center offers for children and their families in San Diego County who have experienced trauma or abuse.
Chase, Sandra, MSW, ACSW
Sandra was formerly the Director of the Social Work internship program at Children’s Institute in Los Angeles California. Sandra has an extensive career in both Child Welfare and Mental health.
During her 24 years in management at CII she participated in several NCTSN projects. She was trained and utilized NCTSN’s Core Curriculum on Childhood trauma to provide case conceptualization training to Social work interns. She also participated in the Child welfare breakthrough collaborative. As the agency foremost trainer on cultural responsiveness, she provided training that explores the effect of historical trauma, implicit bias and privilege on service delivery. She is currently an independent trauma informed trainer and consultant, Advisor for Columbia School of Social work’s online program and Adjunct professor at Antioch University in Culver City, California. Sandra is an Advanced CCCT trainer and a Co-chair for NCTSN’s Cultural Consortium. She is particularly interested in providing culturally responsiveness training that is trauma informed and promotes personal reflection, social justice and policy reform.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Center for Transyouth Health and Development
The Trans Community Trauma Treatment Center for Children and Adolescents (TCTTC) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) is designed to improve the quality of trauma treatment and supportive services for youth ages 10- 21 who have experienced a unique set of developmentally adverse traumatic events due the incongruence between assigned birth sex and internal gender identity. The TCTTC is housed at the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, which has historically provided trauma training and trauma-focused multi-agency clinical supervision to clinical and other direct service staff working with youth experiencing homelessness. TCTCC will provide the following: (1) Provide services directed to transgender and non-binary (TGNB) children and adolescents ages 10-21; (2) Support capacity building initiatives targeting local and state level child serving agencies (e.g. child protective services, juvenile corrections, probation, department of mental health, local education agency) to increase their competency to serve TGNB children and adolescents. The TCTTC will utilize Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) as the evidence-based treatment (EBT) to be employed in this program. NET was selected for this project for its responsiveness to the needs and resilience of TGNB youth, the desired outcomes for this project, and the centrality of narrative for the coming out process for TGNB youth. This EBT will expand and complement the existing services offered at CHLA's Center for Transyouth Health and Development.
Children's Institute
Children’s Institute (CII) has served Los Angeles communities since 1906, supporting 30,000 children and families annually in achieving emotional well-being and educational success, which build pathways to economic mobility and lifelong health. As a leader in trauma-informed care and evidenced-based clinical treatment, CII trains thousands of professionals and caregivers each year, including teachers, therapists, and care coordinators. CII works in communities impacted by decades of underinvestment and racist policies—Echo Park, Watts, Compton, and Long Beach—offering education, counseling services, parenting support, convening spaces, and enrichment programs in the community and at its early education centers, K-12 schools, and neighborhood hubs. CII’s mission is to transform the lives of children exposed to adversity and poverty in Los Angeles by working in partnership with schools and communities to promote learning and emotional well-being, help children overcome obstacles, and develop resilience. CII provides counseling services to children, adolescents, transition-age youth, parents, and caregivers, with a team of professionals dedicated to identifying and reducing symptoms of traumatic stress, improving coping skills, and building resilience. Programs range from individual and family treatments to specialized therapeutic groups. Learn more at childrensinstitute.org.