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.

Project EPIC - Enhancing Pediatric Integrative Care combines the content and clinical expertise of Boston Children’s Hospital Centers in Boston, MA: the Boston Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC), its satellite community primary care clinic Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC), and the Trauma and Community Resilience Center (TCRC). More specifically, Project EPIC recognizes primary care pediatric clinics as an advantageous place for delivering mental health services for children, especially ethnocultural minority youth and is embedded within CHPCC and MEHC’s Behavioral Health Integration teams. Project EPIC aims to increase access and engagement of youth and their families who have experienced trauma, with a specific focus on racial/ethnic minority youth and refugee/immigrant youth. To achieve our aim, we will implement Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) and components of its adaptation for refugees (TST-R). TST-R is a multitier model designed to address barriers to treatment access and engagement. TST-R partners cultural brokers with clinicians for service delivery. Cultural brokers are community members who represent the cultural group intended to be engaged and ensure that the culture, language, and worldview of the client are integrated into clinical practice. Project EPIC leverages cultural knowledge through the use of cultural brokers and bi- or multi-cultural clinical staff. Importantly, we partner with other Massachusetts organizations to achieve our mission namely the Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center (RIAC) and the Home for Little Wanderers (HFLW) and other NCTSN Cat II sites, namely NYU Center for Child Welfare Practice Innovation.

Judge Baker Children's Center (Judge Baker; an affiliate of Harvard Medical School) is a non-profit multi-service mental health and special education organization that serves children by promoting their developmental, emotional, and intellectual well-being. With over a century of proven leadership in children's mental health issues, Judge Baker helps children and families chart their own best course to grow and thrive. Judge Baker is nationally recognized as a leader in children's mental health training and education. We work to create lasting improvements in the quality of mental health care and other services for all children and families by disseminating evidence-based practices (such as MATCH, PCIT, and TF-CBT); interventions that have been proven to be effective to treat targeted behavioral health problems in children and families. Our expert training staff work collaboratively with families, service providers, schools, state agencies, academic institutions, and funding organizations to help ensure that all children and families have access to the highest quality evidence-based psychotherapy services. We translate the most cutting-edge research and proven strategies for helping children and families into sustainable practice changes in real world settings. By using thoughtful, evidence-based, and carefully planned implementation strategies, we work to close the gap between research and practice. In addition to providing high quality training to providers around the country, Judge Baker also provides direct outpatient and community-based services in the greater Boston community.

The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School Lifeline for Kids, formerly the Child Trauma Training Center (CTTC), was developed by the Department of Psychiatry to improve identification of trauma, to increase trauma-sensitive care, and to increase access to evidence-based, trauma-focused treatment for at-risk and underserved children and youth through age 18 throughout Massachusetts — including court-involved youth and youth in military families. During the grant period CTTC: 1) trained over 30,000 child-serving professionals in trauma-sensitive care; 2) reached approximately 450,000 children/youth with trauma-informed services; and 3) provided TF-CBT to more than 4500 children/youth. Additionally, the CTTC created a centralized referral system that includes a network of agencies with documented training in evidence-based trauma treatment. Along with providing trauma-informed training, the CTTC will offer training for first responders (e.g., police) in trauma-sensitive practices, and disseminated culturally competent trauma screening tools to pediatricians, juvenile courts, and schools.