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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.

New York University School of Medicine

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - New York
Funding Period:
2021-2026
Location:
New York , NY

Newman, Jan

Individual Affiliate - North Carolina
Location:
Auburn University/Southeast Psych
6809 Fairview Road
Charlotte , NC
Work:
(704) 444-0087

Nora McNamara

Individual Affiliate - Ohio

Nora McNamara was the child and adolescent psychiatrist for the Children Who Witness Violence pilot program in Cleveland, Ohio from 2001-2009. Currently, McNamara serves as the child and adolescent psychiatrist on the Trauma Systems Therapy collaborative team with Frontline Services, Canopy, the Centers for Families and Children, and the Cuyahoga County Coroner's office in Cleveland, Ohio.

Location:
Cleveland , OH 44102
Work:
(440) 263-0222

Norrington-Sands, Kimani, PhD

Individual Affiliate - California

As a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, I have over twenty years of experience working in collaboration with children, families, and professionals to support mental well-being. My work has been informed by my personal experiences as a trauma survivor as well as extensive training/professional work in trauma. In recognition of the multiple ways that sociohistorical contextual issues impacts mental health, I have developed and co-developed a number of trainings such as: Black Youth & Suicide; Is Your Job Mask Making It Hard For You To Breathe; Supporting Your Child(ren) and Yourself During Challenging TImes; and Cultural Context & Trauma:Implications for Students. For a number of years, I have been an active participant in NCTSN in the Culture Consortium as well as Racial Justice and Trauma Subcommittees. I am currently a Co-Chair of the Practice Based Effectiveness Workgroup.

Location:
Lifting As We Climb Consulting Los Angeles , CA
Work:
(310) 489-0117

Northern Rivers Family of Services

Organizational Affiliate - New York
Funding Period:
2002-2005, 2007-2012

Parsons Child and Family Center’s Sidney Albert Training and Research Institute (SATRI) has provided training, consultation, and research as a NCTSN Community Practice Site since 2002, including national and regional leadership in developing and disseminating evidence-supported trauma and resiliency-focused services for children and families with traumatic stress. The HEROES Project, a SAMHSA-funded NCTSN grant, provided integrated trauma-informed training for six programs at Parsons, the Albany County Children’s Mental Health Clinic, and the Albany County Department of Children, Youth and Families from 2009-2012. The Project trained therapists, foster parents, residential counselors, child protective services workers, and educators, and evaluated of the efficacy of Real Life Heroes (RLH), a trauma and resiliency-focused treatment, to help children and families who had experienced multiple and interpersonal traumas such as emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, domestic violence, losses, or community violence. Results of HEROES Project research are being published in a journal of the American Psychological Association and include statistically significant decreases in child behavior problems and trauma symptoms. The study supported the efficacy of implementing trauma and resiliency-focused treatment in a wide range of child welfare and children’s mental health programs. Following Parsons’ affiliation with the Northeast Parent and Child Society in 2012, the scope of SATRI training and consultation has more than doubled. The combined agencies currently serve more than 12,000 children and family members each year in 46 counties of New York State with 60 programs and over 1,200 staff. Primary service areas include: early childhood, education, training and research, behavioral health, family foster care, residential care, case management, prevention and family preservation, and career development. As a NCTSN affiliate organizations, the two agencies have continued Parsons’ commitment to “‘learning, adapting, creating, and delivering the most effective services for children and families.”’ Training programs, research, and publications continue Parsons’ commitment over the last 12 years to collaborative work with other NCTSN colleagues on disseminating evidence-supported trauma treatment. This has included participation in the NCTSN Affiliate Advisory Group, the Complex Trauma and Integrated Health Care committees, and co-leadership of the NCTSN Resource Parent Workgroup, which developed a highly regarded trauma-informed training used by foster, kinship, and adoptive parents across the United States. Training in Real Life Heroes, the Resource Parent Curriculum, and consultation on implementation of trauma-informed treatment in child welfare and children’s behavioral health programs are available through the Parsons SATRI.

Location:
60 Academy Road
Albany , NY 12208
Staff:

Northern Virginia Family Service/Youth Initiatives

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - Virginia
Funding Period:
2021-2026

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.

Location:
10455 White Granite Drive
Oakton , VA 22124
Staff:

Northwestern University/Center for Child Trauma Assessment, Services and Systems Integration

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Illinois
Funding Period:
2010-2012, 2012-2016, 2016-2021, 2021-2026

The Center for Child Trauma Assessment, Services, and Systems Integration (CCTASSI) at Northwestern University offers national expertise on addressing the complex, developmental effects of trauma for system-involved youth and developing trauma-informed, child-serving systems and agencies. Our target population includes frontline and other providers in child welfare and juvenile justice and the youth and families served, focusing on minority youth and subpopulations at-risk due to systemic oppression and racial trauma. This includes racial and ethnic minority immigrants and refugees (I/R), multisystem involved youth (MSIY), transition age youth (TAY), and commercially sexually exploited (CSE) youth. Our goals are: 1) Increase awareness, knowledge, and skill of frontline providers to identify and respond to complex, developmental effects of trauma; 2) Develop comprehensive, system-wide trauma-informed services in child-serving settings; 3) Increase capacity for trauma-informed, cross-system coordination for MSIY; 4) Increase providers' awareness, knowledge, and skills to prevent and respond to youth and families impacted by systemic trauma, including oppression, disparities, racism, and other forms of identity-based discrimination; 5) Increase provider understanding of and responsiveness to the unique needs of subpopulations of youth and families impacted by complex, developmental trauma, including I/R, CSE, and TAY. Our activities focus on adaptation and dissemination of evidence-supported, trauma-informed approaches and curricula (including Think Trauma), and specialized training/consultation to support systems transformation. We also work to increase provider knowledge and enhance responses to systemic trauma and oppression through our films on TAY and Race & Trauma.

Location:
710 N. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago , IL 60611
Staff:

Novacek, Jill

Individual Affiliate - Illinois

Jill Novacek is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who graduated from the University of Illinois with her MSW. She has been in the field for over 20 years with experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families with a variety of counseling needs, including sexual behavior problems and trauma. She has experience with youth and adults involved in the justice and child welfare systems and provided crisis intervention. She is a strong believer that behavior has meaning and there is always hope for a healthy future. She was the Principal Investigator for the 2012-2016 SAMHSA/NCTSN project "The Healing Path" in Gurnee, Illinois. She holds a child welfare license as well as licenses as a Sex Offender Treatment Provider and Sex Offender Evaluator. She is the Program Director at CYN Counseling Center.

Location:
CYN Counseling Center Grayslake , IL
Work:
(847) 548-6000

Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS)

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - Oklahoma
Funding Period:
2012-2016, 2021-2026

The Engaging Adversity, Surviving Trauma in Oklahoma City (EAST OKC) project seeks to reduce the impact of trauma in 10 of the city's most trauma-exposed zip codes. This will be accomplished by creating a network of care within the community that is both safe and feels safe to seek services with. A workforce will be built of clinicians in the area that are culturally-responsive to the needs of the community. Access to trauma-focused treatments will be increased and will include Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and group adaptations of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). The ODMHSAS will partner specifically with 3 CCBHCs/CMHCs and 1 social service agency that is currently a leading provider of early childhood services in the city. In addition to providing therapy services to impacted children and families, the project will focus on outreach within the community (to families and providers), infant mental health consultation, and training opportunities for service providers.

Location:
2000 N. Classen Blvd Ste 2-600
Oklahoma City , OK 73106
Staff:

Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center

Organizational Affiliate - Oklahoma
Funding Period:
2003-2007, 2012-2016

The Families Increasing Resilience, Strength and Trust through positive relationships (FIRST) Program will leverage training expertise, program evaluation, and product development to further the NCTSN's mission to positively influence the lives of families impacted by trauma. The program will increase availability of two evidence-based interventions—Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and Sexual Behavior Problems: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment (SBP-CBT)—delivered with high fidelity to traumatized families. Both PCIT (a SAMHSA-recognized intervention) and SBP-CBT (a comprehensive family-based intervention for children with inappropriate sexual behaviors) can be utilized to address child behavioral problems common among children affected by sexual and nonsexual trauma, and among families dealing with military deployment–related trauma. Implementation methods include innovative telehealth applications and Learning Collaborative strategies. The FIRST Program will expand treatments to military families experiencing deployment stressors and will enhance family resilience. The collaboration will contribute to the Network's understanding of the implementation process for family-based interventions including integrating new research findings from the program’s studies of telehealth-based implementation. Additionally, the program will provide support and leadership to Category III sites and other agencies seeking to expand their portfolio of trauma-informed services. Project deliverables will include: 1) PCIT and SBP-CBT Learning Collaborative models, 2) uniform training methods and materials, 3) telehealth protocols, and 4) development of a model of care for families of children with trauma exposure and secondary behavior management problems.

Location:
Dept. of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Oklahoma City , OK 73117
Staff:

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