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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.

Buffington, Kristine, MSW

Individual Affiliate - Michigan

Kristine Buffington is an independent trainer and consultant who works with agencies and communities on the dissemination of evidence-based treatment (TF-CBT) and facilitates training and consultation for trauma-informed care system transformation with juvenile justice systems, schools, child protection agencies, residential treatment centers, and mental health providers.

Location:
Buffington Consulting, LLC Temperance , MI
Work:
(419) 764-5710

Burke Center

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - Texas
Funding Period:
2023-2028

Burke Mental Health is the local Mental Health Authority, serving the rural population, located in deep east Texas in 11 counties. Burke employees are trained and prepared to provide case management, skills training and therapeutic care to children and adolescents. We provide office, school and home based services, depending on client need and school district attended. We provided trauma informed care utilizing evidence-based practices, to best enhance children's resilience and ability to recover, in order to live a thriving life.

Location:
1552 W. Frank St.
Lufkin , TX 75904
Work:
(936) 634-5010
Staff:

Campbell, Ruth, LCSW

Individual Affiliate - California
Location:
Kaiser Permanente Oakland , CA 94601
Work:
(646) 644-7496

Care Plus NJ, Inc.

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - New Jersey
Funding Period:
2018-2023

Care Plus is a private not-for profit organization that provides a multitude of health, social and behavioral services for youth, adults and families in Northern NJ. The Bergen Trauma Treatment Center's goal is to improve upon the quality of trauma services for children, adolescents and families by increasing the access of effective treatments models, the necessary tools and by serving as a community resource to promote trauma-informed quality care. This will be done using Learning Community type approaches, where partners will work together to ensure trauma-informed practices are integrated across systems and become consistent practice. Partner meetings, training sessions, outreach effort, resource materials, consultation services, supervision and capacity developmentt are all activities that will be included. The evidenced based treatment models that we are bringing to our school, in-home and out-patient clinicians are, EMDR and ARC (Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competence). We will screen all program youth and adolescents for trauma using the TSSCA, and we will refer and treat those identified youth with trauma trained expert clinicians.

Location:
Paramus , NJ
Staff:

CARES Institute

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - New Jersey
Funding Period:
2003-2007, 2022-2027

The CARES Institute at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine is internationally recognized for its leadership with respect to research, education, and services for children and families impacted by abuse and other traumas. Mental health services, training, and research are under the direction of Esther Deblinger, PhD, co-developer of Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). This project ultimately seeks to enhance the availability and accessibility of evidence-based therapy for trauma-exposed youth. This will be accomplished through: 1) a post-graduate fellowship program in which fellows receive comprehensive training in trauma-informed evidence-based services and related professional development activities; 2) the use of engagement strategies with caregivers that seek to overcome barriers to starting treatment to enhance initiation and completion of evidence-based trauma-focused therapy; 3) providing a self-care course for TF-CBT-trained clinicians throughout the country, particularly those working with underserved populations, designed to reduce secondary traumatic stress and burnout, and increase effective coping and clinical competency.

Location:
42 East Laurel Rd
Stratford , NJ 08084
Staff:

Carmen Rosa Noroña

Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MSW, MS. Ed., IMH-E® Infant Mental Health Mentor-Clinical, is from Ecuador where she trained and practiced as a clinical psychologist. In the US, she obtained MA degrees in social work and early intervention. For over 25 years, Carmen Rosa has provided clinical services to young children and their families in a variety of settings including early intervention, home-based and outpatient programs. She currently is the Child Trauma Clinical Services and Training Lead at Child Witness to Violence Project and is the Associate Director of the Boston Site Early Trauma Treatment Network at Boston Medical Center. She is a Child-Parent Psychotherapy National Trainer, an expert faculty of the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood Training (DC: 0-5) and one of the developers of the Harris Professional Development Network Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants Children and Families Initiative (https://diversityinformedtenets.org) and of the Boston Medical Center Family Preparedness Plan. Her practice and research interests are on the impact of trauma on attachment; the intersection of culture, immigration, and trauma; diversity-informed reflective supervision and consultation; and on the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based practice in real world settings. She is a former co-chair of the Culture Consortium of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and has adapted and translated materials for Spanish-speaking families affected by trauma. Carmen Rosa has also contributed to the literature in infant and early childhood mental health, diversity, and immigration.

Location:

Casas, Marta, LMHC

Individual Affiliate

Marta Casas, LMHC graduated from Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia, as a Clinical Psychologist in 1981. In 2002, Marta moved to Boston to become part of the clinical team at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, where she continues conducting trauma evaluations of unaccompanied minors and survivors of human trafficking, providing clinical consultation for DCF-involved families, and is also training faculty at the Trauma Center certificate program, on the topic of trauma and culture. In 2007 Marta was trained and now part of the alumni of the Harvard Refugee Program in Global Mental Health. Since 2007, Marta has been a longstanding and active member of the NCTSN Culture Consortium and Translations Review Committee. Between 2007 and 2011, Marta was the team leader of the Latino Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, a SAMHSA/NCTSN-funded program at the Latin American Health Institute in Boston. Between 2011 and 2014, Marta worked at the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, where she did clinical work with children and caregivers and was member of the training team and cultural liaison of the Massachusetts Child Trauma Project, an ACF-funded initiative that provides training and on-going consultation in evidence-based trauma approaches and treatments to strengthen Massachusetts DCF casework practices. Between 2013 and 2015, Marta was adjunct faculty at Boston College Graduate School of Social Work on Adult Psychosocial Pathology. At the present, Marta is the Director of Clinical Services at the Justice Resource Institute. She has done extensive work on the topic of the interplay between psychological trauma and cultural identity of both therapist and patient in the clinical work.

Catholic Charities Hawaii

Organizational Affiliate - Hawaii
Funding Period:
2008-2012

Catholic Charities Hawaii provides clinical treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic events as victims and/or witnesses of domestic violence. Catholic Charities Hawaii will utilize Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) in the treatment of children, adolescents, and their families. In addition, the agency provides community based trainings to educate state agencies, the military, schools, clinicians, and service providers on TF-CBT and working with traumatized children.

Location:
1822 Keeaumoku Street
Honolulu , HI 96822
Staff:

Catholic Charities of the East Bay

Organizational Affiliate - California
Funding Period:
2012-2016

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.  

Location:
433 Jefferson Street
Oakland , CA 94607
Staff:

Catholic Charities, Inc.

Organizational Affiliate - Mississippi
Funding Period:
2007-2012

Catholic Charities, Inc. and a constellation of Mississippi State government and nonprofit organizations joined the NCTSN to serve a wide range of urban, rural, and geographically isolated child trauma survivors. The first funding period was dedicated to providing evidence-based trauma training to Catholic Charities clinicians in home-based, residential, therapeutic foster care, unaccompanied refugee minor, and outpatient (Solomon) centers, and to providing cutting edge information to the community at large. 

Based on the lessons learned through participation in a trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) learning collaborative in its first funding period, TRY implemented a Gulf Coast TF-CBT learning collaborative to build capacity in agencies to treat children and families affected by trauma after the region’s devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Catholic Charities went on to develop a statewide trauma-informed system of care to meet the needs of children and families throughout Mississippi. Evidence-based practices were disseminated to public mental health clinicians via the Learning Collaborative model, with an emphasis on systems serving those least likely to have access to quality mental health care. Catholic Charities collaborated with NCTSN experts to provide TF-CBT learning collaboratives and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) learning collaboratives, as well as participating in training on the treatment of physically abused children. Currently, Catholic Charities clinicians serve as trauma experts in Mississippi and continue providing direct services to adults and children affected by trauma.

Location:
850 East River Place, Suite 301
Jackson , MS 39201
Staff:

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