CT3: Centerstone Trauma Treatment and Training’s aim is to increase access to trauma-focused treatment for children, adolescents and their families who have experienced traumatic events, including children and adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system and children of veterans. The counties covered include Franklin, Jackson, Madison, Perry, Randolph, St. Clair, Union, Washington and Williamson. CT3 services include: -Direct trauma and treatment services -Therapy -Care management -Professional training and community education -Outreach and engagement -Screening and assessment -Linkages to services and supports CT3 develops and maintains local capacity to implement trauma-informed practices and provide evidence-based, informed trauma treatment interventions. The goals of the program are: - Establish a community-based, culturally competent, quality, accessible program to provide and increase access to effective trauma focused treatment and services systems for children, adolescents, and their families who witness or experience traumatic events. -Develop a sound infrastructure and increase community capacity to implement trauma-informed services for the focus population. -Improve the health status and outcomes for young children – ages 2 to 9 years old, adolescents – ages 10 to 17 years old, and families as measured at intake, 6 months and discharge follow-up. -Develop and disseminate a thoroughly documented model with measurable objectives for statewide and national replication and adoption. 1-877-HOPE123 (1-877-467-3123)
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.
Centerstone of Illinois
Centerstone of Indiana
Our goal towards the national epidemic of children's trauma is to provide and increase access to effective trauma-focused treatment and services for children and adolescents and their families who experience traumatic events. We do this by providing outpatient evidence-based/informed trauma assessment (Assessment-based Treatment for Traumatized Children: Trauma Assessment Pathway). We also do this through providing individual and group treatment (TF-CBT, Bounce Back for Elementary School Aged Children, Coping Cat, Seeking Safety, Adolescents Coping With Depression, Sunshine Circles--Theraplay Group Modality). Finally, we do this through purposeful and close partnerships with local community stakeholders and local community systems of school corporations, juvenile justice, and our local Department of Social Services office. Through our meaningful work of addressing children's trauma, we are striving to improve health status and outcomes for children and adolescents, and their families. It is our hope that our children's trauma program is able to be thoroughly documented, in order to become a notable service model for replication/adoption. And by systematically addressing children's trauma in our local communities, through our children's trauma program/project, we believe we are truly honoring our Centerstone mission of "Providing Care That Changes People's Lives."
Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services, Inc.
Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services, Inc. provides comprehensive clinical services for individuals ranging from 5 years old to adults. The clinic has observed an uptick in referrals for children since the onset of the pandemic, resulting in a higher number of trauma cases. Families inquiring about services have expressed challenges in locating mental health care, specifically services that are suitable and effective. Thanks to a grant awarded one year ago, an intensive services track for children was established, allowing for prompt treatment for children discharged from hospitals or emergency rooms, with therapy and psychiatry services available within a week. Furthermore, the clinic operates at the INN three days per week, with clinical staff offering services to the communities specified in the grant. This initiative is designed to build relationships with families of those receiving treatment.
Chaddock, Trauma Initiative of West Central Illinois
Located in Quincy, IL, Chaddock is an internationally recognized leader in the treatment of children suffering from the psychological, emotional, and spiritual effects of significant abuse, neglect and trauma. Chaddock's full range of preventative, educational and treatment services to children from birth to age 21 and their families include community-based services, a special education school, in-home intensive programs and residential treatment. In addition, Chaddock provides training and mental health consultation locally, nationally and internationally to educators, therapists and others who serve children and families. Founded in 1853, Chaddock has served children from 33 different states and one tribal nation. Licensed, accredited, and nationally respected, Chaddock was established as a ministry of the United Methodist Church and maintains a covenantal relationship with the UMC to this day. The Chaddock team includes 250 highly trained employees who serve thousands of children and families every year through foster care and a full range of preventative, educational, and treatment services. In 2019, Chaddock took a bold step to extend our mission reach by restructuring the agency into five separate corporations - collectively known as the Chaddock Family of Organizations. While each entity has its own unique mission statement, our efforts are grounded in a shared vision - a world where every person matters, relationships are valued and healing and change are possible - and shared values of Faith, Relationships, Responsibility, Learning, and Caring.
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.
Charles Wilson, MSSW
Charles Wilson, MSSW, retired from Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego in 2020, after a distinguished career as the Senior Director of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families and the Sam and Rose Stein Endowed Chair in Child Protection. He oversaw various Behavioral Health departments, including Outpatient Psychiatry and Hospital Social Work, from 2012 to 2020. Wilson then served as an Advisor to the Chadwick Center until 2023. During his time there, he played a crucial role as the Co-Principal Investigator of the SAMHSA-funded National Child Traumatic Stress (NCTSN) Category 2 Center, focusing on trauma-informed child welfare systems. Additionally, he founded the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse (www.cebc4cw.org) and co-chaired the NCTSN Systems Integration Group and Child Welfare Committee. Wilson continues to contribute to the field, serving on the Board of Directors of the National Children’s Alliance and Omni Visions, a multi-state foster care agency. His extensive experience in public child protection, including roles as the Executive Director of the National Children's Advocacy Center and state Child Welfare Director in Tennessee, has made him a renowned figure in trauma-informed child welfare systems. He is also the co-author of "Team Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse: The Uneasy Alliance."
Chase Giroux
Chase Giroux, LMHC, has over 20 years of experience working in the field of community mental health and local non-profit agencies. After attaining their degree in counseling, Chase became a therapist trained in TF-CBT and ARC. They specialize working with children and families who exhibit a complex trauma response through a variety of interventions. Chase is passionate about building strong and resilient communities so that all children and families can thrive by utilizing a trauma-informed and culturally-responsive lens. After spending time in Buddhist monasteries, practicing mindfulness in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Chase was inspired to make this beautiful practice accessible to as many people as possible. Becoming trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and a certified Koru mindfulness trainer has allowed Chase to share this practice in a more secular context. Chase lives with their family in Northampton, Massachusetts, where they can be found playing and coaching sports in their community, hiking, and meditating.
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.
CHAT Clinic at the Center for Psychological Services GSAPP, Rutgers University
The Children (and Families) Healing After Trauma (CHAT) clinic is an outpatient specialty clinic at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology of Rutgers University. We serve youth ages 3 to 21 years old and their families referred from New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P), local schools, mental health partners, and general community referrals from surrounding Rutgers University. Our mission is to support children and families impacted by trauma to rebuild their identity, establish a sense of safety and foster positive relationships with others. Using a multi-systemic, collaborative treatment approach, we hope to give each individual that has faced complex trauma an opportunity to process their experiences and look toward the future with hope. CHAT's specialty areas include adjustment to resource care, impact of trauma and loss, behavior management, sexual abuse and stress management for caregivers. Our clinic provides individual, family and/or group sessions utilizing trauma and attachment informed treatment modalities that include Trauma Focused- Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) and Game-Based (CBT). CHAT attempts to overcome treatment barriers by providing transportation services to and from the clinic for DCP&P-involved families and in-home parent management training and family sessions, when needed. Additionally, CHAT provides mentors to clients to increase the opportunity for positive peer interactions.
Child Advocacy Center, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (CHKD) is dedicated to providing expert forensic, mental health, and advocacy services to children who may have experienced maltreatment and trauma. CHKD’s CAC has been Accredited by National Children’s Alliance since 2003, and includes three child-friendly facilities in which law enforcement, child protection, medical and mental health, judicial, and victim advocacy professionals work together to provide a multidisciplinary, collaborative response to children and families when there is a concern that abuse or neglect has occurred. As the largest CAC in Virginia, the program serves approximately 1,500 children annually in the eastern region of Virginia (Hampton Roads) by identifying and providing trauma-informed and evidence-based services with the goal of preventing further trauma and strengthening resilience. As a NCTSN Community Treatment and Services Center, the CHKD CAC aims to increase access to and participation in evidence-based screening, assessment, treatment, and prevention services for children through the GRowing Evidence-based Assessment and Treatment (GREAT) for Children project. Providing these vital services for our diverse community of children ages 12 months-18 years will reduce health disparities and increase individual and family resilience. The project also aims to enhance the capacity of key stakeholders and multidisciplinary partners to identify, refer, and serve children who have experienced traumatic stress.