In the “Scaling Up Access to Trauma-Focused CBT for Children in Rhode Island” Project, Gateway Healthcare will provide services across Rhode Island to all genders and racial/ethnic backgrounds, with a particular emphasis on black, indigenous, and children of color (BIPOC). RI has over one million residents with large communities of Hispanics, African-Americans, West Africans, Latin Americans and Southeast Asians1, including refugee families, and a high rate per capita of military service members. Through its Child and Family Therapeutic Outreach (CFTO) program, Gateway provides intensive home-based services to approximately 700 children in RI annually. In RI, 50% of maltreatment investigations involved children whose race and ethnicity were black, Asian, or Hispanic, a disproportionately high percent of the population. More than 30% of the children and adolescents who present at Gateway for intensive home-based services and outpatient therapy present with exposure to psychological trauma. Gateway will implement TF-CBT in its intensive home-based treatment program and clinic-based outpatient services. The proposed project will raise the standard of care available to children in RI impacted by trauma by increasing the number and capacity of providers trained to provide evidenced-based services. Additionally, Gateway’s collaboration with community organizations specific to the target populations of interest (i.e., BIPOC) will increase the level of trust necessary for families to seek and continue engagement in mental health services.
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.
Children's Services
Children’s Crisis Treatment Center
Children's Crisis Treatment Center (CCTC) is a private, non-profit agency that provides mental/behavioral health services to children and their families. For over 40 years, CCTC has developed and implemented innovative ways of helping children as young as 18 months old and their families cope with obstacles that interfere with their emotional, social, and cognitive growth. CCTC’s approach to care is based on the belief that despite tremendous challenges, children heal from psychological injuries. Through partnerships with families, schools and communities, CCTC creates the contexts in which this healing may occur. CCTC is dedicated to addressing the impact of childhood abuse, neglect, traumatic events and other challenges that can affect childhood development. CCTC offers a wide array of services and programs that are provided at the Center as well as in the home, community and school. CCTC serves more than 3,500 children and their families annually. Their success and reputation for excellence have gained CCTC recognition for their expertise in the areas of trauma, school-based services, and early childhood treatment. Such acknowledgements reflect CCTC's leadership role in the children's mental health services community. CCTC is a trauma-informed organization and is certified in the Sanctuary Model, an evidence-supported model of trauma-informed care. CCTC provides training and consultation in trauma-responsive care as an extension of their services and is a leader in the region for both trauma-informed care and trauma-focused treatment.
Christiansen, Ashley, MFT
Ashley is a trauma clinician with over 10 years of experience working with youth and families in the Philadelphia, PA area. She is a Trauma and Problematic Sexual Behavior Clinician at Philadelphia Children's Alliance, Philadelphia's child advocacy center (CAC). She is certified in Trauma-Focused CBT and Problematic Sexual Behavior-CBT (school age), working with youth who have experienced significant trauma and youth exhibiting problematic sexual behavior. She is currently working toward certification in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children
The Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children is a multi-disciplinary child abuse team and child advocacy center comprised of social workers, psychologists, child abuse physicians and fellows, child protection case workers, prosecutors, and police. The Center screens over 2,000 families each year for child abuse and neglect and provides several trauma-informed psychological therapies including trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), and child and family traumatic stress intervention (CFTSI). The Center provides local, statewide, and national trainings including Beyond the Silence Forensic Interviewing, Darkness to Light, PCIT, Child and Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE), Child Abuse Pediatrics and Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner training. The Divisional research focuses on adverse childhood experiences, traumatic brain injury, traumatic stress, parent and child interaction parenting support and adversity screening in pediatric primary care. The Mayerson Center is also building community capacity to address and prevent trauma and child maltreatment.
Clark, Emilie, LMSW
Emilie Clark, LMSW, is a licensed social worker in agency-based and private practice who works with children, adolescents, adults, and families. Emilie currently works with The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children where she provides Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for children and youth ages five and older. She also supervises therapeutic visitation between children and non-custodial parents following traumatic ruptures. Emilie graduated from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College as a participant in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Child Trauma Program and has also trained with the Ackerman Institute for the Family's Gender and Family Project in work with transgender and gender expansive youth and their families. She approaches her work form an anti-oppressive lens, with the understanding that interpersonal and systemic traumas greatly impact emotional health. In addition to her work as a therapist, Emilie has worked in LGBTQ+ program development and service delivery in a variety of settings including health clinics, community centers, schools, and residential care facilities.
Clark, Jim, LCSW, Ph.D.
Jim Clark, LCSW is Dean of the FSU College of Social Work. His work includes forensic behavioral health, disaster interventions, clinical and research ethics, and the study of lives. He has responsibility for research and service institutes that serve a wide number of populations exposed to traumatic stress.
Clifford Beers
Clifford Beers (CB), a 107 year old institution providing trauma informed mental health services for children and adults throughout the lifespan has been strategically growing its whole family, trauma informed integrated care, model of care designed to reduce chronic stress. Focusing our work on the systemic and structural changes related to the delivery of mental health services, this project proposes to develop and implement and infuse anti-racist training in our model of care, developing a tool kit for replication of Trauma Informed Anti-Racist (TIAR) Whole Family Approach to Care. The main purpose of the project is to integrate whole family anti-racist thinking and social determinants of health perspective in trauma-informed service system design, to ensure the trauma treatments are responsive to inequity, sensitive to systemic racism and care is contextualized to the needs of the people served.
Clinical and Support Options (CSO)
The “Stress, Trauma, and Resilience” (STaR ll) project is an NCTSN Category III Trauma Center serving western Massachusetts and northern parts of Worcester County. The program is being implemented by Clinical and Support Options (CSO), which is a community-based nonprofit behavioral health agency providing individuals and families with comprehensive and holistic care. CSO embraces a trauma-informed culture in fulfillment of its mission to provide responsive and effective interventions and therapeutic services to support adults, children and families. CSO serves more than 18,000 individuals and families annually in their quest for stability, growth and an enhanced quality of life. The STaR ll project has three activity areas: 1. Implementing the “ARC Framework” (Attachment, Regulation, and Competency) as the primary treatment framework for therapy with clients from the ages of 2 to 20 who have experienced trauma, in all of our child and family programs. 2. Providing staff training on trauma-informed practices along two tracks: Track 1, training on diverse topics related to trauma informed care; and Track 2, treatment specific training on the ARC Framework. 3. Building community collaboration and awareness of trauma-informed practices through agency-to agency training and consulting, targeted events aimed at raising awareness about stress and trauma with school staff and members of other helping professions, and general public events aimed at systems change in the community as a whole.
Clinical Services
Wellpoint Care Network is a community-facing, human-serving organization with deep roots in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. We have partnered with thousands of local individuals and families as they work to overcome the effects of adversity and trauma. We facilitate healing through comprehensive prevention, intervention and crisis resources, ultimately supporting individuals and families to enhance their ability to thrive. We champion stability, embrace equity, advocate for just and caring systems and are committed to being a safe place for people to seek support. Mental Health Services Staff at our outpatient clinic provide in-person and online therapy services to children and families in the Milwaukee area. We also serve students, teachers and other staff members in 13 school districts across southeastern Wisconsin. In partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of Milwaukee, trauma focused assessment and treatment are provided via Project Thrive. The physical, behavioral and emotional needs of children and teens in foster care can range from moderate to complex. We work with close to 1,900 children annually to provide case management services that ensure safety, permanence and well-being. We’ve been at the forefront of the trauma informed care movement for the past 15 years, and have trained more than 60,000 professionals across the fields of human services, education and law enforcement, who impact people’s lives daily.
Coalition for Compassionate Schools
Our goals are to: 1) Increase the capacity of New Orleans K – 8 public schools to implement and sustain a trauma-informed, healing-centered service delivery model to improve outcomes for youth exposed to trauma and prevent new exposure in schools; 2) Expand implementation of our model to afterschool programs and coordinate training and consultation across service systems to support service providers and youth affected by traumatic events; and 3) Develop additional products to support a trauma-informed, healing-centered service delivery model and provide training, consultation, and implementation support for the replication and dissemination of our model to schools across the country.