Current and Affiliated NCTSN Organizational Members

Below is a roster of organizational NCTSN members arranged by state. This list includes current grantees as well as affiliated members—former grantees who have maintained their ties to the Network. For each site the funding period(s) by Federal fiscal year, abstract, and contact information are listed. This roster will change as the funding status of these sites changes.

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Click here (PDF) for a complete listing of Network members by federal fiscal year. This listing includes current grantees, affiliates, and formerly funded sites that are no longer active in the Network.

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Adolescent Trauma Treatment Development Center, North Shore University Hospital

 
Funding Period: 
[2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]
Description: 
North Shore University Hospital's Adolescent Trauma Treatment Development Center (ATTDC) helps alleviate the impact of traumatic stress on adolescents. The center develops, adapts, and disseminates Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS), its primary group intervention method for adolescents. ATTDC also created an Adolescent Traumatic Stress Resource Center for professionals, teens, and families, which includes the development of web-based resources for these audiences. An additional priority for ATTDC is collaborating with Network members to create a treatment model based on Psychological First Aid for the state health system to better respond to the mental health needs of children and families after disasters or terrorist attacks.
Contact: 
Mindy Habib
Phone: 
(516) 562-3276
Email: 
mhabib@nshs.edu

Adolescent Trauma Treatment Project, Mental Health Center of Dane County, Inc.

 
Funding Period: 
[2003 - 2007]
Description: 
The Adolescent Trauma Treatment Project (ATTP) is one of seven programs within the Child, Adolescent and Family Services program at the Mental Health Center of Dane County, Inc. Seeking to improve the quality and availability of services for traumatized adolescents in the Dane County area, the ATTP's focus is on adolescents aged 11 to 17—a group that historically has received less attention in the trauma field compared with younger children. ATTP staff members recognize that each individual adolescent's experience is unique and is influenced by numerous cultural, religious, and socioeconomic factors. The project targets adolescents who have survived interpersonal violence and trauma, who may also have survived other traumatic events including serious car accidents, house fires, tornadoes, invasive and lengthy medical procedures, war, or refugee trauma. The ATTP has offered several evidence based interventions: Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS), and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS). They have also served children with substance abuse and trauma as co-occurring disorders.
Contact: 
Lynn A. Brady
Phone: 
(608) 280-2561
Email: 
lynn.brady@mhcdc.org
Web: 
http://www.mhcdc.org/

Adolescent Traumatic Stress and Substance Abuse Treatment Center

 
Funding Period: 
[2003 - 2007]
Description: 

The Adolescent Traumatic Stress and Substance Abuse (ATSSA) program is housed within the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) at Boston University. ATSSA's mission has been to improve the standard of care for adolescents with co-occurring traumatic stress and substance use through the identification and development of treatment and service approaches for this underserved population. An integrated intervention for traumatic stress and substance abuse was developed, piloted, and implemented among several Network sites. The resulting intervention—Trauma Systems Therapy for Adolescent Substance Abuse (TST-SA)—employs a socioecological approach to address emotional regulation and environmental stability needs of youth and families.

In collaboration with NCTSN centers, the ATSSA program has led the development of Understanding the Links between Adolescent Trauma and Substance Abuse: A Toolkit for Providers. The Adolescent Traumatic Stress and Substance Abuse Treatment Center at CARD continues to provide evidence-based treatments for youth and families with a wide range of anxiety disorders. In addition, CARD continues to make significant contributions to the understanding of anxiety disorders, as well as the development, evaluation, and dissemination of effective treatment programs.

Contact: 
David H. Barlow
Phone: 
(617) 353-9610
Email: 
dhbarlow@bu.edu
Web: 
http://www.bu.edu/anxiety

Aliviane Community Treatment and Services Center

 
Funding Period: 
[2007 - 2011]
Description: 

The Aliviane Community Treatment and Services (CTS) Center in El Paso, Texas, collaborates intensively with NCTSN in project activities. At the local level, Aliviane is guided by a steering committee, a subcommittee of youth serving organizations, and a client advisory board. Aliviane also works with community and national partners to create a trauma-informed community and an array of research-based services and activities. The goals are to increase children's safety, relieve symptoms resulting from exposure to complex trauma, improve social competence and emotion management, alter developmental trajectories in a healthy direction, and foster healthy primary attachment relationships. To accomplish these goals the center is providing training to the staff, other programs, and the community in how to better respond to traumatized children. Incorporating and embedding research-based best practices in the treatment services Aliviane provides to children will remain an ongoing and sustainable part of the center's programming for children.

The target population is 150 children and 100 adolescents exposed to complex trauma including emotional abuse, severe neglect, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and witnessing family or community violence. The clinical treatment approaches and trauma-informed service approaches used include Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).

Contact: 
Dante Jimenez
Phone: 
915-782-4023
Email: 
djimenez@aliviane.org

Allegheny General Hospital Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents

 
Funding Period: 
[2009 - 2012, 2005 - 2009 and 2001 - 2005]
Description: 

The Allegheny General Hospital Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents will continue as a Treatment and Services Adaptation (TSA) Center with expertise in child abuse and child traumatic grief (CTG)—adapting and disseminating Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Alternatives for Families - A Cogntive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT), with a focus on enhancing resiliency for military children and for abused children in residential treatment facilities (RTFs). During the new grant period the center will collaborate with eight Community Treatment and Services Centers (CTSs) to conduct the treatment adaptation projects. Additionally, the center will initiate a TF-CBT RTF Learning Community (LC) with five CTS centers collaborating in an RTF adaptation, using the new TF-CBT implementer's website (http://learn.nctsn.org) to share implementation challenges and innovations. Each project will focus on: 1) enhancing TF-CBT or AF-CBT resiliency skills through producing adapted TF-CBT and AF-CBT protocols and implementation materials; 2) disseminating the TF-CBT and AF-CBT models through LCs and other training and consultation activities; 3) developing the products in collaboration with the National Center and with other TSA and CTS centers; 4) initiating three sustainability projects; and 5) continuing to provide leadership for the NCTSN TSA, sexual abuse, and traumatic grief collaborative groups.

Contact: 
Judith Cohen
Phone: 
(412) 330-4321
Email: 
JCohen1@wpahs.org
Web: 
http://pittsburghchildtrauma.net/

Ambit Network, University of Minnesota

 
Funding Period: 
[2009 - 2012 and 2005 - 2009]
Description: 

The Ambit Network—a community-university partnership—was established during the previous grant period as a Community Treatment and Services Center. Raising the standard of care for traumatized minority, homeless, and formerly homeless children, the network increased access to trauma-informed services in the Twin Cities Metro area through acute police/mental health intervention, screening, and referral of traumatized children in the target community. Refunded, the Ambit Network will partner with Minnesota's Department of Human Services to develop the Minnesota Continuum of Care for Child Trauma (MC3T). MC3T will focus on subpopulations of traumatized children—those affected by parental military deployment to Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom, refugee and immigrant children, and American Indian childrenand expects to serve more than 4,100 children. To reach, recruit, and engage families and service providers, MC3T will partner with key community mental health clinics in the north, south, central, and metro regions of Minnesota; tribal leaders in Northern Minnesota (which has the highest concentrations of American Indian populations statewide); refugee/immigrant organizations in the Twin Cities Metro; and Veterans Affairs hospitals and the Minnesota Army National Guard throughout the state.MC3T will also train organizations (outpatient, inpatient, residential treatment, and therapeutic foster care facilities) across the state, and across the mental health continuum, in evidence-based treatments for trauma and in NCTSN's Core Curriculum in Child Trauma.

Contact: 
Abigail Gewirtz
Phone: 
(612) 624-7722
Email: 
agewirtz@umn.edu
Web: 
http://www.ambitnetwork.org

Anchorage Community Mental Health Services Child Trauma Center

 
Funding Period: 
[2005 - 2009]
Description: 

The Anchorage Community Mental Health Services Child Trauma Center provides evidence-based therapeutic services to children and families who have experienced complex trauma, and works to promote implementation of prevention and intervention services, based on best practices, throughout Anchorage. The center has developed and organized a Child Trauma Coalition—including service providers, educators, community leaders, advocates, and consumers—to advance systems change, build capacity, and promote community awareness.

In addition, the center serves as an expert resource regarding child trauma for Coalition members and the community at large. Working with the Coalition, the Trauma Center of Massachusetts, and the University of Alaska at Anchorage, the center is also helping to adapt, pilot, and evaluate the Trauma Center of Massachusetts's Attachment Self-Regulation and Competence (ARC) model to reflect local community needs, particularly those of Alaska Native children and children in the Alaska foster care system.

Contact: 
Joshua Arvidson
Phone: 
(907) 762-2817
Email: 
jarvidson@acmhs.com
Web: 
http://www.acmhs.com

Andrus Children's Center

 
Funding Period: 
[2002-2005]
Description: 
Originally founded as an orphanage, the Andrus Children's Center is a treatment, education, and research facility that serves families and children through campus-based programs, community-based initiatives, and mental health programs. The use of the Sanctuary Model of trauma-informed residential care is a key feature of Andrus's work. Andrus joined the NCTSN as a member of the Children's Trauma Consoritum of Westchester, a collaborative with the Center for Preventive Psychiatry, Fordham University's Children's First, and the Westchester Medical Center's Behavioral Health Center.
Contact: 
Brian Farragher
Phone: 
(914) 965-3700 x1242
Email: 
Bfarragher@jdam.org
Web: 
http://andruschildren.org/

Aurora Mental Health Center

 
Funding Period: 
[2001 - 2005]
Description: 
The Aurora Mental Health Center is a nonprofit community mental health center that serves more than 5,000 people annually in Aurora, Colorado. Services are provided in eight counseling and specialized service centers; seven residential facilities; twenty-five public schools; two county departments of human services; and in homes, foster homes, and at other community locations. The center helps abused and neglected children and children who have witnessed interpersonal violence. The center's Intercept program works with children with mental illness and developmental disabilities, an underserved population with an extremely high prevalence of abuse, and has adapted Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for children with developmental disabilities.
Contact: 
Kathie Snell
Phone: 
(303) 617-2733
Email: 
KathieSnell@aumhc.org
Web: 
http://www.aumhc.org

BI-SLR HEARTS Program: Healing Emotions and Achieving Resilience to Traumatic Stress (HEARTS), Beth Israel Medical Center

 
Funding Period: 
[2009 - 2012]
Description: 
The BI-SLR HEARTS Program is a collaboration between two sister hospitals in New York City: Beth Israel Medical Center and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. Our goal is to integrate education, assessment, and treatment of child traumatic stress—particularly complex trauma—into the mental health services of our sister hospitals and the services we provide to our partner community agencies as a NYS funded Clinic Plus. Our Clinic Plus service allows us to proactively reach out to children in their communities instead of waiting for them to come to us. We currently partner with eleven public schools and three preventive service programs of the NYC child welfare agency. The target population is predominantly impoverished, urban Hispanic and African American youth and families—70% of whom live in federally designated "low primary care access areas." Through this effort, we will enhance local capacity to provide evidence-based, trauma-informed services for thousands of underidentified and underserved New York City children and adolescents suffering the effects of trauma. Interventions will primarily target treatment of complex trauma using Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competence (ARC) and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP).
Contact: 
Jacob Ham
Phone: 
(212) 420-4114
Email: 
jham@chpnet.org

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