Partners
Children’s Hospital of LA
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) is a private, non-profit hospital affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. It is one of the nation’s foremost pediatric centers and is known for excellent academic and research programs and for high standards of patient care. The Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine (DAYAM), established at CHLA in 1963, is known for its innovative service models, leadership in community collaboration, training programs in adolescent health, and research regarding adolescent issues. Since the early 1980’s the DAYAM has had a special focus on at-risk youth and has developed model programs to serve targeted groups of youth, including homeless youth, youth at-risk for and infected with HIV, pregnant teens and teen parents, transgender youth, substance using youth, youth with mental health problems, youth with chronic health problems and special health care needs, and youth at risk for gang involvement and violence. Through these programs, the DAYAM provides health care, mental health, case management, and substance use treatment to over 8000 youth annually. In 2005, the DAYAM was awarded funding from the SAMHSA NCTSI to lead a comprehensive effort to transform service delivery for youth experiencing homelessness in the Hollywood community of Los Angeles, a neighborhood with the largest concentration of adolescents and young adults experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County. Through a multi-agency learning community that persists even after SAMHSA funding ended, CHLA and its partners continue to design and implement sustainable improvements in the service delivery system to ensure that all services and programs are responsive and appropriate to the trauma experienced by these young people.
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Alaska Child Trauma Center
The Alaska Child Trauma Center at Anchorage Community Mental Health Services is a center specializing in treating children who have experienced complex trauma and are involved in the child welfare system. The Alaska Child Trauma Center also serves as a statewide training, consultation and technical assistance center specializing in early childhood mental health and complex trauma. The Alaska Child Trauma Center manages the Alaska Statewide Trauma-Informed Training for Behavioral Health Providers Initiative. Through this initiative the Center provides training on trauma and trauma treatment to providers across the State. The Alaska Child Trauma Center also manages the Alaska Early Childhood Learning Network, providing training on early childhood mental health and treatment statewide. The Center provides technical assistance and consultation to organizations developing trauma services and trauma-informed systems. The Center is also involved in policy and systems development, with a focus on increasing access to services and increasing the quality of services available for children and families in Alaska. From 2005-2010, the Alaska Child Trauma Center partnered with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, The Trauma Center at JRI, the developers of the ARC framework, Duke Clinical Research Institute and the University of Alaska Anchorage to conduct a clinical outcomes study focusing on developmental and cultural considerations in complex trauma treatment with young children. The Center is very interested in bringing evidence-based practices to Alaska, and implementing those practices in a way that is responsive to the unique needs of Alaskan communities and families.
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Institute for Adolescent Trauma Treatment and Training
The Institute for Adolescent Trauma Treatment and Training at the Adelphi University School of Social Work was established in recognition of the significant, lasting, and far reaching impact of complex trauma exposure on the individual, familial, and societal level. The mission of the Institute is to promote the development of trauma-informed systems and to provide state-of-the-art trauma-focused services for children and families, with an emphasis on adolescents as the primary population of focus. Goals of this initiative are to develop a skilled trauma-informed workforce of social work and other mental health providers, support delivery of evidence-based treatments to adolescents across Long Island and parts of NYC, and build upon existing collaborations with local and national agencies and service systems to adequately respond to gaps in services for youth in foster care and residential treatment centers and youth involved in the juvenile justice system.
To achieve its mission, the Institute provides intensive year-long training and supervision on Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS), the latter of which will continue to be disseminated nationally by project staff/treatment developers. The Institute will also provide training and education for students and community providers utilizing the Core Curriculum for Child Trauma (CCCT), as well as workshops for mental health professionals, agencies, and multi-disciplinary community providers (e.g. child welfare, probation) on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of child and adolescent trauma, with an emphasis on understanding and addressing “problematic behavior” through a trauma lens.
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To achieve its mission, the Institute provides intensive year-long training and supervision on Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS), the latter of which will continue to be disseminated nationally by project staff/treatment developers. The Institute will also provide training and education for students and community providers utilizing the Core Curriculum for Child Trauma (CCCT), as well as workshops for mental health professionals, agencies, and multi-disciplinary community providers (e.g. child welfare, probation) on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of child and adolescent trauma, with an emphasis on understanding and addressing “problematic behavior” through a trauma lens.
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Past Partners
University of Connecticut- Child Trauma Clinic
The Child Trauma Clinic offers evidence-based trauma-focused psychotherapeutic services to children and teens who are involved in Court Support Services Division (CSSD) juvenile justice services. Child Trauma Clinic staff include psychologists and clinical psychology interns/externs. The clinic also enjoy a close working relationship with the child psychiatrists at the University of Connecticut Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic.
Services provided include:
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Services provided include:
- Treatment for traumatic stress needs if clinically indicated based on the Clinical Assessment. Most often treatment will involve a time-limited (usually two to six months) program of individual, group, and family therapy specifically to assist the child (and her or his family) in recovering from and managing traumatic stress symptoms
- TARGET to enable children and families to understand and manage traumatic stress reactions and regulate emotions
- Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (TF-CBT) to help children resolve trauma memories and cope with grief
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The Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center
The Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center was established in 2007 to advance the child trauma field by increasing delivery of trauma-informed services to families who have suffered chronic trauma and to expand knowledge and skills to promote family resiliency and positive outcomes, including behavioral health equity.
The FITT Center leads national, regional and local efforts to understand the impact of trauma, especially complex trauma on families, to recognize that families are the foundation through which children comprehend and cope with their traumatic experiences, and to understand that family trauma intervention optimize healing. The FITT Center has focused on the development, dissemination and evaluation of multiple tools including the Family Assessment of Needs and Strengths – Trauma (FANS) and multiple family-focused interventions, Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR), Trauma-Adapted Family Connections (TA-FC), and FamilyLive.
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The FITT Center leads national, regional and local efforts to understand the impact of trauma, especially complex trauma on families, to recognize that families are the foundation through which children comprehend and cope with their traumatic experiences, and to understand that family trauma intervention optimize healing. The FITT Center has focused on the development, dissemination and evaluation of multiple tools including the Family Assessment of Needs and Strengths – Trauma (FANS) and multiple family-focused interventions, Strengthening Family Coping Resources (SFCR), Trauma-Adapted Family Connections (TA-FC), and FamilyLive.
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