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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.

Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services, Inc.

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

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.

Location:
950 South Oyster
Hicksville , NY 11801

Chaddock, Trauma Initiative of West Central Illinois

Organizational Affiliate - Illinois
Funding Period:
2008-2012

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.

Location:
205 S. 24th Street
Quincy , IL 62301
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Chadwick Center for Children and Families

Organizational Affiliate - California
Funding Period:
2002-2005, 2005-2009, 2010-2012, 2012-2016, 2016-2021

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.

Location:
San Diego , CA
Staff:

Charles Wilson, MSSW

Individual Affiliate - Tennessee

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."

Location:
Nashville , TN 37221
Work:
(858) 344-3585

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.

Location:

Chase, Sandra, MSW, ACSW

Individual Affiliate - California

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.

Location:
Windsor Hills , CA
Work:
(323) 839-1011

CHAT Clinic at the Center for Psychological Services GSAPP, Rutgers University

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - New Jersey
Funding Period:
2021-2026

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.

Location:
41 Gordon Road
Piscataway , NJ 08854
Staff:

Child Advocacy Center, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters

Community Treatment and Services Centers - Category III - Virginia
Funding Period:
2012-2016, 2021-2026

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.

Location:
601 Children's Lane
Norfolk , VA 23507
Staff:

Child First, Inc.

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Connecticut
Funding Period:
2020-2025

Child First will create a national Center for Prevention and Early Trauma Treatment (CPETT), which will address persistent gaps in prevention, identification, reflective consultation, early intervention, and treatment for very young children and families exposed to trauma and adversity. The evidence-based, two-generation Child First (CF) model will be replicated and serve young children (prenatal-5) and families with the highest levels of traumatic stress and concrete challenges. It employs a two-pronged approach with home-based teams, consisting of a licensed mental health clinician and a care coordinator, to 1) decrease multiple environmental stressors through intensive care coordination, while building parental executive functioning and 2) establish a nurturing, responsive parent-child relationship, which heals trauma and enhances resilience. To help facilitate a comprehensive system of care, CPETT will train a diverse array of early childhood mental health providers in a range of other diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, including Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Circle of Security, and Diagnostic Classification: 0-5. CPETT will adapt CF’s extensive training curriculum to create a new, web-based Early Childhood Mental Health Trauma Training. We will also offer in-person/virtual training and reflective clinical consultation groups to multiple providers, including home visiting, early care and education, pediatrics, and child welfare. Our goal is to create a trauma-informed community in which all providers understand the impact of trauma on young children; increase development-enhancing, trauma-informed practices; identify children needing further treatment; and refer to relationship-based therapeutic interventions that address mental health needs and heal trauma.

Location:
35 Nutmeg Drive
Trumbull , CT 06611
Staff:

Child Health and Development Institute

Treatment and Services Adaptation Centers - Category II - Connecticut
Funding Period:
2020-2025

The Child Health and Development Institute’s (CHDI) mission is to ensure healthy outcomes for children by advancing effective policies, stronger systems, and innovative practices. CHDI functions as an intermediary organization in collaboration with treatment developers, researchers, state agencies, community-based providers, legislators, family advocacy organizations, and others to promote sustainable improvements to children’s health and behavioral health systems and services. CHDI’s ScreenTIME (Screen, Triage, Inform, Mitigate, Engage) project will improve early identification and support of children suffering from traumatic stress and connection to evidence-based treatment. ScreenTIME will develop and disseminate online trainings in screening best practices tailored for schools, primary care, early childhood, child welfare, and juvenile justice staff. The overall goal is to improve identification of children suffering from trauma as early as possible and connect them with support and services as needed. The primary activities of ScreenTIME will be to 1) create and disseminate interactive online trainings in screening best practices for staff in child-serving systems; 2) ensure all materials represent and support child and family input; and 3) disseminate these resources nationally through the NCTSN.

Location:
270 Farmington Avenue, Suite 367
Farmington , CT 06032
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