The Terrorism and Disaster Coalition for Child and Family Resilience (TDC4) is designed to develop regional coalitions for better preparedness, response, and recovery following disasters and terrorist incidents.  The two most active ongoing regional coalitions are in the Gulf South region across five states – Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Texas and in the Northeast regional across 4 states – New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut with other responses across the Northeast region. TDC4 adjusts and adapts our work to reach out to the hardest hit communities taking into consideration the various cultural constraints confronted including racial disparities, discrimination, lack of resources which became very apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic with many communities lacking adequate Wi-Fi and broadband to accommodate to shifts from in-person to virtual communication. The disparities were particularly apparent for children due to both economic stresses for their families as well as limited resources for virtual schooling and all behavioral health support. The TDC4 coalitions especially the NE Coalition started work and conversations about how to support schools planning to reopen in the face of continued COVID 19 threat.TDC4 has provided ongoing support and resources to Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama impacted by tornadoes, and Uvalde, TX, Buffalo, NY and Orange County, CA impacted by mass violence. TDC4 remains available to support those impacted on an ongoing basis until the threat of COVID 19 passes and beyond to  meet the unique challenges faced. TDC4 will make note of valuable lessons learned from this pandemic to help guide our work moving forward and welcome requests for training, support, and/or consultation services as we strive to make evidence-based and trauma-informed resources accessible to support children, families, and communities impacted by traumatic events.

Since 1942, Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services has served Southern California residents by providing quality, trauma-informed mental health and substance abuse services. As the first non-profit mental health outpatient clinic in Los Angeles, Didi Hirsch was initially founded to help adults cope with the aftermath of the Great Depression. Today, Didi Hirsch primarily serves a diverse population of adults and older adults living with chronic, severe mental illness, as well as children with serious emotional disturbance and their families, recognizing the substantial impact that traumatic experiences can have on the clients we serve. With ten clinical sites and nearly 100 affiliated schools, Didi Hirsch serves more than 90,000 clients annually throughout Southern California. Our services span a continuum of prevention, early intervention, and treatment services for individuals, families, and the community. These services include a nationally recognized 24-hour Suicide Prevention Hotline; outpatient mental health services for children, families, and adults; time-limited crisis counseling; field-based intensive mental health services for children, transition-aged youth and adults; school-based mental health and substance use prevention services; case management; employment services; Wellness Centers; an integrated healthcare clinic; crisis residential care; and residential care for women struggling with substance use and their children. Didi Hirsch also provides unique training opportunities to the broader community of service providers, as well as internship and practicum training opportunities for the next generation of service providers to work with trauma-exposed individuals and communities.

I am a therapist and clinical supervisor with Bright Path Counseling. For the past 10 years, I have worked in the area of childhood trauma and resilience, engaging in counseling, supervision, training, program development and management. For the past 5 years, I have been a part of a NCTSN implementing trauma and resiliency informed care into the schools, courts, and local community along with community organizations. I train and consult on Attachment, Regulation, and Competency. My works focuses on direct clinical work and supervision of upcoming therapists. My areas of expertise related to children and families are: trauma and social injustice, substance use, children in the foster care system, trauma informed care organizational transformation, and policies and practices in children's systems of care.

Thomas Donovan is a trainer of Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) and Psychological First Aid (PFA). Thomas formerly served at Chaddock, a former category 3 site, as the Associate Director of Clinical Services. Currently he is the owner of New Life Counseling in Quincy, IL and Assistant Pastor at Columbus Road Baptist Church.