The Alaska Child Trauma Center at Alaska Behavioral Health provides comprehensive evidenced-based services to children and families impacted by trauma. It has served as an implementation center for ARC (Attachment Self-Regulation and Competency) Framework. The Alaska Child Trauma Center serves as a center of expertise in trauma treatment throughout Alaska with locations in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Treatment interventions include ARC treatment, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and Child Parent Psychotherapy. The center specializes in early childhood intervention, transition age youth and serving military families.

Allegheny General Hospital's Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents' Treatment and Service Adaptation Center has national expertise in Evidence-Based Treatments for Traumatic Stress Reactions. The developers of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT) will address behavioral health disparities for children with traumatic stress reactions including: 1) African American children who experience racial trauma; 2) children with parental substance abuse; and 3) children with COVID-19-related childhood traumatic grief (CTG). African American youth experience high rates of racial trauma, traumatic stress reactions, and are over-represented in child welfare and juvenile justice systems. We will conduct a learning community with Community Treatment and Services (CTS) Centers to adapt TF-CBT for racial trauma and develop related implementation products. Children with parental substance abuse (PSA) are at increased risk for child maltreatment and for developing traumatic stress reactions including traumatic separation and/or CTG. We will conduct a learning community with CTS Centers in order to adapt TF-CBT for youth with PSA and develop related implementation products. Thousands of children with COVID-19-related CTG have unique clinical manifestations that are under-recognized and under-treated. We will develop training products and train professionals in an integrated approach to recognize and respond to COVID-19-related CTG. We will increase TF-CBT and AF-CBT dissemination and sustainability by 1) training new TF-CBT supervisors and trainers, 2) developing a new online AF-CBT training course; and 3) providing TF-CBT or AF-CBT training, consultation or technical assistance.

Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention (AIP) created the Center for Trauma Care in Schools (CTCS) in 2016 through Cat. III funding from SAMHSA/NCTSI. The Center continues to be a hub for training and school-based delivery of evidence-based practices (EBPs) to treat traumatic stress in children in public schools in Massachusetts. AIP collaborates with Boston Public Schools (BPS), community mental health providers, graduate schools of social work and counseling, and the MA School Mental Health Consortium (MASMHC) to train clinicians and school-based interns to deliver evidence-based treatments (EBTs) to children with traumatic stress symptoms. Training provided by CTCS increases the number of school-based clinicians who can deliver EBPs for trauma, significantly increasing access to these needed services. CTCS also trains teachers and staff in trauma-informed practices, aligning closely with many district initiatives to address trauma and promote social-emotional wellness. In addition, CTCS provides evidence-informed group trauma treatment in Spanish for immigrant children and youth using STRONG (Supporting Transition Resilience Of Newcomer Groups). CTCS has 3 main goals: (1) To increase access to trauma services via school-based interventions; (2) To improve quality of services through provision of a continuum of evidence-based treatments; (3) To foster school environments that are more culturally responsive and trauma-informed.

La Linterna is an interdisciplinary clinic that is a partnership between AltaMed’s CHLA Westlake Clinic and CHLA’s Behavioral Health Institute, as well as the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law and Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. It provides trauma-informed medical care, a mental health screener, a legal consultation, and case management support to migrant children from birth up to the age of 21. The program is committed to providing strength-based, culturally-affirmative, and co-located services that can overcome healthcare barriers often faced by migrant children and families in need. La Linterna partners with other medical and mental health programs within CHLA and local agencies to best enhance children’s resilience and capacity to thrive. Mental health services delivered at CHLA may include TF-CBT, CPP, and PCIT, as well as the 10-week La Monarca intervention group for migrant youth and families. La Linterna providers also deliver workshops and trainings to other healthcare providers regarding best practices in working with migrant youth, and host an annual series of Talleres de Bienestar in for the general Spanish-speaking Los Angeles community.