I am the CEO of WellFully’s our mission is to provide health, recovery and development services to all adolescent youth. We currently serve approximately 350 youth each year between the ages of 10 to 18 who have significant mental health, substance abuse and behavioral challenges often due to trauma related to abuse and neglect. Through WellFully’s residential, tela-behavioral health, after-school and mobile programs, the youth in our care develop effective coping skills, giving them the opportunity to make better life choices and receive ongoing support for a successful future.
Eilers, W. Burke
Eithun, Kim
Kim Eithun was the former Operations Lead at the Wisconsin Office of Children's Mental Health where she supported the Children's Mental Health Collective Impact effort to provide trauma specific interventions and trauma-informed services across child and family serving systems. She participated in the Trauma and Recovery Project supported by NCTSN. The project promotes accessible, coordinated and effective trauma-focused treatments for children and families that are in the child welfare system or are at risk of entering the system in Milwaukee and Racine. The project also reduces health disparities among underserved racial and ethnic groups by expanding capacity in TF-CBT, PCIT and CPP. The Trauma and Recovery Project was embedded in the statewide Wisconsin Trauma Project which promoted the three trauma therapies as well as trauma-informed parenting and trauma-informed care in multiple disciplines.
El Paso Child Guidance Center, Inc.
The El Paso Child Guidance Center is committed to being a Trauma-Informed organization. We assume that the people we serve, all staff, and anyone else we encounter while conducting business may have experienced trauma. Trauma affects people in a variety of ways and may have short or long-term effects. It is the intention of the El Paso Child Guidance Center to maintain self-awareness of our behavior, attitudes and emotions and their impact on the people around us; practice cultural humility by being respectful, listening and observing for individual differences and adjusting our responses in a way that acknowledges and appreciates the other person’s perspective; maintain confidentiality of information pertaining to the people we serve and inform them about the limits of confidentiality from first contact; create a welcoming environment that feels physically and emotionally safe for everyone by promoting & respecting each individual’s choice & control and building upon individual strengths, abilities and potential; and acknowledge every individual’s responsibility for self-care and support individual + organizational wellness by providing opportunities and resources.
Elizabeth Thompson, PhD
Elizabeth Thompson, PhD, recently retired after a 35-year career as a leader in the Child Traumatic Stress field. With a 20-year history of active engagement with the NCTSN in various roles and projects, Dr. Thompson's current interests focus on leadership development consulting and facilitating organizational anti-racism initiatives. Dr. Thompson also serves as a member of the NCTSN's Anti-racism Faculty.
Emery, Debra W., PhD
Debra Emery was the former Clinical Manager of the Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis. She now works at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital and serves as the psychologist on the hematology/oncology team. Her interests include complex trauma and integrated care.
Erika Tullberg
Erika Tullberg, PhD, is a public health professional whose work focuses on identifying and mitigating trauma experienced by children, parents, and staff in the child welfare system. Connected to the NCTSN since 2009, she currently serves as Co-Chair of the NCTSN Child Welfare Committee and is a member of the NCTSN Values Subcommittee. As the lead developer of the Child Welfare Traumameter, an organizational assessment tool to help child welfare agencies assess and improve their practices available on the NCTSN Learning Center, Dr. Tullberg continues to work with those interested in implementing the NCTSN-developed assessment tool. Dr. Tullberg has also developed trainings and interventions to address and mitigate secondary trauma experienced by child welfare staff and foster/adoptive parents. Her insights are informed by 15 years of experience as a foster/adoptive parent and her work within the child welfare system.
Erstling, Susan, LICSW, PhD
Susan Erstling was Senior Vice President, Trauma and Victim Services, Family Service of RI, where she served as Principal Investigator for NCTSN grants. She developed numerous, award winning partnerships which disseminated trauma care and education statewide. Included in these partnerships were collaborations with several state and local police departments, the Adult Correctional Institute, the Parole Board, Adoption RI, Roger William University, School of Criminal Justice, the DOJ funded State Victim Assistance Academy, Hasbro Children's Hospital, Military organizations, and helped integrate the Core Concepts course at RI College, School of Social Work, where she currently teaches as an adjunct faculty.
Susan is the Board Chairperson of Lucy's Hearth, a trauma informed family shelter, for homeless families and children.
Espinoza Hernandez, Rosa, PsyD
Rosa Espinoza Hernandez Psy.D. (she, her, ella) is a Clinical Psychologist at Children's Hospital Los Angeles – USC University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). Dr. Hernandez is a bilingual (Spanish/English) and bicultural psychologist whose clinical work is driven by her commitment to increase access to quality care in underserved communities. Dr. Hernandez works with children and adolescents, ranging from early childhood to transition age youth. Her areas of experience include working with individuals who experienced medical or immigration-related trauma, court- and gang-involved youth, integrated primary care, and families who are involved with the department of child and family services/child protective services. She provides client-centered care and applies culturally sensitive adaptations of various models such as Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and Child-Parent Psychotherapy within her practice.