Director of Behavior Health for Mountain Community Health Partnership. Mountain Community Health Partnership (MCHP) is a Federally Qualified Health Center serving Mitchell and Yancey Counties. The Bakersville Health Center, Spruce Pine Health Center, and Celo Health Center provide exceptional medical, behavioral, and dental health care to our communities. We strive to improve the quality of life for all residents and are taking steps toward a healthier community. We also partner with other community based organizations, health departments, and county level judicial and school systems to increase access for high quality, equitable care.
Graham, Meghan, LCSW
Grant, Tharyn
Tharyn Giovanni Grant is a licensed clinical social worker in the Atlanta metro area who specializes in working with queer and gender expansive youth and young adults. His clinical interests include advocacy for youth and their families, working with trauma and substance use, and supporting other clinicians in providing affirming care. Tharyn approaches clinical work through psychodynamic theories, third-wave cognitive behavioral approaches, harm reduction, and relational cultural frameworks while also addressing intersectionality and examining systems of oppression, privilege, and power. He has worked with NCTSN projects at CHRIS 180, the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, and JRI, Inc.
Greene County Educational Service Center
Our mission is to support youth and families in maximizing their potential and enhancing their wellness in the environments of school, family, and community through advocacy, mental health services, and education. Our agency provides mental health services to vulnerable youth who have personal, family, social emotional, academic, and/or environmental struggles often complicated by by extensive trauma history. Our purpose is to help youth address issues that interfere with functioning and success. Services are provided in natural and familiar environments, including the school, family home and community. Embedding services into natural environments provides better access to services, destigmatizes mental health treatment, and increases the integration and collaboration of trauma treatment more fully with support systems involved in the every day lives of youth.
Griffin, Gene, JD, PhD
Gene is retired faculty from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he was part of a Category II grant that focused on the CANS assessment tool. Presently Gene is the state-appointed Chair of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership and remains involved with activities focused on public sector child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and child trauma issues.
Grosso, Christina, MA
Christina Grosso is the creator of Mind+Body=ONE, an integrative mental health practice in Westchester, NY. Ms. Grosso has worked as a clinician, supervisor, trainer, and leader specializing in the treatment of complex trauma in children and adolescents with mental illness and intellectual & developmental disorders. She has extensive experience in the practice, implementation, and training of Trauma Informed Care and evidence-based practices. Ms. Grosso served at the Jewish Board for over 20 years where she led the agency’s trauma training and organizational development initiatives focusing on the integration of clinical and milieu services. Ms. Grosso’s work has focused on system change and has consulted with child psychiatric centers and residential treatment facilities nationwide to disseminate Trauma Informed Care. She has authored papers in the field of trauma, self-care, art therapy, and TF-CBT including “Children with Developmental Disabilities” in Cohen, Mannarino and Deblinger’s book, Trauma Focused CBT for Children and Adolescents. She is the co-creator of the curriculum and NCTSN product, My Identity My SELF: Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ in Treatment (MIMS). Ms. Grosso is a certified clinician and supervisor in Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT) and a certified trainer in Psychological First Aid and serves on the NCTSN Terrorism & Disaster, Trauma and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Peer Support workgroups. Ms. Grosso is on faculty at New York University in the Steinhardt School Graduate Art Therapy Department. She is a practicing artist and her work focuses on abstract expressionism and process-based response art. Ms. Grosso is a doctoral candidate at Saybrook University in Mind-Body Medicine with a focus on integrative mental health and mindful leadership in healthcare.
Gustman, Brian, PhD
I am a licensed psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, CA, providing evidence-based psychotherapy, psychological assessments, psycho-educational evaluations, and trauma-informed educational consultation. My areas of specialty are in TF-CBT, CBT, and educational accommodations and services for children with traumatic stress symptoms that interfere with their education.
Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress
The Harborview Child Traumatic Stress Program is located at the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress (HCSATS), a specialty program of the Harborview Medical Center, a University of Washington teaching hospital. The center serves children and adults affected by child maltreatment, rape and other violent crime, and other traumatic events.
Among its accomplishments as part of the NCTSN, the center: 1) increased its capacity to deliver evidence-based interventions at HCSATS; 2) improved mechanisms for identifying and linking affected children served within the medical center to other services; 3) created a collaboration with specialized community providers serving victims in diverse settings to increase identification, access, and availability of culturally specific treatments; and 4) constructed and managed a website for distance learning that also serves as a clinical resource for practitioners across the state.
Harvey E. Najim Hope Center
Our model includes licensed therapist—family support services teams trained to deliver high quality, compassionate trauma-informed care by providing evidence-based treatment, such as Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy® (TF-CBT); Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI); Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) serving children ages two to seven; and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Families are paired with a family support worker to provide aftercare for up to 12 months after discharge.
Hazratzai, Mohammad Sediq, MD, MPH
Mohammad Sediq Hazratzai MD, MPH is Director of Sehat Initiative (SI), a program of the Public Health Institute (PHI), established in response to the humanitarian and healthcare needs of refugees. SI focus is to improve the health and well-being of refugees in California and throughout the United States. Founded by medical and public health experts from within the refugee community, it serves as a crucial bridge between refugees and their wider medical and social environment. Dr.Sediq is a career public health professional and researcher with extensive experience focused on refugee and immigrant health. As a visiting professor at the University of California Davis, Dr. Sediq teaches refugee health and comparative health systems. Dr. Sediq is also a credentialed Principal Investigator with the Public Health Institute (PHI) and an affiliate with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Institute for Global Health Sciences. Dr. Sediq has worked with nonprofits, IOM (UN Migration Agency), and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health in projects focused on the most vulnerable populations – refugees, migrants, Injecting Drug Users (IDUs), and HIV high-risk groups. Dr.Sediq is a board member with Upwardly Global a leading nonprofit that helps immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals rebuild their careers in the United States. Dr. Sediq used to be a trainer with PHI’s Lotus Project, which focused on child trauma. Dr.Sediq is PI on the California statewide Afghan Refugee School Impact (ARSI) and Ukrainian Refugee School Impact (URSI) programs that support an estimated 10,000 newly arrived refugee children.