Established in Philadelphia in 2007, Healing Hurt People (HHP), a hospital and community-based violence intervention program, serves children (ages 8 to 17) and young adult (ages 18 to 35) victims of and witnesses to interpersonal violence. HHP, part of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNSJ) at Drexel University, provides trauma-focused therapy, peer support, and case management. Since 2009, HHP has been operating at the Emergency Department of St Christopher's Hospital for Children, a large pediatric hospital in Philadelphia. HHP also has long-standing partnerships with and receives referrals from local Level I and II Trauma Centers. HHP utilizes a phase-based approach to help children, youth, and their families recover from the psychological sequelae of violent injury by engaging them in culturally competent services that promote healing and resiliency. HHP uses hospital and community partnerships as points of identification, incorporating assertive outreach led by peer specialists to engage a historically marginalized population that seldom seeks behavioral health services at the traditional outpatient clinic setting. Licensed master's level professionals offer trauma-specific therapy. HHP services are provided in various settings, including home, community, hospital, office, school, and Telehealth. Since 2018, HHP has implemented an innovative approach to trauma services by integrating home and community-based Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with peer services and case management for its pediatric population. HHP also offers the Community of Young People Healing, Experiencing, Rebuilding (CYPHER)/ Safety, Emotions, Loss and Future (SELF) groups.
Healing Hurt People (HHP), which is part of Drexel University's Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice (CNSJ), Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
Healthy Environments and Response to Schools (HEARTS), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
HEARTS is a whole-school prevention/intervention program that aims to create trauma-informed, safe, supportive, and equitable learning and teaching environments that foster resilience and wellness for everyone in the school community. HEARTS utilizes a multi-tiered system of support to address trauma at the student, staff, school organizational, and district levels through training and consultation with school personnel, and mental health supports for students and families. HEARTS work is guided by six principles that are grounded in trauma research and an extensive review of trauma-informed systems work nationally: Understanding Trauma and Stress; Cultural Humility and Equity; Safety and Predictability; Compassion and Dependability; Empowerment and Collaboration; and Resilience and Social Emotional Learning. A core feature distinguishing HEARTS from many other trauma-informed school approaches is the centrality of cultural responsiveness and equity in all aspects of the program. We believe that given the toxic, trauma-inducing, and pervasive nature of structural racism and other forms of oppression, any efforts to mitigate the effects of trauma must include efforts to counteract these harms. Further, without a culturally responsive and equity-promoting lens, there is a risk that trauma concepts could be used to pathologize marginalized communities rather than underscore their resilience. HEARTS-Extended (HEARTS-E) is our NCTSI-funded project that provides evidence-based trauma-focused mental health treatment, services, and support systems for trauma-impacted children and youth at three elementary and two middle school sites in San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), focusing on capacity-building for SFUSD personnel to deliver these services.
Heartland Alliance International
The Healing Journeys Program at the Kovler Center in Chicago provides trauma-informed mental health support, wrap-around case management, and advocacy for refugee, asylum-seeking, and immigrant youth ages 0-21 who have experienced trauma in their home country, during the migration journey, or through the resettlement process. The mission of the program is that "through trauma-informed, evidence-based services, The Kovler Center Healing Journeys Program partners with forcibly displaced youth who have experienced trauma and their support systems to identify their goals for health and healing, and accompanies youth on their therapeutic journey to realize these goals."
Heitkamp, Rebecca
Rebecca is an Arizona professional with over two decades of experience in child welfare and early childhood care and learning. As a former Project Director for a category III funded site focusing on Trauma Awareness, Screening, and Community Training, she now applies a trauma lens to her new role as East Maricopa Regional Director of an Early Childhood Education Council with Arizona’s “First Things First” agency. Her council represents three large urban Arizona cities around Early Literacy, Home Visitation, Early Childhood Nutrition, Family Resources Centers, Childcare, and Trauma Informed Care for Early Childhood workers. Rebecca is also a certified ACES trainer with the Arizona ACE Consortium. She is passionate about continuing education and awareness around trauma within families from a salutogenic perspective. “The family system is at the core of healing. Create awareness and understanding about traumatic experiences without shame and blame and allow the family to move toward healing guided by their own resources and solutions.”
Held, Jordan, LCSW
Jordan Held (he/him/his), LCSW is a Primary Therapist and Gender Specialist at Visions Adolescent Treatment Center. Jordan works in both IOP and residential programming, working with teenagers and their families to build resilience and cultivate positive mental health outcomes. Prior to Visions, Jordan was a Therapist and Intake Coordinator at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in the Center for Transyouth Health and Development, the largest trans youth health clinic in the USA. Jordan’s mental health practice centers around creating a trauma-informed and healing-centered space for both adolescents and their families. Jordan’s expertise is working with gender and sexual minority youth with complex histories of trauma. Jordan was a lead clinician on a SAMHSA/ NCTSN grant, which created the first therapy hub for transgender youth with complex history of PTSD. Jordan speaks internationally about creating and supporting affirmative LGBTQ+ environments with an emphasis on informed consent and enhanced family communication. As a queer identified, transgender man, Jordan brings an important dual perspective to his work as a mental health provider. Prior to social work, Jordan worked extensively in secondary school education, with a decade of experience teaching, coaching, and developing health and wellness curricula. Jordan’s work focuses on gender violence prevention, diversity, equity, inclusion and cultivating strength and belonging for teens. Jordan is on the Board of Director’s of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Laurel Foundation, JQ International and Mental Health America of Los Angeles. Jordan is also a long-time facilitator at Transforming Family, a support group for gender diverse youth and their family.
Hendricks, Alison, LCSW
Alison Hendricks, LCSW, is a trainer and consultant who specializes in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), trauma-informed systems, and Secondary Traumatic Stress. She is a Certified National Trainer for TF-CBT and the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit, a product of the NCTSN that she helped to revise in 2012. She worked with the Chadwick Center of Rady Children’s Hospital for nine years, first as a trauma therapist and then as Operations Manager of the Chadwick Trauma-Informed Systems Project. She provides training and consultation on TF-CBT, trauma-informed care, and Secondary Traumatic Stress to programs across the country. Alison is the lead author on two workbooks on TF-CBT. She also specializes in Culturally Modified TF-CBT with a focus on Latino children and families. She has presented at numerous conferences and has published several journal articles on a wide variety of topics related to childhood trauma. Alison graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Psychology from Columbia University and completed her MSW at Hunter College School of Social Work. She lives in San Diego with her husband and daughter.
Henry Ford Health System
Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) is a comprehensive health system that provides an array of services at all levels of care for all age groups. Annually, care provided by HFHS includes over 2 million patient visits, 78,000 ambulatory surgeries and 93,000 hospital admissions. HFHS is also one of Michigan's largest and most experienced providers of behavioral health services, including 5 outpatient clinics, 10 integrated care clinics, an inpatient unit, intensive substance use treatment facilities, and school- and community-based health clinics. HFHS is the primary safety net hospital in Detroit. Nearly 60% of patients have Medicaid or Medicare, and the system provides ~$500 million in uncompensated care for uninsured patients each year. Our newest SAMHSA grant seeks to improve the capacity and provision of trauma-focused services within pediatric behavioral health and integrated care clinics across HFHS. Children ages 4-17 years will be served through this project and will be identified and referred for services through screening at well visits, inpatient stays, ED visits, and behavioral health care appointments. To do so, we are implementing two trauma-focused treatments, the Attachment, Regulation and Competency Framework (ARC) and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), while increasing identification of and referral to treatment for child traumatic stress. Our goal is to have our Child Trauma Specialty Service become the central hub for treatment of child trauma in the metro Detroit area, which includes a population of over 850,000 children under age 18.
Hernandez, Michelle A.
Michelle A. Hernandez was a clinician at Kristi House in Miami, Florida, for ten years before going into private practice. She served as a program coordinator for children with sexual behavior problems and received specialized training in PSB-CBT from Oklahoma University as part of a collaborative program. Michelle was part of an expert panel aimed at implementation of PSB-CBT in community agencies. She is also certified in TF-CBT and provides consultation for agencies seeking to be trauma informed. Her private practice treats a diverse population seeking treatment for trauma resolution. She also works with providers that are experiencing secondary traumatic stress. She continues to be involved with the NCTSN in areas of trauma informed care and complex trauma.
Hill-Ford, Cindy
The Center for Restorative Solutions (C4RS) was founded by Cindy Hill-Ford, MFT in 2014 to promote the use of an integrated approach to Restorative and Trauma Informed Practices (known as RTIPs) as a means to enhance the capacity of those who seek to help children, youth and families in communities afflicted by chronic poverty and violence overcome adversity and thrive. C4RS partners and associates provide program development, training, and consultative services designed to promote the development of restorative and trauma informed educational, mental health, and community-based service delivery systems that seek to support those dealing with the impacts of trauma. In 2018-19, C4RS is collaborating with the Urban Youth Trauma Center of the University of Illinois-Chicago Department of Psychiatry, the California School Based Health Alliance, (RJOY) Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, the West Contra Costa Unified School District, NCTSN affiliates, and youth serving organizations in Northern California to develop and empower the development of restorative and trauma informed ervice delivery systems and promote trauma healing.
Himmeger, Marla, LSW
Marla Himmeger initially participated in NCTSN activities through the Cullen Center in 2003 and has been an individual affiliate since that time. Prior to retirement from the Ohio Department of Mental Health in 2012, she was involved in organizing Ohio's Childhood Trauma Task Force and continues to participate in several local, state and NCTSN activities. She serves as co-chair of the 0-6 collaborative group and also is a member of the CWTTT subcommittee.