Project SUPRSTART (Serving Underserved Populations in Rural Settings: Targeting Treatment and Adolescent Resilience Together) will expand Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for children and youth ages 3-18 years across seven rural Georgia counties by training therapists in this evidence-based treatment, telehealth provision, and TF-CBT for commercially sexually exploited youth. The Cat III Center aims to create a sustainable telehealth delivery model for treatment using community collaborations to increase access to mental health services among families in the Augusta and Toombs judicial circuits. Project SUPRSTART is also committed to increasing child maltreatment prevention awareness among community leaders and pediatric residents across the area via training in two evidence-informed programs, Connections Matter and Darkness to Light's Stewards of Children.
Institute of Public and Preventive Health, Augusta University
International Rescue Committee, Center for Adjustment, Resilience and Recovery (CARRE)
The Center for Adjustment, Resilience and Recovery (CARRE), housed within the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Resettlement, Asylum and Integration (RAI) department, represents a collaborative effort between the IRC and multiple NCTSN Cat. II and Cat. III Centers. CARRE seeks to ensure that refugee, asylum-seeking, and other forcibly displaced children, youth, and families receive culturally responsive, evidence-based, and trauma-focused treatments and service interventions across a wide array of systems to mitigate the long-term, negative impacts of childhood traumatic stress. CARRE seeks to do so by 1. Developing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and resources to effectively serve forcibly displaced children, youth and families coping with traumatic stress; 2. Effectively implementing culturally adapted, evidence-based and trauma-focused evidence-based treatments with forcibly displaced children, youth, and families; and 3. Increasing knowledge exchange between intervention, population, and systems experts in the fields of child traumatic stress, forced migration, refugee and asylum services and systems, cultural adaptation and responsiveness, and communities with lived experience.
Jackson-Freeny, Mary, MSW, MEd
Mary Jackson-Freeny, MSW, MEd, PPSC has over 20 years of experience serving as a school social worker serving K-12 schools throughout Los Angeles as a: child welfare and attendance counselor; crisis response team member; intervention coordinator; and restorative justice practitioner just to name a few. Mary also served as a co-lead for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Anti-Racist Summit initiative for LAUSD. Mary also trained faculty and staff of over 120 schools in trauma-informed, restorative practices, social-emotional learning, emotional intelligence to build the capacity of school administrators and teachers to use a trauma-informed lens in schools and the community.
Jankowski, Kay, PhD
Jaycox, Lisa, PhD
Lisa Jaycox is a full-time researcher and national expert in trauma-focused school interventions and school-wide trauma-informed practices. As a developer of several interventions (CBITS, Bounce Back, SSET, LIFT), she has experience in closely partnering with schools in the development and evaluation of these types of interventions. Over the past 20 years, she has also developed extensive expertise in the implementation, dissemination, and sustainment of these programs.
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services
The Jewish Board provides critical health and human services for all New Yorkers, regardless of religion, ethnicity, cultural background, gender identification, ability or age. We help adults and children living with mental illness, families and individuals who need supportive housing, adolescents who deserve a safe and protected environment within which to recover, people living with developmental disabilities, and New Yorkers who need counseling and mental health services to address specific issues. We offer a range of trauma-informed clinical services for children, adolescents and their families including comprehensive assessment, psychiatric services, crisis intervention, individual, family, group, and other types of therapies in outpatient, in-home and residential settings and employ a range of evidence-based and trauma-informed treatments including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, STAIR-NST, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. In collaboration with the NCTSN, The Jewish Board has participated in the development of TF-CBT adaptations for use with LGBTQ+ youth and youth who have been commercially sexually exploited (CSEC), and numerous resources to support LGBTQ+ affirming care for traumatized youth and their families.
Jewish Community Services of South Florida, Inc.
The PACCT (Providing Adolescents and Children with Trauma-focused Treatment) Initiative of Jewish Community Services (JCS) of South Florida, Inc. provides access to effective trauma-focused treatment and services to children, adolescents, and their families in Miami-Dade County, in particular, serving the underserved population in the area of Overtown and the city of Homestead, Florida. The project's goal is to serve 375 children, adolescents, and their families over 5 years. The PACTT Initiative is implemented by Jewish Community Services of South Florida, Inc. (JCS). Founded in 1920, JCS has provided behavioral health and social services to Miami-Dade community for more than 100 years. JCS provides a single high-quality standard of care for all clients seeking services independent of race, religion, identity, and/or gender expression. Moreover, JCS manages the 2-1-1 helpline for Miami-Dade and Monroe counties 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in all languages to provide information and referral services to individuals, families, and the community when they are in crisis and/or do not know where else to turn.
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Boston
Early Connections/Conexiones Tempranas II(EC/CT II), a project of the Center for Early Relationship Support (CERS) of Jewish Family and Children's Service (JF&CS), is designed to address traumatic stress and build resilience in children birth to five, while reducing disparities in mental health access among marginalized populations, particularly Latino immigrant families living in Waltham, MA and nearby communities. EC/CT II targets the interrelated goals of preventing trauma to infants and young children, interrupting intergenerational cycles of re-traumatization, and treating infants and young children exposed to traumatic events. The project will serve families with young children coping with multiple adversities: parental substance use or mental illness; domestic abuse; community violence; homelessness; separation from a primary caregiver and/or immigration.
Jewish Family Services of Western New York / Refugee and Immigrant Center for Healing (R.I.C.H.)
Since 1862, Jewish Family Services of Western New York has been providing all members of our community with critical health and human services, regardless of religion, ethnicity, cultural background, gender identification, ability, or age. JFS provides evidence-based, culturally responsive treatment and support to clients facing a wide range mental and behavioral health concerns. Our clinic is licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health and serves clients starting at the age of 5. Our licensed clinicians utilize their expertise and ongoing, specialized training to address trauma, eating disorders, problem gambling, depression, anxiety, grief, and other issues related to emotional well-being. The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Healing (R.I.C.H.) is one of JFS's signature resources that includes the Survivors of Torture and Trauma Systems Therapy programs. Each are designed to support those who have experienced or been exposed to refugee trauma or political and state-sponsored torture. The Trauma Systems Therapy program is a multi-phased initiative to address the complex mental health needs of young refugees from elementary school through high school. This program includes partnerships with Boston Children's Hospital for Trauma and Community Resilience Center, who will serve as consultant and provider of the evidence-based model; BestSelf Behavioral Health; International Institute of Buffalo; Lafayette High School; and Journey's End Refugee Services.
Jones, Russell
Dr. Jones is a Professor of Psychology at Virginia Tech University, and a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in clinical child psychology, trauma psychology, and issues related to disaster and terrorism (www.firetrauma.com). He is also an expert in the behavioral sciences. His research concerns the topic of childhood stress and coping, coping with common stressful life events as well as major traumas (i.e., natural and technological disasters as well as interpersonal violence). Disaster Preparedness and Posttraumatic stress disorder, Depression, and Post Traumatic Growth are major areas of study. Assessment, conceptualization, and treatment of consequent psychiatric and psychosocial disorders also serve as topics of interest. Co-editor of Behavior Therapy and Black Populations: Psychosocial Issues and Empirical Findings, Dr. Jones has also served as a member of numerous editorial boards and .extensively in the trauma area Dr. Jones received his Ph.D. from Penn State University and completed his clinical internship at Brown University. He also held a secondary appointment at Yale University at the Child Study Center. He currently serves as the Director and Founder of Recovery Efforts After Adult and Child Trauma (R.E.A.A.C.T). He has appeared on CBS News, CBC News, BBC, PBS, C-Span, Fox News and a host of other media outlets including print, radio and the web. He was also featured on the Dr. OZ show discussing the impact of the shootings in Newtown Conn., as well as ways of coping with it.d extensively in the trauma area.