Audra Langley, Ph.D. is a Professor at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Dr. Langley is the Director of UCLA TIES for Families, an innovative interdisciplinary program for children in foster care, kinship care or adopted through foster care (ages birth to 25) and their families in Los Angeles County. She is also Co-Director of the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families, which aims to address racial disproportionality by preventing children and families from entering the child welfare system and intervening to elevate the life trajectories and increase equity for those who are child welfare involved. Dr. Langley was Director of Training for the NCTSN-funded TSA Center for Resiliency, Hope and Wellness in Schools for 18 years. Dr. Langley's body of research seeks to increase equity in access to quality mental health and wellbeing interventions for under-resourced and marginalized populations of children, including those in schools and involved with the child welfare system. She is the author of 5 evidence-based interventions, including Bounce Back: Elementary School Intervention for Childhood Trauma, Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET), and the 2nd version of Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS).

Project Corazón: Innovating Child Trauma Treatment for Northern New Mexico Las Cumbres Community Services has been a funded member of the NCTSN since 2012, and provides trauma-focused treatment to children ages 0-18 and their families across four rural counties in northern New Mexico. Evidence-based and evidence-informed programs (EBPs) including Circle of Security ParentingTM, Child Parent Psychotherapy, Child-Centered Play Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are delivered in a staged treatment design to address a range of traumatic stressors, with focus on complex trauma. This integrated array of EBPs are offered to children and their families through a combination of individual, family, and group therapy. Project Corazón improves access to quality care in rural areas for special populations (immigrant and refugee families, women with young children in substance use recovery, and children forcibly separated from caregivers due to abuse, neglect or deportation), supports advanced clinical training, and grows the children’s behavioral health workforce in a designated Mental Health Provider Shortage Area. Direct service goals aim to improve engagement, enrollment, and efficacy outcomes for families experiencing complex trauma and parent-child separations, resolve symptoms of traumatic stress, and repair/strengthen caregiver-child relationships. EBP modification goals and workforce initiatives aim to increase access to care and improve retention rates of experienced clinicians.

Lindsay Lee is the Project Manager for the Restorative Justice Partnership (RJP), a coalition of racial justice, education, labor, and community groups working to ensure widespread and high quality implementation of restorative practices in Denver and nationwide. Before joining the team at RJP, Lindsay worked as the Director of Military and Restorative Programs with Project Fleur-de-lis in New Orleans, supporting individual schools as they began their journey towards becoming restorative schools and away from punitive discipline. This restorative program was built on a network of schools providing trauma counseling to students, and inspired by the need for a strong relational community in the school building to support the intensive work the young people were being asked to do. Lindsay spent three years as a school social worker advocating for restorative practices at the building level before shifting into a bigger picture role. Lindsay believes strongly in the mission of RJP, the importance of restorative justice practices as foundational to treating child trauma in education, ending the schoolto-prison pipeline and modeling the effectiveness and sustainability of community building as an alternative.

Overview:  LifeWorks NW™'s (LWNW™'s) Children™'s Relief Nursery™'s (CRN) purpose is to prevent abuse and neglect in children birth through five years of age by partnering with caregivers committed to strengthening their families. We provide wraparound services to families with challenging life circumstances.  Our emphasis is on secure, safe and stable parent-child relationships and the social and emotional well-being of the youngest and most vulnerable of children.  CRN has a range of core programs and services which include  family risk factor assessments; therapeutic classrooms; respite child care; parenting classes; mental health intervention (infant-toddler mental health and Child Parent Psychotherapy-CPP); home visiting; and intensive case management. The program is tailored to engage and impact families using evidence based best practices to achieve positive outcomes.  CRN serves communities with large minority and underserved populations, who are over represented in the child welfare system, and are residents living in North and Outer East Portland.