Ashley Labistour is a UC Davis-approved PCIT trainer and a nationally approved trainer for Trauma-Focused CBT. She formerly served as a treatment coordinator specializing in child sexual abuse at Children's Institute, Inc. in Los Angeles for 11 years. She currently provides TF-CBT training and consultation for various agencies in Southern and Northern California. Ashley also works part-time at Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara supervising school-based therapists in Elementary and Secondary schools throughout Santa Barbara County.
Labistour, Ashley, LMFT
Landau Fleisher, Courtney, PhD., ABPP
Courtney Fleisher has participated with three sites associated with the NCTSN since 2003. She currently works at the University of Vermont Medical Center as Lead Inpatient Pediatric Psychologist and Co-director of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Consult Service. She is a Rostered CPP clinician and applies this model to work with parents and babies in the NICU. Additional trauma-focused work includes TF-CBT, PCIT, and hospital-based trauma-informed care. Her interests lie particularly in the area of medical trauma.
Langley, Audra, PhD
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).
Langosch, Deborah, PhD, LCSW
I'm a clinical social worker with over 35 years experience working with traumatized children, teens and families in a number of diverse settings. I joined the staff of the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in NYC shortly after 9/11 to be a Clinical Coordinator and later Project Director for their Loss and Bereavement Program for children and teens. This program provides grief groups in NYC schools for youth impacted by trauma. We also train clinicians in childhood grief, trauma informed care, stigmatized loss and the impact of loss in programs. I developed and directed the Kinship Care Program which focused on stabilizing relative caregiving families in Brooklyn, NY many of whom had been exposed to traumatic events. I had the pleasure of serving on the NCTSN committee for child traumatic grief and was the co-chair of the subcommittee on childhood traumatic separation until March, 2019 when I resigned from the agency to focus on new endeavors. I'm currently providing trauma informed therapy for children, families and adults, supervision for clinicians working with this population and trainings for practitioners.
Las Cumbres Community Services
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.
Lee, Lindsay, LCSW
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.
Lifebridge Community Services, Inc.
LifeBridge is a leading non-profit behavioral health organization located in Bridgeport, CT, that supports adults, children, and adolescents through mental health and substance use recovery. They offer individual, family, and group counseling, as well as medication management for their clients. All programs and services are offered through the lens of sensitivity to lived experiences, and policies, procedures, and spaces are developed with the goal of helping staff and patients feel physically and psychologically safe. Clients benefit from a team of dedicated licensed clinicians who are diverse, empathetic, warm, experienced, and effective. As a member of the Urban Trauma Provider Network, LifeBridge's clinicians receive specialized training in evidence-based practices to address urban and racial trauma known to be effective in aiding the healing process. Areas of expertise include individual and family therapy, trauma, youth and adult wellness, parent support groups, and art therapy. They partner with the Child Health and Development Institute to enhance their clinicians' competencies in treating children suffering from exposure to violence, abuse, and other forms of trauma using the evidence-based Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) model. LifeBridge embraces the importance of mental and emotional well-being, understanding it is as critical as physical health, and approaches their work with respect for the diverse cultures and backgrounds of the individuals we serve, believing that compassion is fundamental in helping individuals navigate crises, seek assistance, and achieve wellness.
LifeWorksNW/Children's Relief Nursery
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.
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Our Category II site at LIJ Medical Center is promoted by our STRYDD Center which as its name implies defines our mission: Supporting Trauma Recovery for Youth with Developmental Disabilities. We seek to increase the capacity of communities in awareness, cross systems collaboration and trauma informed intervention on behalf of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families who have been impacted by trauma. We strive to create a best fit in terms of community needs with an individualized dissemination plan to include increase in knowledge of trauma & IDD (by means of Road to Recovery Toolkit, Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma IDD case examples), enhancing trauma informed clinical care (consultation on screening/assessment, training in TF-CBT) and advanced training for tailoring trauma informed intervention for youth with IDD. We encourage all network members to become familiar with the unique challenges impacting this vulnerable population by accessing our several fact sheets for providers and caregivers on the NCTSN website. Additionally, clinicians can review a series of webinars on adapting trauma based interventions for these youth. Our goals for this current funding cycle include the construction of various clinician guides to accompany our advanced trainings in Tailoring TF-CBT, Adapting Evidence-Based Trauma treatments more generally, and Trauma-Informed ABA. Additionally, we are implementing a school based approach in Stress First Aid (SFA) in support of the impact of COVID-19 on the school community, especially involving those serving special education students.