The Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center (CMCTC) is a division of LUK, Inc., a non-profit social service agency dedicated to improving the lives of youth and their families. The overarching vision of the CMCTC, in alignment with this goal, is to (1) build a sustainable capacity of providers to identify and treat trauma symptoms among children and their families utilizing evidence-based practices (EBPs) such as Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC), ARC Grow, and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) ; (2) to improve the functioning of children/youth and caregiving systems; (3) to support child-serving systems' learning about and adoption of trauma-informed practices, and; (4) to enhance best practices in the field through support of the work of others. CMCTC facilitates training through Intensive Learning Communities, provides ongoing consultation, and implementation of culturally competent, evidence-based therapeutic services across four programs, including Developing Resilience and Well-Being (DRAW), Building Resilience with Youth and Caregivers (BRYC), Children Exposed to Domestic Violence (CEDV), and Rapid Response Team (RRT) services, in addition to critical incident response.

The Maine Children's Initiative is focused on creating a statewide trauma-informed system of care for children and youth exposed to violence and trauma. The Initiative aims to achieve this goal by designing, implementing, and evaluating strategies that improve public, behavioral, and physical health outcomes. To that end, The Maine Children's Initiative infuses evidence-based practices and trauma-informed, culturally response trainings across the state, utilizes implementation science to create sustainable change across service systems, and creates mutually beneficial partnerships with federal, state and local entities.

Abby Maitland, MSW, LCSW, LISW-S is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey, New York and Ohio. She is a trauma informed clinical specialist and has a long history of providing professional workshops to youth serving organizations on a variety of mental health topics. She was the Lead Trauma Trainer with the Bergen Trauma Treatment Center at CarePlus NJ. Ms. Maitland also has an extensive experience as a treatment provider for children and adolescents in residential treatment, foster care, school setting and involved with the juvenile justice system. In addition to her work with the Bergen Trauma Treatment Center she has been with the ChildTrauma Academy as a certified clinician in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics for several years and is currently providing mentorship in implementing a trauma informed developmentally sensitive approach to clinical problem solving to OWLAG, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, in South Africa. Ms. Maitland has been an invited presenter regarding Trauma Informed Care at numerous events over the years, including the Inter-court Conference of the Ohio Supreme Court, the Focus on Youth Issues Conference in Ohio and the NMT Symposium in Banff Alberta Canada. Ms. Maitland is an adjunct professor, teaching on childhood trauma and development at Ramapo College in NJ and Hunter College in NY. Ms. Maitland is a consultant for trauma assessments for Athens County Child Protective Services in Ohio. Ms. Maitland is a co-author of two cases with CCCT and trains nationally on Child Trauma.

Margaret Palmer brings two decades of dedicated experience in serving Children, Youth, and Families, with a specialized focus on supporting refugees, migrants, asylees, and individuals who have been forcibly displaced. Her expertise also encompasses providing assistance to those affected by intimate personal violence, and advocating for equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Palmer holds a Masters in Education, with a certificate in Diversity from the Institute for Diversity, and is a certified Trauma Support Specialist, having completed training at the Arizona Trauma Institute.