Carol Lopinski and Associates, LLC's is a consulting firm. Its mission is to promote positive outcomes for all of Arizona's children, families, and communities by championing trauma-informed and trauma sensitive practices through quality family support and strengthening policies, training and practice. Carol Lopinski and Associates, LLC offers skills and experience that promote the well-being, strength and stability of Arizona's children and families, and the professionals who serve them.
Lopinski, Carol, MSW, LCSW
Lourie Center: Parent-Child Clinical Services
The Lourie Center Parent-Child Mental Health Clinic provides mental health care to children from birth until the age of 12. The Parent-Child Mental Health Clinic serves children and families with a broad spectrum of emotional and behavioral difficulties, developmental challenges, and experiences of abuse and neglect. We excel at providing therapy grounded in relational, psychodynamic, attachment, and strength-based perspectives. The Parent-Child Mental Health Clinic prides itself on being a training institution, and being comprised of a team of professionals who share an unwavering commitment to professional growth and service to our clients. The majority of the children and families that we serve are from Black and Latino/Latinx communities, and we aim to provide therapy in a manner that that is grounded in social justice principles and that addresses the psychological effects of systems of oppression. Our SAMHSA-funded FASTT program was designed to provide families with consultative evaluations that aid in making appropriate and useful referrals to services and quickly linking families to the supports that they need. Treatment modalities offered include, individual play therapy, family or dyadic therapy, parent guidance sessions, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and Circle of Security Parenting groups. Other departments at the Lourie Center include Head Start, the Therapeutic Nursery Program, the Lourie Center's Montgomery County Infants and Toddlers Team, and the Lourie Center School.
LUK, Inc. Central Massachusetts Child Trauma Center (CMCTC)
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.
Maddock, Meagan, LMSW
I am a bilingual (Spanish and English) LMSW specialized in working with unaccompanied and separated immigrant children in a variety of roles and settings. I have worked as a case manager, advocate, outreach coordinator, and therapist with refugee children and youth who have experienced complex trauma between the ages of 4 years-21 years. I worked for an ORR shelter during and after Zero Tolerance and saw first-hand the ways that immigrant children are often further traumatized after crossing the southern border. I am trauma-informed, child-centered, culturally-attuned and justice-oriented in my approach.
Maine Behavioral Healthcare, The Maine Children's Trauma Response Initiative (The Children's Initiative)
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.
Maine General Medical Center: Edmund N Ervin Pediatric Center
The Central Maine Youth Trauma Initiative (CMYTI) will enable MaineGeneral Medical Centers Edmund N. Ervin Pediatric Center to: • Provide training for up to 100 local mental health providers in well-researched, effective therapies for children who have experienced trauma or are in high-risk situations. Trainings include Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Attachment and Biobehavioral Catchup (ABC). The availability of this trio of Evidence Base Practices' will provide all families in Central Maine with the option of accessing high quality treatment for children ages zero to eighteen. • Provide education and support to foster parents who are caring for children who have experienced trauma via a series of NCTSN Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC) trainings • Create a Trauma 101 curriculum that will be provided at no cost to organizations that serve children who have experienced trauma, such as schools, day care centers and Boys and Girls clubs.
Maitland, Abby, LCSW, LISW-S, MSW
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.
Mallah, Karen, PhD
Karen Mallah, PhD is a bilingual, Black Latina Licensed Psychologist. Her past clinical work has focused children who have experienced trauma, especially those in Latinx immigrant families and those who have experienced sexual abuse. Karen is currently the Senior Director of Quality Management at Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, which manages behavioral healthcare for Medicaid-eligible members in 39 counties in Pennsylvania.
Margaret Palmer, MEd
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.
Marisol Acosta
Marisol Acosta, MEd, LPC-S, is the Director of Clinical Services at Any Baby Can in Austin, Texas where she oversees the Family Health Programs, including counseling services and medical case management for children and youth with special health care needs and cancer. She was the Director of a Category III NCTSN site at the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Health and Human Services Commission where she served as the state’s Children Mental Health Director and Manager of Child and Adolescent Services for the Behavioral Health Services and oversaw children mental health services, residential treatment services, suicide prevention, and substance abuse prevention services. Marisol contributed to the redesign of children community mental health programs and the Texas Resilience and Recovery service delivery system, including co-authoring the third version of the Texas CANS. From 2011-2019, she was the trauma subject matter expert for the state of Texas implementing trauma informed care policies, evidence-based practices (including TF-CBT, PCIT, Seeking Safety, and PFA) and systems change impacting behavioral health, child welfare, disaster behavioral health, schools and tribal nations in Texas. Marisol holds a BA degree from the University of Puerto Rico, a MA in Counseling from the University of Houston, and a Graduate Certificate from Harvard University and the Italy Ministry of Health on Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery. She is an NCTSN CCCT Facilitator and member of the Affiliate Advisory Group. She serves as a member of the Advisory Board of La Red Por los Derechos de la Niñez de Puerto Rico. She is the co-founder of Expertus Soulutions, LLC which provides training and consulting services focused on enhancing quality of care and competency through the use and implementation of best practices and trauma-informed care. She is a state and national speaker and trainer on matters of trauma, trauma informed care transformation, unaccompanied minors, and children mental health.