Mollie Marr was the Evaluation Coordinator for the NYC initiative Creating Trauma-Informed Care in Juvenile Secure Detention. She is currently pursuing an MD/PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience at Oregon Health and Science University and is interested in neurosceince of PTSD, trauma in juvenile justice and child welfare settings, and advocacy and policy.
Marra, Funda Yilmaz, LPC
Funda is a licensed professional counselor specializing in trauma resilience and recovery within intimate or team relationships, among adults, children and through brain-based interventions such as biofeedback, EMDR, ROMChi Neural Dance Exercise and SSP neural re-balancing. As a treatment provider for sexual aggressors and survivors of sexual aggression, she brings a unique perspective to healing the individual and organizational wounds of sexual violence. Funda has written and illustrated a 48 page, fully illustrated self-help book for 3-9-year-old survivors of violence and has developed the ROMChi Neural Dance Exercise System as a bottom-up solution to symptoms of traumatic stress. As an individual affiliate of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Funda has helped develop various products including the Complex Trauma Resource Guide for Youth. She continues to provide training for therapists and the community about the state of the art interventions for trauma resilience and recovery. Funda is an active member of NCTSN's Complex Trauma, Child Traumatic Grief and Justice Consortium collaborative workgroups.
Matheny, Saprina, MSW, LICSW
Saprina Matheny was the Clinical Program Manager for the Ambit Network at the University of Minnesota. In that role, she provided clinical consultation and training related to the implementation of Trauma Informed Communities/Practices to a variety of audiences, including education, child welfare, juvenile justice, and clinicians. She now provides outpatient therapy in her own clinic, as well as supervision, consultation, and training with a particular emphasis on implementation of TF-CBT.
Mau, Aimee
Aimee Mau began working in the field of trauma in 1995 while earning her undergraduate degree in psychology through the University of Montevallo. After several years of working with domestic violence survivors, Ms. Mau enrolled at the University of Kentucky to obtain her master's degree in social work. During her graduate studies, Ms. Mau was hired as a research assistant at the University of Kentucky's Center on Trauma and Children. Upon earning her LCSW, Ms. Mau became a clinician at the Center's NCTSN-funded Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment and Training Institute (CATTTI). Ms. Mau participated in learning collaborative programs to implement TF-CBT and CFTSI and ultimately assisted with disseminating TF-CBT across Kentucky through CATTTI. Ms. Mau also co-facilitated trainings to disseminate the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit in Kentucky and utilized knowledge of trauma to enhance assessments conducted with children in the child protection system. Ms. Mau currently provides therapy, training, and supervision at Key Assets Kentucky and is also a Clinical Associate at the private practice of affiliate member, Dr. Heather Risk. Ms. Mau was more recently trained in CPC-CBT, obtained certification in TF-CBT, and continues to train others on trauma-related topics. In supervision, Ms. Mau stresses the importance of assessing for trauma and providing empirically supported treatments.
May, Robert Kyle, MEd, LPCC-S
I am the owner of Open Doors Counseling Center, LLC. I provide mental health services to children, adolescents, and adults. Our services occur primarily in the office setting. Many of the clients that I serve have experiences with depression, stress or anxiety, LGBT+-related issues, grief or loss, trauma, and/or other issues. I am trained and certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). I have worked as a trauma therapist and received an abundance of trauma-specific training since at least 2014 and continue to specialize in trauma therapy. Before moving to central Kentucky, I supervised several trauma-specialty grant programs.
McAlister Groves, Betsy, MSW, LICSW
Betsy McAlister Groves was the former director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center, and site director for Boston site of the Early Trauma Treatment Network. She served on the faculty at Harvard's Graduate School of Education for 12 years, teaching classes on child trauma and advocacy. She is now a consultant on integrating early childhood mental health into pediatric primary care at Boston University School of Medicine. She remains involved with NCTSN activities focused on early childhood trauma, domestic violence and collaborations with pediatric professionals.
McConnell, Sara
Sara McConnell is an employ at Summitstone Health Partners. I'm a professional Interpreter for a Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Center. She also serves as a part of the Interpreter Project for Children Hospital in Boston with NCTSN.
McRaney, Kristy, PhD
My background is in comprehensive assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with specialized expertise in trauma-informed care as well as developmental disorders. I have held positions of lead psychologist assessing children for autism and other pediatric mental health disorders, behavioral health intern, and fellow in child-trauma settings (e.g., NCTSN site child advocacy center, child inpatient hospitals, grant-funded outpatient behavioral health centers) delivering mental health services to youth.
My current role is that of an Assistant Clinical Professor and the Clinic Director of the USM Behavioral Health Clinic (BHC) training clinic which fosters core experiential training for trainees (i.e., doctoral and master level students in the School of Psychology at USM) as well as and low-cost service to underserved youth, families, and adults. In my current role, I am also the Co-Investigator of ACCESS: Advancing Community Connections to Enhance Services and Success, an HRSA grant-funded program aimed at increasing the cultural competency of providers working with underserved youth, integrating mental healthcare into nontraditional settings, and advancing the quality of mental healthcare in rural, South MS. My responsibilities with ACCESS include providing training and supervision of graduate student clinicians in both trauma-informed care and evidence-based psychological and developmental screenings, in two of the three ACCESS settings (i.e., child advocacy center and pediatric office).
Medical University of South Carolina
The Telehealth Outreach Program for Traumatic Stress (TOP-TS) will support wide-scale knowledge, implementation, resources, and sustainability of a telehealth service delivery model for Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for underserved youth (i.e., racial/ethnic and/or linguistic minorities, rural, low SES) in the mainland US and Puerto Rico. TOP-TS will provide 1) education about telehealth, 2) training and technical assistance with ongoing consultation and support, and 3) culturally/linguistically competent resources, national guidelines and best practices to support the mental health workforce in the implementation of TF-CBT via telehealth. Populations Served: The TOP-TS team will provide education, training and technical assistance (TTA) services and resources to the mental health workforce delivering TF-CBT via telehealth in Child Advocacy Centers, Community Mental Health Clinics, schools, juvenile justice, and other child-serving agencies targeting rural and underserved trauma-exposed youth and families in the mainland US and Puerto Rico. TOP-TS will promote equitable access to care for racially, ethnically and linguistically diverse children and families through the use of a telehealth service delivery model. Strategies and Interventions: TOP-TS will increase knowledge of telehealth protocols and best practices to deliver telehealth TF-CBT through educational webinars about telehealth best-practices and adaptations for unique service settings and populations. We will create a series of protocols, training materials, and resources to aid implementation. We will offer evidence-based TTA and ongoing implementation support with the goal of wide-scale implementation of telehealth delivery of TF-CBT.
Medical University of South Carolina, Mental Health Disparities Among Trauma-Exposed Youth Center
The Mental Health Disparities Among Trauma-Exposed Youth Center is located within the Mental Health Disparities and Diversity Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. Our center focuses on increasing access to, engagement in, and completion of culturally- and linguistically-appropriate, evidence-based treatments (EBT) for trauma-exposed African American, Latino, economically-disadvantaged, and rural/urban children and adolescents residing in 9 counties across South Carolina. We have a particular focus on utilizing specialized service modalities with evidence of reducing barriers to care, in particular community-based treatment and telemental health. The center seeks to (1) increase access to EBTs, among underserved populations through community-, telemedicine-, and office-based service provision modalities; (2) increase capacity of therapists to provide EBTs (Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Culturally Modified-TF-CBT (CM-TF-CBT)) through learning collaboratives on EBTs; and (3) increase completion of services through reducing barriers to care and the provision of culturally-tailored treatment aimed at increasing engagement and reducing premature drop-out. Services are provided in a variety of community locations, including local child advocacy centers, schools, and pediatric primary care locations.