Meghan Marsac, PhD, is a pediatric psychologist and a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky and Kentucky Children’s Hospital. She serves as the site PI for the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress (Category II). Her program of research centers on medical trauma includes conducting grant-funded studies to identify predictors of emotional and physical outcomes in the context of acute or chronic medical conditions, developing and validating assessment tools, and creating and evaluating programs to promote recovery and/or adjustment to medical conditions in children and families. Meghan is a leader in the field of pediatric medical trauma, having published over 65 academic articles and 10 chapters on this topic. She has co-authored a book for parents to use to help support their children through medical care as well as to care for themselves: Afraid of the Doctor, Every Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Managing Medical Trauma (www.afraidofthedoctor.com). Meghan currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology and Journal of Traumatic Stress. She has given hundreds of talks on understanding and promoting adjustment to injury and illness in children and their families. She is the CEO of the Cellie Coping Company (www.celliecopingcompany.com) which has distributed over 2000 coping kits to families with children with medical conditions. In addition, Meghan specializes in training medical teams in the implementation of trauma-informed medical care. Clinically, she implements evidence-based practices to facilitate families' management of medical treatment and emotional adjustment to challenging diagnoses and medical procedures.
Meghan Marsac
Mental Health Center of Denver
The Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver - Trauma Treatment Project (GRID-TTP) in Denver, Colorado, will target youth aged 11-17, primarily African American and Latino/Latina, who are gang involved or at risk of gang involvement, and who reside in three Northeast Denver neighborhoods with high rates of community, domestic, and gang-related violence. GRID-TTP will be part of a citywide effort to reduce gang violence and to address the impact of this violence on city residents, especially Denver's youth. The project, implemented by a consortium of Denver government, community, and faith-based agencies, led by the Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD), is based on the Comprehensive Gang Model developed by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. GRID-TTP will deliver two primary interventionsCognitive Behavioral Interventions in Schools (CBITS) and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS)in three middle school, one high school, and five recreation/community centers in the targeted Denver neighborhoods. During the two-year project period, 140 unduplicated youth will be served, some of whom, along with their families, will be referred to other MHCD services.
Prior funding to the Mental Health Center of Denver supported the Family Trauma Treatment Program, which providd access for low-income children and families to community mental health services through a network of more than thirty locations throughout the Denver area. The program improved services and treatment for children who experienced trauma by implementing and evaluating evidence-based interventions in a variety of community settings including schools, shelters, juvenile detention centers, day care centers, and neighborhood clinics.
Mental Health Partners
MHP was founded in 1962 dedicated to serving behavioral health needs regardless of socioeconomic status, residence, or background. In 2019, MHP successfully received attestation to meeting 100% of SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) criteria. Our treatment approach promotes partnership to build wellness and reduce health disparities. Each year, MHP reaches over 23,000 people through clinical care, community-based programs, and training. MHP partners with over 70 community organizations to provide services at sites throughout Boulder and Broomfield counties, including primary care and dental care partnerships, school-based services, infant and early childhood programming, law enforcement and judicial district partnerships, and collaboration with family assistance organizations. Specific services include: outpatient treatment, trauma-focused treatment, crisis services, child and family intensive services, addictions services, older adult specialized services, residential treatment, sexual assault support and prevention, criminal justice diversion and reentry support, and early childhood services. Our treatment approach promotes partnership with clients to support wellness, reduce health disparities, and support a full life in the community.
Mental Health Services for Homeless Persons inc. DBA FrontLine Service- Trauma Department
FrontLine Service is a three-time NCTSN Category III site that has provided decades of evidence-based interventions to victims of trauma and contributed to the scientific literature on trauma symptoms and services. In 2021, FrontLine launched Supporting Children – Trauma Systems Therapy to reduce trauma symptoms for children 5-17 years of age who have lost a caregiver to an opioid drug overdose. As the number of adults who die by opioid overdose increases, local data indicates that a minimum of 250 children per year lose a caregiver to an opioid-related overdose death. FrontLine is partnering with the Center for Child Welfare Practice Innovation and the Trauma Systems Therapy Training Center of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, an NCTSI – Category II TSA Center, to implement Trauma Systems Therapy (TST), an evidence-based, trauma-informed therapeutic intervention and to reduce traumatic grief and post-traumatic stress symptomology among those served. This project represents the first time TST will be dedicated to serving the target population and the first time it has been implemented in Ohio. This project has also established an inter-agency referral network to identify children impacted by opioid overdose deaths and refer them to services, including partnerships with the Cleveland Division of Police Heroin-Involved Death Investigation Unit, the Cuyahoga County Department of Children & Family Services, and the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office. James C. Spilsbury, PhD, MPH, of Case Western Reserve University serves as program evaluator.
Mercy Family Center - Project Fleur-de-lis
Project Fleur-de-lis (PFDL), a program of Mercy Family Center, began as an intermediate and long-term school-based mental health service model for youth exposed to traumatic events in the Greater New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina. PFDL has evolved over the past 16 years to provide evidence-based treatment to youth, families, and communities who have been impacted by community violence, grief, complex trauma, and suicide to enhance personal and community resilience. PFDL’s population of focus is low-income, urban, Black youth ages 5-21 who are underserved in the Greater New Orleans (GNO) area (Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany Parishes (counties)). Project Fleur-de-lis proposes the following goals: Goal 1: Increase access for trauma-exposed, culturally diverse youth and their families to culturally responsive, evidence-based trauma treatment (Bounce Back, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) + Racial Trauma Model (RTM), and Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS). Goal 2: Increase access for youth and their families to culturally responsive, evidence-based bereavement and traumatic bereavement treatment (Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCTA). Goal 3: Establish a trauma-, bereavement-, and suicide-informed community for youth by building the capacity of mental health professionals, community members, and youth with lived experience in PFDL’s geographical catchment area.
Metrocare Services
Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving over 55,000 adults and children annually. For over 50 years, Metrocare has provided a broad array of services to people with mental health challenges and developmental disabilities. InTaCT (ITCT-C/A) at Metrocare is an “evidence-based model that integrates a variety of theoretical and clinical approaches to the treatment of complex trauma” in children, adolescents, and their families. Traumatic stress occurs when children and adolescents are exposed to multiple traumatic events, and this exposure overwhelms their ability to cope with what they have experienced. The model allows for in-depth assessments of a child’s needs in order to tailor individualized treatment plans to achieve the best possible outcome. As early intervention is critical to long term health, the target focus of this program is on youth ages 5 to 18 and their family members/caregivers. At the conclusion of services, which is based on elimination of safety concerns, risk and decreases in symptomology, the youth can be stepped down to a less intensive program for ongoing care.
Michigan Medicine
The primary mission of the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry's Trauma and Grief program is to raise the standard of care and increase access to best-practice care for traumatized and/or grieving children and families (see http://www.psych.med.umich.edu/patient-care/trauma-and-grief-center/). We are affiliates with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Trauma and Grief Clinic
The Trauma and Grief Clinic provides trauma informed assessment, intervention, consultation and community outreach to children, adolescents (between the ages of 7-17 years) and families who anticipate or have significant histories of traumatic- and/or grief-exposed circumstances, broadly defined, to promote understanding of responses and healing. To service this population with a best practices approach that is individually tailored keeping in mind developmental, cultural, and other diversity considerations.
Infant and Early Childhood Clinic
The Infant and Early Childhood Clinic (see also http://www.psych.med.umich.edu/patient-care/infant-and-early-childhood-clinic/) provides assessment and intervention services to infants, toddlers, young children (birth-6) and their families. We aim to promote the healing and resilience of young children and their families who have experienced trauma and/or loss through use of individually-tailored best-practices that include trauma- and developmentally-informed assessment, consultation, and intervention services. In addition, our clinic provides community consultation, advanced training to professionals, and engages in research focused on better understanding and meeting the needs of young children and their families. The Infant and Early Childhood program also includes multifamily group services for families impacted by toxic stress, adversity, and trauma; these include military families with young children (Strong Military Families; Rosenblum & Muzik, 2014; see also http://m-span.org/programs-for-military-families/strong-families/) as well as mothers with trauma histories parenting young children (Mom Power; Muzik, Rosenblum et al., 2015).
Miller, Brian
Dr. Miller provides training and consultation on the CE-CERT model for secondary traumatic stress intervention; the Shielding model of trauma informed supervision; and Trauma 2.0: What to do now that we have the foundation.
Mogabgab, Tuyl, LCSW-BACS, MPH
Tuyl has worked in disaster and crisis response, suicide prevention, and clinical treatment throughout New Orleans school, healthcare, and criminal justice systems. With an aim to foster community healing through restorative practices, trauma- and grief- informed mental health services, and suicide education, she has trained over 5,000 mental health professionals, administrators, school staff, parents, and students in suicide prevention and over 500 in Restorative Community Circles. In the last five years, Tuyl has held more than 250 circles for school administrators, teachers, school mental health professionals, parents and caregivers, departments and teams along with over 50 virtual circles with healthcare professionals across the nation. Tuyl is certified as a School Suicide Prevention Specialist by the American Association of Suicidology (AAS), in Recognizing and Responding to Suicide Risk (RRSR), as a Crisis Intervention Specialist (CIS) and has training in Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), Restorative Justice, Psychological First Aid (PFA), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents (TGCT-A), Bounce Back, Restorative Practices in Schools, Peacemaking Circles, Community Conferencing, Non-Violent Communication (NVC), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Somatic Ecotherapy.
Molina, Adriana
As Interim Chief Program Officer at Allies for Every Child in Los Angeles and an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist, I have the opportunity to integrate the learning from Network participation since 2003 in all of our child and community serving programs. I use my professional and life experience to improve systems and create sustainable change for children, their families and their communities. As a clinician by training and a social worker by trade I have work with individuals, couples, and families who have experienced trauma and abuse to strengthen and heal relationships. As a trainer and facilitator I offer trans-disciplinary trainings and consultations to support service providers working in multiple systems, particularly Mental Health and Child Welfare. And as a performer at heart, I bring creativity and passion to every relationship.