MSW with Prior Cat III PI at Family & Children's Services[Elizabeth NJ].Currently NCTSN Individual Affiliate Member. Affiliate Advisory Group, Steering Committee.Participated in I/DD and Multi-System Youth Collaborative Groups.NJ involvement: Community Access Unlimited/Special Projects/Nurtured Heart Approach Certified Trainer ;Families and Community Together/Board President;NJEA ACES Task Force;Shaping Elizabeth MH Task Force. Professional and lived experience with trauma.
Webb, William
Webster, Ruthlyn, Ed.D., LCSW, ACSW
Ruthlyn Webster, Ed.D., LCSW, ACSW As Kristi House’s former Programs Director, Dr. Webster oversaw Therapy and Project GOLD departments at Kristi House, which encompasses 28 staff members. She has shepherded Kristi House’s program growth during her 16 years at the agency, reaching more and more clients each year. She served as Director for Kristi House’s ongoing federal SAMHSA grant, which is spreading evidence-based interventions for child trauma throughout South Florida. In its first four years, the Miami C-START program a community based learning collaborative; treated 1,200 children and trained 172 therapists and caseworkers in evidence-based interventions for child sexual-related trauma. The SAMHSA project is now exploring evidence-based interventions that hold promise for child sex trafficking survivors, and is working closely with clients in Project GOLD, our CSEC program. Dr. Webster holds a Doctor of Education degree in Organizational Learning and Leadership; she is also a licensed clinical social worker, with more than 35 years’ experience as a field instructor, managing state and federally funded programs for abused children in culturally diverse settings, primarily in Harlem, NY and Miami. She has been trained and provides trainings in multiple Evidence Based Treatment Interventions. These includes: Trauma Focus Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT); Problematic Sexual Behavior-Cognitive Behavior Therapy (PSB-CBT); Risk Reduction Family Therapy (RRFT); Modified TF-CBT for CSEC; and Infant Mental Health. Dr Webster also served on various NCTSN collaborative groups such as Child Abuse, CSEC, PSB and Sexual Health committees. She has been an adjunct faculty at Marymount College and Florida International University. Most recently November 2017-present Dr. Webster received training in the Core Curriculum in Childhood Trauma Facilitator’s College, and is now conducting training workshops on the Core Curriculum as part of The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) initiative. December 2018 Collaborative Paper submitted: Journal of Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research on: Preaching to the choir? Predictors of engagement in a community-based learning collaborative.
WestCare Foundation
Based in Nevada with programs in 19 states and three territories, WestCare Foundation will be responsible for bringing together trauma and capacity-building experts as well as faith-and community-based organizations to develop and implement TIMM. The population that WestCare Foundation is seeking to address is children and adolescents impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). These experiences may include having divorced or separated parents, a deceased parent, living with someone with a substance use or mental health disorder, having a parent who served time in jail, or exposure to domestic or neighborhood violence. Our grant activities will address the SDOH domains of Health Care Access and Quality. TIMM specifically will address Healthy People 2030 objectives AH-D02(Increase the proportion of children and adolescents with symptoms of trauma who receive evidence-based treatment), MHMD-D01 (Increase the number of youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) who are identified and receive treatment), and IVP-D03 (Reduce the number of young adults (aged 18 to 25 years) who report 3 or more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). WestCare Foundation will increase the access to trauma-informed care and mental health services and improve outcomes of children and adolescents experiencing ACES by offering training to 620 unduplicated clergy and congregational leaders across the 5-year funding period. WestCare initially will implement the TIMM model in Milwaukee, WI and Atlanta, GA during the first two years of operation, using data and feedback to refine and perfect the model as needed. During the last three years of funding, WestCare will roll out the model throughout its regions, focusing on communities of color with the highest risk and the most need.
WestCare Pacific Islands
Master's Level, License eligible to provide counseling services. 15+ years of providing care coordination, case management, and individual/group counseling to children and youth with emotional disabilities through outpatient and residential treatment.
Westchester Jewish Community Services
Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) offers 86 programs, including WJCS Trager Lemp Center for Treating Trauma and Promoting Resilience (TLC). TLC provides comprehensive outpatient, evidence-based treatment programs to help trauma survivors. TLC also offers community education and trainings to teach about and foster a trauma-informed system of care in schools and child-serving and mental health agencies throughout Westchester.
Western Michigan University: Children's Trauma Assessment Center
The Detroit Trauma-Informed Project (D-TIP) at the Southwest Michigan Children's Trauma Assessment Center will support further development of a collaborative continuum of trauma-informed services in Detroit. Working with traumatized urban youth and their families within the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, the project will increase child and familial resiliency, and will identify and address trauma from a multisystem perspective. Services will include trauma screening, comprehensive trauma assessment, parent trauma training, resiliency strategies for children and families, and workforce development. D-TIP will expand on existing treatment modalities and introduce Strengthening Families Coping Resources (SFCR). Cohorts in at least two agencies will also be trained in After Deployment: Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT), a Parent Management Training (PMT) for military families.
Wilgocki, Jennifer, MS, LCSW
Jennifer is an affiliate member of the NCTSN. She is an approved national trainer in TF-CBT and CBITS. In her private practice she provides trauma-specific treatment to children, adolescents, and their caregivers.Bounce Back as another EBP that I am an approved trainer for.
Williams-Hecksel, Cheryl
Cheryl Williams-Hecksel (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Michigan. She has been on the faculty of the School of Social Work at Michigan State University since 2006. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, she has spent more than 25 years in clinical and administrative roles in public and private child welfare and mental health agencies. She is the team leader for MSU’s work with the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute where she serves as coordinator of the University Partnerships team. She developed the School's Evidence Based Trauma Treatment Certificate for MSW students. This certificate experience includes course work that uses the NCTSN Core Curriculum in Child Trauma (CCCT), training and clinical consultation in an evidence based trauma treatment (TF-CBT or CPT) and a concurrent advanced clinical field placement. Cheryl was originally certified in the CCCT in 2010, she attended a CCCT re-certification in 2020 and was certified as an Advanced Facilitator of the curriculum in 2023. In the fall of 2023 with colleagues, Connie Black-Pond and Karen VanDeuson and with support from CCCT faculty Leslie Ross, Laura Katz and Allison Hrovat launched a Michigan CCCT College for 10 colleagues committed to teaching and training about trauma and trauma informed work.
Wilson, Kelly, MSW
I, Kelly Wilson, am the owner of Wilson Counseling & Consulting in Madison, WI. I have been a participating member of the NCTSN since 2003. In my private practice I specialize in the treatment of child and family trauma. I am also a trainer of TF-CBT, SPARCS, and PFA. I have a passion for working with complex trauma, children in out of home placements, LGBTQ youth, and youth who have been sexually exploited.
Wisconsin State Department of Children and Families
Led by the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, the Trauma and Recovery Project Collaboration will increase the availability, accessibility and coordination of trauma-specific treatment in Milwaukee and Racine Counties for families in the child welfare system or that are at risk of entering the system. Together with the Institute for Child and Family Well-being (ICFW), Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Community Services, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UW-M), the project will significantly increase availability of effective mental health services in Milwaukee and Racine Counties by training mental health clinicians in three trauma-specific treatment approaches: Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. The project will also increase the availability of multidisciplinary professional training in trauma and mental health for CPS and non-CPS child-serving professionals. Additionally, in collaboration with the Office of Children’s Mental Health, the project will strengthen and coordinate multiple systems and agencies that support the provision of trauma-specific treatment services. This will be accomplished through increasing consumer participation in systems change efforts, increasing public exposure to mental health awareness message, and increasing agency partners’ readiness to integrate trauma-specific treatment into their policies and practices.