The National Child Traumatic Stress Network Podcast: Recent Episodes
NCTSN Podcasts
The Network's mission is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families, and communities across the United States. For more information, visit www.nctsn.org.
In this podcast series, the NCTSN brings together perspectives from our vast network of trauma experts – frontline providers, family members, researchers, and national partners – to deliver monthly episodes that range in topics from emerging issues in the field, to foundational topics and issues affecting certain populations.
Este episodio, grabado en español, destaca el trabajo de SGA sobre el Proyecto de Jóvenes Migrantes No Acompañados en Chicago, Illinois. El personal comparte cómo tomando en cuenta las consideraciones culturales informa de manera más eficiente al equipo de trabajo al brindar servicios de trauma a jóvenes y familias Latinoamericanas.
In this episode, listeners hear from Alex Barker and Diane Lanni, the first family and young adult partners on the NCTSN Steering Committee. Alex and Diane share their journey towards their involvement in the NCTSN, their contributions to the Steering Committee, and lessons they have learned along the way. Alex joined the NCTSN Youth Task Force during their time as a Youth Peer Support Specialist at FMRS Health Systems and has used their lived experience as a tool to increase the quality of services provided to youth and young adults. Diane, who has a decade of experience as a foster parent for the Department of Children and Families in Massachusetts, is the Lead Trauma Coach for the Safe and Sound Program at UMASS Memorial Healthcare. She works in the FaCES clinic where she provides peer support to foster care families and trains others in the trauma coach role and is currently Co-chair of the NCTSN Resource Parent Curriculum Committee. To close out the episode, Alex and Diane share advice for family and young adult partners who are interested in getting involved in the NCTSN.
In this episode, Jared Martin, a Research Associate with the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, describes the use of implementation science to accomplish the goal of sustainability in conversation with Lorena Avitea, LCSW, a Trauma Informed Systems Specialist with the Chadwick Trauma Informed Systems Project-Dissemination and Implementation, or CTISP-DI. Avitea also talks about using the four phases of the EPIS (Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainability) framework when Chadwick helped Volusia County, Florida Department of Children’s Services to create a county-wide “supercommunity” around the RPC.
In this episode, we learn about the Children and Youth Cabinet of Rhode Island’s work with unaccompanied and immigrant children, primarily in school-based settings. This podcast emphasizes the importance of individual and family voices in trauma treatment, and we hear from family members who participated in Familias Unidas, an evidence-based program focused on parenting skills.
In this episode, we hear from Nancy Kassam Adams and Anne Kazak, longtime members of the NCTSN and Co-Directors of the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, an NCTSN Category II Center. Since joining the NCTSN in 2002, both Nancy and Anne have held numerous leadership positions in the Network, including but not limited to, as a part of the Steering Committee and as leaders in the NCTSN Integrative Care Collaborative Group. During this episode, Nancy and Anne reflect on Network initiatives they have participated in that have sustained, grown, and evolved over the years and in some cases lead to the development of tools like the Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress Toolkit. Looking forward, they share ways in which collaboration within the NCTSN can continue to strengthen and grow as the Network evolves.
Explores the essential elements of the Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC) and what is most important for agencies to know when thinking about launching the workshop, including additional questions related to getting started with the RPC. Chris Foreman, CISW, Liaison, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, and Melissa L. Hoffmann, PhD, Project Director for the Tennessee Network of Trauma-Informed and Evidence-Based Systems (TN-TIES) project discuss these questions in this 15-1/2 minute podcast.
This episode highlights the work of La Clínica de La Raza in Oakland, California. Staff share their experiences working with unaccompanied and immigrant youth, including the importance of partnerships forged through school-based health centers in improving access to services for unaccompanied immigrant youth. Staff also share the personal and professional impacts of researching and serving this population.
In this episode, we hear from Sarah Gardner, MSW, Director of Clinical Services at the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute and a funded member of Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center at the University of Maryland. Sarah’s area of expertise is intergenerational trauma patterns and engaging families who have experienced marginalization related to racism, poverty, and other negative social conditions. She has been a part of the Network since 2003 and is the developer of FamilyLive, an innovative family therapy model which helps caregivers with trauma histories develop parenting skills. Since joining the Network, Sarah has played important roles in the NCTSN, including as a former longtime co-chair of the Partnering with Youth and Families Collaborative Group where she worked to help develop and disseminate a number of key products including, Sharing Power: A Tool for Reflection, What's SHARING POWER Got to Do with Trauma-Informed Practice?, and Compensation for Family and Youth Involvement: Why It’s Critical.
In this episode, we hear from Susan Lovett, LCSW and Dorys Lemus, former unaccompanied child, from the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention (AIP) in Boston, Massachusetts. They share experiences and lessons learned from implementing a school-based trauma treatment program and highlight the role of a cultural liaison in working with youth who have experienced migration-related trauma.