Appendix I PROGRAM DIRECTORY Trauma-Informed Programs Illinois ACE Response Collaborative October 2016
INTRODUCTION
This Program Directory was compiled over six months with help from over 80 colleagues who submitted program names and information. We recognize the Program Directory will always be in evolution and therefore incomplete - as new programs are created and existing programs develop a trauma-informed focus.
We did our best to list each program in an appropriate category (using information submitted or from the program’s website). Because we found that programs may have started with one focus and then expanded to provide additional services, we include a brief paragraph describing the program. This Program Directory was compiled with contributing help from the Illinois ACEs Response Collective.
We would love to have comments and corrections. Please submit to Maggie Litgen at Health & Medicine, [email protected].
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Programs in Cook County, Illinois Page Advocacy and Research 3 Behavioral Health 3 Child Welfare, Family and Community Support 6 Creative Healing Programs 9 Education 10 Faith-Based 14 Homeless and Housing Support 15 Immigrant and Refugee 16 Justice and Violence Prevention 17 Physical Health 21
Illinois Programs Page [Illinois-wide or Illinois programs outside Cook County] Advocacy and Research 23 Behavioral Health 23 Child Welfare, Family and Community Support 24 Creative Healing Programs 26 Education 26 Faith-Based 27 Homeless and Housing Support 27 Immigrant and Refugee 28 Justice and Violence Prevention 28 Physical Health 29
National Programs Page [Nation-wide or US programs outside Illinois] Advocacy and Research 30 Behavioral Health 31 Child Welfare, Family and Community Support 32 Creative Healing Programs 34 Education 35 Faith-Based 37 Homeless and Housing Support 37 Justice and Violence Prevention 37 Physical Health 40
International Page Advocacy and Research 41 Behavioral Health 41 Immigrant and Refugee 42 Justice and Violence Prevention 42
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Programs in Cook County, Illinois
Primary Focus: Advocacy and Research
Chicago Foundation for Women www.cfw.org The goal of CFW is to give justice, safety, health and economic security to all women and girls. In 2015, CFW funded 150 project serving 53,000 women and girls.
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group (Chicago) www.hmprg.org HMPRG is an independent policy center that conducts research and education, and collaborates with other groups to promote social justice and challenge inequities in health and health care. Programs address court-involved youth, behavioral health-primary care integration, and adverse childhood events and health.
Institute for Juvenile Research - IJR (Chicago) http://www.psych.uic.edu/ijr IJR develops and promotes effective policy and practices to prevent mental health difficulties and relieve burdens of children and families living in high poverty urban communities.
Lurie Center for Childhood Resilience (Chicago) https://www.luriechildrens.org/en-us/care-services/specialties-services/center-childhood-resilience/Pages/index.aspx CCR works to advance innovative and evidence-based strategies and solutions to address comprehensive mental health reform and build a trauma-informed city and state.
Univ Chicago-Chapin Hall Center for Children www.chapinhall.org/ Chapin Hall is a research and policy center, focused on a mission of improving the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities. Impact is derived from a distinctive marriage of rigorous academic research with innovative partnership with schools, and service agencies.
Unsilence (Chicago) http://www.unsilence.org/ Unsilence identifies untold stories of human and civil rights, and histories of atrocity that receive little attention in local schools and communities. Projects empower youth and the public to ask critical questions about how and why silencing happens, to break taboos, and to take action to unsilence marginalized narratives at home and around the world.
Primary Focus: Behavioral Health
Advocate Childhood Trauma Treatment Program http://www.advocatehealth.com/documents/behavioralhealth/CTTP-flyer.pdf CTTP provides a range of specialized services for children, teens, and families that have experienced sexual abuse and maltreatment. Services include Counseling, Trauma Assessments & Sexual Behavior Problem Assessment, and Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Workshops for Adults
Advocate Illinois Masonic Behavioral Health Services http://www.advocatehealth.com/immc-behavioralhealth Advocate provides a comprehensive array of outpatient psychological services for children, adolescents and adults and inpatient services for adults. Professional staff is sensitive to all sexual orientations, gender identities and cultural values.
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Albany Park Counseling Program (Chicago) http://www.apccchgo.org/ APCC educates and supports members of the community as they determine their own path of growth and development. Programs include adult education, workforce development, counseling, and food pantry.
Alternatives (Chicago) http://www.alternativesyouth.org/ Reaching 3,000 young people and their families each year, Alternatives programs focus on leadership development, prevention of violence and substance abuse, academic enrichment and counseling.
Barr Harris Children's Grief Center (Chicago) http://barrharris.org/ Barr Harris provides accessible counseling services to bereaved children and their families from underserved communities, and provides training and consultation on childhood grief for those who work with children.
Bremen Youth Services (Oak Forest, IL) www.bremenyouthservices.org/ Bremen Youth Services, a not-for-profit community mental health agency, serves youth ages 5-21 and their families. Services are provided by counselors, social workers, and graduate level interns committed to providing quality care to our clients and their families.
Center for Child Trauma Assessment- - Northwestern University http://cctasp.northwestern.edu/ CCTASP assists child-serving systems in understanding, recognizing, and responding to the developmental effects of child trauma. Services include training, consultation and dissemination of resource materials to youth, caregivers, and providers related to trauma-focused assessment strategies and interventions.
Center for Contextual Change http://www.centerforcontextualchange.org/ Center for Contextual Change provides individual, group, couple and family counseling services in 3 locations throughout the Chicago area. As one of the oldest and largest trauma practices in the Midwest, providers are uniquely qualified to support and educate fellow clinicians.
Chicago Center for Integration and Healing http://the-ccih.com/ CCIH provides integrated psychotherapy for relational difficulties, anxiety and depression, with a specialty in the treatment of trauma. Services teach people how to be trauma-sensitive in the work environment, which may include Trauma-Focused Consult Groups and a Study Groups on trauma.
Children's Research Triangle (Chicago) http://www.childrensresearchtriangle.org/ CRT provides services in a friendly, family-centered atmosphere in downtown Chicago, and offers evaluation and treatment for ADHD, developmental delays, and history of childhood stress and trauma.
Community Counseling Centers of Chicago http://www.c4chicago.org/ C4chicago’s four centers provide a full range of behavioral health services for children, youth, adults, and families, including: crisis intervention, special programs for juvenile justice, and assertive community treatment.
DePaul University Family and Community Services (Chicago) csh.depaul.edu/about/centers-and-institutes/dfcs/Pages/default.aspx DFCS’s team of clinic-community psychologists, social workers, counselors, and psychiatrists provide child-adolescent psychiatry, parent-child interaction therapy, and assessment. 5
Haymarket Center (Chicago) http://www.hcenter.org/ Haymarket Center provides direct services to individuals with chemical dependency; services range – from detoxification, to recovery support, to finding a home, to learning a new job skill, and to gaining employment.
La Rabida Chicago Child Trauma Center (Chicago) http://www.larabida.org/page-chicago-child-trauma-center La Rabida’s Chicago Child Trauma Center (CCTC) provides direct trauma-focused services for children who have experienced medical trauma or who have been exposed to severe physical abuse, sexual abuse, fire, violent crime, and witness to domestic violence.
Lurie Children's Hospital Trauma Team - Psychiatry (Chicago) https://www.luriechildrens.org/en-us/care-services/specialties-services/child-adolescent-psychiatry/Pages/index.aspx The Trauma Team is a multidisciplinary workforce (psychologists, social works, and psychiatrists) serves children exposed to trauma and their families, through evidence-based interventions and direct clinical service. The team is housed in the Department of Psychiatry at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital.
Pillars (LaGrange Park, IL) pillarscommunity.org The largest nonprofit provider of mental health and social service in the western and southwestern suburbs of Chicago, Pillars serves 10,000 people each year, with 24hour domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines.
Rainbows Peer Support Groups (Chicago & International) www.rainbows.org Rainbows offers peer support groups for children 3-18 who have experienced a life-altering event within their family, such as death, separation and/or divorce, incarceration, military deployment, violence, loss, and more.
Safe from the Start www.cachelps.org/safe-from-the-start Safe from the Start provides individual therapy, family therapy, parental bonding to children ages birth to 5, who have been exposed to violence and/or trauma; and therapy services to parents, guardians, and siblings who may be affected by the violence/trauma.
Theraplay Institute (Evanston and International) http://www.theraplay.org/ Theraplay is a child and family therapy which builds attachment, self-esteem, trust, and joyful engagement. Programs create an active, emotional connection between the child and parent or caregiver, and results in an improved sense of self-worth and capacity to have positive, loving relationships.
Thresholds Programs (Chicago) http://www.thresholds.org/ Thresholds provides comprehensive services for individuals to build resiliency around trauma and ACEs. Program services include parenting support, and providing individuals with a history of mental illness and/or criminal record with support to gain employment.
Womencare Counseling Center (Evanston) www.womencarecounseling.com Womencare supports adults, adolescents, couples, families, and communities in the face of trauma, loss, and life transitions to restore life's meaning and the capacity to form healthy relationships based on mutuality, respect, accountability and caring. Counseling services are offered to individuals, groups, couples and families.
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Primary Focus: Child Welfare, Family and Community Support
Arab American Family Services of Illinois arabamericanfamilyservices.org AAFS provides services to over 30 communities in the South Suburban Chicagoland area. Programs focus on safety net case management, domestic violence, elderly and disability assistance, mental health, and immigration services.
Aunt Martha’s auntmarthas.org Aunt Martha’s coordinates services for some of Illinois’ most vulnerable children during critical time periods: when they are removed from their homes. As the lead agency of HealthWorks of Cook County program, Aunt Martha’s recruits physicians; and trains case managers, DCFS staff, substitute caregivers and providers.
Austin Childcare Providers' Network (Chicago) austinchildcareprovidersnet.org Austin Childcare Providers’ Network educates and trains childcare providers in underserved communities about ACEs. Services provide parents with training on how to relieve stress in families.
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America (Chicago and National) www.bbbs.org Big Brothers Big Sisters builds the critical network of support to enable the work of carefully matching children with caring adult mentors. Programs target children most in need: those living in single parent homes, growing up in poverty, and coping with parental incarceration.
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (Chicago) bpncchicago.org BPNC includes a violence prevention program to provide mentorship, trauma-informed counseling and case management services to 13-19 year olds. The goal is to decrease truancy, reduce youth involvement with the criminal justice system, and decrease young people’s exposure to and involvement with violence.
Catholic Charities of Chicago http://www.catholiccharities.net/ Catholic Charities of Chicago provides trauma-informed, family-centered clinical services to children, youth, and their parents; and offers office-based counseling, home-based counseling to families formed through adoption and subsidized guardianship, and school-based services.
Center on Halstead (Chicago) http://www.centeronhalsted.org/ Center on Halsted programs provide fun, educational and enlightening opportunities to the LGBTQ community and allies. Programs include mental health, support groups, sexual orientation & gender institute, legal services, anti- violence project, HIV testing, and youth services.
Centers for New Horizons (Chicago) www.cnh.org Centers for New Horizons empowers children, youth, and families to become self-reliant. With 200+ full-time staff, programs are found in seven locations throughout the Bronzeville and Riverdale communities of Chicago’s Southside, and reach over 1,000 individuals daily.
Chicago Department of Public Health - CDPH www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdph.html CDPH works with community partners to help Chicago become a Trauma Informed City, through the promotion of health, prevention of disease, reduction of environmental hazards, and improved access to services.
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Chicago Urban League/ Human Capital http://www.thechicagourbanleague.org/ UYC program serves African-American males aged 13-18 who have academic problems (truancy, disciplinary behaviors, poor course performance, or are at risk of expulsion/ dropping out); are involved with the criminal justice system; or who live in a single female headed household, with a grandparent, or in foster care; or who live in a neighborhood with high rates of violence and criminal activity.
Children's Place Association (Chicago) childrens-place.org Children’s Place helps children and families break the cycles of poverty and illness by providing critical assistance to 350 children and families in HIV care, home care, early education, supportive housing, and foster care.
Child’s Voice Chicago http://childsvoice.org/ Child’s Voice teaches listening and spoken language skills to ages 0 to 7 with hearing loss. Services prepare each student to attend their local, mainstream schools. Programs include: newborn testing, audiology center, early intervention program, school program, support, and outreach services.
Enlace Chicago http://www.enlacechicago.org/ Enlace leads a comprehensive violence prevention initiative that focuses on prevention, intervention, and organizing. Programs and services include: Cease Fire, school-based mentors, Safe Passage Community watch, and a youth safety network.
Erie Neighborhood House (Chicago) Eriehouse.org Erie Neighborhood House is a social service agency that provides education for preschool and after school programs for children and youth. Mental Health/support services (counseling) are provided for Erie House participants.
Evanston Cradle to Career evanstonc2c.org Evanston C2C has five Action Teams focused on community literacy: Well-being, Health and Safety Action Team, Parent and Caregiver Empowerment, Literacy On-Track, Prepared for Adult Life, and Community Literacy.
Family Bridges (Cook & DuPage Counties) familybridgesusa.org Family Bridges provides relationship skills workshops in low income community sites for teens, couples and single adults; and teaches communication and conflict resolution in Spanish and English.—Workshops are hosted by neighborhood schools, churches, and community centers.
Family Focus (Chicago) http://www.family-focus.org/ Family Focus works one-on-one with participating families in the context of their cultural heritage and specific needs. Programs provide family support and youth development services, and connect parents with other parents and staff at the Family Focus center.
Imagine Englewood If (Chicago) http://www.imagineenglewoodif.org/ Imagine Englewood IF makes a difference in the lives of families residing in the Greater Englewood community with programs that focus on violence prevention, lead poisoning prevention, healthy eating, mentorship, and community gardening.
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Jane Addams Resource Corporation (Chicago) http://www.jane-addams.org/ JARC helps low income workers and community residents attain financial self-sufficiency through a combination of high quality skills training (in manufacturing) and bundled support services through the Center for Working Families. Programs serve both the parent and child simultaneously to achieve the best possible outcomes for the whole family.
Lawrence Hall (Chicago) https://www.lawrencehall.org/ Lawrence Hall's Foster Care Program serves children and youth referred by DCFS. Programs help youth to successfully reach a permanent home by returning home to their biologic family, adoption, guardianship or transition to independence.
Lawrence Hall Residential Treatment Program https://www.lawrencehall.org/our-programs/child-and-family-treatment-center/ The Child and Family Treatment Center (CFTC) is often the last stop in treatment for children in state care before hospitalization or youth recently released from psychiatric wards, most often with pre-existing drug addictions and violent behavioral problems. CFTC continues to be the only such center treating these youth populations in Chicago.
Mercy Home for Boys and Girls (Chicago) mercyhome.org Mercy Home is comprised of its Youth Residential, Aftercare, and Friends First Mentoring programs. Each one of these living spaces provides the safety, structure, and support that children between the ages of 11–21 need to grow and thrive, based on the age of the child and their emotional and developmental requirements.
Metropolitan Family Services (Chicago) www.metrofamily.org Metro Family works to reduce traumatic stress symptoms and improve independent function with programs targeting Education, Empowerment, Economic Stability, and Emotional Wellness. Metro Family serves clients of all ages, from the prenatal period to senior services.
Oak Park-River Forest Infant Welfare Society childrenscliniciws.org/childrens-mental-health-services.php The Children's Clinic, sponsored by the Infant Welfare Society, serves low income family through medical, dental, and behavior health. The families that are involved in behavioral health are either medical and/or dental patients. In behavioral health, social workers conduct social work encounters, case management, referrals, and short term interventions.
Parent Empowerment Program - ChildServ (Chicago) www.childserv.org Parent Empowerment Program serves 300 families in an early childhood education home-visitation program. Parents As Teachers (PAT) empowers parents to be their child's first teacher. Home visits are twice a month for most families and focus on three areas: parent-child interaction, development based parenting, and family wellbeing.
Parenting Fundamentals - Metropolitan Family Services (Chicago) www.metrofamily.org Parenting Fundamentals gives parents tools to help their children live fulfilling lives. Parents learn positive parenting skills to empower them to improve school performance and strengthen families.
Salvation Army Harbor Light Center (Chicago) www.safreedom.org SA Harbor Light Center’s trauma informed program addresses the mental, physical and spiritual needs of the children and their caregivers. Programs utilize evidence based practices, tailored to the emotional and developmental needs of the young children and adolescents. Caring, supportive, and qualified professionals utilize trauma-focused interventions to counsel children experiencing trauma based symptoms.
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Sertoma Centre (Cook County and International) www.sertomacentre.org Staff at Sertoma Centre is trained in trauma-informed care. Programs provide Medicaid adult mental health services and commercial insurance/private pay outpatient psychotherapy/counseling
South Chicago Neighborhood Network Collective https://www.claretianassociates.org/ The South Chicago Neighborhood Network Collective is working toward creating a trauma informed care system to help the community through health, education and workforce development.
The Well of Mercy (Chicago) thewellofmercy.com The Well of Mercy is a comprehensive program which addresses the needs of pregnant women and their children. The women live in a community, and address: spiritual growth, education, physical well-being and emotional health. Group interventions include: domestic violence awareness, parenting, mindfulness, grief and loss healing, budget, life coaching, and mentorship.
Trauma Response and Intervention Movement TR4IM (Chicago) tr4im.org TR4IM is a network of providers and community residents, along with the local Police District to respond to, help families recover from, reduce, and remove childhood trauma and community violence 8-blocks at a time, beginning in Chicago's North Lawndale Community. Services address trauma and violence by disseminating information on trauma informed care agencies.
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago uw-mc.org UWMC partners with agencies and programs throughout the Chicago area to help individuals and families achieve their human potential through education, income stability, and healthy lives. UWMC programs reach almost 1,000,000 persons per year.
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago http://www.ywcachicago.org/ YWCA provides a wide range of services to girls and young women. Provide trauma-informed counseling services to children 0-18 years and their caregivers.
Primary Focus: Creative Healing Programs
Calm Classroom (Chicago) www.calmclassroom.com Calm Classroom teaches skills to students, teachers and staff in Chicago Public Schools to develop self-awareness and focus. Together with partners, programs serve low-income and at-risk Pre-k through 12th grade public school students and their families.
Chicago Adventure Therapyhttp://2011.chicagoadventuretherapy.org/ www.chicagoadventuretherapy.org Chicago Adventure Therapy help clients build resiliency, leadership, and awareness of their strengths and build on those strengths to transfer them to additional areas of their lives. Programs include kayaking, canoeing, rock climbing, camping, bicycling; outdoor sports used to build skills, leadership, problem solving.
Chicago Zoological Society - NatureStart www.czs.org/naturestart CZS provides professional development for educators in formal and informal education settings, by providing nature- based, play-based programs and learning environments for children ages 0-8 and their families. 10
Free Write - Arts & Literacy (Chicago-Cook County) http://www.freewritechicago.org Free Write Arts & Literacy provides one-on-one literacy tutoring, creative writing workshops, visual art workshops, music production workshops, publishing and public performance opportunities to youth detained in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (CCJTDC).
Growing Home (Chicago) http://growinghomeinc.org/ Growing Home provides employment and gardening paid work experience to ex-offenders as well as job training and certification services. Now partnering with Cabrini Legal Aid Clinic to expunge participants’ criminal records--a major barrier to employment for clients.
Lynch Foundation Quiet Time (Chicago & International) www.davidlynchfoundation.org/schools.html Lynch Foundation brings the healing effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) to mothers and their families in Chicago who have lost loved ones to school-related violence. The technique is a process of automatic self- transcending, allowing the participant to experience a field of calm deep within.
Mindful Practices Yoga (Chicago) mindfulpracticesyoga.com Mindful Practices Yoga empowers educators and students through Mindfulness, Yoga, and Social-Emotional Learning to create a more equitable learning environment.
Storyographers (Chicago) http://www.storyographers.com/ Storyographers helps people study their own personal narrative within a group setting to extract embedded knowledge, foster community, and empower through reframing life experiences using storytelling.
Yoga Care (Chicago) http://www.yogacareus.org/ YogaCare catalyzes the spread of yoga in underserved communities to promote health. Services provide customized yoga programs at partner organizations, professional development for community focused yoga teachers, and scholarships for YogaCare students to become teachers.
Zoo for All (Cook County) www.czs.org/naturestart Zoo for All is an outreach program to urban children and youth for fun and education.
Primary Focus: Education
Alternative Schools Network: Project Resilient Schools (Chicago) www.asnchicago.org Spearheaded by BPI, the Coalition includes 30 diverse organizations, schools, churches, residents, caregivers, and community leaders dedicated to strengthening the early learning opportunities of children pre-birth to eight years old.
Arrupe College Loyola University (Chicago) luc.edu/arrupe/ In 2015, Arrupe opened its doors to students with limited financial resources to help guide them to graduation with little or no debt. The two-year associate’s degree program offers generous financial aid packages and is designed for students who need a little extra help.
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Auburn Gresham GOLD (Chicago) http://www.auburngreshamportal.org/index.html Auburn Gresham GOLD focuses on ensuring middle school students are prepared and on track academically, socially engaged, and attend school regularly, by working with schools and principals to ensure kids are reading on track by 3rd grade.
BPI Education and Early Learning (Chicago) http://www.bpichicago.org/programs/public-education/ The Public Education program at BPI focuses on improving the quality of public education for all Chicago schoolchildren. Services include home visiting to mothers under the age of 21, and who are living in low and very low- income neighborhoods, particularly those living in public housing.
Bright Promises (Chicago) http://www.brightpromises.org/programs/focused-funding In 2012, Bright Promises initiated a six year grants program, with the goal of promoting resilience in children who have experienced trauma by educating adults and caregivers to be trauma-informed. Grants were made to organizations that are experts in the field of childhood trauma.
Carole Robertson Center for Learning (Chicago) http://www.crcl.net/ CRCL serves more than 650 children and their families every day through child and family development programs; including: early learning, after school enrichment, and home based programs. Most children served are under the age of 6, and participate in full-day, year-round early learning program models.
Chicago Commons http://chicagocommons.org/ Chicago Commons has early childhood schools, and 13 community partner, early childhood schools that serve 650 children per year.
Chicago Lights https://www.chicagolights.org/our-programs/ Chicago Lights Tutoring seeks to break the cycle of poverty by providing academic and emotional support to 400 students from under-resourced communities. Programs help students improve academics, stay in school through graduation, and prepare for higher education and meaningful careers.
Chicago Public Schools - CPS cps.edu/News/Press_releases/Pages/PR1_02_12_2016.aspx Since 2013, CPS has implemented a new Student Code of Conduct to move away from exclusionary disciplinary practices and address the root of student behavior including trauma-focused groups, skills building, and restorative justice.
Chicago State University Family-Centered, Trauma-Informed Project www.csu.edu/socialwork/traumainformedproject.htm In collaboration with Illinois DCFS, CSU implemented a family-centered, trauma-informed, strength-based child welfare system. The learning collaborative is a workforce development process that provides training and support to DCFS and POS staff across job functions and organization levels.
Chicago State University Truth N' Trauma Program http://www.csu.edu/socialwork/ The Truth n' Trauma project (TNT) aims to prevent and reduce violence in neighborhoods and communities contiguous to Chicago State University through supporting young people in addressing the impact of trauma and developing strategies for trauma and violence prevention and reduction.
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Children's Center of Cicero-Berwyn www.childrenscenterciceroberwyn.org We offer early education programs for 850 children and parents in our community including: Head Start, preschool child care, school aged child care, and parent and child together.
Cicero School District (District 99) http://www.cicd99.edu/ CICD school social workers and psychologists were trained to implement Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) groups and Bounce Back groups. CICD administrators also received trauma training.
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning CASEL http://www.casel.org/ CASEL is a leading national organization that advances the development of academic, social and emotional competence for all students. The organization’s mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) an integral part of education from preschool through high school.
Communities in Schools of Chicago www.chicagocis.org/home/index.asp Communities In Schools of Chicago addresses the gap between students’ needs and schools’ ability to respond to these needs. Programs include: art performances, field trips, college and career readiness programs, health education, and, physical and behavioral health services.
Dominican University Graduate School of Social Work socialwork.dom.edu/ Dominican University’s Graduate School of Social Work includes an understanding of trauma and adverse childhood experiences. Students learn to recognize the potential for secondary/vicarious trauma, strategies for supporting healing and resilience, and how to build a trauma informed workplace.
DRW College Prep (Chicago) drwcollegeprep.noblenetwork.org/ DRW College Prep is a grade 9-12 school with 500 students, whose focus is on graduation and college acceptance. Located in North Lawndale, at least 30% of local students have experienced complex trauma and receive enhanced support services.
Erikson Institute (Chicago) www.erikson.edu With a focus on young children, Erikson provides graduate education in child development, social work, and early childhood education. Programs provide support to families, and partnering schools and communities.
Generation All (Chicago) http://www.generationallchicago.org/ Generation All is a citywide initiative to unite Chicagoans around revitalizing neighborhood public high schools in order to support the academic and personal development of students, both in and outside the classroom.
Healthy Schools Campaign (Chicago) healthyschoolscampaign.org Healthy Schools Campaign advocates for policies and practices so that every student, faculty and staff member, regardless of race or socioeconomic background, can learn and work in a healthy school environment. Programs include Cooking up Change, Green Clean Schools, Space to Grow, Parents United, and School Nurse Leadership.
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James Monroe Elementary School (Chicago) jamesmonroeschool.org/ Monroe is one of a set of eight schools that has partnered for more than 10 years now with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA). LSNA uses a community organizing strategy to build parent participation and leadership at the schools.
Loyola School of Social Work (Chicago) luc.edu/socialwork/ Undergraduate and graduate programs at Loyola School of Social Work include social justice; immigrant rights; refugee resettlement; race, culture and gender; veterans assistance; LBGTQ services; and historical trauma, including the Holocaust
Montessori School of Englewood (Chicago) www.tmsoe.org MSE’s mixed-age environments (from Headstart through 6th grade) support children by having a profound voice in their learning and a sense of community and responsibility. MSE recognizes that many children live in highly stressful environments, and are encountering Adverse Childhood Experiences in their daily lives and the generational impacts of ACEs. MSE is very intentional in its approach to training staff in trauma-informed practices, and in providing ongoing support to avoid vicarious trauma.
One Hope United (Chicago and National) onehopeunited.org One Hope United’s 23 child development centers through Chicago land serve more than 2100 children and families. Programs are rated in the top 10% of national programs.
Tilden Career Community Academy (Chicago) tilden.cps.edu/ Tilden Career Community Academy is a public high school, working with community organizations. Services include after school programs and a legal clinic.
Umoja (Chicago) www.umojacorporation.org Umoia equips low income youth to succeed in college and confidently claim their future through a partnership with schools, families and community organizations, by providing the resources youth need to thrive.
University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration www.ssa.uchicago.edu SSA was among the first to use social research and community data to inform care and counseling of the most vulnerable members. Current programs include: Youth Transitions to Adulthood, Violence Prevention, and The Smart Decarceration Initiative (SDI).
Urban Education Institute - University of Chicago uei.uchicago.edu Urban Education Institute creates knowledge to produce reliably excellent urban schooling, focusing on the parent as the child’s first and most consistent teacher.
Voices of Youth in Chicago Education – VOYCE voyceproject.org VOYCE is a youth organizing collaborative for education and racial justice, led by students of color from Chicago. Services are driven by the belief that those most affected by educational inequities hold the solutions to creating a high-quality education system.
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Youth and Opportunity United (Evanston, IL) youthopportunity.org Youth and Opportunity United provide trauma-informed after school programs at 5 elementary, 5 middle, and 1 high school in the region, with an emphasis on academic and social/emotional development in daily activities. Programs operate under a positive behavior management system with the philosophy of inclusion and tailored supports.
Youth Guidance (Chicago) www.youth-guidance.org Youth Guidance’s Counseling and Prevention programs help youth traverse difficult terrain. Programs give youth the tools to succeed through life-enhancing, trauma-informed programs and character-development experiences.
Primary Focus: Faith-Based Programs
Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation (Chicago) http://www.faithhealthtransformation.org/www.faithhealthtransformation.org/ The Center promotes health equity through community building, nurturing leaders and connecting with the unique spirit power of people of faith to promote social justice and abundant life for families, neighborhoods and communities.
Chicago Lights Elam Davies Social Service Center www.chicagolights.org Chicago Lights work includes case management, food pantry, clothing, housing assistance, job-readiness training, street outreach, and support groups. Programs include matching each 1st-12th grader with one caring adult mentor and provide innovative education, arts, and enrichment resources to promote long-term success.
I AM ABLE (Chicago) www.iamablecenter.org I AM ABLE offers individual, couples, and family counseling for adults and children of all ages on a sliding fee scale. The Trauma Response and Intervention Movement (TR4IM) provides clinical, educational, social, and economic support to underserved families who may experience trauma in any of its forms.
Jewish Child and Family Services (Chicago and suburbs) www.jcfs.org Committed to a trauma-informed approach, Jewish Child and Family Services seeks to contribute to social justice, being the champion of the underdog. Programs provide individualized therapeutic and supportive services for thousands of children, adults and families of all backgrounds each year.
Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation (Chicago) www.stmalachypreciousblood.org/mission.php St. Malachy + Precious Blood is a united Catholic faith community, serving as a beacon of hope and understanding on the West side of Chicago.
Presbytery of Chicago chicagopresbytery.org The Chicago Presbytery has committed to becoming a trauma-informed faith-based community and is providing education and training for its congregation and staff.
Shambhala (Chicago and International) Chicago.shambala.org Shambhala is a diversity friendly, nonjudgmental community that offers meditation classes and community classes throughout Chicago area, including: Speak-Up, Chicago youth-led arts initiative, LGBTQ, recovery, and women of color programs.
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St Leonard's House/Grace House (Chicago) slministries.org/mission/ St. Leonard’s Ministries provides a setting in which men and women recently released from prison can achieve a whole and productive life.
Sunshine Gospel Ministries (Chicago) www.sunshinegospel.org Based in Woodlawn, we seek renewal in the inner city through ministries of discipleship, mercy and justice. Programs include: youth outreach, employment via small business incubator, and Bridge Builders.
Primary Focus: Homeless and Housing Support
Access Living Metropolitan Chicago https://www.accessliving.org/ Established in 1980, Access Living fosters an inclusive society that enables Chicagoans with disabilities to live fully– engaged and self–directed lives. Nationally recognized, Access Living challenges stereotypes, protects civil rights and champions social reform.
Business and Professional People for Public Interest - BPI (Chicago) www.bpichicago.org BPI programs include education, violence prevention, and community development. BPI's landmark Gautreaux case was the first Supreme Court opinion to address racial discrimination in public housing.
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless www.chicagohomeless.org Chicago Coalition for the Homeless organizes and advocates for the prevention and end to homelessness, because housing is a human right in a just society.
Chicago Housing Authority-Clinical Social Work thecha.org CHA supports families as they strive for self-sufficiency, focusing on youth and education; through increasing earning power, gaining employment, increasing economic independence, asset building, and homeownership.
Claretian Associates (Chicago) www.claretianassociates.org Claretian Associates' mission is to build community within the culturally diverse community of South Chicago by working with community leaders, residents and organizations that provide affordable housing and related services for low-and-moderate income people.
Connections for the Homeless (Evanston, IL) www.cfthinc.org Connections for the Homeless operates on a trauma-informed method to help individuals and families who are homeless or threatened with homelessness. Services provide housing programs, education, employment, food pantry, and health programs.
Deborah's Place (Chicago) www.deborahsplace.org Deborah’s Place provides housing and trauma-informed support for 300 women each year.
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Heartland Human Care Services, Homeless Prevention (Chicago) https://www.heartlandalliance.org/about/corporate-structure/heartland-human-care-services/ Heartland champions human rights and helps improve the lives of men, women, and children who are threatened by poverty or danger. Services are provided in a strengths based manner, using a trauma informed approach, and by respecting the diversity of the background every person brings.
Inner Voice (Chicago) www.innervoicechicago.org Founded 1984, The Inner Voice provides stable and transitional housing, job training, and social support for 1500 households per year.
Interfaith Action of Evanston www.interfaithactionofevanston.org Interfaith Action of Evanston brings people together to serve hungry and homeless people, pursuing interfaith dialogue, and advocacy to promote social justice.
La Casa Norte (Chicago) www.lacasanorte.org We serve homeless youth and families, by providing stable housing and comprehensive service to transform lives.
Metropolitan Tenants Organization (Chicago) www.tenants-rights.org The mission of the Metropolitan Tenants Organization is to educate, organize and empower tenants to have a voice in the decisions that affect the affordability and availability of safe, decent and accessible housing; and the ability to preserve housing, stabilize tenancies and prevent homelessness.
Primo Center for Women and Children (Chicago) http://www.primocenter.org/www.primocenter.org/ The Primo Center’s interim housing shelters mitigate the impact of trauma on the lives of families. Services include: Wraparound case management, comprehensive services, and active parent engagement.
SSI Homeless Outreach Project, Legal Council for Health Justice (Chicago) pili.org/agencies/ssi-homeless-outreach-project Provide trauma informed legal advocacy to homeless persons living with serious mental illness including those with- co-occurring substance use disorders to secure federal disability benefits.
The Boulevard (Chicago) http://www.blvd.org/mission/ The Boulevard provides high quality, cost-effective medical respite care, holistic support, and housing services to help ill and injured homeless adults.
Primary Focus: Immigrant and Refugee Services
Marjorie Kovler Center (Chicago) www.heartlandalliance.org/kovler Kovler Center serves individuals who have been tortured, provides medical, mental health, and social services; trains and educates locally and globally; and advocates for the end of torture worldwide. Kovler Center supports a bi- monthly cooking group for survivors, maintains plots in a community garden, runs computer and English classes, provides occupational therapy, and organizes outings.
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Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights (Chicago and National) theyoungcenter.org The Young Center is the champion of young children who flee violence, abuse and poverty, recognizing the immigration system is not designed to treat children as children.
Primary Focus: Justice and Violence Prevention
Adler Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice http://www.adler.edu/page/institutes/institute-on-public-safety-and-social-justice Adler Institute’s purpose is to meet public safety challenges with socially just solutions. By forging creative collaborations, Adler devises empirically sound methods beyond mere suppression to create environments where a more lasting and meaningful sense of peace and wellness can prevail.
Becoming a Man - BAM (Chicago) http://www.youth-guidance.org/bam/ BAM was launched to help young men navigate difficult circumstances that threaten their future. BAM fosters positive development in young men by emphasizing six core values: Integrity, Accountability, Positive Anger Expression, Self-Determination, Respect for Womanhood, and Visionary Goal-Setting.
Between Friends (Chicago) http://www.betweenfriendschicago.org/ Between Friends' comprehensive trauma-informed services address the various needs of domestic violence victims and their children, as well as the community at large. Friends is committed to empowering survivors to better their lives, as well as breaking the cycle of domestic violence.
Black on Both Sides - Youth Program (Chicago) blackbothsides.wordpress.com/ Founded in 2013, Black on Both Sides highlights the voices and experiences of Black/African American foster youth while launching a direct action organizing campaign to address root causes of the foster care to prison pipeline. Programs center the lives and stories of those most directly impacted by violence, violent systems and institutions, and using story sharing, laughter, and direct action organizing to bring long term sustainable change to both the foster care system and prison system.
Bridging the Divide (Chicago) http://www.ymcachicago.org/programs/youth-safety-and-violence-prevention-bridging-the-divide Bridging the Divide’s program was developed to help build understanding between youth, law enforcement officials, and other community members. Throughout the project, YMCA and community partners offered opportunities for dialogue through cafés, peace circles, and the exchange of photos and stories.
Casa Central - Violence Prevention (Chicago) http://www.casacentral.org/ Casa Central’s Violence Prevention & Intervention Program provides services to children, adults, seniors, and families who have been impacted by domestic violence, sexual abuse, community violence, and other traumas. Program services are free of charge and are available in both English and Spanish.
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation http://caase.org/ Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation provides free legal representation to victims of sexual violence and exploitation. The Alliance represents victims seeking criminal prosecution, protective orders, and files litigation against perpetrators and responsible parties; by protecting education or employment, or obtaining compensation for the violations of their rights.
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Chicago Area Project http://www.chicagoareaproject.org/ Founded in 1930's, CAP empowers communities to work together to improve neighborhood conditions, hold institutions accountable, reduce violent behavior by young people, protect children from institutionalization, and provide youth with positive role models.
Chicago Child Advocacy Center http://www.chicagocac.org/ Chicago Child Advocacy Center provides training to community members, parents, schools, churches and youth- serving organizations on: preventing, recognizing, responding to and reporting sexual abuse. Services also provide "trauma 101" training, and coordination of sexual abuse investigations in the City of Chicago.
Chicago Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law http://www.clccrul.org/ Chicago Lawyer’s Committee protects and promotes civil rights by bringing the strength and prestige of the private bar to bear on the problems of poverty and discrimination. Services provide pro bono legal services for civil rights problems and cases.
Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network batteredwomensnetwork.org Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network puts an end to domestic violence in all forms; by providing a 24 hour hotline and a Centralized Training Institute (CTI), the Network offers essential training for domestic violence advocates and professionals, and advocacy to develop community engagement.
Chicago Police Department - Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) hhttp://home.chicagopolice.org/get-involved-with-caps/how-caps-works/what-is-caps/ CAPS brings the police, the community, and other City agencies together to identify and solve neighborhood crime problems, allowing police officers to enforce the law and respond rapidly to serious crimes and life-threatening emergencies.
Chicago Survivors http://www.chicagosurvivors.org/ Chicago Survivors provides multi-cultural crime victim/survivor services to surviving family members, following homicide in Chicago. Services include: Immediate Crisis Response Services, Supportive Counseling, Case management, Referral Services, Court Advocacy, and Community of Survivors
Circles & Ciphers http://www.ucrogerspark.org/ministriesgatherings/circlesciphers.html Circles and Ciphers builds a healthy, youth-led community among prisons, courts, and gangs involved young men from Chicago. Programs use hip-hop infused peacemaking circles and creative arts to address masculinity; violence; school; gangs and gang histories; stereotypes; and policing.
Community Justice for Youth Institute (Chicago) cjyiorg.publishpath.com Community Justice for Youth Institute is committed to restorative justice. Programs work to promote healthy development of youth on probation, and safe re-entry of youth diverted from the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
Cook County Juvenile Court http://www.cookcountycourt.org/ABOUTTHECOURT/JuvenileJusticeChildProtection/JuvenileJustice.aspx The Juvenile Justice Division provides services to determine if an adolescent has violated a law, requires mental health or substance abuse services.
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Cook County Sheriff's Office of Mental Health Policy and Advocacy cookcountysheriff.org/mentalhealth/mentalhealth_main.html The Cook County Sheriff and staff at Cook County Jail have identified that at least 30% of inmates suffer from mental illness and are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses related to their mental health. Cook County Jail has initiated alternative programs to incarceration.
Court Appointed Special Advocates - CASA of Cook County casacookcounty.org CASA protects children who have experienced neglect and abuse by providing them a voice in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to learn and thrive.
Crisis Center for South Suburbia (Orland Park, IL) crisisctr.org/ The Crisis Center for South Suburbia provides services for victims of domestic violence including: Emergency Residential Shelter, Transitional Housing, Court and Medical Advocacy, Clinical Counseling, Trauma Intervention, Dating Violence Prevention & Intervention, and community education
Domestic Violence Legal Clinic (Chicago) http://www.dvlcchicago.org/ The Domestic Violence Legal Clinic (DVLC) provides free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals in Cook County.
Erie Neighborhood House Proyecto Cuidate (Chicago) eriehouse.org/page/at-eriehouse/articles/proyecto-cuidate-participates-in-domestic-violence-awareness-month Proyecto Cuídate, an Erie House initiative in Little Village that aims to prevent violence and family division by helping families deal with past and present trauma. Program elements: Adults and Children Together Against Violence (ACT); Padres Construyendo Futuros (Parents Building Futures); Young. Empowered. Smart. Strong. (Y.E.S.S.) Workshops; and Women's Wellbeing and Empowerment Groups.
Healing Hurt People (Chicago) healinghurtpeoplechicago.org A trauma-informed, hospital-based violence intervention model in emergency pediatric settings in Chicago, and partnership between Comer Children's Hospital, the Trauma Department of John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at Drexel University School of Public Health.
Institute for Nonviolence Chicago http://www.idealist.org/view/nonprofit/7F6McxtSkGBD/ Institute establishes caring and sustained relationships with participants engaged in the cycle of violence using four major methods: Community-based Nonviolence Street Outreach, Individualized Service Provision, Victim Support Services, and Nonviolence Training.
John Marshall Law Restorative Justice Project (Chicago) http://www.jmls.edu/restorative-justice/ John Marshall Law Restorative Justice Project teaches students about health issues, including: co-occurring disorders, trauma, mental illness, and the effects of shaming, abandonment, addiction, mental illness, homelessness, on children.
Juvenile Justice Collaborative - Strengthening Chicago's Youth (SCY) www.scy-chicago.org/index.php/resources/jjc SCY provides care coordination for justice-involved youth, in order to minimize youth involvement with the justice system, reduce recidivism, and improve youth outcomes.
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LAF - Children and Families Practice Group (Chicago) www.lafchicago.org Serving over 30,000 clients and family members, LAF provides civil legal aid to people in poverty in a wide variety of areas: Housing, Children & Families, Immigration and Workers' Rights, Consumer, and Public Benefits.
Lawndale Christian Legal Center (Chicago) lclc.net Lawndale Christian Legal Center walks youth through — and away from — the criminal justice system to become good citizens and leaders. Services offer zealous and competent criminal defense legal services, compassionate social health services, and faithful loving mentors who support youth on their life’s path.
Legal Care at Under the Rainbow (Chicago) www.legalcouncil.org Legal Care at Under the Rainbow provides direct representation to a child and adolescent outpatient mental health clients at Mount Sinai Hospital and their families. Consultations with Under the Rainbow clinicians provide health- harming legal needs their clients face.
Life Span (Chicago) http://life-span.org/ Life Span provides free civil legal representation in divorce, custody, visitation, child support cases; assistance obtaining Orders of Protection and Civil No Contact Orders; and, individual and group counseling services for adult victims and their children.
Loyola Center for Criminal Justice Research (Chicago) http://www.luc.edu/ccj/ The Center brings together experts from several fields to develop innovative approaches to improving the criminal justice system. A major focus is the decriminalization of race and poverty including questions of race and policing, debtors' prison, and implicit bias in the justice system.
Loyola Civitas Child Law Center (Chicago) http://www.luc.edu/law/centers/childlaw/ The Civitas ChildLaw Center is an award-winning program for training law students, lawyers, and child-serving professionals to be effective and ethical advocates for children and their families.
Major Adams Community Committee (Chicago) http://www.chicagoareaproject.org/affiliates/major-adams-community-committee Mayor Adams Community Committee is a West side community center that serves youth and families with out-of- school-time programs.
Mayor's Commission for a Safer Chicago cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/supp_info/the-mayor-s-commission-for-a-safer-chicago.html The Mayor’s Commission for a Safer Chicago is a group of over 130 community and faith leaders, practitioners, subject matter experts, city staff, parents, and youth, united in the belief that violence is preventable, not inevitable.
Mujeres Latinas en Accion http://www.mujereslatinasenaccion.org/ Mujeres Latinas en Accion provides crisis intervention, therapy for children, counseling services for adult victims, and court advocacy - in hopes of decreasing impact of violence and trauma, and preventing further violence.
One Summer Chicago http://www.onesummerchicago.org/ One Summer Chicago is a summer jobs program with a smaller mentorship program for at risk youth.
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Sarah's Inn (Cook County) sarahsinn.org Sarah’s Inn is a community-based organization whose mission is to improve the lives of those affected by domestic violence and to break the cycle of violence for future generations. Program services and initiatives focus on ending relationship violence through domestic violence crisis intervention, community education, and violence prevention programs for youth.
South Suburban Family Shelter www.ssfs1.org South Suburban Family Shelter provides comprehensive, coordinated services to families in which domestic violence exists. Services include: counseling for victims and children, 24-hotline, emergency shelter, court and medical advocacy and domestic violence intervention program.
Urban Life Skills (Chicago) http://www.newlifeadmin.org/urbanlifeskills/ Urban Life Skills Mentoring Program is an intensive Violence Prevention program in the Little Village community. Services include: court advocacy, educational advocacy, family support services, sports outreach, youth employment, and service learning opportunities.
Urban Warriors-YMCA Metro Chicago http://www.ymcachicago.org/programs/youth-safety-and-violence-prevention-urban-warriors Urban Warriors provides a structured curriculum-based program that pairs combat experienced veterans with youth exposed to violence in some of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods. These two groups share common life experiences–surviving in hostile environments and striving to cope. Together they discuss and process their experiences with violence, develop and share coping skills, and identify the strengths they have developed and how they can channel them to benefit their communities.
YWCA Evanston North Shore http://www.ywca.org/site/c.ewK0LoO8LmK6F/b.7964393/k.7AA9/Domestic_Violence_Services.htm YWCA Evanston North Shore responds to families dealing with trauma, providing counseling, case management, shelter, housing, and, employment and vocational assistance.
Primary Focus: Physical Health
Advocate Children's Hospital (Oak Lawn and Park Ridge, IL) www.advocatechildrenshospital.com/ach Advocate Children's Hospital has set a goal of becoming a Trauma Informed hospital and launched a Trauma conference November 2016 for physicians, hospital staff and community members.
AIDS Foundation of Chicago www.aidschicago.org/page/about-afc The AIDS Foundation of Chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to HIV and related chronic diseases.
Chicago Medical-Legal Partnership for Children and Homeless Outreach Project medical-legalpartnership.org/partners/chicago-medical-legal-partnership-children-and-homeless-outreach-project/ Medical-Legal Partnership’s mission is to provide high quality nutrition education, health promotion, and disease prevention services, through partnerships directed at eligible families in Chicago.
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Chicago Women's Health Center www.chicagowomenshealthcenter.org Chicago Women’s Health Center was founded in 1975 by a group of health care providers, counselors and health educators, troubled by unjust gynecological care disparities in Chicago. Services provide primary care, gynecologic care, and alternative health services.
Heartland Health Outreach (Chicago) www.heartlandhealthoutreach.org Heartland offers primary care, dental, mental health, housing and substance use services, as well as case management services to address the social determinants to individuals' health.
Howard Brown Health (Chicago) howardbrown.org/ Nationally recognized as a leader in LGBTQ and sexual health clinic, Howard Brown Health provides confidential and comprehensive sexual health services including a walk-in clinic, and is committed to reducing disparities in Queer Healthcare, and preventing intimate partner violence.
UIC-Office of Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health oceanhp.uic.edu OCEANHP provides comprehensive primary care, integrated with behavioral health in health centers located in public schools. Services are offered to students and their families, staff, and the community at large. OCEANHP, a public entity FQHC collaboration between Mile Square Health Center and the University of Illinois, has formal partnerships with community development corporations at two of our sites.
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Illinois Trauma-Informed Programs Illinois-wide programs or Illinois programs outside Cook County
Primary Focus: Advocacy and Research
EverThrive Illinois everthriveil.org Formerly the Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition, EverThrive works to improve health of women, children, and families. Programs include: maternal and infant mortality, child and adolescent health, and health care access.
Illinois Adverse Childhood Experiences Response Collaborative http://www.hmprg.org/Programs/IL+ACE+Response+Collaborative Illinois Adverse Childhood Experiences Response Collaborative represents a broad range of organizations, thought and practice leaders, and agencies—from academic institutions and community foundations to private and public partners—committed to expanding the understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on the health and well-being of Illinois children and their communities.
Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition http://www.illinoischildhoodtrauma.org/ Taking a public health approach to the evolving understanding of childhood trauma, Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalititon expedites the integration of this wisdom into public awareness and systems that serve children and families in Illinois. The Coalition provides a forum for leadership of the work that is essential to achieve the mission.
Partnership for Resilience (Chicago) partnership4resilience.org/ Partnership for Resilience’s vision is to transform and integrate education, health care and community organizations to create a trauma-informed, family-focused system that measurably improves academic, health, and social outcomes for children. These priorities grew out of the Partnership’s first year of operation as the Southland Education and Health Initiative.
UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy irrpp.uic.edu IRRPP brings innovative research and engaged scholarship to address issues of racism and public policy. Current projects explore: policing, embodied inequalities, race and real estate development, ending violence, and racial hypersexualization.
Voices for Illinois Children www.voices4kids.org A statewide, nonpartisan, multi-issue advocacy organization that is committed to building better lives for children, Voices for Illinois Children engages in a range of activities — including policy research and analysis, policy advocacy, strategic communications, and community engagement.
Primary Focus: Behavioral Health
Chaddock-Developmental Trauma Program (Quincy IL) http://www.chaddock.org/ Chaddock’s unique approach to developmental trauma and attachment therapy combines practices and techniques targeted at calming the fight, flight or freeze response in traumatized children. The residential-based program provides a holistic, nurturing environment which fosters an empathic relationship between therapist, staff and client.
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CTF Illinois http://www.ctfillinois.org/ ACCESS Psychological Services is a behavioral health treatment program offering services to adults seeking evidence based interventions with mental health disorders including: Psychological Rehabilitation Services, Community Support, Vocational Rehabilitation and Work Readiness.
DuPage County Health Department-Mental Health www.dupagehealth.org/mental-health DuPage County Health Department-Mental Health offers crisis intervention unit; adult outpatient and residential services, child and adolescent services; psychosocial rehabilitation; and, education and training opportunities
Maryville Academy (Illinois) www.maryvilleacademy.org Maryville Academy provides residential treatment programs with a history of trauma and social challenges, in order to help clients with symptom reduction, transition to independence, and return to a family environment.
NAMI End the Silence (DuPage & National) namidupage.org NAMI provides education and outreach on common warning signs, how to end stigma on mental health conditions, how to reach out for help, and how to help a friend. This is done informatively and through personal story.
Nicasa Mental Health Services (Illinois) http://nicasa.org/services/youth/ Nicasa Mental Health Services provides Alcohol/Drug evaluations, individual/ group outpatient, and intensive outpatient therapy
Timberline Knolls (Illinois) http://www.timberlineknolls.com/trauma/ Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Program for Complex Trauma, PTSD, mood disorders, and eating disorders.
Primary Focus: Child Welfare, Family and Community Support
360 Youth Services (Naperville) 360 Youth Services.org 360 Youth Services provides housing for homeless youth, counseling support, prevention, at-risk youth education and support, and LGBTQ youth housing and education.
Allendale Association (Lake Villa, IL) http://www.allendale4kids.org/index.htm The Allendale Association is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to excellence and innovation in the care, education, treatment and advocacy for troubled children, youth and their families, including residential treatment.
Arden Shore Child and Family Services (Waukegan, Illinois) http://www.ardenshore.com/ Arden Shore has a 24 hour community based group home for boys, ages 10 to 19, with serious emotional and behavioral problems. Most of these youth have experienced abuse, neglect, loss, or trauma.
Baby TALK (Illinois) http://www.babytalk.org/ Baby TALK works to positively impact child development and nurture healthy parent-child relationships during the critical early years. Services provide home visitation, case management, Early Head Start, Universal Screening at hospital obstetrics units, and coordinate alternative school for mothers who are teens. 25
Barrington Youth & Family Services (Illinois) barringtonbyfs.org A community-based, nonprofit social service agency, we provide a comprehensive array of counseling services, outreach, and prevention programming. . It is our goal to help individuals and families within the community through difficult life circumstances.
Chaddock-Foster Care (Quincy IL) http://www.chaddock.org/foster-care--adoption-services Chaddock-Foster Care offers classes which must be completed to become a foster parent. Foster Pride classes are free, meet for nine weeks and offer potential parents the opportunity to explore fostering possibilities. When adoption becomes the next step and the foster parents express a desire to make a child’s placement permanent, Chaddock facilitates foster care conversion adoptions.
Children's Home + Aid (Illinois) http://www.childrenshomeandaid.org/ Since 1893, Children’s Home + Aid has been committed to improving the lives of children and families throughout Illinois. We serve nearly 40,000 children and families throughout 40 Illinois counties, and paved the way in shaping laws in child welfare, early childhood, and juvenile justice.
Cunningham Children's Home (Urbana, IL) www.cunninghamhome.org Cunningham Children's Home provides outpatient and residential treatment for 350 youth, Foster Care, and Transitional Living. Program assessments include an evaluation of client history of adverse childhood experiences.
DuPage Federation on Human Services Reform (Illinois) www.dupagefederation.org/about.html Formed in 1995, the Federation is an organizer and catalyst for communities within DuPage county, expanding resources for cross-cutting issues that are the foundations of self-sufficiency. Programs include: Mental Health awareness and Early Childhood initiatives.
Family Services of Lake County (Illinois) www.famservice.org Family Services of Lake County provides psychotherapy to address concerns including depression, anxiety, bi-polar disorder, trauma, and relationship issues among couples and families.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services www.illinois.gov/DCFS/Pages/default.aspx DCFS programs include preserving families, foster care, adoption, day care, and promoting self-sufficiency. DCFS Safe Kids programs work to prevent child abuse and protect children from the effects of domestic violence.
Strengthening Families Illinois http://www.strengtheningfamiliesillinois.org/index.php/ Strengthening Families Illinois is a statewide movement to keep families strong through 6 Protective Factors: parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support, social and emotional strength, and healthy parent-child relationships.
Teen Parent Connection (Glen Ellyn, IL) www.teenparentconnection.org Teen Parent Connection serves adolescents ages 12-22, parents, and their children. Home Visits are offered prenatally through the child's fifth birthday. Services also include community based groups and school based groups.
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The Cradle's Center for Lifelong Adoption Support http://www.cradle.org/lifelong-support/counseling-sessions The Cradle’s Center offers adoption-competent therapists who provide counseling to children affected by traumatic experiences, and coaching to their adoptive parents to help stabilize adoption placements.
Youth Outlook (Naperville, IL) http://youth-outlook.org/ Youth Outlook focuses on LGBTQ youth issues. Services provide education, support and recreation for LGBTQ youth, family support, community education, and professional development on LGBTQ youth issues.
Primary Focus: Creative Healing Programs
5210 Kankakee County (Illinois) livehealthykankakeecounty.org/index.php/focus/teachers-corner/150-5210-lets-go 5210 Kankakee County promotes healthy activity and nutrition for children from pre-school through high school.
Primary Focus: Education
Dream Academy (Elgin, IL) http://www.u-46.org/pages/SDU46 Dream Academy is a grade 7-12, alternative school program for 150 students with a history of childhood trauma, who are unable to succeed in mainstream high school in Elgin.
Early Childhood Development (Wheeling, IL) http://www.ecdec.org/ ECDEC is an early childhood program that serves 1200 children between the ages of 0 to 5 years old, who have been identified as being at-risk, and who live within the townships of Palatine and Wheeling. ECDEC also supports families with our birth to 3 program.
Illinois Association of Private Special Education Centers http://www.iapsec.org/ IAPSEC is a voluntary association of schools serving students with special education needs, funded by public school districts in Illinois. Composed of nearly 50 schools, IAPSEC serves students with severe emotional and behavioral needs.
Illinois Education Association ieanea.org/ IEA is an association of more than 130,000 members composed of Illinois elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty and staff, educational support professionals, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers.
Illinois Federation for Community Schools http://www.ilcommunityschools.org/ The work of the Federation is to connect, develop, and champion: advocating the community school model; and reaching out to policymakers, educators and the public about the tangible benefits of its implementation.
Illinois State - Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline teacherpipeline.illinoisstate.edu/ Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline’s focus is to develop sustainable responses to challenges faced by urban school districts in hiring effective teachers, by working with its partners to address urban teacher shortages, by preparing teachers to live and work in urban settings, and by providing community-based clinical experiences. 27
Northern Illinois Univ - Center for Child Welfare and Education ccwe.niu.edu/ccwe/ The Center aims to assist the education and development of children and youth, with special emphasis on those who are educationally at-risk, including those who have been abused or neglected.
Ounce of Prevention Fund (Illinois) http://www.theounce.org/ The Ounce of Prevention Fund gives children in poverty the best chance for success in school and in life by advocating for and providing the highest-quality care and education from birth to age five, anetwork of voluntary home visiting programs throughout Illinois. The Ounce partners with advocacy organizations in 17 states and Washington, DC, to build their capacity to advance policy change and increase public investments in effective birth-to-five programs.
Parents as Teachers (Illinois and National) www.parentsasteachers.org Parents as Teachers provides classes for parents to promote family well-being, parent/child activities, development- centered parenting, and awareness of children's developmental skill development.
Playworks Illinois (Illinois & National) www.playworks.org/communities/illinois Playworks is changing school culture by leveraging the power of safe, fun, and healthy play at school every day. Services provided by full time, year-round Playworks Coach model, offer elementary schools and youth-serving organizations around the country with a full-time recess coach, throughout the school day and after school.
Tri Con Child Care (Highland Park) http://www.triconchildcare.com/ Tri Con Child Care provides early care and education for children ages 3-7, as well as parent support by linking them to other programs as needed (food pantry, social workers, immigration issues).
Primary Focus: Faith-Based
Outreach Community Ministries (DuPage County) outreachcommunityministries.org Outreach Community Ministries programs include: Counseling, Case Management, Youth Development (after school and summer school), Tutoring, Mentoring, and Older Adults programming.
Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center (Naperville, IL) samaritancenter.org Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center provides individual, family, and couples counseling to ages 1 to 99 years, and offers some education programs in the community, consultation through the Samaritan Center for Congregations, and group therapy.
Primary Focus: Homeless and Housing Support
Bridge Communities (DuPage County) www.bridgecommunities.org Bridge Communities provides free transitional housing to 131 homeless DuPage County families each year. During the two years each family spends in our program, they are able to save money, learn budgeting skills, and obtain better employment, so they can live self-sufficiently once they graduate.
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Hesed House (Aurora, IL) www.hesedhouse.org Hesed House is a national model for ending homelessness - one person, one family at a time. Services provide a Comprehensive Homeless Resource Center, including: access to medical care, parenting classes, job training, and food pantry.
Primary Focus: Immigrant and Refugee Support
Apna Ghar Counseling Team (Illinois) http://www.apnaghar.org/ Apna Ghar Counseling Team provides individual and group counseling for adult and child survivors, family counseling, sibling counseling, and prevention and intervention programming.
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights www.icirr.org ICIRR fights for justice for immigrant families, by providing citizenship services, family support and hotline, and healthcare access. ICIRR fights against detention of immigrants and plans for for-profit immigration detention centers.
Primary Focus: Justice and Violence Prevention
A Safe Place (Zion, IL) asafeplaceforhelp.org A Safe Place provides court advocacy and emergency shelter. Services provide classes with goals, such that if clients know more about how violence affects children, clients can take steps for protection.
Abner Mikva Institute of Public Affairs (University of Illinois) igpa.uillinois.edu/ethics/person/abner-j-mikva The goal of the Race and Inequality initiative is to bring evidence-based research to bear on public and policy conversations on the range of issues (health, education, employment, housing, criminal justice) in which race and inequality are relevant.
CeaseFire Illinois cureviolence.org/partners/illinois-partners/ Cure Violence uses the same three components that are used to reverse epidemic disease outbreaks: Detect and interrupt potentially violent conflicts, Identify and treat highest risk, and Mobilize the community to change norms.
Family Shelter Service-Safe Children Program (Wheaton, Illinois) http://www.familyshelterservice.org/ Safe Children Program provides domestic violence education and supports individuals working toward a reduction in trauma symptoms. Services include: age-specific education, mom's support groups, creative expression groups for both women and children, summer camp for children residing in shelter, and teen groups.
Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice-Cook County http://www.ibarji.org/findus.asp?county=3 Illinois Balanced and Restorative Justice provides training in restorative justice (RJ) practices, and sustains them with ongoing coaching and technical assistance. Services improve outcomes for youth who are involved with delinquency- from prevention, to early intervention, to sentencing, and reentry
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Illinois Collaboration on Youth Icoyouth.org ICOY focuses on developing and strengthening the systemic, community and individual supports necessary for our youth to have safe childhoods, and eventually, prosperous and healthy adulthoods. We strive to reduce youth involvement in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
Illinois Dually Involved Youth Project http://www.payforsuccess.org/illinois-dually-involved-youth-project Illinois Dually Involved Youth Project provides comprehensive services throughout Illinois to adolescent youth involved in both the criminal justice and child welfare systems, including: intensive, wraparound services to safely serve youth in families and communities in lieu of institutional care, preventing repeat delinquent behavior, and supporting successful transitions to adulthood.
Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council http://www.icjia.state.il.us/spac/ SPAC reports directly to the Governor and General Assembly. The goal is that sanctions are proportionate to the seriousness of offenses, prevent arbitrary or oppressive treatment, and restore offenders to useful citizenship.
Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform http://www.icjia.org/cjreform2015/ Established by the Governor in 2015, the Commission is charged with developing comprehensive, evidence-based strategies to reduce Illinois prison population 25% by 2015.
Nicasa - Teen Court (Illinois) nicasa.org/services/youth/ Teen Court is an alternative to the traditional justice system for first and second-time youth offenders. Youth are referred by the arresting police department and attend Nicasa's Teen Court, where they admit guilt and are sentenced by a jury of peers. Sentences include life skills classes and community service. With successful completion, the youth avoids a court record.
Prairie State Legal Services (Rockford, Illinois) www.pslegal.org Prairie State Legal Services provides free legal advice and representation in civil matters to low income persons and senior citizens.
UIC Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Violence violencecenter.org.uic.edu UIC Center for Research on Violence was created to better understand and address the problems that violence creates for individuals, families, and communities.
Primary Focus: Physical Health
Community Health Care Clinic (Normal IL) chcchealth.org/ Community Health Care Clinic is a free clinic serving 2800 patients. Individuals receive: primary medical care, diagnostic testing, specialty referrals, care coordination for patients, and free prescription medications.
District 207 School Based Health Center (Illinois) http://www.maine207.org/organizations/school_based_health_center/ District 207 School-Based Health Centers are comprehensive primary care programs located within schools and linked to community-based services. They provide medical and mental health screening and treatment for young people who might otherwise not have access to primary care. 30
National Programs
Primary Focus: Advocacy and Research
ACE Interface (National) www.aceinterface.com Founded by Dr. Robert Anda and Laura Porter, and designed to have a multiplier effect, ACE Interface provides education, analysis, and process design to engage and motivate everyone to prevent ACEs and build resilience.
ACEs Connection Network (National) www.acesconnection.com ACEs Connection Network is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences -- from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches -- to help heal and develop resilience. The Network provides daily news digest, and provides a safe, trusted source to share information, explore resources, and access tools.
ACEs Too High acestoohigh.com/about/ ACEs Too High is a news site that reports on research about adverse childhood experiences, including: developments in epidemiology, neurobiology, and the biomedical and epigenetic consequences of toxic stress.
Center on the Developing Child – Harvard developingchild.harvard.edu/about/who-we-are/ Led by Dr. Jack Shonkoff, the Center on the Developing Child is a multi-disciplinary team driving science-based innovation in child development, and led the study by the National Academy of Science on child development.
Child Trauma Academy (Texas) childtrauma.org/ Child Trauma Academy helps improve the lives of traumatized and maltreated children — by improving the systems that educate, nurture, protect and enrich these children.
Chronicle of Social Change (National) https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/ Launched in 2013, The Chronicle of Social Change is an online news publication dedicated to solution-based news coverage of child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and educational issues faced by vulnerable children.
National Center for Trauma-Informed Care http://www.samhsa.gov/nctic Sponsored by SAMHSA, NCTIC has provided on-site training and technical assistance to nearly every state. Programs include: residential programs; criminal justice and homeless programs; networks of training, educational, and learning collaboratives; and community-based agencies.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network http://www.nctsn.org/ NCTSN’s collaboration of frontline providers, researchers, and families is committed to raising the standard of care while increasing access to services. Services include: providing leadership in creating trauma-informed child-serving systems, and supporting NCTSN members’ efforts to raise awareness about child trauma at the local, state and federal levels.
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Prevent Child Abuse America preventchildabuse.org Prevent Child Abuse America is the non-profit partner of the producers of the films Paper Tigers and Resilience, and developed a discussion guide to promote action by viewers of Paper Tigers. A similar guide is available for Resilience, and is designed to promote action on behalf of children, their families, and the communities served.
Promising Practices Network (National) http://www.promisingpractices.net/ The Promising Practices Network began in 1997 as a partnership between four state-level organizations that help public and private organizations improve the well-being of children and families. Due to funding constraints, the PPN project has concluded. The PPN website was archived in June 2014, and has not been updated since then.
Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative: Trauma Sensitive Schools traumasensitiveschools.org/about-tlpi/ The Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative’s (TLPI) and their Trauma Sensitive Schools website ensure that children traumatized by exposure to family violence and other adverse childhood experiences are able to succeed in school. TLPI created a free, web-based two-volume series called Helping Traumatized Children Learn.
Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute (Mass) http://www.traumacenter.org/ Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute provides careful evaluation and advancement of innovative and proven approaches to trauma recovery and personal growth for children and adults. Programs include: Pathways to Permanency Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy - Adaptations (PCIT-A), Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, Project REACH, Neurofeedback, Residential Evaluation & Treatment Services, S.M.A.R.T., and Trauma Drama.
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/ US CDC co-sponsored with Kaiser Permanente of the landmark 1998 research about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), which conclusively demonstrated the relationship of childhood adversity and subsequent chronic illness. The program coordinates ACE module in BRFSS.
Primary Focus: Behavioral Health
A Home Within (California) www.ahomewithin.org Creators of CONVERSATION CARDS provides open-ended psychotherapy to current and former foster youth, free of charge, and trains staff working with traumatized and vulnerable youth in relationship-based practices for trauma informed care.
American Psychological Association www.apa.org/helpcenter/resilience.aspx APA offers a Resilience Guide for Teachers and Parents with tips for educators and parents to use to help address and develop resilience in the school setting.
Cottonwood Tucson (Arizona) https://www.cottonwooddetucson.com/ Cottonwood provides a range of behavioral health services including the treatment of complex trauma and PTSD.
Gift from Within (Maine) www.giftfromwithin.org Provides information on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder including: videos for survivors and family members, as well as clinicians, nurses, teachers, doctors, first responders, and researchers. 32
Institute of Health Recovery (Massachusetts) http://www.healthrecovery.org/ A statewide, nonprofit to provide trauma-informed behavioral health services, access to housing and recovery, criminal justice, HIV prevention for youth, young adults, families, and children.
McLean Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Inpatient Program (Massachusetts) http://www.mcleanhospital.org/programs/dissociative-disorders-and-trauma-inpatient-program Over the past decade, McLean Dissociative Disorders and Trauma program has developed a model of treatment that is highly sensitive to the needs of trauma survivors. Emphasis is placed on the overall psychological health and functioning of the individual and not simply on identifying and working on trauma-related symptoms.
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors www.nasmhpd.org National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors works with states, federal partners, and stakeholders to promote wellness, recovery, and resiliency for individuals with mental health conditions, or co-occurring mental health and substance related disorders across all ages and cultural groups.
National Council for Behavior Health http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/ National Council for Behavior Health provides support and coordination for State Associations of Behavioral Health, and resources for Children’s Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, and Recovery.
Ohio Trauma Informed Care - Case Western Reserve University http://www.centerforebp.case.edu/events/ohio-tic-summit-2016 Ohio Trauma Informed Care’s annual conference promotes recognition of trauma as a public health concern, the impact of trauma upon emotional and physical wellbeing, and the importance of translation theory into practice.
Sierra Tucson - Complex Trauma (Arizona) www.sierratucson.com Sierra Tucson – Complex Trauma specializes in mood disorders, trauma, addictions, eating disorders and sexual recovery. Sierra Tucson provides comprehensive treatment for men and women who suffer from PTSD symptoms associated with adult or childhood trauma.
The Center- A Place of Hope (Washington) https://www.aplaceofhope.com/our-programs/ptsd/ A Place of Hope provides programs on: PTSD, Anxiety, OCD, Depression, Addiction, and Eating Disorders.
US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration – SAMHSA www.samhsa.gov SAMHSA is the national leader and resource center for Trauma Informed Care in the USA. Tools provided on line include: scientific research, patient education tools, and organization tools related to trauma.
Primary Focus: Child Welfare, Family and Community Support
African American Babies Coalition (Minnesota) http://www.africanamericanbabies.org/ African American Babies Coalition’s goal is to support African American parents, grandparents, childcare providers, and faith communities, by giving the community an understanding of what toxic stress looks like in day-to-day life, and sharing community voices that can translate research concepts into honest, real, on the ground language, ideas and parenting tools.
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Balance Project - Pima Prevention Partnership (Arizona) www.thepartnership.us The Balance Project integrates universal trauma-focused screening and referral resources to better meet the needs of youth at risk for behavioral disorders due to pervasive community violence and gang exposure. The project serves students in grades 6-12 and will build a school-wide wellness culture where students’ mental health is promoted.
Eastern Iowa-Western Illinois Trauma Informed Care Consortium www.childabuseqc.org/#!trauma-informed-care-consortium/c24dd The Eastern Iowa - Western Illinois Trauma Informed Care Consortium provides a comprehensive trauma-informed community for individuals, children and families through outreach, education, training and support.
Health Connect One (National) www.healthconnectone.org Health Connect One provides Perinatal and early parenting support services.
Help Me Grow (National) http://www.helpmegrownational.org/pages/what-is-hmg/what-is-help-me-grow.php Help Me Grow (HMG) provides a comprehensive, coordinated system for early identification and referral of children at risk for developmental and behavioral problems. HMG supports child health care providers, early care and education providers, and families in effective developmental surveillance and screening, to promote early detection.
Institute for Child and Family Well-being (Milwaukee) uwm.edu/icfw/ Institute for Child and Family Well-being, a collaboration between Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, disseminates validated, prevention and intervention strategies accessible in real-world settings. Current projects aim to translate research on adverse childhood experiences into applications within the context of home visiting services, in order to improve population health outcomes.
Iowa ACEs 360 www.iowaaces360.org/stories.html Recognizing that the first years of a child's life can have a profound impact, the Central Iowa ACEs 360 Steering Committee is leading efforts to raise awareness of the life-long impacts of childhood trauma and to support initiatives working to prevent or mitigate its effects.
National Runaway Safeline 1800RUNAWAY.org National Runaway Safeline provides a 24 hour, daily, nationwide phone and digitally-based crisis interventions; preventative and supportive services for runaway, homeless, and at-risk youth and their families. Services are also operated in the state of Illinois's 24 hour, daily Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services (CCBYS) information and referral hotline.
Office on Women's Health - US DHHS www.womenshealth.gov/index.php Office on Women’s Health provides national and regional leadership and coordination to improve the health of women and girls through policy, education and model programs. Services provide information on topics that matter most to women, including: trauma informed care and violence prevention.
Thrive Washington thrivewa.org The Home-Visiting Implementation Hub uses various strategies including one-to-one coaching calls, site visits, group trainings and webinars to offer training and support. Services provide educational and training materials for parents and caregivers, the most important educators in a child's life; and research and coalitions in order to advocate for policy improvements, and awareness of the importance of early education.
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Trauma Informed California http://www.t2bayarea.org/ Seven northern California counties envisioned breaking down silos and coordinating and communicating more effectively across sectors and county lines through a Bay Area Trauma Informed Systems of Care Initiative (BATISC), building a regional trauma-informed Bay Area system of care and improving the ways we understand, respond to, and heal trauma.
Trauma Informed Care (Iowa) http://www.traumainformedcareproject.org/ The goal of the Trauma Informed Care Project is two-fold: to educate the larger System, which delivers services or has some piece of a family’s case, about Trauma and how it may impact the system and/or affect the family; and examine policies, practices and organizational structures to help prevent re-traumatization of clients, staff, and system at large.
Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (National) www.yapinc.org/youth-school YAP brings the experience, capability and willingness to work with students at the highest risk of school failure and those with the most complex needs. Court-involved juveniles, special-needs youth, and students residing in low- income housing are included in the population served.
Primary Focus: Creative Healing Programs
Active Living Research (National) activelivingresearch.org Active Living Research promotes activity-friendly communities, by working with schools, communities and parks.
Anna Institute (Maine) www.theannainstitute.org The Anna Institute provides resources and tools for trauma-informed practice, and helps to explore the impact of childhood sexual abuse.
Child and Nature Network (National) http://www.childrenandnature.org/ The Child and Nature Network supports people and organizations working worldwide to reconnect children and nature.
Philadelphia Mural Arts Restorative Justice program https://www.muralarts.org/program/restorative-justice/ Guild participants are trained in: wall and mural repair and installation, mosaic tiling, landscaping, carpentry, and scaffold installation. In addition to the skills built through work, the Guild offers classes in job readiness and parenting, as well as referrals to academic support programs that assist with access to the GED and higher education.
Prison Yoga Project (National) prisonyoga.org/ Prison Yoga trains teachers to teach in large, prison-intensive North American cities. Teachers who complete training bond together and form Chapters. Prison Yoga designs and produces Instructional Materials in video, audio, and print for teachers, prisoners, governmental agencies and the public. Resources are designed for the use in a prisoner’s cell; it supports beginners and established students in their practices. Prison Yoga has distributed more than 13,000 copies of Yoga, A Path for Healing and Recovery.
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StoryCenter (California) http://www.storycenter.org/about/ StoryCenter creates spaces for transforming lives and communities, through the acts of listening to and sharing stories in order to build a more just and healthy world. StoryCenter shares recommendations for ethical practice in StoryWork, to ensure the safety and dignity of storytellers and audiences worldwide.
Primary Focus: Education
Archway Charter School of Chester (Pennsylvania) http://www.chestercommunitycharter.info/ The Archway Charter School programs are designed to build protective factors through positive youth development. Programs include: increasing students’ positive behaviors; expanding capacity to serve violence related mental health needs of the students; increasing student, parent and guardians school engagement; increasing students’ commitment to school through increased levels of academic proficiency; and increasing student resilience and reduce risk factors.
Dade County Schools - Families First (Florida) centralregion.dadeschools.net/family/families_first.html The Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) Change/Violence Prevention Project (CCC/VP2) focuses on increasing the district’s capacity to identify, assess and serve students who are exposed to pervasive violence, while helping to ensure that affected students are offered the necessary health services for: trauma/anxiety, support conflict resolution programs, and the implementation of school-based violence prevention strategies.
EDC (National and International) http://www.edc.org/ EDC is a pioneer in creative and culturally sensitive use of technology for learning, and is a leader in early education and large-scale education programs in developing countries throughout Africa and Asia.
El Rancho Unified School District (California) www.erusd.org El Rancho Unified School District’s program meets the needs of students directly or indirectly exposed to pervasive violence, by increasing school-based counseling services to address trauma and/or anxiety; providing conflict resolution and mentoring services; activities to reduce harassment, bullying, gang involvement and substance abuse.
Independent School District #625 – St. Paul Public Schools www.spps.org Saint Paul Public Schools programs work to: decrease violent, aggressive and disruptive behavior in schools; increase the number of students in schools receiving services to address needs resulting from exposure to violence; and increase student engagement in school.
Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools (California) http://thrivingschools.kaiserpermanente.org/ Kaiser Permanente Thriving Schools is a partnership of health care systems and schools to promote physical activity, nutrition, and stress relief - not only to students, but to staff and teachers.
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (TN) www.mnps.org Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), in partnership with the STARS evidence-based Student Assistance Program, seeks to address the violence experienced and witnessed by students as well as the gaps in current services within the district.
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Missouri Model of Trauma-Informed Practice dmh.mo.gov/trauma/MO%20Model%20Working%20Document%20february%202015.pdf Sponsored by the state of Missouri, Missouri Model of Trauma-Informed Practice provides trauma aware resources and education for schools and agencies, and promotes trauma-informed organizational change across Missouri.
National Collaborative on Education and Health healthyschoolscampaign.org/ National Collaborative on Education and Health identifies and addresses the link between health and education systems, and incorporates health and wellness into the school culture and environment in order to close the academic achievement gap.
Resilient Kids -- Milwaukee Public Schools urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/mps-students-to-benefit-from-9-1m-in-competitive-grants/ Resilient Kids serves more than 4,200 students. Programs work to decline the incidence of violence, and aggressive and/ or disruptive behaviors in school; increase the number of students receiving school-based and community mental health services for needs resulting from exposure to violence; increase school engagement; and increase the coordination between school-based and community-based services.
Ripple Effects, Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative http://www.kentuckyvalley.org/ The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative assists 40,000 students, and expands the capacity to meet the needs of students who have been exposed to pervasive violence and/or trauma, by working with mental health partners to integrate Ripple Effects, an evidence-based intervention system.
STARS - Success Team for At-Risk Students (New York) www.sbcusd.com/index.aspx?NID=8611 The STARS group counseling services will focus on the following topics: Mental health promotion for children exposed to violence; Drug and alcohol prevention and education; Relationship violence and sexual harassment; Bullying prevention; and Violence and gang prevention.
Stockton Unified School District (CA) http://www.stocktonusd.net Stockton Unified School District (SUSD) will develop trainers’ skillsets to provide professional development and to help schools break the cycle of violence, by better meeting the needs resulting from violence and trauma. SUSD will train more than 100 school counselors, psychologists and community partners in Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma.
SUNY School of Social Work (New York) http://socialwork.buffalo.edu/resources/resource-center/resources.html?cat=1 SUNY School of Social Work generates and transmits knowledge, and promotessocial justice and service to humanity. Programs have identified trauma-Informed Care as an alternative to the more traditional hierarchical medical model of service delivery that involves presumed authority and use of coercive policies and practices.
Trauma Smart - Crittendon, Kansas City traumasmart.org/ Trauma Smart recognizes the need for a more comprehensive response to the wide range of traumatic experiences impacting children and the adults in their lives. Programs provide a multi-generational community approach to ensure the school and home environments are aligned, and children have access to high-quality learning opportunities.
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UCSF Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools http://coe.ucsf.edu/coe/spotlight/ucsf_hearts.html San Francisco Unified School Districts will integrate and expand trauma-informed violence prevention programs and services in seven high-poverty schools. Programs include: screening and access to school-based trauma-informed counseling services, wraparound case management, referrals; restorative practices; and Second Step, a school-wide conflict resolution and violence prevention intervention.
Univ Washington Communities that Care (CTC) http://www.communitiesthatcare.net/ Communities that Care guides communities through a proven five-phase change process, while using prevention science as its base. CTC promotes healthy youth development, improves youth outcomes, and reduces problem behaviors; and helps communities prevent problems (alcohol and tobacco use, crime, and violence among youth) before they develop.
Primary Focus: Faith-Based
DHHS Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships http://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/iea/partnerships/index.html The Partnership between DHHS Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhoods has initiated a national program to build trauma-informed congregations.
Primary Focus: Homeless and Housing Support
National Center on Family Homelessness http://www.air.org/center/national-center-family-homelessness NCFH provides accessible trainings, technical assistance, and reports that address the causes, correlates, and consequences of homelessness to inform local, state, and national efforts to prevent and end homelessness.
StreetWorks (Minnesota and New York) http://www.streetworksmn.org/ StreetWorks’ outreach workers (OWs) can be found on the streets from noon to midnight almost every day of the year, building rapport with abused and neglected youth. OWs have access to a wide variety of shelters, youth housing programs, drop-in centers, meal sites and free clinics.
Primary Focus: Justice and Violence Prevention
Breathe Network (National) www.thebreathenetwork.org The Breathe Network connects survivors of sexual violence with sliding-scale, trauma-informed, and holistic healing arts practitioners across the country. Programs educate and train practitioners on the impacts of sexual violence, as well as techniques to increase trauma-informed care within their practice to best serve the unique needs of survivors.
California Center of Excellence for Trauma Informed Care www.trauma-informed-california.org Trauma Informed California offers training and consultation relevant to the multi-faceted experiences of trauma exposed populations. Programs include domestic violence, sexual trafficking, post incarceration services, neurobiology of trauma, self-care, and trauma informed organizational change.
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Center for Gender and Justice (California) www.centerforgenderandjustice.org The Center for Gender and Justice assists local, state, and national criminal justice agencies by providing expertise, leadership, policy review with respect to women and girls and assists in developing gender-responsive and trauma- informed policies. Services provide technical assistance and training to administrators and line staff who work with women and girls in criminal justice settings.
CHOP Violence Prevention Initiative – Philadelphia https://injury.research.chop.edu/violence-prevention-initiative#.V_QtwDs4kU0 The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has partnered with the community to interrupt the cycle of violence. CHOP’s model works to reduce the incidence and impact of violence and aggression on children and families, by transforming youth violence prevention research into action. Particular attention is focused on ending bullying in schools, domestic violence, and violent assault.
Equal Justice Initiative Eji.org The history of racial inequality and economic injustice in the United States has created continuing challenges for all Americans. EJI believes more must be done to advance the collective goal of equal justice for all. Programs include: ending mass incarceration, underage prosecution, children in adult prisons, and excessive punishment.
Healing Hurt People (National) nonviolenceandsocialjustice.org/Healing-Hurt-People/29/ Healing Hurt People is a hospital-based violence intervention program that meets violently injured patients under age19, by providing trauma-focused support and psychoeducation services as early as possible following violent injury, and offers patients the opportunity to participate in ongoing services, including: Intensive Case Management, and Psychoeducation.
Metropolitan School Pike Township www.pike.k12.in.us Pike Township’s Metropolitan School District Project Prevent addresses increasing risk factors of its urban students, including: violent behavior incidents, critical mental health and counseling needs, family and neighborhood instability, and increasing levels of violent crimes.
Minnesota Communities Caring for Children www.pcamn.org Minnesota is the first state in the US to implement a curriculum developed by Dr. Robert Anda and Laura Porter to include: Adverse Childhood Experiences, neuroscience, and resilience; the curriculum was presented to over 20,000 citizens statewide.
Minority Youth Violence Prevention - US DOJ and DHHS minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=52 Minority Youth Violence Prevention includes a partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Minority Health, and the Department of Justice- Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. DOJ and DHHS works to integrate public health and violence prevention approaches, reduce disparities in access to public health services and violent crimes, and improve the health and well-being of communities of color.
Monroe County Youth Behavioral Risk (New York) www.acesconnection.com/g/aces-in-education/blog/ybrs-survey-and-report-from-monroe-county-new-york Monroe County Youth Behavioral Risk administers an ACE survey as part of their Youth Behavioral Risk Survey in Monroe County, NY
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Peace 4 Tarpon (Florida) www.peace4tarpon.org Peace 4 Tarpon informs citizens and professionals on research that shows direct causes and outcomes of adverse childhood and adult experiences (trauma); transforms communal and personal attitudes toward health, renewal, resolution, resilience, and compassion; and heals people, systems, and communities through trauma informed prevention practices and resolution methods
PEACE project Lansing School District (MI) www.lansingschools.net PEACE project services 3,756 students, promoting peace by expanding awareness of culture and equity - a comprehensive approach to violence reduction that serves low-income school communities in Lansing. The goal of PEACE is to promote peaceful solutions to violence in the district’s learning environments.
Practice PEACE, Washoe County (NV) /www.washoeschools.net/Page/3672 Practice PEACE’s programs and services include: violence prevention, education in SEL, school ambassadors, counseling services, and shared empathy. Services target 10 K-12 schools, serving 6,900 students each year. Practice PEACE fosters a safer and more improved school environment in order to decrease the incidence of harassment, bullying, violence, gang involvement and substance abuse.
Racial Equity Action Support Network-REASN (Minnesota) http://www.wilder.org/Community-Leadership/Community-Initiatives/REASN/Pages/default.aspx REASN works to achieve racial equity in Minnesota, by creating a supportive space for increased connection and collaboration among those at the leading-edge of racial equity work. Services craft a vision for systems transformation, by identifying and addressing barriers that perpetuate inequity, and building a pathway toward equity, together.
Safe Horizon (NYC) https://www.safehorizon.org/ Safe Horizon provides support to survivors of domestic violence, child abuse (sexual or severe physical abuse, rape, and sexual assault), and human trafficking. Programs help survivors to reclaim their rights, and rebuild their lives through counseling, short term housing support, legislative advice, and safety planning.
Sarasota Against Violence [SAVE] (Florida) www.scosa.org/community-initiatives Sarasota Against Violence (SAVE) project provides violence prevention and character-building curricula; enhances student leadership opportunities; improves access to services and afterschool programs; and develops training for teachers, administrators, mental health staff, parents, community partners and youth to identify students with trauma-induced needs.
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty www.povertylaw.org Shriver Center advances justice and opportunity with programs targeting early childhood, economic justice, housing, healthcare, and women's projects. New programs will include training Race Equity Fellows.
Surv Justice (National) survjustice.org Surv Justice is a national not-for-profit that increases the prospect of justice for survivors by holding both perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence accountable, and by providing legal assistant to survivors.
Vera Institute of Justice (Washington DC) www.vera.org Vera Institute of Justice works to reform the justice system. Services include: securing equal justice, ending mass incarceration, and strengthening families and communities.
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Veto Violence (CDC) vetoviolence.cdc.gov/ VetoViolence.cdc.gov has been developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide grantees and partners with access to training and tools that focus on the primary prevention of violence. The portal includes free training, program planning resources, and an online application for the creation of success stories.
Washington DC Department of Youth Rehabilitative Services dyrs.dc.gov New Beginnings Youth Development Center is a secure residential facility for young men. Services provide supervision, rehabilitation, and planning for the youth’s return to his community.
Primary Focus: Physical Health
American Academy of Pediatrics-The Resilience Project https://www.aap.org/en-us/ The American Academy of Pediatrics designed the Resilience Project to provide pediatricians and medical home teams with information and resources needed to modify practice operations to identify, treat, and refer children and youth who have been exposed to or victimized by violence.
Center for Youth Wellness (California) centerforyouthwellness.org/about/ The Center for Youth Wellness is part of a national effort to revolutionize pediatric medicine and transform the way society responds to kids exposed to significant adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress. Programs work to change the standard of pediatric practice by creating a clinical model that recognizes the impact of adverse experiences on health and effectively treats toxic stress in children.
Primary Care Initiative - NCBH Trauma Informed https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/trauma-informed-primary-care-initiative-learning-community/ NCBH partnered with Kaiser Permanente and selected 14 organizations to pioneer trauma-informed primary care initiative. Organizations will adopt trauma-sensitive screening, assessment and treatment practices; explore the affect of traumatic life events on a person’s chronic physical health conditions, and systematically track changes in health indicators.
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International Programs
Primary Focus: Advocacy and Research
United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/ Finding the means to diffuse hate speech, or preventing it from reaching its target audience and presenting alternative messages, may help in preventing and curbing the violence that can lead to atrocity crimes. United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect working in conjunction with the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers and the World Council of Churches.
World Health Organization - INSPIRE: ending violence against children. http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/media/news/2016/12_07/en/ Over the past year, up to one billion children have experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence. In collaboration with agencies across the world, WHO developed INSPIRE - seven strategies for ending violence against children.
Primary Focus: Behavioral Health
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies http://www.istss.org/ ISTSS is an international interdisciplinary professional organization that promotes advancement and exchange of knowledge about traumatic stress, including understanding the scope and consequences of traumatic exposure, preventing traumatic events and ameliorating their consequences, and advocating for the field of traumatic stress.
Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space - Program on PTSD most.gov.il/English/about/Pages/default1.aspx In collaboration with the University of Melbourne (Australia) sponsoring the International Conference on Trauma and Mental Health 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel. Conference topics include PTSD, disasters, trauma from military experience, complex trauma.
Mental Health Commission of Canada http://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca/English/document/25106/presentation-trauma-informed-care Provides education and training on trauma informed care throughout Canada. Focus areas include youth, First Nations, homelessness, reducing the stigma of mental illness, and mental health first aid.
Ontario Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Canada) http://www.camh.ca/en/hospital/about_camh/Pages/about_camh.aspx We provide trauma informed mental health services across the continuum. CAMH is committed to equity and is a champion of the diversity of communities we serve. CAMH is a World Health Collaborating Centre.
Phoenix Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health (Australia) phoenixaustralia.org/international-conference-trauma-mental-health-israel/ Phoenix Australia establishes the standards of best practice for the management of trauma and works with organizations to minimize the impact of trauma in the workplace.
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Primary Focus: Immigration and Refugee Support
Child Migration Network (Sussex, England) www.childmigration.net/index Our program was established to assess the impact on migration on children and youth. The numbers of children affected is enormous and growing due to unstable conditions in the Middle East and Africa, with many children migrating alone or left behind.
Primary Focus: Justice and Violence Prevention
One Small Thing (United Kingdom) http://www.onesmallthing.org.uk/ One Small Thing champions trauma-informed practice with criminalized women. We work with staff in women’s prisons and in the community. One Small Thing refers to compassion, understanding, and respect.