New Jersey CCIS Clinical Capacity Improvement Project -

Culturally Safe Trauma-Informed Care:

Creating Healing Environments Where Children Thrive

Featuring: Schenike Massie-Lambert, PhD

About the Course: This activity is designed to provide the interprofessional behavioral health treatment team working on children's crisis units with skills and strategies and care for individuals, particularly children, who have experienced trauma. This approach integrates the principles of cultural safety and trauma-informed care to create environments that foster healing and growth.

Target Audience: This course is open to employees of CCIS units only. Please email CCE for information. 

Dates of training sessions:

Thursday, April 11, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Thursday, April 18, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Thursday, May 2, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

New Jersey CCIS Clinical Capacity Improvement Project -

Creating a Safe and Therapeutic Setting for LGBTQ Youth

Featuring: Pat Spencer, LCSW

About the Course: The New Jersey Community Clinical Capacity Improvement Project (NJ CCIS) focuses on enhancing the clinical capacity within communities to better serve LGBTQ youth. The training activity aims to create safe and therapeutic environments for LGBTQ youth, recognizing the unique challenges they may face regarding their identity, mental health, and overall well-being.

Target Audience: This course is open to employees of CCIS units only. Please email CCE for information. 

Dates of training sessions:

Monday, May 6, 2024, 9:30 am - 11:00 am

Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Follow up: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Vibrant Connections: Person Centered and Trauma Informed Care in Aging Services

Featuring: Mary-Catherine Lundquist and Michelle Zechner

About the Course: This training is for aging professionals in NJ connected to the NJ Division of Aging Services and COPSA community partners to expand their knowledge base on key concepts of person centered and trauma informed care when supporting older adults and their care partners. Participants will examine current research on stated topics and be given opportunities to apply knowledge to their particular role responsibilities in aging services. Coping with secondary trauma related to assisting older adults will also be reviewed.

Target Audience: This course is open interprofessional healthcare providers.

Dates of training sessions:

Live, In Person: June 6, 2024, 10 am – 3 pm Register Here

Live Virtual: June 11 and June 18, 2024; 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Register Here

Ongoing Training Opportunities:

CSOC Training & Technical Assistance (TTA) program at

Rutgers UBHC Behavioral Research & Training Institute

The mission of the Training & Technical Assistance (TTA) program for the Children's System of Care is to support learning the requisite knowledge and skills to provide services and support the unique needs and strengths of families and children with complex needs. The training and technical assistance effort draws on a commitment to competency-based curriculum design, training based on adult principles of learning and skill development, and development of local expertise and training capacity.

Ongoing Training Opportunities:

Project ECHO

At its core, Project ECHO is a virtual health education and mentoring program improving population health in New Jersey. We bring together multidisciplinary practitioners for trainings and courses on public health issues that matter now. Session leaders include experts in maternal health, diabetes management, addiction, mental health, childhood trauma, health equity, and emergency preparedness. Participants, who serve as both learners and teachers, can share and receive support, guidance, and feedback from their peers. ECHOs are a critical way to build informed communities within a powerful learning environment that reduces health care disparities and creates systemic change.

Ongoing Training Opportunities:

New Jersey Children's Alliance Inc.

New Jersey Children’s Alliance is a statewide non-profit membership organization whose mission is to promote hope, healing, and justice for child abuse victims by supporting Child Advocacy Centers throughout the state with training, resources, advocacy, and leadership. We aid communities in providing a coordinated investigation and comprehensive response to victims of criminal child abuse by providing support, training, and technical assistance to Child Advocacy Centers and multidisciplinary teams in all NJ 21 counties.  

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