Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic has been designated a Trauma-Informed Organization through the National Council for Behavioral Health’s Adoption of Trauma-Informed Care Practices Learning Community process. As such, the Clinic works to implement, sustain and spread trauma-informed care and support fundamental organizational change in the culture of behavioral healthcare.
Expert, Trauma-Informed Services
At our no-appointment, no-fee Access & Wellness Center, expert staff assess individual client need, and then engage a spectrum of nationally sanctioned evidence-based, trauma specific and trauma-informed practices as appropriate.
These include:
Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)
The Clinic’s Early Intervention Training Institute annually offers its Trauma Training Series for staff of local agencies, organizations and businesses who work with children ages 0-5, building their capacity to identify, intervene and refer children at risk or suffering from undiagnosed trauma.
Trainings include:
Building Your Trauma Toolbox: Intervening Successfully with Pre-School & School Aged Children
Childhood Sexual Abuse: An Introduction
Healing Trauma Using the Core Curriculum
Impact of Domestic Violence on Early Childhood Development
Multi-Dimensional Aspects of Trauma: Getting the Right Match
Strategies for Understanding and Treating Intergenerational Trauma in Families with Young Children
Vicarious Trauma: Helping Yourself to Better Help Others
The Clinic’s own staff members attend at least five of ten annual trauma training events including the following topics: Vicarious Trauma; Helping Families Manage Anger, an Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care (two sessions); Childhood Sexual Abuse, and Sensory Integration & Intervention.
Expert, Trauma-Informed Services