Child Trauma Academy, Houston, TX

The ChildTrauma Academy’s programs are in partnership with multiple sectors of the community and in context of public-private partnerships with the goal of promoting positive change within the primary institutions that work with high risk children such as child protective services, mental health, public education and juvenile justice.The mission of the Academy is to help improve the lives of traumatized and maltreated children.  We endeavor to improve the systems that educate, nurture, protect and enrich these children - through education, service delivery and program consultation.  We work to improve individual lives through clinical assessment and treatment.

Essential to this process is the collaboration of all sectors of society. As such, we engage in a continuous process of identifying key partners, drawn from academia, the corporate world, private organizations and public sector systems. While each partnership has a distinct focus-- identifying best practices in child protection, evaluating the latest research in child development, defining optimal ways to provide resources to parents or creating a novel therapeutic approach with traumatized children-- all are engaged in the continuous process of testing, refining and distributing innovations that can improve the lives of children.