Responding to the COVID Pandemic and Racial Injustice

• By: Liane Nelson, PhD WJCS Trager Lemp Center
• July 2nd, 2021
• COVID-19, racial injustice, racism, safety, Summer 2021 Issue, trauma, trauma-informed care
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One of the truths that have been exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic is that while the trauma and grief of COVID-19 and the accumulated racial injustices have been widespread, the impact has been felt more strongly in some communities. COVID-19 has been much more harmful to Black and Brown communities...

Who We Are and How We Arrived at Today: Thirty Years of Treating People Who are Trauma Survivors

• By: Liane Nelson, PhD Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)
• January 1st, 2013
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The WJCS Treatment Center for Trauma and Abuse (TCTA) has been in the forefront in providing mental health services to survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and other forms of trauma, in Westchester County for the past 30 years. Many of the individuals seen through this program have a diagnosis of...

Treating Trauma Survivors in a Family Mental Health Clinic

• By: Tamar Gordon, PhD Liane Nelson, PhD Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)
• January 1st, 2009
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Westchester Jewish Community Services’ (WJCS) Treatment Center for Trauma and Abuse has been in the forefront in Westchester County in providing child and adult survivors of child sexual abuse with effective treatment for almost thirty years. The program began in the Hartsdale clinic with just...