CHAMP Network

The CHAMP Network, directed by Kathrine Sullivan, PhD, Associate Professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work, is a National Child Traumatic Stress Network Category III center dedicated to advancing best practices for children and families receiving child welfare prevention services. The CHAMP Network is formed from a unique partnership between academia, the public child welfare system, and private non-profit community agencies delivering child welfare prevention services.

The CHAMP Network supports the idea that in order for any best practice to achieve scale, within the nation’s child welfare prevention programs, it must fit within the requirements of the local public child welfare system overseeing the program and the needs and conventional workflows of the community agencies delivering these programs. Accordingly, the CHAMP Network is formed in partnership with NYC Administration for Children's Services, the largest public child welfare system in the US, and three community services agencies: Forestdale (Queens, NY), the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services (Manhattan, Bronx, and Staten Island, NY), and SCO Family of Services (Brooklyn, NY), which together provide child welfare prevention services in the five boroughs of New York City.

The CHAMP Network also partners with the Trauma Systems Therapy Training Center at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, which is also directed by the CHAMP Center director, Glenn Saxe, MD.

The CHAMP Network is primed to collaborate with the CHAMP Center to achieve common goals. Dr. Sullivan, CHAMP Network director, is also the co-director of the CHAMP Center Practice Laboratory and is on its executive committee. Dr. Saxe, CHAMP Center director, is also the director of the Trauma Systems Therapy Training Center to facilitate the implementation of its best practices in CHAMP Network programs. The CHAMP Network’s experience, dedication, and partnerships in implementing and evaluating best practices in front-line child welfare prevention programs strongly inform the work of the CHAMP Center in developing its tools for application to front-line practice.

The CHAMP Network was funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as a National Child Traumatic Stress Network Category III center.