Macy is one of only 13 experts nationally to be selected to sit on the Barack Obama commissioned Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence as part of the Attorney General’s broader Defending Childhood Initiative.ĭr. Macy is a member of the SAMHSA DTAC or SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center and works nationally to assist SAMHSA in disaster response and recovery. He is also a Founder and Director of the Midwestern Trauma Services Network operating in numerous states in the Midwest. Macy is a Founder, Director and the President of the International Trauma Center - Boston, as well as the Founder and Executive Director of The Boston Children’s Foundation, also in Boston. Robert Macy was trained as a dance movement therapist, traumatologist, and neuroscience researcher with over 30 years practice in the field of psychological trauma response, intervention development and trauma informed care development and dissemination. Frank is a National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) nationally certified trainer of Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR), as well as the KINNECT curriculum for preteen and adolescents.ĭr. Frank has a BS in disaster psychology with an emphasis on mental health, an MS in Public Health with a focus on child mental health and an MS in clinical counseling with trauma theory as the primary theoretical framework. Frank currently consults in several states for mass shootings, community change through trauma informed care and provides direct consultation to clinicians working with complexly traumatized children and families. Through the International Trauma Center Frank has worked abroad in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, Nepal, Jordan, Haiti and several other countries for agencies like Save the Children, USAID, the World Bank and the International Center for the Protection of Victims of Torture, to learn interventions in complex situations and train as well as be trained by clinicians from all over the world working with children and families.Īs Director of the Midwest Trauma Services Network and Senior Vice President of Programming for the International Trauma Center, he has spent the last several years introducing and training selected trauma informed evidence based practices, as well as designing and implementing innovations specific to people from at-risk environments through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Frank also worked extensively throughout Louisiana and Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This led to a journey of self-exploration and an academic focus on psychological trauma.įrank has worked with the International Trauma Center since 1999, and was deployed to Ground Zero to manage a team of clinicians working with a federal agency in “the dig” to stabilize them ongoing as they did their difficult work. Later, as a stay at home dad for 2 kids and a student of psychology, he became aware of and struggled with development, his own trauma exposure, and behavioral progressions and sequencing.
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After high school, Frank found his way into the military and his first professional training was as a special warfare diver attached to the Marine Mammal program of the United States Navy where he spent 8 years learning behavior modification skills, stress management and understanding the dynamics of nonverbal communication that began the journey to self awareness. This gives Frank a unique perspective that translates for many of our most traumatized communities, families and children. Raised in a home of significant physical and mental abuse, Frank’s first training was in threat detection and an upregulated central nervous system. Raised in the East Bay area of Northern California, Frank attended 9 different schools in his first 9 years. Frank came through the California system as a child adopted into a family challenged with mental health and substance abuse issues.
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