Trauma isolates and shatters. Community healing rebuilds.
MTSN is a Veteran-Owned LLC
Scope of Services
The Midwest Trauma Services Network staff are primary responders, and are frequently called upon, for population stabilization in the aftermath of trauma or disaster. MTSN offers ongoing comprehensive and longitudinal consultation, training and capacity building for systems, agencies and persons working with children.
“We must provide a path to healing for people who haven't had quality attachments in early childhood, otherwise trauma is compelling them into adversarial relationship and exploitation of the system."
- Frank Grijalva, Founder
Our Mission
The mission of the Midwest Trauma Services Network (MTSN) is to provide integrated, community-based psychosocial stabilization initiatives utilizing state-of-the-art, trauma-specific intervention strategies to reduce the negative effects of maltreatment and exposure from traumatic incidents and disasters on children, youth, and their adult caregivers.
Our Specialties
Foster and adoption training and consultation
Coaching and consultation for schools with significant environmental challenges
Residential treatment trainings and coaching
National credentialing in Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR)
MTSN Current and Upcoming Events
Our Founders
MTSN is excited to announce a new 3 year project with with collaborative agencies in the Quad cities of Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island and Moline. This project while still in the development phase will look at managing the ever increasing emotional labor in the region. How do we protect children who ultimately become the caretakers of the community, this collaborative will explore and execute capacity building within the regional communities.
Be sure to check out our Calendar and News tabs for more events and updates!
Frank Grijalva is the director of the Midwest Trauma Services Network and senior vice president of programming for the International Trauma Center. Frank comes from a challenging childhood, first trained as a behaviorist in the US Navy’s Marine Mammal program then as a stay at home day. Frank has an undergraduate degree in Disaster Psychology, a Master’s in Public Health with a focus on child mental health and a Clinical Master’s focused on traumatology. Frank has worked with kids and agencies all over the world and currently consults to multiple communities across the US negotiating systemic trauma as well as catastrophic community events.
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Dr. Robert 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. This Task Force is part of the Attorney General’s broader Defending Childhood Initiative.
