Helping Traumatized Children and their Families with Trauma Systems Therapy/A webinar by Glenn Saxe, MD

On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, from 5:00 – 6:00 pm PT via Zoom, Dr. Glenn Saxe, child and adolescent psychiatrist, will present, “Helping Traumatized Children and their Families with Trauma Systems Therapy” as part of the Alan Hu Foundation Mental Health Lecture Series.

Many children experience traumatic events like injuries, disasters, war, assaults, and maltreatment both in the United States and around the world. These devastating experiences can put children at risk for serious mental health issues throughout their lives, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, substance abuse, and even violent or self-destructive behaviors. This presentation aims to provide a perspective on how trauma affects children and their families, sharing an approach that has helped countless people. Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) is an intervention method designed for traumatized children and their families. TST focuses on helping children develop greater control over their emotions and behaviors when faced with these reminders, and guides families on how to support children in building resilience. Additionally, TST addresses situations where children encounter real threats.

Xiaofang Chen, President of Alan Hu Foundation, is grateful to Three Valleys Community Foundation, and individual donors whose generosity supports the series. “We are able to present leading experts in mental health with the most up-to-date research and resources. In addition, we can reach a more diverse audience with simultaneous Chinese and Spanish interpretation during live webinars.”

Glenn Saxe, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman University School of Medicine and an Investigator within NYU Langone Health’s Neuroscience Institute. Dr. Saxe’s research has focused on determining factors that contribute to children’s risk for adverse outcomes following trauma and targeting factors using advanced computational data methods to lessen risk. Recently, Dr. Saxe and his team received over 7.6 million dollars in funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) to establish the Center on Causal Data Science for Child and Adolescent Maltreatment Prevention (the CHAMP Center). Dr. Saxe is also the director of the Center for Child Welfare Practice Innovation, a National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN).

The free webinar will be held on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, from 5:00 – 6:00 pm via Zoom. It will include 15 minutes for questions and answers following Dr. Saxe’s presentation. Please RSVP by November 17, 2025, at: https://alanhufoundation.org/lecture-series to receive the Zoom meeting link. Participants may join beginning at 4:45 pm PT. The Mental Health Association for Chinese Communities at https://www.mhacc-usa.org will provide simultaneous Chinese interpretation. Live Spanish interpretation will also be available.

The Alan Hu Foundation was created by Xiaofang Chen and Chih-Ching Hu in memory of their son, Alan. He passed away due to mental disorders in 2018 at the age of 15. Their mission is to promote mental health, raise awareness and remove stigma surrounding psychiatric disorders, and to support fundamental research for cures.

For further information and to support the Alan Hu Foundation, please visit the website: https://www.alanhufoundation.org/please-help