Our Mission
To research and provide state-of-the-art evidence-based mental health services to families and communities with children and adolescents who have been through emotional stress and trauma, such as family violence and disasters.

To train professionals on the design, evaluation, and provision of such services.

PARTNERS fulfills this mission through creatively and sensitively integrating scientific findings and real world practice.  What we learn is disseminated throughout Queens, New York State, and beyond.

• PARTNERS stands for "Preventing Adverse Reactions to Negative Events and Related Stress."
• PARTNERS is a unique multi-disciplinary clinical-research program based in the Department of Psychology at St. John’s University, that offers free, state-of-the-art mental health services to underserved children and families in the surrounding multicultural communities. Like St. Vincent de Paul who saw the hardship in his community and devoted his life to its elimination, PARTNERS’ mission is to bring relief to children, families, and communities who have been through emotional stress and trauma.   
• PARTNERS was founded in 2001 by Executive Director Dr. Elissa Brown, clinical psychologist, researcher professor of psychology at St John’s University.  Dr. Brown and the staff of PARTNERS are dedicated to the interplay between providing evaluation and therapy services, empirically testing these services, training multi-disciplinary professionals and lay people to provide these services, and adapting these services to the needs and values of various communities and cultures.
• We serve traumatized, multi-cultural children, adolescents, and young adults, and their families.  We provide outreach, assessment, psychotherapy, and case management services.  PARTNERS aims to provide these services in multiple languages, such as Spanish, English, French, Creole, Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin, Chinese and Hebrew. 
• PARTNERS collaborates with community agencies that serve traumatized children and families.  Our community partnerships include: Child Protective Services, Legal Aid, Queens Family Court, Local Schools, and the Queens Child Advocacy Center.  As a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, PARTNERS also collaborates with national experts. 
• As a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, and other organizations, PARTNERS also collaborates with national and international experts. 
• PARTNERS has been funded by NIMH, SAMHSA, NYS-OMH and DOJ.

Contact Us
PARTNERS
Center for Psychological Services
Seton Complex
St. John's University
152-11 Union Turnpike
Flushing, NY 11367
Tel: (718) 990-2367
Fax: (718) 990-8228
partners@stjohns.edu

Para más información, por favor contacte la Coordinadora del Programa de PARTNERS al Tel:   (718) 990-5479 (Español) o al correo partners.espanol@stjohns.edu

中文對話請電, (718) 990-5477, partners.chinese@stjohns.edu.