Audra Langley, PhD

Co-director, UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families

Director of UCLA TIES for Families

ALangley@mednet.ucla.edu

Audra Langley, Ph.D. is a Professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and a licensed Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Langley is Co-Director of the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families focused on racial equity in child welfare and wellbeing. She is also Director of UCLA TIES for Families, an innovative interdisciplinary program for children in foster care, kinship care or adopted through foster care (ages birth to 25) and their families in Los Angeles County and was Director of Training for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network-funded Center for Resiliency, Hope and Wellness in Schools for 20 years. Dr. Langley’s body of community participatory partnered research seeks to center racial equity in reimagining child welfare and wellbeing and to increase access to culturally-responsive, trauma- and healing informed mental health and wellbeing interventions for under-resourced and minoritized children, including those in schools and involved with the child welfare system. She is the author of 5 evidence-based interventions, including Bounce Back: Elementary School Intervention for Childhood Trauma, Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET), and the 2nd version of Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS).

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