Partnering Staff: National Native Children’s Trauma Center
Maegan Rides at the Door
Director, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
An enrolled member of the Assiniboine-Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation and a descendant of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Dr. Maegan Rides At The Door, LCPC has served as the NNCTC’s Director since 2015. Maegan utilizes her knowledge in culturally trauma responsive care to provide training and technical assistance with a wide variety of systems of care including but not limited to schools, child welfare, juvenile justice, and healthcare. She has been central to the design and implementation of trauma-responsive systems of care with tribal, private, federal, and state partners; the implementation of cross-system youth suicide prevention programming; and the expansion of child advocacy centers’ capacity to meet the needs of tribal communities.
Contact: maegan.ridesatthedoor@mso.umt.edu
Debra Hallos
Interventions Manager, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
Part of the NNCTC team since 2006, Deb Hallos, MA, LCPC consults with sites on trauma-informed systems and provides training on universal as well as clinical evidence-based interventions for trauma. She is the lead author of two classroom-based social and emotional learning curricula focused on mitigating the effects of trauma and rooted in the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, one for adolescents and one for younger children. In addition to her work at the NNCTC, Deb operates a private psychotherapy practice and has more than 20 years of experience providing clinical services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
Contact: debra.hallos@mso.umt.edu
Amy Foster Wolferman
Director of School-based TTA, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
Amy Foster Wolferman, MEd., oversees the NNCTC’s TTA projects in schools. She has been with the NNCTC since its inception and has more than 20 years of experience providing TTA to educators, school leaders, families, and community members in trauma-resilient school systems and practices, secondary traumatic stress interventions, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), bullying prevention, and suicide prevention. Amy has developed or co-developed numerous NNCTC TTA products, including a trauma-informed schools implementation framework and numerous classroom-based social and emotional learning curricula.
Contact: amy.fosterwolferman@mso.umt.edu
Kimee Wind-Hummingbird
TTA Manager, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
Kimee Wind-Hummingbird, MSW, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation with Cherokee descendancy, joined the NNCTC in 2021 after 22 years serving youth and families in the child and family programs of her two tribal nations. In addition to extensive supervisory experience and expertise on the Indian Child Welfare Act, she has trained and consulted with both tribal and non-tribal partners, including judges, attorneys, state child welfare agencies, tribal child welfare agencies, and other service providers. At NNCTC, she manages and provides training and TA on projects focusing on Tribal child welfare and child advocacy.
Contact: kimee.wind@mso.umt.edu
Jennifer Calder
Product Development Manager, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
Jennifer Calder, MA Ed. (Bad River Ojibwe) is passionate about the use of narrative, research and community knowledge in order to improve systems for learning and growth for individuals, teams and organizations. Previously, she worked with children in a residential treatment setting and as a 4th grade teacher. After her work in direct services with children, she shifted her focus to adult learning, leading training and workshops for prek-12 professionals, and facilitating statewide family engagement planning for the Montana OPI. In her previous work for the NNCTC she supported schools in tribal communities in developing culturally-grounded trauma-informed systems of care. She returns to the NNCTC as Product Development Manager after finishing graduate work in education focused on building capacity for change.
Contact: jennifer.calder@mso.umt.edu
Shannon Crossbear
Cultural Consultant, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
Shannon CrossBear has facilitated for and consulted with the National Indian Child Welfare Association, the Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University, The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and the Surgeon Generals Conference on Children’s Mental Health. She has worked with tribal and non tribal communities throughout the U.S. and Canada to promote traditional, culturally congruent, and trauma-informed practices, as well as to support systemic change to improve outcomes for children and their families.
Contact: shannoncrossbear@gmail.com
Kara Pasqua
TTA Specialist, National Native Children’s Trauma Center
Kara Pasqua, MLS, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation with lineage in the Pitt River-Paiute tribes, joined NNCTC and NCARC in 2023. She brings more than 25 years of experience directly serving children and families in the Indian Child Welfare and Child Support programs of the Cherokee Nation, including the development and management of programs and serving in various supervisory leadership roles. She also has extensive expertise in collaborating with state, federal, and tribal agencies and relishes working with those actively advocating for children and families. She provides training and TA to support the enhancement of child advocacy center services for Tribal communities through our Native Child Advocacy Resource Center.
Contact: kara.pasqua@mso.umt.edu
