Kay Jankowski, PhD

Kay Jankowski, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Dartmouth Trauma Interventions Research Center and Director of Psychology Services in the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Health.  She has focused most of her career on trying to improve the lives of at-risk and trauma-affected children, teens and families.  Kay has led many research and quality improvement projects over the years, including developing and testing new treatment interventions, disseminating evidence-based treatments for traumatized children and youth into “real world settings”, and transforming child serving systems to bring a more trauma-informed approach to care and services for children and families.  She is currently leading a 5-year SAMHSA sponsored grant (Project LAUNCH Upper Valley) aiming to “meet young children and families where they are,” through integrating mental health services and trauma-informed care into pediatric sites, as well as child care centers and businesses in a tri-county area of New Hampshire and Vermont. She is a co-principal investigator (with Dr. Erin Barnett) on a 5-year Federal DHHS Administration for Children and Families Regional Partnership Grant implementing an evidence based enhanced care coordination model called Wraparound, to families with Substance Use Disorder in her community and building infrastructure to enhance coordination between systems.  She is also co-lead on a new Category III NCTSN grant called Project ATTAIN (Access to Trauma-Informed Treatment and Assessment for Neurodivergent and/or Gender Expansive Youth). The project aims to improve services for trauma affected children with autism and intellectual disabilities, as well as youth with gender diverse and transgender identities.  She also trains and supervises psychology and psychiatry trainees, and she has always maintained a clinical practice within the Department of Psychiatry.