“If someone is living with PTSD and having severe insomnia, flashbacks, dissociation or deep depression, it’s very difficult to show up for an interview or maintain good relationships in the workplace.” Read more here.
Berkeley-based mental health clinic opens to provide integrated services to refugees, asylum seekers and human rights survivors
September 20, 2016 – A Berkeley-based nonprofit organization has opened the first center in the area to provide free, multilingual, trauma-informed clinical mental health services specifically to international survivors of human rights abuses including refugees, asylees, and those seeking asylum in the United States. The Mosaic Healing Center, …
Alameda County Adopts Resolution That Will Build a Welcoming Community For Refugees
We as a global community are currently experiencing the largest flow of migrants fleeing violence in over 70 years. 65.3 million people are currently displaced due to violence in their home countries. Many refugees who are now entering the U.S. have fled their homeland out …
Grand Opening and Reception
With 65 million people forcibly displaced by war worldwide, over 21 million human trafficking survivors globally, and 1.3 million torture survivors in the U.S. alone, we face the challenges of addressing a significant and widening global gap in providing mental health services to those affected. …
Mosaic Healing Center Clinical Interns Share Their Experience Joining PTR
Benjamin Greenberg As I have lived abroad in impoverished areas and conflict zones for over 8 years, the mission of PTR resonated with what I personally witnessed in people’s need to seek safety and freedom across the globe. With deep sympathy for the experience of …
PTR Receives Honorable Mention from United Nations Association East Bay
Partnerships for Trauma Recovery received an honorable mention from the from the United Nations Association of the United States of America East Bay Chapter (UN-USA East Bay) for our outstanding work in the realm of human rights and refugee trauma care. PTR will be officially …
Partnerships for Trauma Recovery Newsletter Issue #1
In our inaugural newsletter, hear from our Executive Director, read what drew one of our Board members to PTR’s mission, witness a client’s story of healing, and more. Read the full letter here: http://eepurl.com/b8KQvT
The Refugee Crisis at Our Doorstep
In the summer of 2014, thousands of Central Americans – mainly unaccompanied children and parents traveling with children from the Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala – crossed Mexico into the US. The arrivals made headlines as a humanitarian crisis.The United Nations designated …
Growing Up In the Midst of War
Let me tell you a story… It was 1984. The setting: post revolution Iran, a nation still reeling from the aftermath of the change in its political regime and the subsequent U.S. hostage crisis. The country now in the middle of a bloody war with …
VoiceAmerica’s International Crossroads Features Partnerships for Trauma Recovery
VoiceAmerica’s International Crossroads Partnerships for Trauma Recovery cofounders Monika Parikh and Annika Sridharan, MSW, Psy.D sat down with the hosts of the internationally syndicated radio show Wagner and Winnick on the Law to discuss the plight of international human rights survivors and the global mental health …