Our Impact: 2016-2020

Healing, Training and Advocacy

• 407 refugees and asylum seekers received trauma recovery care since the opening of the Mosaic Healing Center in 2016.
• 2,199 sessions provided in 2019, including individual, family, and group therapy sessions, as well as psychiatry.
• 68% of individual and family therapy sessions in 2019 conducted in a language other than English.
• 88% of clients served in 2019 reported a decrease in symptoms related to PTSD, anxiety, and/or depression.
• Clients come from 45 countries including Afghanistan, Burma/Myanmar, DR Congo, Eritrea, Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan, Mexico,  Syria, Uganda, Yemen and more.
• 20% of individual clients are LGBT and have fled LGBT persecution abroad.
• 27 Global Healing and Human Rights (GHHR) graduates with potential to serve up to 10,000 more refugees and asylum seekers during the course of their careers.
• 20 Refugee Voices Interpreters, most of whom are refugees themselves, form a core part of the in-person therapeutic team.
• 25+ unique languages spoken by clinical team and Refugee Voices interpreter team.
• 27 psychology and social work GHHR Trainees received Advocacy Training and 8 trainees and interpreters engaged with policymakers or the media.
• 20+ partners, to provide holistic support to clients including legal, medical, housing, resettlement and social services. Close collaborations nonprofit legal service providers serving asylum seekers. Large, long-standing international organizations have sought partnership with us.
• 60+ psychological evaluations provided to attorney partners representing asylum claims in 2018-19.

Honors and Recognition

• Recognized by Alameda County for PTR's work in honor of Mental Health Month, May 2019
• Became the 12^th official Trauma Recovery Center in the State of California and 22^nd in the country
• PTR won a 2018 Honorable Mention for the Annual Scattergood Innovation Award
• PTR won the 2017 Community Organization of the Year from the Alameda County Psychological Association
• PTR won the 2017 Diversity in Training Award from Palo Alto University's Center for Excellence in Diversity
• PTR won a 2016 Honorable Mention from the United Nations Association of the East Bay

Media

• New York Times, "Trouble Focusing? Not Sleeping? You May Be Grieving"
• Huffington Post, “Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is Cruelly Separating Asylum-Seeking Families”
• Elle UK magazine, “Tortured and Alone: Trauma Recovery for Refugees is ‘A New Field’ Worth Investing In”
• CBS Bay Area Focus, Partnerships for Trauma Recovery - Helping those impacted by trauma with PTR Founder Monika Parikh and PTR Ambassador Hector Estrada
• Daily Californian, “Berkeley-based mental health clinic opens to provide integrated services to refugees, asylum seekers and human rights survivors” with quote by Leah Khagani, PTR Global Healing and Human Rights graduate.
• Oakland Post, “Oakland Schools Face Increased Challenges to Support Newcomer Students" featuring Nouf Alrashid, PTR Global Healing and Human Rights graduate.