Our Impact: a decade of healing

Healing, Training and Advocacy

• 1,000+ individuals seeking refuge have received trauma recovery support since the opening of the Mosaic Healing Center in 2016.
• Thousands of sessions provided, including individual, family, and group therapy sessions, as well as psychiatry.
• 70% of individual and family therapy sessions conducted in a language other than English.
• 80% of clients served report a decrease in symptoms related to PTSD, anxiety, and/or depression.
• Clients come from 62 countries including Eritrea, Nigeria, Senegal, Guatemala, El Salvador, Columbia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan and more.
• 20% of individual clients identify as part of a sexual or gender minority group and have sought refuge due to persecution based on their identity.
• 27 Global Healing and Human Rights (GHHR) graduates with the potential to support up to 10,000 more individuals who have experienced displacement and persecution throughout their careers.
• 20 Interpreters, most of whom are survivors themselves, form a core part of the in-person therapeutic team.
• 25+ unique languages spoken by clinical team and 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 survivors. Large, long-standing international organizations have sought partnership with us.
• 1,000+ psychological and medical forensic evaluations provided to attorney partners representing legal claims.

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

• Berkeleyside / Richmondside, "A new legal clinic is helping Bay Area immigrants navigate the complexities of asylum"
• New York Times, "Trouble Focusing? Not Sleeping? You May Be Grieving"
• CBS Bay Area Focus, Partnerships for Trauma Recovery - Helping those impacted by trauma with PTR Founder Monika Parikh and PTR Ambassador Hector Estrada
• Oakland Post, “Oakland Schools Face Increased Challenges to Support Newcomer Students" featuring Nouf Alrashid, PTR Global Healing and Human Rights graduate.