Healing, Training and Advocacy

• 236 refugees and asylum seekers received trauma recovery care since the Mosaic Healing Center opened in 2016
• Clients come from 30+ countries including Afghanistan, Burma/Myanmar, DR Congo, Eritrea, Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan, Mexico,  Syria, Uganda, Yemen and more.
• 25% of individual clients are LGBT and have fled LGBT persecution abroad
• 20 Global Healing and Human Rights (GHHR) graduates with potential to serve at least 8,000 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
• 20 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.
• 30+ psychological evaluations provided to attorney partners representing asylum claims

Honors and Recognition

• 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

• 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.

Funding

• Private and Corporate Foundations: Bigglesworth Family Foundation,  Firedoll Foundation, Genentech, Gilead,  Global Whole Being Fund, Kaiser Foundation, Mamube Fund, San Francisco Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation
• Government Foundations: Alameda County Behavioral Health Systems, California Office of Emergency Services’ Victims of Crime Program, California Victims Compensation Board