The Mosaic Healing Center
A space for healing, a place for learning
The San Francisco Bay Area welcomes refugees and asylees who have been forcibly displaced from their home countries. Since 1975, approximately 170,000 refugees have resettled in the Bay Area from countries including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, Nepal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Syria and more. Most have experienced or witnessed extreme violence, and now face a myriad of losses involving identity, relationships and community. In addition to these refugees, there are asylees and asylum seekers who have fled threats, violence and persecution at home, and have sought refuge in the Bay Area.
At our Mosaic Healing Center in the East Bay of San Francisco, we aspire to create a space that welcomes our clients and supports the clinicians and interpreters who serve them with openness and respect for each person’s culture and historical truth. Through culturally aware, trauma-informed, and linguistically accessible mental health care, we support the healing of refugees, asylees, asylum seekers, and human trafficking survivors.
Learn more about our healing and programs here.
PTR's Land Acknowledgement
PTR recognizes that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun, also spelled Huichin (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Lisjan Ohlone people.
We are an organization dedicated to healing the psychological and psychosocial impacts of trauma among international survivors of human rights abuses. Our values align with acknowledging that we directly benefit from the human rights abuses used to acquire this land. This land was never ceded, and it continues to be important to the Lisjan Ohlone people.
We also know that acknowledgment is never enough. We will continue learning and commit to acting accordingly as our knowledge grows. We welcome new knowledge and invite continuous research and conversation leading to action that sincerely and satisfactorily honors the traditional stewards of this land.
Links to further information:
Beyond Territorial Acknowledgement