Children

Reimaginings: Storytelling and Poetry for Navigating Loss and Hope

This presentation, by Merna Hecht, MA is an excerpt from ORR's 2022 Survivor of Torture Annual Community of Practice Symposium, “Reimaginings: Storytelling and Poetry for Navigating Loss and Hope.” The symposium was convened virtually by The Center for Victims of Torture and The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, supported by The Office of Refugee Resettlement on September 15, 2022.

The Presenter: Merna Hecht, MA
Merna Hecht is a teaching artist, nationally known storyteller, published poet, and essayist.

Family-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Services in SOT Programs

Topic: A Summary of Findings from the May 2022 NCB Survey on Family-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Services in SOT (Survivor of Torture) Programs

Presenter: 

Dr. Mary Bunn, Research Scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry.  She is also a faculty member and Co-Director of the Global Mental Health Research and Training Program in the UIC Center for Global Health and a clinical faculty member in the Mood and Anxiety Disorder Program where she provides therapy services to survivors of war and forced migration.

Description:

In this presentation, Mary

Supporting ORR's UC Program

Dear Resettlement Agencies and Refugee Program Discretionary Grantees,

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has learned that there is a strong interest to support increasing provider participation in the Unaccompanied Children (UC) program. ORR is working diligently to expand our licensed bed capacity and other support resources, and we recognize that a lot of you have been fielding questions about this, or are interested in helping yourself, and we hope that the following information will be helpful to you. 

Below are categories and options for an organization to work with the ORR to expand

CVT PATH Bibliography Q4 2020

CVT's Partners in Trauma Healing (PATH) creates bibliographies every quarter of resources for current literature on the topic of the mental health status of and treatments for torture survivors, war trauma survivors, refugees, and asylum seekers. This also includes research in the area of social work that relates directly to the psychological well-being of these populations. The compilation below includes peer reviewed journal article citations in these areas and links to the publicly available abstracts and full text versions of these articles.

CVT PATH Bibliography Q3 2020

CVT's Partners in Trauma Healing (PATH) creates bibliographies every quarter of resources for current literature on the topic of the mental health status of and treatments for torture survivors, war trauma survivors, refugees, and asylum seekers. This also includes research in the areas of social work that relate directly to the psychological well-being of these populations. The bibliography includes peer-reviewed journal article citations in these areas; select original summaries of those articles; and links to the publicly available abstracts and full-text versions of these articles.

CVT PATH Bibliography Q1 2020

CVT's Partners in Trauma Healing (PATH) creates bibliographies every quarter of resources for current literature on the topic of the mental health status of and treatments for torture survivors, war trauma survivors, refugees, and asylum seekers. This also includes research in the areas of social work that relate directly to the psychological well-being of these populations. The bibliography includes peer-reviewed journal article citations in these areas; select original summaries of those articles; and links to the publicly available abstracts and full-text versions of these articles.

Narrative Exposure Therapy for Torture Survivors in Exile: Overview and Adaptations

This session presents a brief theoretical and practical overview of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), which has emerged in recent years as a promising evidence-based treatment for PTSD in torture survivors. The presentation will assume familiarity and skill with exposure treatments and is designed for psychotherapists.  The overview covers the theoretical background for NET, basic components of the method, and references for some of the current research supporting NET.

Raising a Girl: A Handbook for Newcomer Mothers and Daughters

Raising a Girl, written by

This book, written by Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (BRYCS), is intended for mothers and daughters or caregivers of young girls who are new to the United States to read through and talk about together. The book focuses on healthy development and addresses topics that often come up in families that are raising girls in the U.S. 

Therapy for Refugees and Torture Survivors: New H.E.A.R.T. Model Part 1

In this first session of our  Measured Impact Webinar (MIW) mini-course, "Therapy for Refugees and Torture Survivors: New H.E.A.R.T. (Healing Environment and Restorative Therapy)" Dr. Richard Mollica of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma  introduces the H.E.A.R.T. model of care in working with survivors of torture. Dr. Mollica  describes the H.E.A.R.T. model and how the concepts contained in it may provide a different way of thinking about therapy with survivors of torture.

Update: NCTSN Grantees Receiving Supplemental Funds for UAC Mental Health

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, NCTSN, updated their roster of grantees who received supplemental funds from Congress to provide mental health services to unaccompanied (and formerly unaccompanied) children.
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New NCTSN Webinar Series - Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children

Trauma-Informed Care: Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Children (Available in English and Spanish)

Led by the Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center in Boston and in collaboration with the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child

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