Webinars (all topics)

Substance Abuse and the Torture Survivor Experience

This webinar, presented by the National Partnership for Community Training, features Dr. Eric Wagner and Dr. Richard Mollica.

The varying degrees of trauma experienced by refugees and torture survivors can have physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral effects. In order to cope, forget, or ignore the impact of violent conflict, flight, resettlement, and adjustment some refugees and torture survivors may turn to substance use.

Slides are available here.

The New H5 Model for Trauma Informed Care

Dr. Richard Mollica’s 2014 webinar on working with traumatized refugees. The webinar explains his “H5” model which focuses on human rights, self-healing and the trauma story.

Family Reunification: Happily Ever After?

Description

In the third part of our post-family reunification webinar series, experts from the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) discuss the intersection of immigration law and family law and issues that can arise in connection to family reunification. They address marriage, divorce, adoption, and other topics relevant to torture-impacted families going through the reunification process. This webinar is designed for direct service providers, including immigration attorneys and other legal staff working with torture survivors, case managers and social workers.
 
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Restorative Retelling: Accommodating Bereavement After the Violent Death of a Loved One

Description

Restorative Retelling is a therapeutic group treatment approach to working with people who have lost loved ones to violent deaths. This model was designed to moderate internalized trauma and separation distress by focusing on three distinct processes within the group:  restoring resilience, retelling and commemorating the living memory of the deceased and self, and “exposing” and retelling the death story.

Questions and Answers about Targeted Case Management

Targeted Case Management is a federal program that is managed by the states, with counties providing the actual case management services either by their own social workers or by contracting with third party vendors for special population groups. For survivor of torture treatment programs that are in a position to take advantage of it, Targeted Case Management can produce strong revenue. But what does it take for programs to be able to successfully conduct TCM? In this webinar we will have a conversation with representatives from each of the departments in CVT that were involved in launching and conducting CVT's Targeted Case Management Program: Pete Dross will speak to the political process that involves relationship-building with county commissioners and professional health and human services staff; Andrea Northwood will address the internal clinical process of altering the social services/case management function to conform to TCM requirements and training case managers on the new requirements; Gena Holland will speak to the financial/administrative process that facilitates billing.

Roadmap to Data Analysis: Launching the Series

This series introduces Survivor of Torture programs to essential concepts and methods for data analysis, and demonstrates the use of various tools. The series objectives are to:

  • Provide an introduction to basic statistical procedures relevant to SOT agencies
  • Provide a foundation to analyze and interpret data on clients, services, and outcomes
  • Provide an introduction to the use of available tools for basic analysis of data
  • Provide an understanding of the limitations of statistical analysis, and guidelines for agency staff about when to seek statistical consultation

This webinar, from 7/16/2014,

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