Trauma Healing Initiative - Africa: Strengthening local healing resources in Central and Eastern Africa

The Trauma Healing Initiative - Africa (THI-Africa) project provides clinical training and organizational development to torture treatment centers in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya and Uganda. Working directly with the centers, CVT is expanding the local ability to heal the wounds of torture and build civil society.

Through the THI-Africa project, CVT:

• Provides counseling services to 1,000 victims of torture in the Katanga Province in the DRC
• Hires and trains psychosocial counselors to provide mental health services to torture survivors in the DRC 
• Provides intensive training and supervision to strengthen the clinical skills at torture centers in Cameroon, Uganda and Kenya
• Works with the clinical psychology program at the University of Lubumbashi, DRC, to better prepare students to serve torture survivors after graduation.

With this grant, CVT is improving the quality of mental health services to survivors of torture and war trauma and developing local expertise to sustain healing programs.

Healing is part of rebuilding post-conflict communities. Through THI-Africa, CVT promotes civil societies in Africa and restores lives.

This project is funded by The European Union's European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) through December 2011.