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Healing Hearts: A New Study Shows Positive Results for Karen Clients: a new paper explores how integrated behavioral health care can effectively address the needs of a group of Karen refugee clients.
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Helping Survivors Realize All They Can Do for Themselves: Habiba Mohamed, psychosocial counselor, CVT Nairobi, writes about her clients' strength and resilience as they work to restore their lives after torture.
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Client-Focused Healing Through Physiotherapy: Gladwell Lugusa, physiotherapist, CVT Nairobi, writes about the successes and challenges faced by clients who have survived torture.
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"Coming Together Is a Success" - Select CVT Staff Gather in Nairobi: All CVT trainers and clinical advisors who are based in Africa are meeting together for a week of learning, sharing, self-care and fun.
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The U.S. Must Care for Those Fleeing Violence and Torture: Curt Goering, CVT executive director, urges people to contact Congress and tell them to end inhumane family separation practices.
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In a press release, CVT is listed among the supporters of a bill introduced by U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), known as the Reunite Every Unaccompanied Newborn Infant, Toddler and Other Children Expeditiously (REUNITE) Act. U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined Senators Harris, Merkley and Cortez Masto to introduce the REUNITE Act.
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In a post at Prison Divestment Movement, CVT is listed among the supporters comprising the #FamiliesBelongTogether coalition calling on Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase to stop financing two for-profit private prison corporations which operate immigration detention centers where separated families are being held against their will.
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News Release: The Center for Victims of Torture condemned new guidance released by U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) that furthers the barriers the Trump Administration is building against individuals and families who are seeking asylum.
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An OpEd at YubaNet, “Aliya Hana Hussain: The courts must intervene in Trump’s Guantánamo,” quotes an amicus brief written by Scott Roehm, director of CVT's Washington, D.C., office.
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