Partners in Trauma Healing
The Partners in Trauma Healing (PATH) project was in operation for many years, collaborating with torture rehabilitation organizations across the world, focusing on three areas: mental health treatment and healing, program evaluation and organizational development.
Partners in Trauma Healing (PATH) creates a network of rehabilitation professionals who provide intellectual and emotional support for the difficult work of providing healing services to torture survivors. PATH works with nine centers focusing on three areas: mental health treatment and healing, program evaluation, and organizational development.
To support the mental health treatment and healing of survivors, the PATH project places an experienced psychologist at each center to provide long-term training and mentoring. In addition, CVT Treatment and Healing Advisors provide consultation to counselors at each center throughout the duration of the project. The PATH project also holds annual clinical training workshops for counselors from each center.
Program evaluation is an integral component for centers to document torture and provide effective services. The PATH project's Monitoring and Evaluation Advisors help partner centers to develop a detailed process for collecting and evaluating data. They also provide expert consultations and trainings.
The PATH project Organizational Development Advisor works with partner centers to develop sustainable strategies, enhance management practices and build fundraising skills.
As PATH continues to grow our list of partners, here are some of our partner torture rehabilitation centers we've worked with:
Bosnia: Vive Žene, Centre for Therapy and Rehabilitation
Cambodia: Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO Cambodia)
Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights, The Wchan Organization for Human Rights Violations
Lebanon: Restart Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture
Liberia: Liberian Association of Psychosocial Services (LAPS)
Moldova: Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (RCTV-MEMORIA)
Philippines: Balay Rehabilitation Center
Sierra Leone: Community Association for Psychosocial Services (CAPS)
South Africa: Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
Sri Lanka: Survivors Associated
Turkey: Hope Revival Organization
Zimbabwe: Tree of Life
Meet Jesús Pérez Cazorla, a PATH psychotherapist and trainer in Sierra Leone.
Partners in Trauma Healing is made possible through the financial support of the United States Agency for International Development and the American peoples’ support.
Often we think of providing care to torture and war survivors when they are no longer in danger. But around the world, many survivors seek treatment when they are still vulnerable to ongoing threats. Read this fascinating conversation between CVT and our professional colleagues with the Tree of Life in Zimbabwe and the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa.
