Repairing the Wrongs in Northern Uganda: Survivor-Defined Justice for Mothers and Their Children Born of War
A CVT assessment report presents perspectives on justice and healing from formerly abducted women and their children who were born in captivity in Northern Uganda during the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) war. As formerly-abducted and displaced mothers have sought to reintegrate into communities, their children are often unrecognized as legitimate members of society and their rights and needs have been neglected. CVT’s qualitative study examines the ways survivors confront these issues, define justice and connect justice with healing.
CVT’s Research team conducts mental health assessments in locations where survivors of torture live, ensuring that we understand the needs before we begin extending rehabilitative care. Below are several of these assessments.
Assessing Refugee Mental Health in Tigray, Ethiopia: A Representative Survey of Adi Harush and Mai Ayni Camps
In January 2020, CVT carried out a mental health assessment in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, surveying adults who lived in the Adi Harush and Mai Ayni refugee camps. Authors Sarah Peters, Ph.D., program evaluation advisor, and Shannon Golden, Ph.D., research associate, had the goal to understand the needs and perspectives of Eritrean refugees in order to inform mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) service providers and other stakeholders in designing interventions responsive to the needs of the population.
Assessing Mental Health in Bidi Bidi, Uganda: A Representative Survey of South Sudanese Refugees in Zone 5.
CVT published this report of findings from a needs assessment conducted in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in March 2019. Authors Raghda Elshafie, program evaluation advisor, and Shannon Golden, Ph.D., research associate, completed the study to inform mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) service providers and other stakeholders in designing interventions responsive to the needs of the population.
Assessing Mental Health in Gambella, Ethiopia: A Representative Survey of South Sudanese Refugees in Nguenyyiel Camp
CVT Ethiopia carried out a mental health assessment of Nguenyyiel Refugee Camp, Gambella, in January 2019 in order to understand the needs and perspectives of South Sudanese refugees to inform mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) service providers and other stakeholders in designing interventions.
Assessing Mental Health in Kalobeyei: A Representative Survey of Refugees and Host Communities
In this second of two reports, author Shannon Golden, Ph.D., research associate, presents the findings from a mental health assessment of refugee and host community residents in Kalobeyei, Kenya. A survey was conducted to understand needs and perspectives in order to inform mental health and psychosocial support service providers and other stakeholders in designing interventions responsive and proportional to the needs of the populations.
Assessing Refugee Mental Health in Ethiopia: A Representative Survey of Adi Harush and Mai Ayni Camps
CVT published this report of findings of an assessment of refugee mental health conducted in two camps in Northern Ethiopia, where CVT has extended rehabilitative care since 2013. This report, authored by Shannon Golden, Ph.D., CVT research associate, provides key findings from 548 individuals regarding knowledge and attitudes about mental health, stressors and symptoms, coping strategies and reports of mental health concerns with loved ones or household members.
Assessing Mental Health in Humanitarian Emergencies: A Representative Survey by the Center for Victims of Torture in Kalobeyei, Kenya
This mental health survey of refugee and host communities in and around the Kakuma refugee camps of northern Kenya reveals similarities and differences between the two groups and establishes baseline data to aid in meeting trauma rehabilitation needs. CVT’s representative survey, conducted over several weeks in November 2016, collected information from 239 recently-arrived refugees and 84 members of the host community in and around the Kalobeyei settlement of the Kakuma refugee camps. CVT will readminister the survey annually as the settlement grows, launching the second survey in January 2018.
