In order to grow and sustain difficult work over time, human rights defenders and professionals that support survivors need tools and skills to ensure they can continue doing difficult work.
IDREAM
CVT’s IDREAM project provides capacity development for human rights defenders (HRDs) working in exile and their organizations. IDREAM seeks to incubate a global network of HRDs in exile to identify novel solutions to common challenges, build solidarity, support each other through peer mentoring and resource-sharing, and decrease isolation.
Atrocity Response Coalition for Justice
Healing and justice cannot be separated.
For 40 years, CVT has worked with survivors of torture around the world to rebuild their lives and restore hope. Today, our work spans healing care, advocacy, research, and strengthening the resilience and capacity of organizations and people serving survivors.
That experience has taught us that recovery from mass violence is not only an individual process.
The Atrocity Response Coalition for Justice (ARC) brings people together to work toward healing and justice, always putting survivors first. As an interdisciplinary consortium of survivor leaders and their allies, ARC works to transform how societies respond to atrocities.
Trauma affects families, communities, organizations and movements. And healing is shaped by the systems around survivors: whether their experiences are acknowledged, whether they can participate meaningfully in decisions that affect them, and whether they have pathways to justice.
CVT has long maintained that healing cannot be complete without justice, and likewise justice loses much of its saliency without healing. ARC creates an opportunity to bring that principle into a broader model for atrocity response.
ProQOL
The Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) tools and website are intended for those who work with people who have experienced traumatic events. This includes health care professionals, social service workers, teachers, attorneys, emergency response, and others who will benefit from understanding the impacts of their work on themselves. The tools on this site provide information about positive and negative aspects of helping those who experience trauma and suffering and can improve your ability to help them and keep your own balance.
