Partnerships for Trauma Recovery (PTR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to healing trauma among international survivors of human rights abuses including war, torture, forced displacement, human trafficking, gender-based violence and persecution due to identity, sexual orientation and beliefs. We draw on synergies among the core components of our model to:
- Provide culturally aware, trauma-informed and linguistically accessible mental health care for refugees, asylees, asylum seekers and human trafficking survivors,
- Expand clinical capacity to serve these populations, and
- Advocate for policies to prevent trauma and re-traumatization.
PTR’s Mosaic Healing Center offers psychological and psychosocial care to international survivors of human rights abuses in an effort to help this population recover from their traumatic histories and begin to rebuild their lives. Our clinical team assesses needs, implements appropriate therapeutic approaches, manages crises, provides integrated case management, and measures the effectiveness of interventions. Essential to our program is our team of mental health interpreters consisting primarily of refugees and asylees, who not only expand our linguistic reach but simultaneously strengthen their skills in mental health interpretation through our training and professional support program.
The psychological and psychosocial care is provided through one of the few multidisciplinary clinical training programs in the nation that is training psychology doctoral and social work master’s students to serve the specialized needs of this population with attention to clinical approaches for addressing severe international human rights abuses. Our trauma-informed and internationally focused didactic and experiential curriculum is combined with extensive clinical supervision, preparing graduates to effectively provide mental health and case management care for forcibly displaced populations with severe trauma. Since the opening of the Mosaic Healing Center in 2016, PTR has provided individual, family and group psychosocial support for displaced people from 29 countries including Afghanistan, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, Eritrea, Guatemala, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Mexico, Syria, Uganda, Yemen and more.
1936 University Ave,
Suite 191,
Berkeley,
CA 94704
Partnerships for Trauma Recovery is a member organization of the following:
- California Consortium of Torture Treatment Centers
- East Bay Refugee Forum
- National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs
- San Francisco Coalition of Asylee, Immigrant and Refugee Services
We also collaborate with the following organizations:
- 1951 Coffee Company
- Alameda County District Attorney’s Office
- Alameda County Victim/Witness Assistance Division
- African Advocacy Network
- African Civil Rights Center
- Afghan Wellness Center
- Alameda County Votes
- Burma Refugee Family Network
- Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants
- Diversity in Health Training Institute
- East Bay Community Law Center
- East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
- Highland Hospital Human Rights Clinic
- International Rescue Committee of Northern California
- LGBT Refugee Services: Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay
- Oakland International High School
- Oasis Legal Services
- Pangea Legal Services
- Project Peace East Bay
- The Bread Project
- University of California at Berkeley School of Social Welfare
- Upwardly Global
- The Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology