Helping Torture Survivors Heal

The HealTorture.org website is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement and is a project of The Center for Victims of Torture. No official endorsement by ORR or DHHS for the information on this web site is intended or should be inferred.

Promising Practices

Promising Practices are programs and strategies that certain health care centers have used and have data that show positive outcomes in treating torture survivors. These methods have not undergone sufficient research or replication to expect similar outcome in different circumstances.

Multi-Cultural Connections for Health

This program is being implemented by the Lowell Community Health Center in Lowell Massachusetts. It is a program that was set in place to help the growing Cambodian community that they serve heal from the psychological trauma and memories of torture that they have. This program employs a method called Co-counselling that allows clients to feel more comfortable by having bi-cultural mental health specialists work hand-in-hand with the western specialists. Click on the above link to find out more.