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.

Webinars

Webinars are seminars held on the web on serving survivors of torture.  To see lists of webinars by topic please review the left-hand side of the page.

Some of the webinars are available to members only, and you will have to log in to see all the webinars. 

A list of upcoming webinars is available here.

To learn if you can join healtorture.org please read here.

All Webinars in Chronological Order

Vocational Rehabilitation with Torture Survivors (click to play)
07-30-2008

From the Presentation

The PowerPoint

Note: Resources referenced in this PowerPoint are available below

Documents

MANUAL

Piwowarczyk, et al. “Vocational Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors.” BCRHHR. Boston, MA: 2004. (funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement)

Download Here: http://www.bcrhhr.org/pro/course/vocationalmanual.html

JOB KIT GUIDEBOOK

Simon, et al. “Job Kit Guidebook.” BCRHHR. Boston, MA: 2008.

Will be available: www.bcrhhr.org; Contact corey.simon@bmc.org for distribution

BOOK CHAPTER

Piwowarczyk, L., Clark, G., Caballes, N. Vocational Considerations in Immigrants (2007). In: Walker, P. & E. Barnett (Eds.) Immigrant Medicine.  Saunders Elsevier: Philadelphia, 699-701.

TRAINING DVD

BCRHHR. “Caring for Torture Survivors.” 2007 (funded by the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture)

Contact erica.hastings@bmc.org to request your copy

MANUAL
Finding and Keeping a Job: Helpful information and resources for newly arrived refugee and asylum seeking populations in Minnesota by CVT.

This manual is being updated parts are no longer accurate, but in general it is a reference guide that could be useful with clients.

Websites

United States: http://www.rehabnetwork.org/directors_contact.htm

Europe: http://www.epr.eu/index.php/about-epr/members (“best practice” members)

Disabled Peoples’ International: http://v1.dpi.org/lang-en/index  (human rights)

Career Information including some movies of different careers: Massachusetts Career Information System
Note: You do not need to enter a user name or password. On the bottom of the screen select Boston for Town, type 02118 for Zipcode, and Other User for Type of User.