Building Awareness, Skills & Knowledge: 

A Community Response to the Torture Survivor Experience

The National Partnership for Community Training, in collaboration with Exodus Refugee Immigration, will be hosting a training from May 21-22 in Indianapolis, IN for providers who serve the immigrant, refugee, asylee, and asylum-seeking populations.

Many professionals, such as social workers, teachers, doctors, nurses and mental health clinicians, may not have been trained in, and are generally unaware of, the specific issues, treatments and referral needs that survivors of torture can pose.

This training includes presentations from nationally-recognized experts in the torture treatment field from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture.  The objectives of this training are:

1. To offer participants best and promising practices for working with torture survivors
2. To prepare mainstream providers with the knowledge, tools, and most up-to-date information they need to effectively work with survivors of torture
3. To assist participants in identifying the health, mental health, psychosocial, and spiritual problems associated with the experience of extreme violence
4. To effectively convey the cultural context and the impact that traumatic life experiences can have on one’s physical health
5. To effectively convey what the content of a health curriculum should include, how to educate clients about healthy lifestyles, and how to educate clients on talking with their doctors about their concerns
6. To effectively convey how to make adjustments in the work environment to increase safety and empowerment and reduce the aspects of marginalization such as educational, legal, social services, vocational and social functioning
7. To effectively convey the rationale behind group interventions in a culturally syntonic way

Professionals working in Medical, Psychiatric, Psychological, Immigration Law, Social Work, Case Management, and Spiritual disciplines as well as other interested individuals are invited to attend.

Certificates of Attendance will be issued to all participants at the end of of the training on March 22,2014.

CEU's will be offered for Indiana Social Work Professionals through the Muslim Alliance of Indiana.