The National Capacity Building Project at The Center for Victims of Torture is excited to announce a new collaboration, with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, to provide continued capacity building and training to organizations across the United States serving survivors of torture. As the technical assistance arm of the Office of Refugee Resettlement's Survivors of Torture Program (SOT), our work will focus on promoting integrated, sustainable torture survivor rehabilitation services. Our aim is to support and strengthen SOT programs and refugee-serving organizations as they provide specialized services to survivors and within torture-impacted communities.

This collaboration builds on the pioneering work of our three organizations in the integrated healthcare of survivors of torture and trauma, as well as our 84 years of combined experience in torture rehabilitation and 32 years of combined experience in capacity building. Our technical assistance (TA) work will be built on the creation and use of an SOT-specific integrated care framework, to measure the coordinated, co-located, and integrated levels of care among providers. We will design capacity building and training based on this new framework, to assist SOT programs and refugee-serving organizations as they move incrementally toward eventual integrated care.

Our offerings will include needs assessments, remote and onsite consultations, webinars followed by topic-specific consultation groups, a Monitoring & Evaluation e-blended-learning course, an e-learning course on the fundamentals of holistic care for torture survivors, regional integrated care conferences, logistical support for an annual research symposium in coordination with the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs, and the use of HealTorture.org as a repository of the state-of-the-science research on torture survivor rehabilitation, including tools and training on evidence-based and promising practices in the field.