Refugee Trauma & Resilience | Overview
Since 2003, our team has partnered with refugee and immigrant communities and agencies to develop evidence-based programs and resources to support the healthy adjustment of refugee and immigrant youth and families in the United States. Through innovative research and program evaluation, resource development, intervention development, advisory boards, and training and consultation, we support providers and service systems in delivering exceptional, effective care to refugee and immigrant youth and their families.
We are a site in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Current grant funding
Trauma and Community Resilience Center (TCRC) Refugee and Immigrant Core
The Refugee and Immigrant Core is a Category II site of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The purpose of the Category II is to raise the standard of care for refugee and immigrant children and their families, and to support the continued adaptation and wide-spread dissemination of Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees, an effective evidence-based treatment. This includes training, consultation, and intervention and resource development. The Category II does NOT provide direct services to youth and families.
Project EPIC-Enhancing Pediatric Integrating Care
Project EPIC-Enhancing Pediatric Integrating Care implements Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R) to primary care patients at Boston Children’s Hospital. Project EPIC is a Category III site of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The Category III site provides direct services to youth who received their primary care at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC) and at the main campus (Children Hospital Primary Care Clinic, or CHPCC).
Please click here to learn about Project EPIC.
Project SHIFA’s Marigold Families
Through the generous support of the Marigold Charitable Trust Foundation (Marigold’s), we have implemented Project SHIFA’s Marigold Families for more than 15 years to achieve Marigold’s mission to make a positive difference in the lives of young children (0-8) impacted by trauma and abuse. Project SHIFA’s Marigold Families is a trauma-informed, culturally responsive early prevention and intervention program for young refugee children (0 to 8 years) and their families in the greater Boston area. The TCRC partners with the Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center (RIAC) to deliver Project SHIFA’s Marigold Families. We are committed to the healthy adjustment and successful futures of young refugee children and their families through prevention of further trauma exposure and a focus on culture, strength, and healing through child and parent groups, intervention, and provider consultation.