HOPE: Trauma-Informed Care Schooling for Displaced Children Globally
Please join us for HOPE: Trauma-Informed Care Schooling for Displaced Children Globally Webinar hosted by The National Capacity Building (NCB) Project at the Center for Victims of Torture and The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.
Date: May 15th, 2025
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 PM ET
1:00 – 2:30 CT, 12:00 – 1:30 MT, 11:00 – 12:30 PT
Description
Over 47.2 million children have been displaced by war trauma and disasters globally (UNICEF, 2024). HPRT with its international partners, have been addressing the trauma-informed care schooling of highly traumatized school aged children. HPRT, with their Ukrainian partners, recently completed a mental health-education evaluation of 3,000 primary school children displaced by the war.
Learning Objectives
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Learn to apply with refugee and mainstream populations the Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) schooling of traumatized children.
- Learn to use and apply TIC instruments in an educational setting for the reduction of anxiety, stress, and depression.
- Be able to offer traumatized children and families HOPE.
- Be able to offer teachers and parents self-care.
- Learn the criteria for the referral of children to professional mental health care, i.e., referral to school psychologists and primary care practitioners.
- Learn to appreciate and implement the HPRT motto: “There is no healing without beauty.”
Meet the Presenters
Richard F. Mollica, M.D., M.A.R
Richard F. Mollica, MD, MAR is the Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from the University of New Mexico and completed his Psychiatry residency at Yale Medical School. While at Yale, he also trained in epidemiology and received a philosophy degree from the Divinity School. In 1981, Dr. Mollica co-founded the Indochinese Psychiatry Clinic (IPC). For over the past four decades, HPRT/ IPC have pioneered the mental health care of survivors of mass violence and torture in the U.S. and abroad. HPRT/IPC’s clinical model has been replicated throughout the world.
Dr. Mollica has received numerous awards for his work: In 1993, he received the Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association. In 1996, the American Orthopsychiatry Association presented him with the Max Hymen Award. In 2000, he was awarded a visiting professorship to Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, for his contributions to assisting survivors of the Kobe earthquake. In 2001, he was selected as a Fulbright New Century scholar. In 2022, Dr. Mollica received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Harvard Medical School. IN 2023, he received the Lux Veritas Award from the Yale Divenity School.
Dr. Mollica is currently active in clinical work, research, and the development of a Global Mental Health curriculum, focusing on trauma and recovery. The Harvard Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery certificate program was the first of its kind as training in global mental health and post-conflict/disaster care.
Eugene F. Augusterfer, LCSW
Eugene F. Augusterfer, LCSW is the Deputy Director and Director of Telemedicine at the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT), Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry.
His training includes Psychology, Clinical Social Work, Developmental Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Group Psychotherapy, and Systems Theory and Practice. He has been a lecturer at Georgetown University School of Public Health, and co-founder of the World Bank Mental Health and Psychosocial Working Group, a senior advisor to the World Economic Forum, Wellness Initiative, and the United Nations Development Programme on disaster response. He is a former U.S. Air Force Mental Health Officer where he received training and experience working with all levels of trauma victims.
His experience includes post-disaster mental health care on-site experience in Haiti, Japan, Lebanon (during the Syrian war), Italy (post-earthquakes), Ukraine, and domestically, New Orleans, post Hurricane Katrina, the Pentagon, post September 11, 2001, terror attacks. He co-led a project in Ukraine to identify the mental health needs of school children in the active Ukrainian war zone.
Who should attend?
This webinar is intended for staff of torture rehabilitation programs that are funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and/or are members of the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs, SASIC Program staff, as well as others who provide services to survivors of torture.