Partnerships for Trauma Recovery
Organization Details
| Name | Partnerships for Trauma Recovery |
| URL | https://traumapartners.org/ |
| Phone number | 415-862-4644 |
Organization Description
| Service(s) description | Partnerships for Trauma Recovery (PTR) provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed psychosocial care for students at OIHS who have either directly experienced—or whose family members have experienced—interpersonal trauma and human rights abuses in their countries of origin. PTR’s Associate Clinical Social Worker and African Communities Liaisons work with the OIHS Community School Program Manager, alongside the Coordination of Services Team (COST), to identify students' needs and offer support groups to those students, as well as individual therapy if they express an interest and could benefit from such support. PTR staff work closely with the COST team to ensure students are receiving sufficient support and may also help with case management, home visits, and family meetings and workshops as needed. PTR staff have unique international backgrounds and language skills that allow them to offer culturally responsive and linguistically accessible psychosocial care to the OIHS student community. |
| Program impact | Research increasingly demonstrates that when trauma-informed, culturally adapted approaches for healing trauma are provided, recovery is possible. Using interventions tailored to a student’s needs and capacities—and relevant in their cultural contexts—enables them to speak about traumatic experiences, directly address their emotional and physical symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD, and acquire skills to manage and reduce their distress. Unnecessary suffering can be averted, and more severe emotional and social problems can be prevented. Students can begin to live healthy and productive lives, ultimately benefiting their families and surrounding communities. Thanks to the psychosocial support they have received, Oakland International High School students working with PTR show improvement in their emotional well-being, school performance, peer relationships and overall social integration. |
Community programs are organized into categories known as Community School Elements. All community programs associated with Partnerships for Trauma Recovery are listed below and each program may be provided at 1 or more schools. You can use the 'Show Details' buttons to learn more about each program.
Health & Wellness (1 program)
Programs that help students to be in school and ready to learn, and to reach our goal of engaging the entire community in improving individual and community health.