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Trauma Recovery/ HAP in Puerto Rico

In 2018, Trauma Recovery/HAP responded to rising suicides and related trauma suffering in Puerto Rico (PR) following Hurricane Maria with EMDR Basic I and II trainings. Working with Vanesa Cintrón, the Puerto Rican Coalition in Minnesota, and the Association of Social Workers, the first trainings were held in June and August 2018, at the Interamerican...

Expanding Training in Uganda

Dr. Deborah Silveria, PhD., licensed Psychologist, LMFT, felt well prepared when she arrived in Kampala, Uganda to facilitate an EMDR II training in November of 2018. The foundation for success had been laid in the extensive planning and budgeting for the session by Carol Martin, Executive Director, Trauma Recovery|Humanitarian Assistance Programs...

Norcal TRN® Brings Trauma Recovery To The Camp Fire Victims

TRN Mobilization Delivers Results The NorCal TRN has begun to wind up its emergency response to treat Camp Fire victims. The results of their heroic and selfless efforts are amazing. The TRN served over 500 Camp Fire survivors. They documented forty-eight percent of participants noting a reduction of symptoms after the sessions. Sixty-four percent...

Welcoming Our Newest Board Member

Trauma Recovery Humanitarian Assistance Programs is pleased to announce and welcome our newest board member, Kenneth Miller. Ken joined the EMDR HAP Board in the spring of this year. He had recently retired from many years serving as Senior Associate General Counsel for Yale University, when his friend and colleague Cynthia Carr introduced him to...

Training Florida Keys

One TRN Organizer’s Story Until you’ve lived it, smelled everything rotting out on the road, lost everything, and seen the suffering of everyone you know, you cannot fully understand the trauma that devastation and loss from Hurricane Irma left on the Florida Keys community, “ says Sarah Brawer, Counselor, MA, CAP, LMHC and coordinator of the new...

Trauma Recovery and Resilience for Separated Immigrant Families in the Borderlands

Trauma recovery and resilience has been building at the El Paso, Texas, – Juarez border for years. In 2008-2009, long time mental health clinician Fabiola Ekleberry, LPC-S, NCC recognized a desperate need for informed trauma treatment in the El Paso community. El Paso is home to Fort Bliss, the largest installation of US Army Forces Command,...