As we prepare to welcome the second round of scholarship recipients this July, we're sharing insight from our first round of scholarship recipients on their motivation for applying to the Scholarship Fund, their goals for working in Community Mental Health, and the impact this opportunity to become trained in EMDR therapy has made in their careers.

We are excited to begin a new Scholarship Fund Program in 2023! The purpose of the Scholarship Fund is to provide scholarships to master’s level (or higher) students that are interested in working in Community Mental Health.

In 1999, Trauma Recovery/HAP responded to the large earthquake in Turkey by organizing the first EMDR trainings in that country. The therapists we trained in EMDR were immediately able to offer EMDR treatment to the earthquake survivors and have built a strong EMDR community in Turkey. Now the unthinkable has occurred again.

The Trauma Recovery Network (TRN) grew out of the HAP tradition to bring mental health clinicians with evidence-based therapy to the scene of...