CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE
2356 University Ave West Suite 430, St Paul, MN 551141860 www.cvt.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Center for Victims of Torture works to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families and their communities and to stop torture worldwide.

To heal the wounds of torture and to stop torture worldwide.

International ServicesCVT's international projects utilize group counseling/therapy, social services, and physical therapy. In Ethiopia, CVT works in refugee camps near Shire in the country's north, and in Gambella in the west. In Jordan, CVT cares for urban refugees in Amman. CVT has centers in Kenya in Nairobi as well as in two refugee camps: Dadaab and Kakuma. In Uganda, CVT has a longstanding center in Gulu where survivors of the Lord's Resistance Army receive care. CVT's program in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement ended in August 2020 and a new program in a refugee settlement in the country's southwest began in September 2020. In the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, CVT builds the capacity of local service providers to treat Iraqi survivors of torture, war trauma, and sexual and gender-based violence.In addition, International Services Partners in Trauma Healing (PATH) Program builds the capacity of torture survivor centers in the Philippines, Cambodia, Liberia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Turkey (two partners), Kurdish Region of Iraq (two partners), and Lebanon.

Client ServicesResponding to the lasting physical and psychological damage done by torture, CVT's Client Services program annually touches the lives of nearly 1,025 torture survivors and family members. The program offers services in Minnesota in St. Paul and St. Cloud, as well as in the greater Atlanta area, Georgia. While each service program is adapted to meet the needs of the particular community and setting, the core intervention at all domestic sites is psychotherapy and case management to connect survivors with resources available in the community.

Capacity DevelopmentCVT training operations consist of three capacity-building projects: The National Capacity Building (NCB) project organizes technical assistance for the US-based network of 42 torture survivor centers and programs in 24 states, and other refugee and immigrant service organizations. NCB provides direct technical training, consultations and other learning resources to strengthen the delivery of integrated, sustainable care for survivors across the United States, including: measured-impact webinars; on-site and remote consultations; eLearning; and the HealTorture.org web site, which averages 4,500 web hits per month.The New Tactics in Human Rights program promotes enhanced strategic and tactical planning and action among the human rights community. The newtactics.org website features a database of 250 tactics in English and 230 in Arabic and reaches over 255,000 users annually from 220 countries. New Tactics trainings have been held in more than 25 countries, with resources translated into 26 languages.IDREAM is an international capacity development project that works with human rights defenders around the world who have been forced into exile due to their human rights advocacy work. IDREAM supports exiled human rights defender through providing training, mentoring, and other capacity development services in these three areas: mental health resilience; effective advocacy; and integrated security. In Fiscal Year 2020, IDREAM identified and welcomed to the project its first Cohort of 10 human rights defenders after an extensive application, interview, and vetting process.

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