Global Trauma Relief Overview

Since 1996, the Center has worked to relieve population-wide trauma resulting from wars and natural disasters, here in the US and overseas.

This program has been demonstrated in a randomized controlled trial to significantly decrease symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in war traumatized adolescents and, in other studies, to:

  • decrease stress and improve mood
  • enhance feelings of professional competence
  • promote hope and optimism in professionals who care for war traumatized populations.

This transformative experiential and science-based program is now being successfully used on a population-wide level nationally and internationally in post-Katrina New Orleans and postwar Kosovo, in Israel and Gaza, and with U.S. Military and Veterans and their families. It was also used with New York City firefighters and theirfamilies after 9/11.

The Center’s Global Trauma Relief program includes five phases:

  1. Outreach to a local health related organizations;
  2. An Initial Training in mind-body skills with a focus on teaching participants how to use these skills in their own self-care in a unique & supportive small group setting;
  3. An Advanced Training where participants learn to lead the same kinds of small groups they experienced a few months before, as well as how to integrate the Center’s model into their own institutions & communities;
  4. Ongoing supervision and consultation by the Center’s senior clinical faculty;
  5. A Leadership Training that develops a local team that will continue supervision and support of fellow program graduates after the Center’s staff leaves—critical to sustainability.

This program is designed to help program participants seamlessly integrate the Center’s model into their work, to nurture collaboration within the healthcare system, and to build a strong network of professionals using the Center’s approach to treat population-wide trauma.

 

   
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As the (Israeli) professionals build their resiliency and prowess with this work, the CMBM will be blessed with facilitating broad societal change and upgrading human behavior and quality of life throughout the world by spreading the teaching of this program.

- Rabbi Immanuel Yosef Legomsky, MA, Neurotherapist, Israel Trauma Care