Trauma Recovery Center of Southeast Michigan

The Trauma Recovery Center of Southeast Michigan is being established as a joint venture involving Wayne State University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, its clinical service group (Wayne State University Physician Group—Psychiatry), and the Arab American Chaldean Council.

The Center is organized to assist survivors of torture and war trauma, and their families, to heal and rebuild their lives.  We offer a variety of services including:

 

Ø  Information and referral

Ø  Screening and assessment

Ø  Individual and group counseling

Ø  Psychiatric services

Ø  Care coordination for health care, legal, and other supportive services

 

Text Box: Southeast Michigan is home to the largest Arab community from the Middle East in the U.S. In 2009 population estimates 403,445 people of Arab descent live in southeast Michigan. Importantly, over the two-year period of 2008 and 2009 the U.S. is admitting 30,823 Iraqi refugees. It is expected that 3,000 to 5,000 of these refugees will locate in southeast Michigan. Further, it is expected that 1,200, 40%, of these new refugees will have experienced torture. 

 

 

 

 

The staff and program design offers a high level of expertise in health care, mental health, case management, social services, vocational, and legal aid to assist individuals who have experienced unimaginable trauma to re-establish hope and trust; to build a life by calling upon personal strengths and courage with the support and caring of the community and The Center.

In addition, The Center is pursuing building the capacity of other providers to respond to the needs of torture survivors. By enhancing and building service capacity through training and education of health care professionals, community resources are established to assist the large number of individuals needing support and healing in Southeast Michigan.

 

Learn more about our individual organizations by following the links below:

 

WSUPG-Psychiatry

http://www.med.wayne.edu/psychiatry/UPG%20Website/index.html

Arab American Chaldean Council

http://www.myacc.org/

 

The Trauma Recovery Center is funded in part by:

Department of Health and Human Services

Administration for Children and Families

Office of Refugee Resettlement

Application for HHS-2009-ACF-ORR-ZT-0050

CFDA Number: 93.604

Services for Survivors of Torture Program:

Assistance to Torture Survivors Through Direct Services