December 2006: Release of the book, Healing Invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope and Recovery in a Violent World by Richard F. Mollica, MD, Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.
September 22-26, 2003: Peter C. Alderman Masterclass I in Orvieto, Italy. HPRT held the first of three primary care provider Masterclasses this September in Orvieto, Italy. Medical ambassadors from Bosnia, Chile, Macedonia, Peru, Rwanda, Spain, and Uganda attended this successful major training, which was sponsored by the Peter C. Alderman Foundation.
June 18-November 8, 2003: PUPPETRY OF SHADOW AND LIGHT, an exhibition of traditional and contemporary shadow puppet theater, featuring a display of HPRT's shadow puppets from Cambodia, among many others from around the world. At The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY; co-curated by Leslee Asch, Stephen Kaplin, and Barbara Stratyner. Call (212) 870-1630 or click here for more information.
June 22, 2003: FUNDRAISER for the Cambodian Community Mental Health Services (CCMHS) Clinic in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia. A successful fundraising event in support of the CCMHS clinic, established in 1994 through the Harvard Training Program in Cambodia, was held at the Elephant Walk restaurant in Cambridge, MA. The event raised nearly $5,000 for the clinic. Click here for complete information. To donate to the clinic, please contact the fundraising coordinator, Laura McDonald.
May 2, 2003: A Celebration in Honor of the Professorship of Richard F. Mollica, MD, MAR, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Director, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Massachusetts General Hospital. A Grand Rounds address by Dr. Mollica: "From Cambodia to Iraq: Putting Mental Health on the International Policy Agenda," followed by a reception.
April 9-10, 2003, The Second Annual Northern New England Conference on Refugee Health (Burlington, VT):"Embracing a World of Diversity: Strategies for Supporting Identity and Building Community." Featured a Keynote Address by Dr. Richard Mollica entitled "The David and Goliath of Refugee Mental Health Policy."
February 28-March 1, 2003, Rome, Italy: First meeting of the Organizing Committee for Project 1 Billion, a global meeting of all 60 conflict/post-conflict Ministries of Health and key international agencies scheduled for November 2004 in Rome.
November 12, 2002: U.S. Terrorism Recovery Project Ambassador Training. HPRT led the first day-long training of its U.S. Terrorism Recovery Project curriculum, including the Primary Care Provider Toolkit, to 10 primary care and mental health practitioners from local health centers in Massachusetts. Based on the "train the trainer" model, these "Ambassadors" then went on to train providers to use the model of the Toolkit at their own health centers. Coupled with a national dissemination of the Toolkit, HPRT hopes to replicate this training model at hospitals and neighborhood health centers in New York City, Washington, DC, and throughout the country.
September 23-24, 2002, Sarajevo, Mental Health 21: Mental Health Policy and the Recovery of Conflict/Post-Conflict Societies. This policy planning meeting was attended by two representatives each from the Ministries of Health of Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Indonesia, Peru, Uganda, and Rwanda.
8/4/02, Radio Broadcast, Trauma and Recovery in a New Land: The Cambodian Refugee Experience, WFCR, Western New England featuring HPRT 's Marguerita Reczycki, Svang Tor, and Dr. Richard Mollica. To visit WFCR's outline of the documentary, Click here. To hear the broadcast click here. You must have RealPlayer to hear the broadcast - Click here to download a free trial version of RealPlayer.
6/18/02: ABC's Nightline with correspondent Bill Blakemore featured the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, including interviews with HPRT Director Dr. Richard F. Mollica and Dr. Aida Kapetanovic, director of HPRT's Sarajevo office.
2/4/02, Training Event: "The medical and psychosocial care of survivors of violent trauma in a multicultural world" featuring HPRT Director Dr. Richard F. Mollica at Istituto di Studi Superiori Assunzione (ARSAP) Education Center, Rome, Italy. Click here for more information.
2001, HPRT Director, Dr. Richard Mollica, named a U.S. Fulbright New Century Scholar
1999, HPRT Director, Dr. Richard Mollica, awarded Lifelong Visiting Professorship at Waseda University by the Japanese Government.
1998, HPRT receives Governor's New American Appreciation Award, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1996, HPRT receives Max Hayman Award for outstanding work that has furthered our understanding of genocide and the Holocaust, American Orthopsychiatric Association.
1994, HPRT receives award for Outstanding Community Program Staff, Seventh Annual Refugee & Immigrant Health & Mental Health Legislative Event
1993, HPRT receives The Achievement Citation Award, The Catholic Health Association of the United States
1993, HPRT receives Human Rights Award, American Psychiatric Association
1990, HPRT cited for Significance of Achievement, American Psychiatric Association, Hospital & Community Psychiatry
