Trauma Recovery Center

62 West Seven Mile Road

Detroit, Michigan 48203

Phone:  (313) 893-6172

Trauma Recovery Center

34628 Dequindre, Suite 2

Sterling Heights, Michigan 48310

Phone:  (586) 939-5016

The Trauma Recovery Center seeks to inform and engage individuals experiencing many conditions and difficulties to lessen the effects of the torture experience and building a sense of hope. The care team works together and with other community resources to re-establish hope, trust and a sense of belonging in the community. We recognize the strength and courage of individuals in responding to the challenges of today through personal responsibility and self-advocacy to build a life in the community. 

 In dealing with torture each person responds in his or her unique way to establish a sense of meaning and purpose in surviving.

 Services may be needed in obtaining medical treatment that is sensitive to the torture experienced, or services may be needed in dealing with day-to-day demands for food, housing, education, work, or legal issues. 

 Contact us to find out how we might assist you.  

Torture is an act committed by a person acting for the political group in power and justified by law. The person in power inflicts severe physical and/or mental pain on individuals because of their political beliefs, religion, race, ethnicity, or membership in a social group.

A person may be beaten, deprived of food and water, burned, humiliated, raped, and /or forced to watch while others are being tortured, killed or harmed through inhumane and horrible acts.

Torture breaks the spirit of the person while inflicting pain and suffering resulting in physical, emotional and spiritual trauma.  Symptoms may include:

·         Chronic pain in muscles and joints

·         Severe depression and anxiety

·         Intense and incessant nightmares

·         Guilt and self-hatred

·         Impaired memory

·         Inability to concentrate

·         Difficulty sleeping

·         Frequent thoughts of suicide and self-harm

If you have experienced torture and are experiencing these or other symptoms contact us.

www.HealTorture.org website is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee and Resettlement and is a project of the Center for Victims of Torture.  (No official endorsement by ORR or DHHS for the information on the website is intended or should be inferred). This web site provides information for provider and survivors.

Survivor Resources Include: links to treatment centers around the U.S., such as the Trauma Recovery Center of Southeast Michigan; other resource material as well as links to information for refugees.

Provider resources include clinical materials:

·         Healing the Hurt

·         Caring for torture Survivors by Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights

Southeast Michigan is home to the largest Arab community from the Middle East in the U.S. The 2000 Census reports 115,284 Arabs in Michigan; however by 2009 local estimates reflect 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. We expect 3,000 to 5,000 of these refugees to locate in southeast Michigan.

 Among individuals locating in SE Michigan we expect 40%, of these new refugees to have experienced torture, or over 1,200 indivividuals.

 This program is specifically designed to provide services to individuals who have experienced torture and continue to experience the emotional trauma and pain of these experiences. 

Welcome!


The Trauma Recovery Center of Southeast Michigan is 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:

 --Information and referral

--Screening and assessment

--Individual and group counseling

--Psychiatric services

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

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