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W HAT’ S U P. . . AT THE C OA LI TION

Q & A: Traumatic Stress among African Refugees

in New Hampshire
Wellesley Centers for Women Research & Action
Report Fall/Winter 2009
Reprinted with permission from the Wellesley
Centers for Women
Michelle Porche, Ed.D., a senior research sci-
entist at Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW),
studies academic achievement in literacy and sci-
ence among young children and adolescents. She
is especially interested in the influence of gender
and socioemotional factors on the academic
achievement of children from low-income fami-
lies. More recently she has expanded her work to
study the impact of trauma on learning and
achievement. In addition to work at WCW,
Porche spent ten years as a researcher on the lon-
gitudinal Home-School Study of Language and
Literacy Development at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Education where she received
her doctorate. She is co-author of “Is Literacy
Enough? Pathways to Academic Achievement for
Adolescents,” which describes findings from the
Home-School Study. In 2002 she was a co-
recipient of the International Reading Associa-
tion’s Albert J. Harris Award for contributions in
literacy research.
Lisa Fortuna, M.D., M.P.H., a board certi-
fied child and adolescent psychiatrist, is an as-
sistant professor of psychiatry and the Director
of Child and Adolescent Multicultural Health
Research at the University of Massachusetts
Medical School. Her research interests include
Latino mental health services, immigrant men-
tal health, post-traumatic stress disorder, and
substance abuse. As the recipient of a five-year
Career Development Award from the National
Institute of Drug Abuse, Fortuna has been
working with Stanley Rosenberg, director of
the Trauma Interventions Research Center at
the Dartmouth University Medical School, on
post-traumatic stress disorder in adolescents
and children.
What was the impetus for your work with
young African refugees, and how was the
needs assessment funded?
Porche: This work is one of several collabora-
tive projects Lisa and I have done investigating
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Also in this Edition:

State of NH Refugee Program Facts. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Events and Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Coalition News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
What’s New in the Coalition Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Coalition Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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the consequences of trauma on mental health, as well Porche: But some of the older adolescents had witnessed
as on school and achievement outcomes. direct political violence, such as their fathers being
killed, horrible atrocities, etc.
Fortuna: This project grew out of my work on post-
traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adolescents and Fortuna: Many of the parents had experienced atrocities.
children with Stan Rosenberg, who’s been doing a We didn’t ask about specific trauma, but some parents
lot of training on trauma-informed, evidence-based volunteered information about violence in their countries
therapies for kids in New of origin, including rape and sex-
Hampshire. Endowment ual assault against women; it’s
for Health, a foundation part of the political violence.
which helps fund some of
his work, felt they could How did they end up in New
do more to reach youth in Hampshire?
the refugee community,
who clearly have a high Porche: Everyone wants to
trauma exposure. So Stan know—why African refugees in
and I and the Endowment New Hampshire, which seems to
for Health program offi- be such a rural place? Placement
cers brought in Michelle, is facilitated by the Lutheran So-
and we put our heads to- cial Services, which partners with
gether to think about how the U.S. Department of State to
to disseminate evidence- resettle refugees all over the coun-
based treatments for kids try. New Hampshire has about
in the refugee community. 5,000 African refugees.

Porche: The original small Fortuna: The refugees have no

grant came from the Na-
tional Child Traumatic
Stress Network, through Stan. We also had money
from the Endowment for Health. But the funding was
very limited and we could not have done the project
without matching funds from Wellesley Centers for
Women (WCW) to support my work.
control over where they land;
once placed, they receive time-
limited self-sufficiency services from the State’s Office
of Refugee Resettlement. Later on, when they’re really
settled, some refugees may move to another state to be
with other family members or where the refugee commu-
nity may be more vibrant.

Who are these young Africans and what kinds of
trauma are they fleeing from?
Porche: They come from many countries that have
experienced political violence — especially Somalia,
but also Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burundi and
the Congo. But they seldom come directly from their
home country.
Fortuna: They move first to refugee camps in differ-
ent parts of Africa, where they may spend up to ten
years, and some kids were born in the camps.
Porche: For example, Minnesota is a big state for a lot of
refugees, especially Somalis. By the way, the U.S. takes
in fewer refugees than most countries.
This project required much collaboration by stake-
holders. How did that come about and how did you
collect data?
Porche: The Endowment for Health was key to the suc-
cess of the needs assessment. Their program officers
helped us make contact with appropriate providers and
agencies as well as the African Coalition, a group of
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leaders of grassroots African refugee organizations. The
program officers invited about 60 of these stakeholders
to an introductory meeting: African leaders, the Resettle-
ment Office, school people, therapists from mental
health clinics, primary care providers. We presented our
design for the needs assessment and let people know that
we wanted to come talk with them.
The African refugee leaders were eager to collaborate
with us and helped recruit the families and young adults
we wanted to talk to. They also served as translators.
Some of the kids spoke to us in English, but all the par-
ents spoke in their native languages and the African
leaders translated.
Fortuna: We held individual interviews with many of
those people and then dialogues in groups with all levels
of stakeholders to look at data from the interviews to
identify problems and areas where something might be
done better.
What did you find are some of the key resettlement
challenges for these young people?
Porche: Let’s make that “young people and families.”
The original grant mechanisms were to find out more
about the risk for youth, but as soon as we got into it we
knew it had to be a family-systems piece.
Fortuna: That made sense. I’m a child psychiatrist so I
always think there’s a family-systems element to the
work we do; even the refugee leaders said, “This is
really about families.” Here are parents and older adoles-
cents experiencing physical violence that causes them to
leave their country of origin, then everyone trying to
manage in the camps, then coming here with continued
issues of displacement and family members no longer
being together; that’s a very powerful loss for everyone.
Porche: Some mothers have come without their children.
It’s especially hard for them to feel settled here, to have
a sense of the future. Of course, for everyone there are
huge hurdles at startup, everything’s new. They don’t
know how to turn on a light, how to use the stove and
everyone they see is white. Worse, parents struggle for
jobs to provide for the family’s needs and each family
must pay the government back for travel expenses to the
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U.S. so they start out in debt.
Fortuna: School soon becomes a major area of stress.
The refugee camps may not have had schools. If
there were schools, the parents may have been fear-
ful about sending kids there so a lot of kids come
over with no literacy skills. There are some who
can’t read or write in their native languages or at a
minimum have no sense of structured school.
Porche: They learn English quickly and become
pretty proficient in about a year. That’s a good thing
for the children, but it’s a double edged sword be-
cause the kids end up serving as interpreters and me-
diators for the parents. That’s not good for the par-
ent-child relationships because the children then
have knowledge and some power that really should
be the parents’. As children do better in school and
learn English it can create problems in other areas of
their lives.
Fortuna: Here are moms, whose husbands may have
been killed, challenged by a big shift in their parent-
ing role while dealing with adjustment to the United
States then finding their children empowered in
some ways, while they feel disempowered. That can
be very stressful and demoralizing.
Porche: Meanwhile, a key struggle for the children is
that in the U.S. they’re placed in classrooms by age,
so a 15-year old who’s had no formal education is
put into high school with peers who’ve had ten years
of formal schooling. (In African education systems,
if someone needed to start at a second-grade level,
that’s where they’d start in a mixed-age classroom.)
They do get help and they get English as a Second or
Other Language (ESOL), but even though they make
a lot of progress quickly, it’s very hard for them to
catch up. If they don’t have a way to do well aca-
demically, they’re going to figure out other ways to
feel good about themselves, acting tough, getting
into fights, all sorts of things.
There are identity issues too. For example, there
are different African groups or tribes that don’t get
along because of historical conflicts. That creates
tension when children have to share the same school.
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Continued from page 3 with particular skills and status and now can’t get
equivalent work. Men do get limited assistance
Fortuna: The kids of color fight each other a lot. A
with job training and placement and an opportu-
couple of African girls said, “We really fight with the
nity to take ESOL classes, but a lot of them feel
Latino kids.”
those classes don’t help much. Finding transporta-
tion is often very difficult. Also, large families
Porche: This may be about the scarce resources of
have been coming in and the housing stock often
new groups coming in and the tensions of being dif-
isn’t well suited for large families. The families
ferent in the schools.
face racism, they’re a visible minority, they have-
n’t experienced that before.
Fortuna: And about “who will be who” in this new
dynamic.
Fortuna: That’s what triggers PTSD. They already
have a history of trauma because of who they are-
Say more about the stresses for parents.
and where they were, but not because they were
black. They come to this country and their skin
Porche: Discipline issues cause a lot of stress. Many
color is another marker that makes them vulner-
refugees are used to corporal punishment, which we
able to discrimination or attack.
generally don’t allow in the U.S. Kids are told, “Your
parents can’t hit you any more,” so they say to their
Porche: The biggest sense of loss is the parents’
parents, “You can’t touch me. If you do, I’ll call
realization that they’ve escaped from torture, rape,
911.” This creates incredible tension. Parents feel dis-
and danger, struggling to get to this country for
empowered.
their children, who are, as they say, “their wealth,
their treasure,” and then in the midst of all their
Fortuna: Other people are controlling the situation.
acculturative distress, they feel they’re losing their
The police come, the parents can’t speak English, and
children to this culture that allows crime and the
it’s the child who’s telling the police what’s hap-
misbehavior of young people. That is very painful.
pened. It’s a really scary situation for parents.
Fortuna: We also often heard the parents wish that
Porche: It’s a matter of language barriers as well as
their children would keep their religion and cul-
cultural misunderstandings. There are difficulties
tural values. That’s a way of saying, “Then they’d
about school. Parents arrive with great respect for
still be part of us.”
education. They’ve survived every horrible trauma so
that their children can thrive here and get a good edu-
With all of this pain and stress, do any refugees
cation. In their home countries, teachers were the ex-
wish they hadn’t come?
perts; parents didn’t get involved in formal schooling
the way parents do here. So teachers here may feel,
Porche: Everyone we talked to said, “We’re really
“Those parents don’t care; they don’t come to school
grateful to be here.” The challenges are difficult
or help with homework.” While the parents are think-
and cause a lot of worry, but as one mother said,
ing, “But you’re the teacher. I take care of the chil-
“In this country, when my children go to school, I
dren, I raise them, I make sure they’re respectful. I
know that they’re going to get there safely and
don’t sit and do homework with them, that’s the
they’re going to come home.”
teacher’s job.” Employment is another challenge.
Jobs are very difficult to come by. This isn’t a great
What was the follow-up to your needs assess-
time to be here, in the middle of a horrible recession.
ment?
Fortuna: There are gender issues, too. Some of the
Porche: This past May we held a two-day learning
women can find work like childcare and house clean-
collaborative conference for the people we’d in-
ing, but jobs for men are harder to find right now.
vited to the first kick-off meeting and others we’d
since learned should be involved. We brought in
Porche: It’s especially hard for men who had jobs
research teams from Boston, Vermont, and Min-
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nesota with expertise in treatment and support for
resettled African refugees. The research teams in-
cluded researchers, clinicians, and front-line African
outreach persons. We had great attendance from
stakeholders from various parts of New Hampshire.
Fortuna: The research teams presented best practices
about their experience of what has been successful in
working with African refugees in their communities,
such as models for parenting that help with disrup-
tive behavior and communication in a family under
stress.
Porche: Afterward we held a debriefing with the Af-
rican leaders, who said that the parenting piece was
their priority. We hope to support the development
of an adaptation of what we learned that will also
incorporate traditional African parenting values. One
of the primary outcomes is an initiative led by
Geraldine Kirega of the Women for Women Coali-
tion, a grassroots organization in New Hampshire,
which will be a program that integrates support for
mothers with afterschool tutoring for their adolescent
children. I will collaborate with the Women for
Women Coalition to evaluate a pilot of the program
to be conducted with women from different African
ethnicities, but who all speak Swahili. Besides sup-
porting parenting in general, the goal will be to help
mothers make connections with school personnel
that will support their children’s academic achieve-
ment. That’s really the parents’ goal, they want their
children to do well.
Fortuna: Another result of the meeting is that Stan
and I want to collaborate with the mental health clin-
ics that actually have African clinicians to develop
an evidence-based intervention for the kids around
behavioral and emotional needs. The African clini-
cians can speak the language, so they can involve the
parents and may know some culturally useful adapta-
tions of the intervention.
Porche: We also hope to work with the African lead-
ers and communities in developing other kinds of
interventions. It’s important that these be truly col-
laborative, that the African leaders lead the way in
the services provided.
Fortuna: Another thing that came out of the learning
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collaborative conference was the idea of building a
New England network of researchers, African leaders,
and providers sharing lessons learned and maybe a
web-based interactive learning network. I do some
telemedicine already and I’m interested in how tech-
nology can be a bridge for communication and infor-
mation sharing.
Porche: The value of that two-day meeting will con-
tinue for a long time to come. We presented some of
this work at the American Psychological Association
annual convention in August and one of the next big
steps is for us to write up our results so we can pub-
lish them.
Fortuna: That’s an important piece for which we
don’t have money for.
Say a bit more about funding. In these economi-
cally difficult times, how do you find funding for
what seems like a very specialized area of need?
Porche: I think there’s plenty of interest in immigrant
and refugee communities as a growing population.
What we’re learning seems specialized, but it has
broader implications. We’re working on collaborative
grants for those projects with the leaders and their
communities. The Endowment for Health is interested
in being one of several funding sources for the pro-
gram to integrate parental support and afterschool tu-
toring for children, and the African Coalition leaders
are looking for other grants.
Fortuna: Meanwhile, I’m putting in grant proposals
with Stan for work with those leaders and African
clinicians, probably focusing on mood and disruptive
behaviors. The National Child Traumatic Stress Net-
work and other agencies have a lot of interest in this
area, and we’re putting out some other proposals in
New Hampshire. There’s still evidence-based knowl-
edge that’s needed.
Porche: It’s also true that all of us, including the Afri-
can leaders, do a lot of work that’s not funded. It’s a
matter of “get-a-little-money-and-push-it-as-far-as-
you-can” and a lot isn’t covered. It’s really a commit-
ment and a labor of love.
Fortuna: It plays to our passion and why we do re-
search, to make an impact for communities that are
vulnerable, that need to have something work better.
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State of NH Refugee Program Facts

Who are Refugees?

Refugees are people who have been forced to flee their home countries because of a well-founded fear
of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular
social group. Persecution could be physical violence, harassment and wrongful arrest, or threats to their
lives. They take with them only what they can carry, only what they have time to pack. Sometimes all
they have left are their dreams, their hopes and the will to survive.

Since the early-1980s more than 6,000 refugees have made New Hampshire their home. Refugees have
greatly contributed to our state and local communities. Through their hard work, they have strengthened
our economy and their presence has enriched the cultural diversity of New Hampshire.

Refugees come to New Hampshire from more than 30 different nations and represent a diverse group of
ethnic minorities. For the most part, refugees adjust well to New Hampshire life. They frequently find
employment within the first few months of arrival and they actively participate in the life of the com-
munities where they make their new homes. Many eventually become naturalized U.S. citizens. Many
of New Hampshire’s refugees live in Hillsborough County, with significant resettlement also in the
Concord, Franklin and Laconia areas.

Refugee Resettlement by Municipality

Federal Fiscal Year 2002 - 2009
FY 02 FY 03 FY 04 FY 05 FY 06 FY 07 FY 08 FY 09 TOTAL

Manchester 182 195 471 165 146 99 246 303 1807

Laconia 33 5 8 15 55 15 59 70 260

Concord 11 38 75 126 54 94 192 188 778

Franklin 13 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 21

Boscawen 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 0 10

Hooksett 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

Hanover 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Milford 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4

Haverhill 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

Charlestown 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3

Nashua 0 0 0 2 5 51 12 0 70

Warner 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2

Peterborough 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

253 244 556 312 260 259 521 561 2966

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Refugee Arrivals to New Hampshire by Country of Origin: 1997 - 2008
1997-1999 2000-2007 2008 Total
Totals 1,442 2,889 520 4,851
Europe 1,068 1,167 2 2,237
Bosnia 868 788 1,656
Croatia 67 101 168
Kosovo 49 0 49
Latvia 2 2
Russia 28 40 2 70
Serbia 0 4 4
Ukraine 56 45 101
Meskhetian Turks 0 187 187
Africa 218 1,516 140 1,874
Algeria 3 6 9
Burundi 0 132 52 184
Cameroon 0 6 6
Congo 0 54 23 77
Egypt 0 6 6
Eritrea 0 4 4
Ethiopia 1 19 20
Liberia 27 216 243
Nigeria 52 7 8 67
Rwanda 21 50 71
Sierra Leone 3 51 2 56
Somalia 19 131 43 193
Somalia (Bantu) 0 373 373
Sudan 92 434 6 532
Togo 0 21 6 27
Zimbabwe 0 5 5
Ivory Coast 1 1
Asia 126 18 277 421
Vietnam 126 18 144
Bhutan 277 277
Middle East 30 186 101 317
Afghanistan 0 99 3 102
Armenia 1 1
Azerbaijan 0 9 9
Iran 3 18 21
Iraq 27 59 98 184
Cuba 0 2 2
http://www.nh.gov/oep/programs/refugee/facts.htm
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Events and Education

Upcoming NH Center for Nonprofits Trainings
Nonprofit Marketing Power: How to Gain Essential Response, Resources and Support
February 09, 2010, Maine Association of Nonprofits Saco, Maine
Planned Giving 101: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way!
February 10, 2010, Council on Fundraising, Lyndonville, VT
Creating a Culture of Values and Excellence
February 10, 2010, NH Businesses for Social Responsibility, Webinar
Enhancing Program Performance With Logic Models
March 3, 2010, Endowment for Health, Concord
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Save the Dates for A Safe Place

Upcoming 2010 Events
February 6 & 13– A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer
(The Vagina Monologues) will be directed at the Player’s Ring Theater in
Portsmouth. Proceeds will benefit A Safe Place & SASS. For tickets &
information go to www.playersring.org or call 436-8123. Show times are
Feb. 6th at 3:00pm & 8:00pm and Feb. 13th at 8:00pm. Tickets are $12. A great show,
great price & for great causes!
April 24-2nd Annual Keep Your Paws to Yourself!
A walk, with or without dogs, to benefit A Safe Place & the Dog Owners
Group of the Seacoast. Call Thea 436-4619 ext. 13 for more information.

Boston Nonprofit
Leadership Series
Organizational Transition I
February 18, 2010
If your organization is in the
midst of a transition, and you
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this session is not to be missed.
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Developing Effective Therapeutic and Programming Strategies
for the Care and Support of Male Survivors of Conflict-related
Sexual Violence
Date/Time: (Local times) 02/01/2010 (All day) through 02/28/2010 (All day)
Website: http://www.svri.org/
Event Sponsor: Sexual Violence Research Initiative
The SVRI would like to invite you to participate in a new moderated online discussion on
“Developing effective therapeutic and programming strategies for the care and support of
male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence”. Through this new discussion forum
thread, the SVRI hopes to bring together physical and mental health practitioners, program
managers, and researchers to engage in a wide-ranging, cross-cultural discussion. SVRI
would like to invite individuals and institutions helping torture survivors, child soldiers,
prisoners, and survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

The discussion will be moderated by Alastair Hilton, a social work consultant, based in
Cambodia and Michael Peel, formerly of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Torture
Victims, assisted by Wynne Russell, an independent researcher into this topic. This online
discussion will form the basis of a briefing paper on this topic. The discussion will run from
February 1st - 28th, 2010. To participate in the discussion please register and click on the
discussion topic. Invitations are available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. For any
questions or more information on this discussion please email svri@mrc.ac.za.
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RAINN online trainings ...

Cultural Competence Champions
February 15, 2010
Time: 8:00am to 12:00 pm
Location: Welcoming Light - The Institute
45 High St. Nashua NH 03060
This presentation will explore the many chal-
lenges in honoring cultural diversity with
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Registration:
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Available Trainings:
· Beyond "date rape" drugs: Drug-facilitated Sex-
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· Train-the-trainer: How to conduct great trainings
· Establishing Partnerships with Faith Communi-
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· Introduction to Cultural Competency
· Cultural Competency: Self-awareness
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· Helping suicidal or self-harming callers
· Self-care
· Incest: Helping Victims and Survivors of Incest
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Coalition News
NARAL Honors NHCADSV at annual Roe v. Wade Anniversary Celebration

On January 26 at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NARAL Pro-Choice New Hamp-
shire CELEBRATED THE POWER OF THE REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS COALITION whose
members include the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Con-
cord Feminist Health Center, the Feminist Health Center of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Civil
Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.

The Reproductive Rights Coalition is the nexus of providers, patients, activists, and legislators
working to protect and expand access to the full range of reproductive health care services for
women of New Hampshire. Amanda Grady and Jennifer Durant of NHCADSV’s Public Policy
Department received special recognition for their ongoing work to protect victims and reproduc-
tive freedom in New Hampshire.

Grace Mattern has been selected as one of 20

outstanding women you should know in NH
Radio station 95.7 WZID and Hannaford are behind this
award which is in conjunction with the Women’s Expo
happening next month in Manchester; thousands of
women are expected to attend.

Grace will be recognized at the Expo as well as on air at WZID. This is a great honor and an op-
portunity for more people to learn about the amazing work that Grace and all of you are doing
across the state.

Subscribe to the Open Doors to Safety Project Blog! The Open Doors
to Safety project is working to develop the capacity of the member programs of
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Through training of crisis center staff and community collaboration it is hoped
that the survivors of trauma will be given more choices for change in their
lives. Given that a number of trauma survivors who access services provided by
domestic violence service programs have used drugs and/or alcohol to self medi-
cate the pain of the trauma in their lives and may also be challenged by a men-
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What's New in the Carol Heath

Memorial Library?
Domestic Violence: Intersectionality and Culturally Competent Practice
Edited by Lettie Lockhart and Fran Danis
Columbia University Press, 2010
Experts working with twelve unique groups of domestic abuse survivors provide
the latest research on their populations and use a case study approach to demon-
strate culturally sensitive intervention strategies. Chapters address African Ameri-
cans, Native Americans, Latinas, Asian and Pacific Island communities, persons
with disabilities, immigrants, refugees, women in later life, LGBT survivors, and military couples, as well as do-
mestic violence in rural environments and among teens, and the role of religion. ~from the publisher

Children’s Program Kit: Supportive Education for Children of Addicted Parents

By the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2005
A comprehensive educational curriculum for those working with children affected by substance abuse.

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
By Judith Herman, MD
Basic Books, 1997
Herman draws on her own research on domestic violence, as well as on literature on combat veterans and victims
of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors like rape and public traumas such as terrorism. At
the heart of the book is a unique approach to recovery that demands that the therapist depart from a stance of
moral neutrality, working slowly toward integration rather than catharsis. ~from booknews.com

A Woman's Place: The Compassionate Guide for Reclaiming Body Mind and Life
By Wendy Hilsen-Bernard, M.S, L.P.C.
Still River Resources, 2001
Lovingly written for women to help heal from domestic violence and sexual assault. Includes a 70 minute audio
CD featuring a yoga class, meditation, visualization and relaxation.

Cultural Competence in Trauma Therapy, Beyond the Flashback

By Laura S. Brown
The American Psychological Association, 2008
The author shows therapists how to become more sensitive to individual identity when working with clients who
have suffered trauma. The author explains how culturally sensitive therapists draw upon multiple strategies for
treating patients and are aware of both dominant group privilege and of their own identity and culture. Of particu-
lar interest is a chapter on the role of systems of faith and meaning-making in trauma therapy. The book has a
practical focus and contains a variety of case studies illustrating how theoretical constructs can inform assessment
and treatment. Given the ubiquity of trauma in its various forms, all therapists, from trainees to seasoned profes-
sionals will find this volume educative and thought-provoking. ~from the publisher

To borrow resources, contact us at info@nhcadsv.org or call 224-8893, ext 316.

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5 Child Fatality Review Attorney General’s Office 9:00-12:00
9 PMC Meeting (snow date - 2/16) Coalition Office 9:00-3:00
11 Supervised Visitation Committee Coalition Office 9:30-11:30
11 New Database Users Training Coalition Office 12:00-3:30
11 SANE Advisory Board Attorney General’s Office 1:00-3:00
15 President’s Day—Coalition Office closed
16 Direct Service Coordinator Quarterly Coalition Office 10:00-3:00
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17 PMC Prevention Education Committee Coalition Office 11:00-1:00
18 PMC Management Training Grappone Center, Concord 9:00-4:00
22 Anti-racism Meeting Coalition Office 3:00-5:00
23 Open Doors Advisory Board Meeting Coalition Office 9:00-12:00
23 NHCADSV Board Meeting Coalition Office 5:30-7:30
24 ACE Committee Meeting Coalition Office 9:00-11:00

MARCH 2010
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2-3 PMC Retreat Mountain View Grand, Whitefield

5 Development Committee Coalition Office 10:00-12:00

8 AVAP Partnership AVAP Office 3:00-4:30

11 Research Committee Coalition Office 9:00-11:00

15 Child Advocacy Meeting Coalition Office 9:00-2:00

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