The National Partnership for Community Training (NPCT) is a technical assistance project aimed at promoting and disseminating best and promising practices in the torture rehabilitation field from existing torture treatment centers from the United States and around the world. This project is funded for three years by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998.
NPCT is a partnership between the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture in Tampa Bay and Miami, Florida; the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the The Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture in Chicago, Illinois. Together, NPCT provides technical assistance to those working with refugees, asylum seekers and other immigrant populations, to increase awareness in serving torture survivors.
NPCT assists and supports providers nationally through training and technical assistance in areas of the country where there are no torture treatment centers. Using promising practices from existing torture treatment programs around the world, NPCT promotes practical and applied techniques to identify, refer, assist and effectively serve torture survivors.
