Pathways to Healing
In collaboration with local partners, we train local practitioners to adapt and implement the Common Threads model for the communities they serve.
Our approach blends traditions of group sewing with evidence-based trauma therapy, including psycho-education, somatic work, coping skills, and art therapy activities. The sewing circle provides mutual support, emotional safety, and enables the complex work of trauma recovery.
Participants are able to disclose atrocities, and share their experiences of survival. They build community and reclaim their futures.
Managing Stress and Trauma
During times of crisis, mental health workers are oftentimes on the frontlines. Only when staff have the skills to prioritize their own coping and address secondary trauma can they be available for helping others. Our Managing Stress and Trauma programs
Centers of Excellence
Once local partners have developed a high level of expertise in facilitating the intervention, they become CTP Centers of Excellence, fully embedding the program in their regular service provision and training others in their region.
