Dr. Ben McVane presented at the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims-Independent Forensic Expert Group Fall Webinar on October 14. The webinar focused on the challenges and best practices when providing tele-evaluations of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic as in-person evaluations continue to pose a danger to both providers and patients.
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Dr. Fernando was a faculty member and presenter for the eight-week virtual course, “Beyond Burnout: A New Approach to Self-Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” offered from October to December. The course was designed for staff in torture treatment programs to simultaneously learn and practice a variety of self-care techniques, and to provide resources to help staff process the challenges of their work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Libertas’ Dr. Ben McVane participated in a panel discussion on the Northern Triangle at the NARHC virtual conference held September 17-19. Dr. McVane discussed the needs and challenges of health care provision at the U.S.-Mexico border to patients from the Northern Triangle.
Libertas Art Therapist, Melissa Alvey and Libertas Former Art Therapy Intern, Krystal Atwood presented at the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs (NCTTP) Annual Research Symposium in March of 2020. Their presentation was entitled, “Reimagining the Past: How Healing, Facilitated Through Art Therapy, Promotes Community and Relationship Building for Survivors of Torture”
In March of 2020, Team Libertas attended the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs’ (NCTTP) Annual Research Symposium on, “Torture Treatment: Clinical, Community, Policy Interventions, and Outcome Evaluations.”
L to R: Melissa Alvey, Walter Fendrich, Maya Guttman-Slater, Betsy Miles, Sara Wagner, Jojo Tong, Dinali Fernando, Krystal Atwood.