The Cross Cultural Counseling Center (CCCC) provides crucial support to refugees, asylum seekers, survivors of torture, and victims of human trafficking and domestic violence from all over the world.
The CCCC offers holistic and culturally/linguistically accessible counseling and case management by a multidisciplinary team of credentialed, bilingual/bicultural counselors, case managers, graduate clinical interns and volunteers.
Typically, a CCCC client may have no access to social, medical, legal or counseling services. The CCCC case managers and counselors assist such clients by:
- Enabling clients to meet basic needs such as food and housing
- Helping clients navigate the complex medical system to receive much-needed health care
- Assisting clients in securing pro bono legal representation for asylum petitions, U-visas, T-visas, and WAVA self-petitions.
- Psychological counseling and support to help clients overcome the mental and physical effects of relocation and trauma
- Interpretation and translation to ensure that all the above services are culturally and linguistically accessible and appropriate.
The CCCC integrates clients’ cultural, religious and traditional healing practices into its counseling model. Our program encourages clients to participate in community-based cultural and religious institutions in order to bolster their innate strengths and help restore a sense of dignity and self-esteem.
In addition to direct client service, the CCCC serves as a highly-regarded training center and model for other allied professionals and agencies serving victims of torture as well as immigrants suffering other forms of violence. Over the past 11 years, CCCC staff have conducted over 500 local and national trainings — on issues of torture survivors, refugee trauma, human-trafficking and immigrant victims of domestic violence — for human rights advocates, immigration lawyers, judges, physicians, mental health workers, social service providers, and law and social work students.
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