Thursday, April 20, 2006
5:30-7:30pm
Location: Long Beach City College

    For a talk with Dr. Richard Mollica,
    Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
    and Community Dialogue facilitated by
    NCCJ of Southern California

    A Collaboration of:

The Found Theatre
Program for Torture Victims (PTV)
Facing History and Ourselves
Cambodian American Leadership Foundation
The City of Long Beach Main Public Library
The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) of Southern California

Richard F. Mollica, M.D., M.A.R. is the Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a world renowned expert on the Cambodian genocide and the mental health needs and treatment of Southeast Asian refugees. In 1981, Dr. Mollica co-founded the Indochinese Psychiatry Clinic (IPC). Over the past two decades HPRT and IPC have pioneered the mental health care of survivors of mass violence and torture. HPRT/IPC’s clinical model has been replicated throughout the world. Dr. Mollica has received numerous awards for his work, including the 1993 human rights award from the American Psychiatric Association. Under Dr. Mollica’s direction, HPRT conducts training, policy and research activities for traumatized populations around the world. The group’s recent epidemiological studies have demonstrated for the first time the chronic disability and mortality associated with the mental health sequelae of mass violence. HPRT’s scientific work has helped place mental health issues at the center of the recovery of post-conflict societies.

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NCCJ at:

(562) 435-8184

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