Vision:

A functional democracy where violence is contained and people and communities thrive in a peaceful, caring and safe society.

Strategic programme areas

Trauma Clinic

• Developing a sustainable model for the clinic work.
• Developing an electronic database (pilot 30 torture cases).
• Offer clinical interventions to survivors of trauma (South African victims of violence and crime, refugees, ex-combatants, political violence).
• Become a centre of learning for trauma practitioners (social work students, psychology clinical masters students, intern psychologist).

Torture

• Capacity-building for service providers and health professionals working with torture survivors.
• Psychosocial interventions with survivors of torture.
• Start a national reference group on monitoring and evaluation of torture cases.

Unresolved Trauma

• Impact on unresolved trauma on the country (violence, crime, reconciliation).
  
• Working with ex-combatants including psychosocial interventions.
  
• Trauma and memorialisation.
• Intergenerational trauma.

Refugees

• Psychosocial interventions with refugees.
• Institutional for government structures working with refugees.
• Capacity-building with service providers.
• Crime and Violence
• Profiling victims voices in the debate around crime and violence.
• Bringing trauma perspectives in the national and international debates around violence and crime.

How we work and with whom

The TTP is a multi-disciplinary team of mental health practitioners with diverse experiences and skills in research, trauma counselling and trauma management. Our team includes researchers, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and a consultant psychiatrist. We also have interns and students with whom we work.

In partnerships on projects with other organisations. For example, we work with the South African Institute for Traumatic Stress (SAITS) for trauma training. We provide training and support, and on-going supervision of trauma support volunteers and professionals.

We are a founding partner of Themba Lesizwe, a network of trauma service providers that was launched in 2001, and work as its affiliate. Other founding partners are the Cape Town Trauma Centre, the KwaZulu- Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence, and the National Peace Accord Trust.