Program UpdatesNEW! Women’s Health Program HEAL is excited to announce the rollout of our new Women’s Health Program. Led by HEAL’s Associate Director for Women’s Health, Dr. Nicole Warren, the program offers holistic women’s health services for survivors of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Services include sex therapy, pelvic floor therapy, gynecology, and urogynecology, making the clinic the first and only resource of its kind in the Mid-Atlantic region. For more information and referrals, Nicole can be contacted directly at nwarren3@jhu.edu. Trafficking Survivors Mental Health Program HEAL and AWE received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Victims of Crime. With this DOJ funding, we are continuing and expanding our mental health programming for Latinx youth survivors of trafficking, facilitating language-concordant biweekly peer support groups in addition to hiring a part-time bilingual therapist and full-time community mental health advocate. Through Steps to Success, AWE provides comprehensive support services for adolescent and young adult foreign-born trafficking survivors. Border/Critical Access Partnership HEAL remains committed to monitoring the constantly evolving situation at the US-Mexico border and to supporting those seeking safety at our doorstep, with focus on the most vulnerable. HEAL team members continue to collaborate with the Refugee Health Alliance to provide clinical care and conduct research in Tijuana, Mexico, in addition to our ongoing medical-legal partnership with International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. To learn more about HEAL’s work on the US-Mexico border and in Baltimore, watch NEJM’s mini-doc, “Health Care on the Edge.” Asylum Medicine Training Initiative HEAL is a co-sponsor and supporting organization of the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative (AMTI) along with our partners at Physicians for Human Rights, the Society of Asylum Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, and UCSF. AMTI is co-led by HEAL’s Medical Director, Dr. Cuneo, and managed by HEAL’s Program Coordinator, Emilie Folsom. AMTI has been adopted nationally as the standard platform for introductory training in the forensic medical evaluation of asylum seekers and has been accessed by 3000+ individuals since it debuted in Fall 2022. Forensic Evaluation Clinic As the only asylum clinic in Maryland and one of the highest-volume asylum clinics in the nation, HEAL’s Forensic Evaluation Clinic continues to perform physical, psychological, neuropsychological, and gynecological forensic evaluations and has to-date received nearly 400 referrals from over 65 legal partners. 98.5% of HEAL’s Forensic Evaluation Clinic clients having received some form of humanitarian protection. As our clinic expands, we have developed new guiding documents detailing the scope of our evaluations as well as our policies and procedures aimed at our legal partners. Survivors of Torture Health Program With funding from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), HEAL continues to provide comprehensive primary care to uninsured immigrant survivors of torture at Esperanza Center, including medications, labs/imaging, access to specialists, vaccines, referrals for dental and vision care, and age-appropriate cancer screening. For those with the most complex special health needs, such as advanced cancer or genetic syndromes, intensive health navigation is also available. A total of 28 Hopkins medical students are currently participating in the RHP-AWE Health Navigation Practicum.
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