HEAL Partner Organizations
Johns Hopkins University
JHU serves as HEAL’s fiscal and programmatic home base and provides essential supportive services such as language interpretation for many of our clients. Students and trainees from a wide range of programs and schools across JHU rotate through HEAL and contribute to HEAL’s work through volunteering in operations, participating in clinical care, engaging in service learning opportunities, and contributing to related scholarship.
Esperanza Center
Catholic Charities of Baltimore
Esperanza Center is core to HEAL’s work as it houses our medical and forensic evaluation services. Medical services for survivors of torture and forensic evaluations for immigrants seeking humanitarian protection in the U.S. are provided through Esperanza Center’s Health Services Clinic. HEAL and Esperanza Center also collaborate on psychosocial programming, such as support groups unaccompanied immigrant youth.
Asylee Women Enterprise
As HEAL’s newest formal partner, AWE leads RISE, a wraparound case management program for survivors of torture living in Maryland, and Steps to Success, a social engagement program for foreign-born youth and young adult survivors of trafficking. HEAL provides physical and mental health services to clients of the RISE program, as well as oversight of the program’s health services. HEAL facilitates psychoeducation and support groups for youth and young adult participants in the Steps to Success program.
Loyola University
Maryland
Loyola University Maryland (LUM) supports HEAL through programmatic and personnel support. LUM faculty and students lead HEAL’s mental health portfolio through direct service, training, program development, and research. HEAL primarily operates out of the School of Education, its CACREP-accredited School Counseling Program, and the Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice. HEAL also partners with the wider Loyola community, such as the Loyola Clinical Centers based in Belvedere Square.