Center for Victims of Torture

The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) exists to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families, and communities and to stop its practice. CVT works locally, nationally, and internationally to build healing communities where torture survivors feel welcomed, protected and healed. CVT fulfills its mission by providing services directly to torture survivors, by training health, education and human services professionals, through research on the effects of torture and on effective treatment methods, and through advocacy and public policy initiatives.