ITTP Name Change

After eleven years, the International Trauma Treatment Program has decided to change our name. After deliberating about it for the last three months, our board and staff have all agreed that International Network for Trauma Research and Education (INTRE) more accurately reflects our mission and purpose. All future publications and events will have the heading “INTRE” on them.

To all ITTP supporters:

Thank you for your patience while we revise and re-design our website. As you can imagine, working with our two visiting practitioners (Chester Clark from Liberia and Ivana Vidacovic from Serbia) is so interesting and informative that we are unlikely to get the new site up before 2010. In the meantime, please keep the following dates in mind:

November 9 @ 8:30–the Olympia Film Festival is showing the film “Hunger” as a fundraiser for ITTP. Please join us!

December 6: Our diploma award ceremony, refreshments, and silent auction at the Phoenix Inn. Stay tuned for further information.

Again, thank you for being part of ITTP’s efforts worldwide!

ITTP and John Van Eenwyn featured in The Olympian. Click here to read more… http://www.theolympian.com/living/story/663791.html

Please join us in welcoming our new students Marcia Boxhill and Shanthiepan Sivarajah to our city and to this, ITTP’s 10th program! The reception will take place at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 114 20th Ave SE
Olympia, WA 9850 – (360) 352-8527 From 3pm to 5pm. Refreshments will be served! Come and join us! If you have any questions, please call our office at: 352-2974.

On june 28 the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Psychologists will launch its Trauma Treatment Program to media outlets in Trinidad/Tobago (T&T) at a presentation and reception at the Advanced School of Nursing at the medical school here in T&T. So far, we have been interviewed by two of the three major newspapers in T&T. The program consists of nineteen practitioners who are pledged to donate 35 pro bono hours of direct services to individuals and groups referred through our contact number. Continue reading ‘Trauma Treatment Program in Trinidad’

Even as the Zimbabwe crisis worsens, an extraordinary solidarity movement
has taken hold across Southern Africa–sparked by a South African dock
workers’ union that refused to unload a Chinese shipment of
Zimbabwe-bound weapons.[1]

Continue reading ‘Update on Zimbabwe Crisis’

As the Program Director for ITTP, I thank you for your patience with the laxidasical updating of our website. Several things have occured since the graduation ceremony, and there are many things to inform you about!

Continue reading ‘What’s New at the ITTP?’

Reported by the ACLU

WASHINGTON – In a stunning admission to ABC news Friday night, President Bush declared that he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details of the CIA’s use of torture. Bush reportedly told ABC, “I’m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved.” Bush also defended the use of waterboarding. Continue reading ‘ACLU Calls for Independent Counsel to Investigate Administration’s Approval of Torture and Abuse’

President Says He Knew His Senior Advisers Discussed Tough Interrogation Methods
By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE
April 11, 2008

President Bush says he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News Friday. Continue reading ‘ABC News: Bush Aware of Advisers’ Interrogation Talks’

The ITTP welcomes you to join us for our Graduation ceremony celebrating the completion of the 2007 training program. We have been honored to host and work with two practitioners from Uganda, Osborn Omoding and Rita Ennu for the past three months. Please join with us as we celebrate their success, raise funds for ITTP, and have a lot of fun doing it.

At our celebration, we will be offering a selection of fine wines from local Olympic Wine Merchant, a dessert auction, silent auction, and Live Auction!

We will be gathering together Sunday Dec. 2nd at 5:30pm at the Phoenix Inn, Olympia, WA. For registration information, please contact Keylee at (360)352-2974 or email at ittpolympia@gmail.com