The Problem: One billion people, a sixth of the world’s population, have directly experienced torture, terrorism or mass violence through civil war, ethnic cleansing or genocide. The victims are often left with lifelong mental disabilities preventing them from working, caring for their families, and leading productive lives. Untreated, the magnitude of the problem extends into the next generation and beyond.

The Solution: The solution is to create a sustainable, culturally effective mental healthcare system. Through expert professional training of indigenous caregivers, 80% of the victims of global terrorism and mass violence are returned to productive lives.

The Peter C. Alderman Foundation (PCAF): Foundation-trained doctors and Foundation-run clinics have reached over 50,000 people suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from terrorism and mass violence.

Foundation Key Programs:

The Peter C. Alderman Master Class, created in partnership with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, provides local caregivers in post-conflict countries with the tools to treat their victimized populations. To date, PCAF has trained 35 doctors from 12 countries on 4 continents.
Peter C. Alderman Mental Health Clinics are centers of excellence, which serve as a model for global replication. The first Peter C. Alderman Clinic opened in March 2005 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The second clinic in Soutr Nikum, Cambodia opened in 2006. The first of three clinics in Uganda was opened in Tororo in early 2007. 
The Foundation is building an internationally respected peer group of health professionals called the Peter C. Alderman International Society. The Society is influencing government policy makers to exert the political will to apply the economic resources to heal their traumatized populations. 

The Peter C. Alderman Foundation is named for Peter Alderman, who was murdered by terrorists on September 11, 2001 while attending a conference at the World Trade Center.  Peter was 25 years old. 
One billion people, a sixth of the world’s population, have directly experienced torture, terrorism or mass violence through civil war, ethnic cleansing or genocide.
 
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