About Us
Our Impact
With a track record spanning more than two decades, we have provided an array of resources, training initiatives, and services, all geared toward bolstering the mental and physical health of those engaged in high-stress and trauma-exposed environments.
Through strategic partnerships and collaboration with local entities and individuals, we actively cultivate sustainable solutions that foster self-reliance and drive enduring, positive transformations.
Client Stories
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international humanitarian agency, providing assistance to 130 million people in more than 110 countries and territories. With such a large service area, their team members face a variety of challenges to their resilience.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international humanitarian agency, providing assistance to 130 million people in more than 110 countries and territories. Responding to the emerging refugee crisis from the Syrian civil war in 2015, CRS began a cash assistance and housing program in Greece. Since December 2016, CRS has worked with 62,455 persons of concern in Greece. Their project has exposed staff members to vicarious trauma, chronic stress, and the logistic difficulties that come with implementing and managing complex housing and relief programs.
How We Helped:
We’ve worked with CRS since 2010, and we know and believe in their work. After talking with regional leadership, we provided in-person training workshops to 350 staff in three different cities. Workshops addressed understanding and managing chronic stress and vicarious trauma, as well as management science and how to assist impaired or distressed employees. These workshops were uniquely tailored to address the context-specific needs of CRS workers, and incorporated the latest psychological research to offer practical solutions and interventions.
Heart to Heart International is a medical disaster response organization that reached out to Headington Institute after hearing about our work with another medical NGO.
Heart to Heart International is a medical disaster response organization that reached out to Headington Institute after hearing about our work with another medical NGO. Heart to Heart works in over 60 different countries, with over 10,000 volunteer members in 2017, and they are currently responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite staff exposure to trauma from disaster responses and the wide scope of their work, staff members and volunteers had no formal sources of psychological support.
How We Helped:
Headington clinicians provided post deployment consultations and debriefs for staff members, including comprehensive resilience assessments and 4-6 optional counseling sessions each. In addition, the Institute also provided critical incident support through 8-12 counseling support sessions immediately for any staff member that experienced a critical incident. Heart to Heart staff members greatly appreciated the ability and opportunity to reflect after a difficult assignment on various protective factors, as well as what they found meaningful on the assignment. The Institute’s resilience assessments were found to be helpful due to their comprehensiveness to help staff members consider different perspectives and ways to contribute to their resilience.
San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health is located less than 50 miles from Headington HQ. They provide necessary and ongoing community mental health support.
San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health is located less than 50 miles from Headington HQ. They provide necessary and ongoing community mental health support. In 2015 their offices were the site of one of the deadliest mass casualty shootings in US History.
How We Helped:
Headington Institute clinicians provided both team training workshops and direct support for directors at the department in the aftermath. Over 300 responders, liaisons, deputy directors, and clinical and administrative staff received training on stress and resilience, trauma and how to recover healthily, and resilience management. Deputy directors also received comprehensive resilience assessments and optional supportive consultations to facilitate healthy recovery from this traumatic incident.
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Over the last 20 years, we’ve accomplished a lot:
Headington Institute has worked in over 146 countries.
