Services

Our Clients

CST serves clients from all over the world. So far, CST has seen clients from over 35 countries including those from Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. While they represent a multitude of languages, cultures, and diverse economic conditions, all have been through torture or severe mental traumas.

Many of the asylum seekers have fled their country under imminent threat of death. As they come to our country, they have lost their financial standing, family and friends, and their country and culture. Most are feeling helpless and hopeless. They find themselves in an alien land with a culture and values that are very different. Because our clients may be suffering from PTSD symptoms, flashbacks, depression, grief, hypersensitivity, nightmares, and other mental reactions to the torture, trauma, and loss of a normal life, they need a specialized, holistic mental health care treatment plan.

The Issue

Torture is a method to suppress dissent and obtain blind allegiance to tyrannical social and governmental systems. The goal is to psychologically, morally, and physically reduce the victim to a sub-human condition. Torture is not inhuman; It is anti-human.

Of the United Nations nearly 200 member nations, over two-thirds use torture either openly or tacitly to control their citizens. It is estimated that there are over 400,000 survivors of torture from around the world currently living in the United States.

Support Services

Many of our clients come with elementary physical needs such as food transportation, medical, legal, and English as a second language needs. A cooperative network of interlocking agencies has developed that transcends the bureaucracy. Communally, we attempt to strengthen communication and respond to the major needs of our clients.