ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a psychosocial program for Sierra Leonean refugees living in camps in Guinea as it has developed over the past two and a half years. The goal of the project is two-fold: to provide a mental health intervention and to train refugees to become peer-counselors and mental health resources in their own communities. The program is, by design, a work in progress. It represents a collaboration between the Center for Victims of Torture staff and the Sierra Leonean refugee community with whom we work in Guinea. The program may best be viewed as the first step of a process that hopefully will have a lasting impact on the post-war recovery of Sierra Leone.
