Chair of Trustees receives award and speaks of work with UN

Also in Montreal....

Chair of Trustees, Stuart Turner was awarded the Sarah Haley Memorial Award for Clinical Excellence.  This is an award given annually by the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS; see http://www.istss.org/) to a clinician or group of clinicians in direct service to traumatized individuals.  Previous winners include Medecins Sans Frontieres.

Stuart also spoke at the conference about his work this year with the United Nations.  ISTSS has Special Consultative Status with the United Nations and Stuart is one of the three ISTSS representatives who are taking this work forward.