Unaccompanied migrant children (UMCs) face many challenges navigating the immigration, health, and social service systems in the U.S. alone. Drawing on years of experience through our Human Rights Clinic (HRC), HealthRight is recruiting and training medical and mental health providers who specialize in pediatrics and child development to provide child-friendly and trauma-informed forensic evaluations and needs assessments for UMCs who have fled torture, abuse, and neglect in their home countries.

Since 2014, HealthRight and our local partner the Ukraine Foundation for Public Health (UFPH) have worked to support the health and uphold the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing violence in the Eastern Ukraine. HealthRight trains and supports healthcare workers to address issues including gender-based violence (GBV) and torture among internally displaced men, women and children. HealthRight is also conducting critical research to document the substance use and sexual HIV risk behavior of displaced young adults from Kiev and Donetsk regions of Ukraine in pre-conflict, transitional, and camp settings, with the goal of identifying risk factors encountered in each setting.