Healing guided by neuroscience
We nurture the conditions for survivors to grow into their fullest potential
Why neuroscience
The model — two phases, defined by the justice process
Our support stretches across a lifetime and responds to the needs of each stage of life.
Phase 1 · During
Acute transdisciplinary support throughout the criminal justice process — the months when a child is most exposed.
Phase 2 · After
Long-term support after the process ends: lifelong access to programs as survivors rebuild their proyecto de vida, grow into new dreams, and support one another.
The six areas of service
Purely academic organizations hold the science without the practice. Purely operational ones hold the practice without the science. No one else holds all three together, with lived experience at the center.
Personal healing
Rediscovering inner strength, regaining hope, activating their own resilience
Political participation
Survivors as political subjects in decisions about prevention, healing and justice — not as passive recipients
Economic independence
Financial literacy, vocational training, and support to find work or start a small business
Education
Free after-school classes, tutoring, university support and funding for higher education
Family therapy and healing communities
Healing placed in everyday relationships, not confined to a therapist's office
The judicial process
Walking through the courts accompanied, never alone
There is no healing at the margin of the law.
A properly handled judicial process lets a child exercise her rights and have her voice heard, validated and respected — as the leading actor in her own case. Handled badly, it becomes a second harm.
What it produces
98%
of survivors receiving our academic support complete high school
90%
of those graduates go on to higher or technical education
And the measures that matter most: a child who sleeps through the night, eats well, returns to school, rebuilds trust, and lives protected.
For professionals — our theoretical foundations
+Academic influences · 18
Peter Levine and Bessel van der Kolk (somatic healing) · Stephen Porges and Deb Dana (polyvagal theory) · David Emerson (trauma-informed yoga) · Diane Poole Heller (attachment) · Jon Kabat-Zinn (MBSR) · Gabor Maté · Guy Diamond, Gary Diamond and Suzanne Levy (attachment-based family therapy) · Judith Herman · Daniel Siegel · Ross Greene · Rachel Yehuda (epigenetics) · Richard Schwartz (IFS) · Bruce Perry and José Miguel De Angulo · Ronald Siegel
Therapeutic modalities · 15
Relational therapy and corrective attachment · recovery of traditional health practices · internal family systems · family systemic therapy · sand play · psychoeducation · self-help groups · group therapy · social rehabilitation and occupational therapy · trauma-focused CBT · trauma-focused play therapy · limbic-approach therapies · somatic therapies (mindfulness, dance, yoga, music, art, play) · compassionate self-inquiry · sociodramas