Our Mission
Our mission is to promote the health and well-being of the world’s torture survivors. THRIVE’s innovative, evidence-based, and holistic services promote health, dignity, and self-sufficiency, and are guided by profound respect for the dignity and resiliency of our clients. Our services are driven by our clients’ needs and include individual and group therapy, psychiatry clinics, intensive case management, medical advocacy, mind body skills groups, wellness groups, art therapy, wilderness experiences, massage, occupational therapy, and wrap-around services for asylum seekers.
Our History
THRIVE Center for Survivors of Torture (formerly named Utah Health and Human Rights or UHHR) was founded in 2003 by Cynthia Willard, MD, MPH, in response to a limited understanding among medical service providers about the needs of torture survivors in Utah — specifically, how to recognize, assess, and care for survivors of torture within refugee, immigrant, and asylum-seeker communities. At that time, UHHR’s Medical Director, Mara Rabin, M.D., helped Dr. Willard keep UHHR open and running when Dr. Willard moved to California in 2004. Renamed THRIVE Center for Survivors of Torture in 2023, the organization's services have significantly grown since that time.
THRIVE is a member of the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs.