Two psychiatric professionals who donate their time to the CERI community are invited by the nonprofit once every month. The majority of the clients here are exiled Cambodians who fled the Pol Pot dictatorship.
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- CA, OAKLAND — The need for mental health care remains acute for Cambodians who have survived the trauma of the Khmer Rouge slaughter. Reaching those at risk in this refugee population is successful for one program in Oakland.
- Clinic Day at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, or CERI for short, in East Oakland is one illustration of it. Two psychiatric professionals who donate their time to the CERI community are invited by the nonprofit once every month. Pol Pot era survivors from Cambodia make up the majority of the clients in this establishment.
- According to Valerie Sous, a long-time client of CERI and a Cambodian refugee, "this location is like a place of shade, an oasis for Cambodians that require aid with the healing of the heart or other maladies."
- Since the institution's founding, about 20 years ago, Sous has visited CERI. She claims that CERI has aided countless others just like her. She says, "Our brothers and sisters who endured during the Khmer Rouge era, who still harbor terrifying memories of that era, and who are suffering from the recollections, experience terror - they have this place to come heal those who are heart sick."
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