NCBI Switzerland: Low-Threshold Support for Traumatized Refugees
Bridge Builders and Trauma
Specially trained "bridge builders" are a key component of the project. These are successfully integrated refugees who support clients in their native language. They help foster orientation and motivation, facilitate access to essential resources and strengthen clients' ability to manage everyday life independently. At the same time, their involvement reduces the workload of therapists and existing support services.
The project is based on an innovative, interdisciplinary collaboration between psychiatry and social integration. This hybrid-funded cooperative model reduces post-migratory stressors, promotes psychological stabilization and strengthens refugees’ participation in society.
As a result, participants gain access not only to psychotherapy but also to culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate support that fosters their integration and capacity for self-management in the long term.
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Project Contribution
The Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation is supporting NCBI for the first time with CHF 290,000. The funding period begins in July 2026 with a duration of three years.
You will find further project information on the NCBI-Website.
Photos courtesy of Janina Böttger.
