RISE - Refugee Integration & Self-Empowerment
The RISE intervention was launched in the US to assist Bhutanese refugees in Atlanta to handle high levels of trauma and stress associated with refugee migration and resettlement in a different cultural and physical environment.
RISE in Australia
Though IMHS (International Medical Health Services) and Serco Australia, IAHV delivered several interventions at the purpose built Yongah Hill Immigration Detention centre in Northam, Western Australia.
Intervention participants were refugees who had undertaken perilous journeys by land and sea. These individuals were from many countries with different cultures, religions and languages.
They had left their families either as economic refugees hoping to resettle for future prosperity, or to escape torture and danger to their person in their countries of origin due to politics or genocide.