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Mary P. Black, MS, OTR/L

Occupational Therapist
Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Mary Black is an Occupational Therapist working at the Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center since 1995. The Kovler Center is a community- based treatment center providing healing for survivors of politically sanctioned torture who represent over 60 nations. The survivors at the Marjorie Kovler Center are primarily asylum seekers but also refugees and unaccompanied minors who all have experienced turbulent migration. Mary assesses the everyday skills, strengths and interest’s survivors bring from their home countries, mindful of the adaptations needed to perform everyday activities in new unfamiliar environments. Individual and group OT interventions are designed to maximize survivor skills, roles and interests and support re-establishment of safety, dignity, and social networks, promoting collective cultural, as well as individual self-expression.

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