First Light Celebration - 2005 Award Recipients
The Trevor Bartram Award is given to individuals who have made a significant achievement in organizational development, particularly in setting up new community based organizations, consistent with the human rights mandate of CCVT having experience in developing programs and policies, structures and success with funding initiatives.
2005 Trevor Bartram Award Recipient— Raul Berdichevsky
Arriving from Chile to Canada in 1973 as an asylum seeker, Raul Berdichevsky complete a residency program in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and was granted a specialist certificate the same year.
Raul Berdichevsky has been involved in the development of CCVT since its inception. He helped to establish the mission statement of the agency,
has acted as clinical consultant, contributed with resource educational material and was a member of the Health Committee.
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The Amina Malko Award is given to a woman with refugee experience who has significant experience in policy, advocacy and settlement service for newcomers.
2005 Amina Malko Award Recipient— Jill Blakeney
Dr. Jill Blakeney has been affiliated with CCVT since the mid 1980’s. She has been an active participitant of diverse activities at the CCVT. She has been an enthusiastic member of the Health Committee, the Health Network and the Board of Directors. She has initiated and contributed to the development of the “CCVT Guidelines for Medical Legal Documentation of Torture Survivors” which have been instrumental in the training of newly recruited CCVT physicians and lawyers.
Among all the great contributions of Dr. Blakeney, the greatest to be mentioned is the development of the guidelines for the mutual support group which was first implemented with the Somali women survivors at CCVT and has been widely used since.
