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Our current fundraising goal is $40,000 to support our Internal Family Systems Research. See below for the specific ways in which your valuable contribution will support our work.
1) We would like to make IFS research results easily accessible through open access publication of our manuscripts. This generally costs around $3,500 to make each study accessible from the publisher to anyone online with a simple click. This helps increase the impact of IFS research on the field. It also makes it accessible to clinicians, therapists, counselors, and IFS practitioners who may not regularly have easy access to scientific databases or academic libraries. We currently have 3 papers that are ready to publish but we would like to publish them open access. We are hoping to raise $10,000 to support the publication of these 3 studies.
2) We have been granted the ability to conduct a neuroimaging pilot on the neural mechanisms of IFS, which we will conduct through the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion in collaboration with the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging associated with Harvard Medical School. While we have been donated scan time, which is the biggest cost, we need to raise money to support other costs for the pilot study to be able to run, so we can pay participants. It will cost $5,000 to run this pilot study.
3) We have started the PARTS service at CHA, which is implementing a true IFS-based clinical service for people with PTSD and complex PTSD. We would like to be able to improve the service, which could become a sustainable model for IFS in diverse community mental health centers. We would also like to develop materials to share the processes we have been developing at CHA so that the PARTS service could be implemented in other healthcare systems and community mental health centers more easily. We would like to support staff time to do this, which will cost $15,000 to get started.
4) We would like to support the development of a PARTS peer leader mentorship track that can provide training and mentorship for peer leaders who have completed the PARTS model and can then offer peer-support groups for people with PTSD and complex PTSD in their community after they complete the PARTS service clinical groups. This would cost $10,000 to support one peer leader a year.
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With your continued support, we are closer to a vision of becoming a vibrant center that cultivates mindfulness and compassion in patient care, healthcare provider and staff well-being, professional education, and research.