Refugee Mental Healthcare
Dr. Hilado founded a mental health program for refugees – the RefugeeOne Wellness Program – to provide trauma-informed, culturally-responsive, and developmentally-appropriate mental healthcare from prevention to clinical treatment.
As the program’s Founding Director for over 11 years, she provided therapy to clients across the lifespan and developed, implemented and evaluated programs to support the mental wellbeing and adjustment of different arriving refugee newcomers that are still in operation today. The Refugee GROW Model, 4R Clinical Approach, and related theories of change were developed based on her field work; contributions to implementation science, community-driven program designs, and best practices of embedding mental healthcare in refugee resettlement programs.