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In 1995 it established the internationally endorsed International School for Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Group Leadership, and was admitted as the first non-American member of the Consortium of Diversified Psychology Programs in 1996. Of the 100+ phone crisis line and drop-in centers currently operating in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Harmony has directly trained staff and assisted in establishing more than half. Its staff of over 40 professionals provide comprehensive psychotherapeutic services, as well as free hotline and emergency crisis intervention services, to all age groups in St. Petersburg.

In addition to providing ongoing professional training workshops of their own spanning the entire Former Soviet Union, it has been responsible for sponsoring more than 250 workshops over the past 8 years by professionals from the US, Canada, Israel, and Western Europe.

Harmony is one of the primary founders and sponsors of the St. Petersburg Association for Humanistic Psychology, and the Russian Association of Telephonic Emergency Services. It assisted in establishing and sponsoring the Alcoholics Anonymous movement in St. Petersburg, and actively collaborates with the Russian Children's Fund on projects. Harmony collaborated in establishing and now co-sponsors the annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution with Common Bond Institute, and co-sponsors an annual International Creative Arts Therapy conference. In August 1998 it will co-sponsor an International Conference on Global Psychology & Trans-cultural Dialogue with the Common Bond Institute.

The HARP programme is a complex organisation of people working together across health, local government and higher education committed to social inclusion through access to online information. We are also networked with practitioners, planners and managers in a variety of operational and policy settings. The HARP team are experienced in effective portal research, development and delivery.

HARP has its own steering committee based at the University of East London. It also works within the Home Office NRIF Health and Social Care sub committee, THE LGA steering group on special needs, the Association of Directors of Social Services special group on asylum, The mental health special project steering group based at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of torture, Asylum seekers and sexual health steering group (National Centre for HIV and Sexual Health). HARP is represented on the East of England Regional Health group for Asylum Seekers and Refugees and takes a lead role on a variety of topics and policy development through the National Consortia Co-ordinating Group.

Today, as part of Hartford Hospital, it is one of America's leading not-for-profit centers for comprehensive patient care, research and education in the fields of behavioral, psychiatric, and addiction disorders.

It is a research center and an action center. Its method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study and publish. Its mode is entrepreneurial, non-profit. Its goal is to bring knowledge to the world.

Programs include:

• Telepsychiatry
• Quality Improvement
• Center for Behavior Change (adherence and compliance, lifestyle modification)
• Program on Internet and Behavior
• Harvard Algorithm Project
• Disease Management