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The Trauma Resource Institute (TRI) is a nonprofit corporation. The Trauma Resource Institute vision is to create resiliency informed and trauma informed individuals and communities. Its mission is to take people from despair to hope through simple skills-based interventions based on cutting edge research about the brain and to expand access to treatment by training the frontline service providers and responders who do the hardest work with the least resources. TRI builds local capacity in diverse communities nationally and internationally so each may develop trauma resolution strategies that respond to their unique culture needs. TRI has a strong commitment to teach wellness skills to community members including veterans, active duty military and their families that promote resiliency and thus, well-being.

The Trauma Resource Institute conducts worldwide trainings in the Trauma Resiliency Model and the Community Resiliency Model. TRI is directed by one of its co-founders, Elaine Miller-Karas, a licensed clinical social worker. TRI has conducted trainings in Kenya, Rwanda, China, Haiti and many parts of the United States. In 2011 the US Department of Defense named the Trauma Resiliency Model a promising practice. TRI is in the process of completing a multi-year project funded the Mental Health Services Act in its Community Resiliency Model. Stakeholders representing underserved communities have been trained and evaluation is being completed to determine the effectiveness of the training. TRI also just completed a project funded by the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in Haiti. This project was completed in July 2012 and has resulted in over 60 TRM, Community Reslilency Model Trainers in Port au Prince and the Central Plateau in Haiti.