About the Trauma & Resilience Initiative
What is TRI?
The Trauma & Resilience Initiative (TRI) aims to create equitable, just, and loving communities where everyone is cared for, connected, supported, and healthy. We believe this begins with understanding trauma and resilience. We are committed to advocating for trauma-informed policies and providing communities with culturally responsive, strength-based tools to support each other. Our long-term goal is to build a community care model so impactful that it can be adopted by other communities, ensuring that everyone, everywhere, has the opportunity to be emotionally, mentally, and physically well.
Our Focus
As the nonprofit arm of our organization, all of our programs are offered free of charge to make healing accessible to everyone. Our work is built on three pillars:
- Community Healing & Engagement: We deliver wellness directly to the community through a weekly newsletter, awareness campaigns, and intern-led initiatives that highlight trauma-informed care as a normal part of daily life.
- Support for Helpers (Provider Support): We support those who care for others by offering free workshops and support series—such as Healing the Helper and The Third Space for LGBTQ+ providers—to address the specific stress and vicarious trauma faced by human services professionals.
- Support for Under-Resourced Organizations: We believe every organization should have the tools to be trauma-informed. TRI offers free training, technical assistance, and consultation to community groups and organizations that typically cannot afford it.
What Separates TRI from TRU?
To better serve our community, we operate through two parallel tracks with distinct missions. This clarity allows us to maximize our impact.
- TRI (Trauma & Resilience Initiative) is our nonprofit, community-focused branch. Its sole goal is community healing and access. All programs under TRI are offered free of charge to individuals and under-resourced groups, ensuring that cost is never a barrier to care.
- TRU is our revenue-generating branch. It focuses on paid training, workshops, and organizational services for institutions. The revenue from TRU directly supports and sustains the free community programs provided by TRI.
In short: TRI offers free healing services to the community, while TRU provides paid training for organizations—and together, they support a shared mission.