Category: TRN® & Training Stories

TRN Associations Continue their Efforts to Bring Community Healing in the Wake of Mass Violence

The Trauma Recovery Network (TRN) grew out of the HAP tradition to bring mental health clinicians with evidence-based therapy to the scene of disasters. Over time and with experience, a comprehensive program of preparation, mitigation, rescue, and response has been developed so that hundreds of skilled volunteer clinicians can serve their communities...

MI-Tri County TRN Supports the Oxford High School Community

TRN Fosters Community Healing in the Wake of the Oxford School Shooting November 30, 2021 is a day that forever changed the community of Oxford Township, MI with a mass shooting at Oxford High School that claimed the lives of four people and injured many more. Right away, members of the MI-Tri County TRN knew they wanted to respond and address the...

Celebrating National Volunteer Week

Each year, Trauma Recovery, EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs (Trauma Recovery/HAP) joins the nationwide celebration of volunteers during National Volunteer Week, a time to recognize the valuable contributions volunteers make in their communities and with the organizations they serve. This year’s celebration takes place the week of April 17-23,...

Rescue workers and clean up crews pictures with American flag at ground zero. Image by WikiImages from Pixabay

20 Years: Reflecting on Our 9/11 Disaster Response Efforts

Enormous energy…Cooperative effort…Outpouring of help…Adrenalized…Amazing to witness…Transformative… These are just a few of the words and phrases used by Trauma Recovery/HAP volunteers and former staff when asked to reflect on our disaster response following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Even after 20 years, the overwhelming...

Building Capacity and Strengthening our Network

In early June, Trauma Recovery/HAP organized its first virtual meeting of the Trauma Recovery Network Association Coordinators and Approved Consultants. The meeting was well attended with over 30 participants and is the first of many upcoming quarterly meetings established to help build a stronger community of dedicated volunteers. Members were eager...

Colorful homes along the water in Monterey, CA.

Welcome TRN Association of Monterey Bay

During the final week of March 2021, we expanded our Trauma Recovery Network (TRN) with the inauguration of the TRN Association of Monterey Bay. This new network serves the counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz, California. The mission of the TRN Association of Monterey Bay is to assist their diverse community members in times of emergency, with pro...

Success Story Video: Parkland Florida

There are TRN’s all over the country responding to community disasters.

Norcal TRN® Brings Trauma Recovery To The Camp Fire Victims

TRN Mobilization Delivers Results The NorCal TRN has begun to wind up its emergency response to treat Camp Fire victims. The results of their heroic and selfless efforts are amazing. The TRN served over 500 Camp Fire survivors. They documented forty-eight percent of participants noting a reduction of symptoms after the sessions. Sixty-four percent...

Training Florida Keys

One TRN Organizer’s Story Until you’ve lived it, smelled everything rotting out on the road, lost everything, and seen the suffering of everyone you know, you cannot fully understand the trauma that devastation and loss from Hurricane Irma left on the Florida Keys community, “ says Sarah Brawer, Counselor, MA, CAP, LMHC and coordinator of the new...

Trauma Recovery and Resilience for Separated Immigrant Families in the Borderlands

Trauma recovery and resilience has been building at the El Paso, Texas, – Juarez border for years. In 2008-2009, long time mental health clinician Fabiola Ekleberry, LPC-S, NCC recognized a desperate need for informed trauma treatment in the El Paso community. El Paso is home to Fort Bliss, the largest installation of US Army Forces Command,...