June Lunch & Learn: CRM Skills for Community Healing After Crisis

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)®

Disasters devastate a community’s infrastructure and create significant mental health challenges for children, teens, and adults. Communities can offer disaster-informed interventions—not only during the immediate crisis but throughout the long-term recovery process.  Elaine Miller-Karas and Michael Sapp from the Trauma Resource Institute will discuss how the skills and concepts of the Community Resiliency Model can be applied to support recovery and healing during and after disasters. Grounded in neuroscience, the biologically based wellness skills help restore balance to the mind, body, and spirit.  CRM’s goal is to help create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-informed and -focused” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of trauma and chronic stress on the nervous system and how resiliency can be restored or increased using this skills-based approach.

Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, is the co-founder and the Executive Director Emeriti of the Trauma Resource Institute. She developed the Trauma…