Victim Service-The Trauma Resolution Center

Description

Victim Service- The Trauma Resolution Center is the one and only Trauma-Focused Community Mental Health Center operating in the United Sates. Our objective is to help our clients resolve the impact of traumatic incidents in a non-judgmental and safe environment utilizing a process called Traumatic Incident Resolution(TIR). TIR has been clinically proven to dramatically reduce the anxiety, depression and traumatic stress associated with trauma, allowing our clients to re-experience the quality of life they use to enjoy prior to the event. The TRC serves all types of people who have experienced traumatic events - such as rape, domestic violence, witnessing violence and/or murder, torture, kidnapping and numerous other types of human to human violence - in an integrated and empowering short-term series of group and individual sessions that specifically address trauma and the range of its mental health, substance abuse, and victimization related personal impacts.

A trauma services model termed "Traumatic Incident Resolution" (TIR) is used by TRC and applied to each staff member who completes the TIR process him or herself prior to beginning to counsel clients using the TIR model to accomplish trauma resolution. A host of the client's additional personal and life style issues related to the traumatic event(s) are also addressed by TRC staff through advocacy and case management. With a full time staff of 16 that treats approximately 800 clients per year, in addition to providing basic advocacy/case management services for over 800 more clients per year, the TRC is an extremely economical human services program model with tremendous bang for the buck. It is a very transformative approach to trauma services design and delivery that merits national attention and application in a wide variety of communities.