The Community Model
Community Resilience Model (CRM)
The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) trains community members to not only help
themselves but to help others within their wider social network. The primary focus of this
skills-based, stabilization program is to re-set the natural balance of the nervous system.
Help adults and children learn to track their own nervous systems in order to bring the body,
mind and spirit back into greater balance” all while encouraging clients to share their
newfound skills with their friends, family, and peers.
There are 6 skills in community resilience model
1. Tracking
- Tracking is the foundation for helping stabilize the nervous system.
- Tracking is noticing or paying attention to sensations, to what is happening inside the
body in the present moment.
2. Resourcing
- Is any person, place, thing, memory or part of yourself that makes you feel calm,
pleasant, peaceful, strong or resilient.
- Can be real or imagined
- Can be internal or external
3. Grounding
- The direct contact of the body or part of the body that provides support in the present
moment.
4. Gesturing and Spontaneous Movements
- A movement usually of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea,
sentiment, or attitude.
- Movements & gestures made below conscious, or attitude.
- The use of motions of the limbs or body as means of expression.
5. Help Now!
- Or reset now!
6. Shift and Stay
- Shift to resource, grounding, help now!, gesture pleasant or neutral sensation
Roles or Function
CRM’s goal is to help to create “trauma-informed” and “resiliency-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.
Trauma Informed Care
Trauma-informed care shifts the focus from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to
you?” A trauma-informed approach to care acknowledges that health care organizations and
care teams need to have a complete picture of a patient’s life situation ‘‘past and present” in
order to provide effective health care services with a healing orientation.
Adopting trauma-informed practices can potentially improve patient engagement, treatment
adherence, and health outcomes, as well as provider and staff wellness.
It can also help reduce avoidable care and excess costs for both the health care and social
service sectors.
Trauma-informed care seeks to:
Realize the widespread impact of trauma and understand paths for recovery;
Recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma in patients, families, and staff;
Integrate knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices; and
Actively avoid re-traumatization
Core principles of a trauma-informed approach to care that are necessary to transform a health
care setting
Safety
Throughout the organization, patients and staff feel physically and psychologically safe
Trustworthiness + Transparency
1Decisions are made with transparency, and with the goal of building and maintaining trust
Peer Support
Individuals with shared experiences are integrated into the organization and viewed as
integral to service delivery
Collaboration
Power differences — between staff and clients and among organizational staff — are leveled
to support shared decision-making
Empowerment
Patient and staff strengths are recognized, built on, and validated — this includes a belief in resilience
and the ability to heal from trauma
Humility + Responsiveness
Biases and stereotypes (e.g., based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, geography) and
historical trauma are recognized and addressed
