Consultation and Training

Trauma Specific Services

The Trauma Recovery & Empowerment Models for Women, Men, and Adolescent Girls (TREM, M-TREM, and G-TREM))

Clinicians and consumers at Community Connections designed and developed TREM, a comprehensive group intervention designed to address issues of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse in the lives of women who have been economically and socially marginalized and for whom traditional recovery work has been unavailable or ineffective. TREM is a 33 session intervention which uses a psycho-educational and skill building approach. TREM emphasizes survivor empowerment and peer support, teaches techniques for self-soothing and boundary maintenance and supports current problem solving.

TREM has been published in a “how-to” manualized format for group leaders. TREM has also been adapted in a self-help workbook format for women entitled, Healing the Trauma of Abuse. Separate versions of TREM also exist for male survivors and for adolescent girls.

Training is available for clinicians in the use of several group treatment interventions:

• Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model for Women
• Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model for Male Survivors
• Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model for Adolescent Girls

• Clinicians already doing trauma recovery work
• Clinicians who plan on doing recovery work and want a step-by-step guide for group work
• Clinicians in mental health, substance abuse, prisons, and welfare to work programs who recognize the impact of trauma in the lives of people they serve.

• Residential, rape crisis, or hot-line counselors working with trauma survivors
• New professionals in the mental health, substance abuse, and family court systems who want an intensive course in understanding the impact of trauma .

Please choose from one of the other special research topics:

• Trauma Training and Consultation Services Schedule of Events
• TREM Bulletin
• Trauma Informed Services
• Training Videos