The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® contains powerful skills for nervous system regulation that can be used anywhere and anytime.

CRM in Schools is a strengths-based, compassionate approach that is helping school staff and students re-connect to their bodies and understand new ways to support their well-being through nervous system regulation.

Since 2019, the Community Resiliency Model has been shared with thousands of educators and students, world-wide. Pro-active and preventative skills like resourcing, grounding, and the Help Now! strategies can be practiced daily as classroom routines, during class meetings and brain breaks, or at crucial moments like before a test or during conflict resolution.

Feedback from educators and students suggests that the CRM skills can improve students body literacy, self-compassion and sense of empathy towards others. Educators report feeling more resourced to manage the physical and emotional demands of their profession.

How can CRM be brought into schools in a way that supports teachers and students, rather than burdening them with "one more thing" to do.

How can CRM be integrated systemically so that the climate of school becomes a place that is welcoming to the educators and students "whole selves"?

Can schools truly become places where trauma-and-resiliency informed practices are understood and applied by everyone from the support staff, to the principal?

This episode with Lindy Settevendemie and Christa Tinari explores the use of CRM in school contexts and their insights about how CRM can support individuals and transform the learning environment.

What happens when a simple belief in the human capacity for healing grows into a worldwide movement? In this special 20th anniversary episode of Resiliency Within, host Elaine Miller-Karas reflects on the remarkable journey of the Trauma Resource Institute, the nonprofit she co-founded two decades ago, and on the evolution of the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM)® and Community Resiliency Model (CRM)®, for which she has been a key developer. Elaine shares the story of how a commitment to making the science of the nervous system understandable, practical, and accessible has expanded across cultures, professions, and communities around the world— Elaine speaks with a deep sense of gratitude and awe at how far the work has traveled and how many lives have been touched. She also looks toward the future, asking what may become possible when we understand resilience not simply as enduring hardship, but as the growing capacity for well-being, connection, agency, meaning, and hope. This is a celebration of an extraordinary milestone, but even more, it is a tribute to the people and communities who have made TRI's work their own—and an invitation to continue building a world in which the biology of resilience, human dignity, and our capacity to care for one another are understood as essential resources for healing and flourishing.