Meeting the complex needs created by trauma through systems change

Trust-Based Relational Intervention® or TBRI® is a powerful, evidence-based tool that equips individuals, organizations, communities, and systems to offer hope and healing to those who have experienced trauma. The TBRI® Georgia Collaborative is committed to equipping our state to be trauma-responsive through TBRI, in order to meet the complex needs of Georgia’s children and families. Our goal is that all who encounter children and adults from trauma are equipped with the lens, compassion, and skills to promote deep healing. This requires that caregivers and individuals in all sectors of our communities understand and have compassion for the negative impact of trauma on brain, body, biology, beliefs, and behavior and be equipped to practice the connecting, empowering, and correcting principles of TBRI that offer healing strategies. It also requires that trauma-responsive strategies are inherent in the policies and practices of state agencies and family-serving organizations that impact Georgia’s children and families.

The TBRI GA Collaborative is composed of trained TBRI Practitioners and practicing organizations immersed in child and family welfare, behavioral health, schools and after-school programs, residential care, law enforcement, courts, medical care, churches, etc. Trained Practitioners assist individuals and organizations with the Exploration of TBRI®, Immersion work that leads to the Implementation of TBRI Principles, and Extension to partners within their sector.