Trauma and Resiliency Resources
Our mission is to end veteran and active-duty military suicides.
FOR VETERANS
Something you did downrange still bother you? Maybe it’s Moral Injury, not PTSD. Warrior Camp® is designed to repair Moral Injury – free for Combat Veterans of all eras.
FOR DONORS
Your support may save a combat veteran’s life. Here’s how to enable TRR to build a permanent place for healing and community.
FOR PROFESSIONALS
Think your veteran clients might have Moral Injury but aren’t sure how to address it? TRR provides training, research, and educational resources for clinicians, veteran advocates, and mental health professionals.
More veterans have been lost to suicide than in combat operations in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan – combined.
When even one of our nation’s warfighters dies by suicide, our nation and communities are inalterably diminished. TRR is committed to helping our nation’s war fighters repair the injuries of their service because their lives matter to all of us. As one of the participants in Warrior Camp® said, ‘We deserve life.’
At TRR, we wholeheartedly agree.
How TRR Makes a Difference
THE FARM
Become Part of TRR’s Mission to Heal
With your help, we’ll build sustainable infrastructure, host life-changing programs, and give back to those who have sacrificed so much. Please consider donating to help us create a place of healing, growth, and community.
WARRIOR CAMP®
TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS
Who We Are
TRR is a leader in re-defining Military Moral Injury as distinct from PTSD and highlighting that MMI is not a disorder that requires treatment, but rather a very human response to having violated a core value or moral code. We seek to avoid pathologizing having a conscience.
Our approach is innovative and unique. Military personnel train, live and go to war as a group, not as individuals. TRR has learned that effective and lasting repair of MMI must be done in a group context while simultaneously working with the individual in one-on-one therapy. We have conducted suicide prevention programs for combat veterans for 13 years through our Warrior Camp® program – with a 99.6% survival rate. Our program works.
We work with active military and combat veterans of ALL eras.
Would I recommend Warrior Camp to other veterans living with PTSD and moral injury? Absolutely! I already have! Would I advocate for supporting TRR and its inimitable approach to healing our nation’s heroes? Enthusiastically and without reservation.
– From a Veteran
From the Journal of Military Medicine
Leading the field in Military Moral Injury© repair with impressive and consistent results: 99.6% post-program survival rate 99% program completion rate. Data from the first nine programs published by the Journal of Military Medicine in 2018. Data from 19 iterations has been evaluated and is consistent with the original data. Our mission is very clear: We WILL end Active Military and Veteran Suicides.
Abstract
Effective treatments for combat trauma in military service members exist, but barriers to care abound, including poor access, stigma, and dropout. Although the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be severe, recovery is possible when proper treatment is implemented. Trauma and Resiliency Resources, Inc.’s Warrior Camp (WC) program is designed to address the effects of combat trauma in military service members and veterans. This intensive, 7-d treatment incorporates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, equine-assisted psychotherapy, yoga, and narrative writing in context of community. This single-group pretest–posttest design included paired t-tests and effect size analyses for 85 participants of WC. Outcome measures included the Mississippi Scale for Combat-related PTSD, the Patient Health Questionnaire, the Revised Adult Attachment Scales, and the Moral Injury Events Scale. Clinician-administered measures included the Davidson Trauma Scale and the Dissociative Experiences Scale. All measures showed statistically significant reductions in distress. The effect sizes ranged from small to large. Results suggest that WC participants experienced significant improvement in PTSD, depression, moral injury, dissociation and adult attachment. Clinicians should consider the potential benefits of this short-term, intensive treatment when addressing combat-related PTSD among military service members and veterans. full article
How You Can Help
The Need is Urgent:
And your financial support is critical.
Military families understand the risk that they may lose their loved ones while they are in combat operations. But – no one should accept the fact that we are more likely to lose a loved one to suicide than to combat because of their service.
How Your Contribution Can Help
- $22 – To honor the 22 Veterans we lose each day to suicide.
- $225 – Original Oil Painting by Maryanne Buschini
- $1,250 – The cost of lunch every day at Warrior Camp®
- $5,000 – The cost of one Veteran’s week at Warrior Camp®
TRR, Inc. is a long-standing and respected member of the Hudson Valley Veteran Task Force. We are fortunate and honored to have a program of this caliber in our community. No veteran should ever suffer from PTSD. Help is available.
Facilitator/Joseph P Dwyer Vet2Vet Program