MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT
TRiM
Trauma Risk Management
(Practitioner Course/Manager Course)
What is TRiM?
Trauma Risk Management (TRiM) is a peer-led framework for supporting employees after potentially traumatic events. Originally developed in the military, TRiM helps organisations of all types:
• Spot early signs of trauma
• Provide immediate peer support
• Reduce long-term mental health impacts
• Promote recovery, resilience, and psychological safety
TRiM isn’t therapy. It’s about equipping the right people in your organisation with the skills and structure to respond supportively and effectively when trauma happens.
Why Invest in Trauma Response Training?
Trauma can affect anyone — from witnessing an accident, experiencing violence, or facing repeated high-stress situations. And its impact doesn’t stop with the individual. Left unaddressed, trauma can ripple through teams and cultures, undermining morale, performance, and retention.
TRiM helps your organisation:
• Support affected employees with care and confidence
• Reduce the risk of burnout in both staff and managers
• Improve team resilience, cohesion, and crisis response
• Build a culture where employees feel safe, seen, and supported
“This course gave me practical tools I can actually use. It’s been the most valuable training I’ve done in years.”
— TRiM Practitioner attendee
Our TRiM Courses
We offer two levels of TRiM training, both delivered by expert facilitators with real-world trauma response experience in military, emergency services, and civilian sectors.
Feedback from attendees
“The best course I have attended in the last 10 years.”
“The whole course was excellent in terms of aspects and contents. A good balance between presentation and practical session, and good interaction, despite having to deliver online.”
“Very relaxed, the subject matter was explained in detail and we got a chance to practice what we had learned.”
“All of the training was really detailed and provided me with a full in depth knowledge of the course. This will help me deal with any incidents where I have to support moving forward.”
“The course content and the role play over Zoom worked really well.”
“Both trainers were excellent and had a very pleasing and natural way of putting over a training programme that was both complex and demanding. And the trainers gave plenty of time to all delegates for interactive play and asking questions.”
TRiM Practitioner Course Overview
Our two day TRiM Practitioner course provides you with the practitioner skills to be able to understand the characteristics of traumatic events and conduct structured risk assessments to facilitate early intervention as well as provide ongoing support to colleagues and peers.
Duration – 2 days
The TRiM Practitioner course covers the following:
- Characteristics of traumatic events
- Site management
- Trauma Psychology
- Risk factors for traumatic stress
- Active listening
- Filtering events and planning
- Practical risk assessment
- Providing post incident stress education briefs
- Documentation and recording
TRiM Manager Course Overview
TRiM Managers are initially trained for the first 2 days at Practitioner level. The TriM Manager Course is then extended by an extra day to enable candidates to effectively implement the TRiM policy and to co-ordinate the response, including allocating practitioners and carrying out Tactical Incident Briefings. Candidates will gain the supervisory skills to ensure practitioner welfare and the application of suitable post-incident management strategies for staff involved in traumatic events.
When notified of an incident, the TRiM Manager Course ensures that there is a coherent, considered approach to the organisation’s response and that management and supporting departments are involved. TRiM Managers will also be taught how to supervise TRiM practitioners as managing their welfare and support is crucial.
Course Facts
100% of our course delegates would recommend our TRiM training courses to colleagues
100% of our course delegates rated our trainer as ‘very good’
100% of our course delegates said their confidence and knowledge in this area had improved following completion of the TRiM course.
TRiM is fully compliant with the traumatic stress management guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Our TRiM courses are delivered by highly-skilled, industry experts with real-world experience in trauma management
Duration – 3 days
Why Choose Resilient People?
- ✔ Delivered by expert trainers with frontline trauma experience
- ✔ Fully aligned with NICE guidelines on trauma and stress management
- ✔ Trusted by organisations in construction, transport, housing, government, and more
- ✔ Online and in-person options available
- ✔ Ongoing support after training: refresher sessions, toolkits, consultancy
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