Elaine Miller-Karas is an author, advocate, social worker, trauma therapist, radio show host, co-founder of an international organization, The Trauma Resource Institute and key developer of the Community and Trauma Resiliency Models. In January of 2021, she has launched a radio show, Resiliency Within, Building Resiliency during Unprecedented Times on VoiceAmerica's Health and Wellness Channel.
She is the author of Building Resiliency to Trauma, the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models® (2015). She is committed to bringing accessible and affordable interventions based on neuroscience and the biology of the human nervous system to our world's community. Her models have been introduced to over 102 countries.
She is a recognized international speaker and has presented at the Skoll World Forum at Oxford University and the United Nations. Elaine’s book was selected by the United Nations curated on-line library as one of the innovations that can help meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Elaine feels passionately about the impact of climate change on our world community. She is a founding member of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition, an organization focused on healing the trauma connected to climate change.
Elaine is dedicated to the world's children and she has worked with collaborators to develop interventions for children, parents and teachers to help reduce the impact of trauma. She is often asked to present her models to ACES Connection. She is a Senior Consultant to Emory University’s SEE Learning program, inspired and launched by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 2019, building compassionate and ethical curriculum to the world's children K-12.
