Anti-Discrimination Policy
Trust-Based Relational Intervention® is an evidence-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of individuals who have experienced relational trauma. TBRI® has three sets of principles: Empowering Principles for meeting self-regulation needs, Connecting Principles for meeting relational needs and Correcting Principles for meeting fear-based behavior needs. Because TBRI is a principles-based approach, grounded in attachment and neuroscience research, it is effective across cultures in virtually any community or system of care and practice.
While TBRI was originally used in adoptive families, it is important to note that it is currently being used worldwide in settings such as, but not limited to:
- Residential treatment facilities
- Institutional care (orphanages)
- Courts
- Schools
- Care communities for survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation
- Juvenile justice
- Biological families
- Law enforcement
- Child welfare
- Foster care
Because TBRI is designed to meet the basic need of connection shared by all humans, it is truly for everyone. In particular, we believe that TBRI can, and should, be applied regardless of any person’s age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ethnic origin, disability or any other basis. TBRI is not a faith-based intervention, and we invite anyone serving children, regardless of their religious affiliation, to explore TBRI as a path to healing.
To read more about the Institute’s stance on discrimination, please visit the TCU Title IX website.