What we are really about is grass roots. It’s past time that we the survivor community stood up and began to speak out and act. We all need to come together and find the power in all of us we should have had all along. 

South Florida Trauma Survivor Support Group — We are pleased to announce the formation of our first local trauma survivor support group in South Florida. Please take a moment to visit the site for further details! http://miami.traumasurvivor.org

Blog with Us — Email us with a request to get a blog set up. Just send us an email, you need not explain why’s or wherefores, if you’re a trauma survivor or want to write about trauma survivor issues, there is a place for you here!

One of our most important goals at TraumaSurvivor.org is to begin the process of forming local trauma survivor support groups. To that end, we have announced the first of such groups forming in South Florida. Please take a moment to visit the site!

This group is a first step in the exploration process of how we might go about this. We are not yet a 501c3 non-profit as of yet. What we desire more than anything is finding a person or persons for whom this issue means much with the means to support us financially and even through pro-bono legal help.

If you’re an attorney with experience at helping form non-profits with a real heart for trauma survivors, or even a trauma survivor yourself; or if you’re a person of means who is either a trauma survivor or someone who’s life has been touched in a profound way, we can use your help!

Please contact us at traumasurvivor.org@gmail.com

Our By-line is “The Survivor’s Voice”—we could not rightly use that terminology if we didn’t actually give you a palace for your voice. We use the Wordpress platform, which is hugely popular and fully grown up blogging platform that can be used for a full blown blog or just a few simple pages. How you use it is totally up to you so long as its use is trauma related. We invite survivors, their family and friends, those who have lost a loved one to trauma injury, trauma healthcare providers, police/fire/ems, anyone who is remotely related to the world of trauma is invited to use our blogging platform for whatever purpose you deem important.

We feel it is important to have a central place on the internet that makes it easy for survivors and others related to trauma injury in any way to have a voice. That is really the central purpose to TraumaSurvivor.org. It’s quite simple to sign up for a blog and start blogging. Once you sign up (almost no information collected, and what is collected is kept very private, of that you can be sure); just a nickname, an email address, then confirm through email by clicking on the link provided, and you’re up and running.

We have all kinds of help available to get you started and up to speed with Wordpress. It’s super easy to configure and use at it’s most basic leave. If you can write a letter using a word processor, or write an email, you can use Wordpress; it’s that simple! We have plenty of videos to help you learn how to use it to its fullest extent as well.

Because of the relentless wave of spammers flocking to any site with open sign-up, we have been forced to take down the ability to sign up automatically, but we WANT you to blog with us, so write us at traumasurvivor.org@gmail.com, give us a username and we’ll set you up within a day. Note that the username will also be your web address—username.traumasurvivor.org, so think it through! Anyone wanting to write a full blown blog, or just have a page or two, whatever your need or motivation, so long as it’s trauma related, it’s very welcome here.

The Trauma Survivors Network is a new ground breaking endeavor by the American Trauma Society that is set to change the face of surviving trauma in the United States. The program involves the following components:

• Peer Visitation: Long-time trauma survivors visit new survivors in the trauma center, brining insight and hope to survivors in the trauma center setting.
• Survivor Group: A group setting open to recent and long-time survivors alike, working together to deal with the impact trauma has had on their lives.
• Next Step Classes: Designed specifically for newer trauma survivors; they find tools and learn skills that help them get back to work and get on with life.
• Web Site: A comprehensive site built to help survivors aligned with, even in a particular trauma center running the program, and for all survivors, new and long-time whether a trauma center that they can associate themselves is running the program yet or not. With forums that form a virtual community of survivors and a huge comprehensive amount of material to help survivors and families deal with the struggles they face. 
  • CarePages — the ATS has Partnered with CarePages to give families and survivors a private blog they can use to update family and friends on the condition and progress of that survivor. One of the biggest challenges for the immediate family is the endless string of phone calls necessary to update people each day on what is going on. With these branded care pages, the family can update as many people as they want through this blog, and give permission to only those they want to be able to view the pages.
• Second Trauma: A program designed to train front line trauma healthcare providers in compassionate practices in dealing with the second trauma victims; the families and friends of those who have just been injured.

Read more about this amazing program, or visit the web site.