ACEs Connection suggest I post this inquiry on this Discussions forum.
Many, many organizations claim to be trauma-informed. The field has grown so much that it has gone from groundbreaking to a buzzword. All of us sense that something very important shifts from trauma-informed care implementation. But, how do we know if something is truly different? What distinguishes an organization that has dabbled from one that has truly shifted their culture? How do we measure TIC? How do we operationalize the broad TIC principles?
I am part of a research team from the Traumatic Stress Institute of Klingberg Family Centers and Tulane University working on this question. We have developed a psychometric measure called the ARTIC (Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care) to measure staff attitudes favorable (or not) toward TIC which has been accepted for publication and will be out in early 2016.
There was not a lot in the empirical literature about attempts to measure TIC outcomes and nothing about specific measures with psychometric properties. There are a few articles about outcomes at several levels: client/student; staff; system; cost savings. But, I know there is SO much going on in the practice/applied world related to TIC.
So, my question to this great resource. What efforts, initiatives, research are you aware of that is trying to operationalize and measure the concept of TIC? Who are the key people we should be in touch with about this? We want to make sure we are surveying what is truly going on out there in the TIC universe and learn from what others are doing.
Thanks in advance for information you can provide.
Best, Steve Brown, Psy.D.,
Director, Traumatic Stress Institute of Klingberg Family Centers,
New Britain, CT
steveb@klingberg.com,