Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Toolkit

Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Evaluation: Reach, Effectiveness, Successes, & Barriers

Evaluation

Document Everything We have attempted to document everything we have done in trauma informing our community. We have sign-in sheets at every event. We file emails. We evaluate every training, and we conduct an online survey every six months. For each training, we know what version of our PowerPoint was used, who conducted the training, in what setting, on what date, as well as asking questions about the training itself. We are fortunate to have graduate and undergraduate psychology research students to assist in data collection, entry, and analyses. If you have an educational institution in your area, you should consider seeking their collaboration to help with your evaluation. Hospital systems or large social service organization may also have the capacity to assist with this. Even if you do not currently have the capacity to enter and analyze data, collect it, and hopefully such capacity will exist in the future. Baseline and Follow-Up Data Prior to our first training event, we conducted a survey to determine how familiar individuals were with trauma informed concepts, and to what extent trauma informed principles were being applied in a broad array of settings. We have continued to collect data from this same survey every six months since October 2015. Individuals who had registered to attend our first training event presented by leaders from the SAMHSA-funded National Center for Trauma Informed Care (NCTIC) completed the initial survey. Follow up surveys are sent to an ever-increasing list of contacts that includes those initial registrants, participants from subsequent trainings, and system of care members. We email the online survey link and include a request for the recipient to forward the email to colleagues or anyone who may have interest in trauma informed care.

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