Building a Trauma Informed System of Care Toolkit

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

The Importance of Sign-In Sheets At almost every event, talk, or training, we have had people sign in and give contact information. This has enabled us to track how many people have been involved in our efforts, and what they are like demographically. This also gives us information on our successes, and those things that were less successful. We had sign in sheets as we were advocating. For example, we held two public screenings of Paper Tigers as we began advocating for the importance of trauma informed care In Johnson City. The first screening was at our local university, and we had a respectable turnout of 50 or 60 people. The second was at the local public library. Only ten people attended. However, we did not let this hinder our passion from spreading the word and realizing our goal a trauma informed community. We have sign in sheets when we educate. At almost every training, we have participants sign in and give contact information. This allows us to know how many people attended, what type of organizations they are affiliated, and enables us to contact them to invite them to participate in the system of care. We could get some of that information from the post-training evaluations, but inevitably, some people do not complete the evaluations, so this listing is a better gauge of our reach. The exceptions to our use of sign in sheets is when we do a brief talk (an hour or less) as a part of a larger event such as in-service training, continuing medical education events, or speaking to civic clubs. Most of the time those who are interested will follow up and attend a longer training if their interest is piqued. We have sign in sheets as we collaborate. We also used a sign in sheet at each system of care meeting, and have attendees indicate whether they would like to become a member of the system of care. Eleven people attended our initial system of care meeting in June 2016. As of February 2019, there were 103 individuals on the roster, with a regular attendance of 20 or 30 at our bimonthly meetings.

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