Introduction
Your assignment is broken down into three (3) parts.
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Part 1: TI-HR Program Assessment
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Part 2: Trauma-informed approaches & DEIA in practice
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Part 3: Ethical Practice Reflection & Assessment Recommendations
This guide will specifically help in researching information for Part 1.
The focus of the first part of your paper will be a written assessment of your perspective on how the trauma-informed and human rights persepctive is operationalized within the organization/agency. It involves three different sections, as is evidenced by the main columns from left to right.
Trauma-Informed and Human Rights Assessment
Describe the agency or program that you have assessed, the client/patient/student population that is served and the nature of social work practice in this setting.
- Using professional literature, describe the nature of the issues faced by the target population of individuals who utilize services from the type of agency or program you are assessing.
- Pay particular attention to the interrelationship between trauma and human rights in this population.
Please select one of the following four trauma informed organizational tools to assess your identified program, agency, or organization from a trauma-informed lens. This assessment tool will be used to guide your thinking for the assignment and referenced throughout.
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Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care: Appendix B (pp.133-143)A tool designed to assess any type of organization or system through the lens of ITTIC’s Trauma-Informed Organizational Model, which focuses on operationalizing 10 Key Development Areas within the three stages of organizational change (pre-implementation, implementation, and sustainability). ITTIC’s model is anchored in the work of Dr. Sandra Bloom, Drs. Roger Fallot and Maxine Harris, and SAMHSA.
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National Center on Family Homelessness: Trauma-Informed Organizational Self-Assessment (pp. 3-14)One of the original trauma-informed organizational assessment tools that is broad enough to assess a variety of health and human service agencies. This tool can also be used for other service settings, as there is a column for “not applicable” responses.
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New York State Trauma Informed Network and Resource Center: Trauma Responsive Understanding Self-Assessment Tool (TRUST)This is a free evaluation resource to agencies in New York State to measure how aligned the agency is with SAMHSA’s 10 implementation domains for trauma-informed organizations. An agency can create an account, and once there are at least 5 responses, the TRUST platform will generate a report. While not likely to be selected for this assignment specifically (unless you talk with your agency), it is an important resource to be aware of.
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Trauma Informed Oregon: Trauma-Informed Care Implementation Assessment InstrumentAn assessment tool designed to evaluate an organization across standards grouped into five core elements of Trauma-Informed Care. Trauma Informed Oregon’s work is anchored in the 10 implementation domains from SAMHSA.
Please use the probes within Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care (pp. 7-12) to discuss the extent to which your identified program, agency, or organization promotes experiences of the trauma-informed values and principles:
- Safety: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings ensure the physical and emotional safety of consumers and staff?
- GIve examples of how the agency or program ensures physical and emotional safety.
- Trustworthiness: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings maximize trustworthiness by making the tasks involved in service delivery clear by ensuring consistence in practice, and by maintaining boundaries that are appropriate to the program?
- Give examples of how the agency or program establishes task clarity, consistency and interpersonal boundaries.
- Choice: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings maximize consumer experiences of choice and control?
- Give examples of how you see the agency maximizing consumer choice and control.
- Collaboration: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings maximize collaboration and sharing of power between staff and consumers?
- Give examples of how you see the agency maximizing collaboration and sharing power.
- Empowerment: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings prioritize consumer empowerment and growth?
- Give examples of how the agency or program prioritizes empowerment and skill-building
** Both Drs. Roger Fallot/Maxine Harris (2001) and SAMHSA (2014; 2023) have provided guidance around specific trauma-informed values/principles that characterize organizational climate: shared perceptions of the work and service environment.**
Please review the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations) and describe:
- To what extent do the program's activities and settings protect client/students' human rights?
- To what extent do the program's activities and settings protect staff human rights?
Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care
Please use the probes within Creating Cultures of Trauma-Informed Care (pp. 7-12) to discuss the extent to which your identified program, agency, or organization promotes experiences of the trauma-informed values and principles:
- Safety: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings ensure the physical and emotional safety of consumers and staff?
- GIve examples of how the agency or program ensures physical and emotional safety.
- Trustworthiness: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings maximize trustworthiness by making the tasks involved in service delivery clear by ensuring consistence in practice, and by maintaining boundaries that are appropriate to the program?
- Give examples of how the agency or program establishes task clarity, consistency and interpersonal boundaries.
- Choice: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings maximize consumer experiences of choice and control?
- Give examples of how you see the agency maximizing consumer choice and control.
- Collaboration: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings maximize collaboration and sharing of power between staff and consumers?
- Give examples of how you see the agency maximizing collaboration and sharing power.
- Empowerment: To what extent do the program’s activities and settings prioritize consumer empowerment and growth?
- Give examples of how the agency or program prioritizes empowerment and skill-building
** Both Drs. Roger Fallot/Maxine Harris (2001) and SAMHSA (2014; 2023) have provided guidance around specific trauma-informed values/principles that characterize organizational climate: shared perceptions of the work and service environment.**
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Please review the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations) and describe:
- To what extent do the program's activities and settings protect client/students' human rights?
- To what extent do the program's activities and settings protect staff human rights?
