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It’s Time to Start Your Survey
This page links you to the Trauma-Informed Services Assessment Survey (TISAS)©. The TISAS© is an instrument developed to assess trauma-informed practices in your organization. Completing the TISAS© will help you gain valuable insight into your organization’s application of and commitment to trauma-informed practices. You may use the results to examine your organizational strengths, needs, and changes over time (with repeated application). And taking the survey is free!
Want to know more? What does the TISAS© provide?
The TISAS© will provide you with data that not only tells you “Where you are” with trauma-informed practices, but results are useful for establishing organizational priorities, and for comparing changes over time and across organizations. It may also show where differences appear among staff and their understanding of how Trauma-informed care (TIC) is applied at your organization (if many staff complete the survey). Among the ways it may help:
· Results at a point in time: Specifically, the TISAS© provides quantitative data on characteristics associated with effective trauma-informed practices. Based on question responses, data are provided to your organization on five critical domains of trauma-informed care (TIC) practices. The domains include Staff Support, Environmental Safety and Support, Assessment and Planning Services, Consumer Involvement, and Organizational Policy Processes. Each domain is comprised of several subscales. And with assessments of other critical TIC concepts included, you receive a full picture of your organization.
· Comparisons with other organizations: Results from your assessment are reported with comparative data across organizational sectors. This will help your organization see how it compares to other, similar organizations.
· Comparisons across time: You may want to repeat the survey at regular intervals. This will show changes over time. Such data will assist you to identify both needed changes as well as how those changes you have made may have affected the organization.
· Comparisons among staff: In addition, if multiple persons within your organization complete the TISAS© (recommended), important differences within the organization can be identified. These differences are often “unseen” but may greatly affect organizational outcomes and staff & client satisfaction with the organization.
Who should complete the survey?
While we recommend that at least one leadership person in your organization (such as the agency administrator or program director) complete the survey, the more people who complete the survey from your organization, the more useful the results will be. Persons in different organizational roles may not see the organization in the same way. Further, sometimes organizations/agencies have different programs, and what people do in one program might be quite different from what they do in another.
What will we do with the information?
After the survey is completed by any individual, the results from the answers are immediately provided to that individual only.
- If your organization has more than one person complete the survey, please check the box below and we will send you an organizational code number that you may share with others. Then, when they complete the survey, their information will be aggregated with everyone else at the organization and we will send the aggregated results to an organizational representative (keeping individual responses anonymous).
- After your results are provided to the designated person at your organization, data will be kept completely confidential by the researchers. Such data will, however, be anonymously added to our database to expand our comparative information. Data may also be anonymously included in reports on trauma-informed care, and in academic journals, and presentations. We will not release any identifiable information about your organization.