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The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) of Klingberg Family Centers is seeking a highly skilled trainer-consultant who will add value to our team and organizational clients. Join a collaborative team that promotes professional development and success through thoughtful onboarding, mentoring, supervision, and work-life balance. This position may be remote, in-person, or hybrid. Learn more and apply on the TSI Careers Page

The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) of Klingberg Family Centers is seeking a highly skilled trainer-consultant who will add value to our team and organizational clients. Join a collaborative team that promotes professional development and success through thoughtful onboarding, mentoring, supervision, and work-life balance. The position may be remote, in-person, or hybrid. Learn more and apply on the TSI Careers Page

Program Coordinator – Trauma-Informed Care The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) of Klingberg Family Centers is seeking a highly skilled trainer/consultant/coach who will add value to our team and organizational clients. Join a collaborative team that promotes professional development and success through thoughtful onboarding, mentoring, supervision, and work-life balance. The position may be remote, in-person, or hybrid. Learn more and apply at https://lnkd.in/g6KNQjGY

Program Coordinator – Trauma-Informed Care The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) of Klingberg Family Centers is seeking a highly skilled trainer/consultant/coach who will add value to our team and organizational clients. Join a collaborative team that promotes professional development and success through thoughtful onboarding, mentoring, supervision, and work-life balance. The position may be remote, in-person, or hybrid. Learn more and apply at https://lnkd.in/g6KNQjGY

Special Early Head Start/Head Start Offer TSI has a limited offer for new Early Head Start/Head Start projects in 2023. To learn more, join the upcoming special webinar entitled “ Implementing Trauma-Informed Care in Early Head Start/Head Start Programs ” on Thursday, February 2, 2023, 1:00-2:00 ET. Learn more and Register for the Webinar https://www.traumaticstressinstitute.org/

Special Early Head Start/Head Start Offer TSI has a limited offer for new Early Head Start/Head Start projects in 2023. To learn more, join the upcoming special webinar entitled “ Implementing Trauma-Informed Care in Early Head Start/Head Start Programs ” on Thursday, February 2, 2023, 1:00-2:00 ET. Learn more and Register for the Webinar https://www.traumaticstressinstitute.org/

The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is Growing! After a brief pause in our hiring process we are continuing our search. Now hiring 2 Program Coordinators. The Traumatic Stress Institute already supports more than 85 organizational clients throughout North America with its Whole-System Change Model to Trauma-Informed Care, which includes the Risking Connection Training . Now TSI is adding two staff to support its increasing number of organizational clients. One of the two positions will...

Now hiring 2 Program Coordinators to offer training and consultation services The Traumatic Stress Institute already supports more than 85 organizational clients throughout North America with its Whole-System Change Model to Trauma-Informed Care, which includes the Risking Connection Training . Now TSI is adding two staff to support its increasing number of organizational clients. One of the two positions will assume primary responsibility for Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD)...

Measuring trauma-informed care is an essential ingredient for successful TIC initiatives. With an effective, easy to use, validated measurement tool, benefits of TIC measurement include: Readiness assessment for TIC change process Pre-post comparison to evaluate TIC intervention effectiveness Monitoring of TIC change process Data to drive stakeholder engagement Empirical evidence to advance TIC field Whether you’re ready to collect baseline data to inform TIC planning or begin a pre-post TIC...

In August 2021, the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare officially added the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale to their list of evidence-based measurement tools for child welfare. The ARTIC Scale received an assessment rating of “ A – Psychometrics Well-Demonstrated ,” the highest rating offered by the CEBC. Read more

The ARTIC (Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care) Scale is the most widely used and cited psychometrically validated measure of trauma-informed care. To-date, there has been an estimated 50,000 administrations of the ARTIC worldwide that include more than 90 studies launched using the Online ARTIC , the automated online platform for the ARTIC. The ARTIC scales measures staff attitudes toward trauma-informed care. Globally there are signs of COVID-19 recovery, though we have a long way to...

The ARTIC (Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care) Scale is the most widely used and cited psychometrically validated measure of trauma-informed care. To-date, there has been an estimated 50,000 administrations of the ARTIC worldwide that include more than 90 studies launched using the Online ARTIC , the automated online platform for the ARTIC. The ARTIC scales measures staff attitudes toward trauma-informed care. Globally, there are signs of COVID-19 recovery, though we have a long way...

In recent years, trauma-informed care has become the standard of care in behavioral health, residential treatment, healthcare and K-12 school systems. Now early childhood programs are increasingly becoming trauma-informed in their work with young children and families. As with trauma-informed care in general, there is so much information available on the internet that it can be difficult knowing where to start. Fortunately, The Administration for Children & Families (ACF) has developed...

Head Start and Early Head Start continue to lead the way in promoting school readiness and family engagement for vulnerable young children. It’s no surprise, then, that Head Start is increasingly focused on implementing trauma-informed care (TIC). A recent study adds timely relevance to the advancement of trauma-informed care in Head Start preschool settings. The study, published in School Mental Health , “examines the relationship between trauma-informed training content, trauma-informed...

The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale has been approved for inclusion on the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare , a nationally recognized registry of evidence-based practices and measurement tools recommended for use in child welfare settings. While there are many TIC assessment tools available, very few have been psychometrically validated, and only the ARTIC has been accepted (to be officially listed in Spring 2021) to the CEBC. The ARTIC...

Organizations often see measurement and program evaluation as a luxury or something extra to do - they'll do it if they have extra cash or if it's required by a grant or a change package they purchase. It’s viewed as something that will tell them at the end whether the intervention moved the needle. What they fail to recognize is that the process of measurement is an intervention in and of itself and it can drive the change process... Read More

A large-scale study with 1,395 human service providers, health professionals, and educators from 17 different settings established further support for the psychometric properties of the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale . The study entitled “Validation of the Attitudes Related to Trauma Informed Care Scale (ARTIC)” —by lead author Courtney Baker, Ph.D. from Tulane University and a team of others—was published online in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice,...

The Online ARTIC makes TIC measurement easier and more effective than ever. Using the original ARTIC (Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care) Scale, a psychometrically validated TIC measure, the Online ARTIC offers automated administration, analysis and reporting (for organizations and individual respondents) for up to 8 time points of data collection over a 3-year period of time. Use of the tool for program evaluation is supported with study set-up and reporting consult calls by skillful...

White People Need To Own Our Discomfort For those of us who are white, the role we find ourselves occupying is that of white supremacy....As practitioners and trainers we are uniquely positioned to use trauma-informed principles to address historical trauma. READ STORY

Supporting Trauma-Informed Transformation in First Nation Communities Beginning in 2010, the Traumatic Stress Institute began supporting the Yukon Territory (Canada) child welfare system to make the transition to trauma-informed care (TIC). Much like tribal communities in the US, First Nation and Aboriginal people in the Yukon suffer the devastating impact of historical and intergenerational trauma...Now significant portions of the youth in the child welfare system are children of...

New federal funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act includes critical funding for advancing trauma-informed care services in tribal communities. The devastating impact of historical, intergenerational and current traumas experienced by tribal communities has long overwhelmed chronically underfunded health care, education, mental health, social service and legal systems in Indian Country. The current impact and anticipated aftermath of the coronavirus...

Trauma-Informed Measurement Made Effective and Easy Thanks to new federal funding, Head Start programs have the opportunity to develop and improve trauma-informed approaches to support children, families and staff impacted by adverse experiences. The Office of Head Start Guidance on Implementing Trauma-Informed Approach resource, included in the funding announcement , states exposure to trauma is more prevalent than commonly believed and results in lasting effects on the physical and mental...

Announcing 30% COVID-19 Hardship Discount on All Online ARTIC Purchases Despite the COVID-19 crisis, school systems, human service agencies, behavioral health programs, medical institutions, foster care agencies, juvenile justice programs, and many others are working to sustain trauma-informed care - now more than ever. At the same time, organizations are experiencing unexpected and unprecedented financial challenges. In response, the Traumatic Stress Institute is offering relief to...

Due to high demand we've added a 5th and final FREE Online ARTIC webinar Tuesday, April 21st, 3:00-4:00 pm EST Register today at this link The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is hosting a FREE webinar for leaders in health, trauma, and trauma-informed care (TIC) to preview the new Online ARTIC, a cutting-edge online tool for measuring TIC. The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is one of the only validated measures of TIC. It measures professional and para-professional...

Due to high demand we've added a 5th and final FREE Online ARTIC webinar Tuesday, April 21st, 3:00-4:00 pm EST Register today at this link The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is hosting a FREE webinar for leaders in health, trauma, and trauma-informed care (TIC) to preview the new Online ARTIC, a cutting-edge online tool for measuring TIC. The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is one of the only validated measures of TIC. It measures professional and para-professional...

Due to high demand, we've added a 4th FREE Online ARTIC webinar - April 16. Only a few seats are still available so register today at this link The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is hosting a FREE webinar for leaders in health, trauma, and trauma-informed care (TIC) to preview the new Online ARTIC, a cutting-edge online tool for measuring TIC. The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is one of the only validated measures of TIC. It measures professional and...

Due to high demand, we've added a 4th FREE Online ARTIC webinar, Thursday, April 16, 3-4 pm EST. Register today at this link . The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is hosting a FREE webinar for leaders in health, trauma, and trauma-informed care (TIC) to preview the new Online ARTIC, a cutting-edge online tool for measuring TIC. The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is one of the only validated measures of TIC. It measures professional and para-professional attitudes...

The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is hosting a FREE webinar for leaders in health, trauma, and trauma-informed care (TIC) to preview the new Online ARTIC, a cutting-edge online tool for measuring TIC. March 31st event is now full. Register today for April 7 or 9 event at this link . The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is one of the only validated measures of TIC. It measures professional and para-professional attitudes toward TIC, has been used globally by over 200...

The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is hosting a FREE webinar for leaders in health, trauma, and trauma-informed care (TIC) to preview the new Online ARTIC , a cutting-edge online tool for measuring TIC. Register today here . The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is one of the only validated measures of TIC. It measures professional and para-professional attitudes toward TIC, has been used globally by over 200 entities, and administered to 25,000 respondents. First...

Online ARTIC Scale is almost here! If you are planning a trauma-informed program evaluation/study for Summer or Fall 2019, pre-purchase the Online ARTIC Scale today. Pre-purchase discounts are available through June 30, 2019 . Learn more about packages, pricing and discounts here . Together we are advancing the practice and measurement of trauma-informed care. Measure what matters, measure trauma-informed care .

Planning a trauma-informed program evaluation/study for Summer or Fall 2019? Pre-purchase the Online ARTIC Scale today. Pre-purchase discounts are available through June 30, 2019 . Learn more about Online ARTIC Scale packages, price calculator and Pre-Purchase Sale here . Together we are advancing the practice and measurement of trauma-informed care. Measure what matters, measure trauma-informed care. Sincerely, Steve Brown, Psy.D. Director Traumatic Stress Institute...

A price calculator for the new, Online ARTIC Scale is now available. Use the calculator today to: Instantly produce an estimated price for your Online ARTIC Scale purchase Request a downloadable pdf of your estimate. Estimates include base price and available discounts Sales of the new, Online ARTIC Scale will launch soon, in late spring 2019. Three packages will be offered. Learn more about features, benefits and packages here . To receive an email announcement when sales for online ARTIC...

FREE Webinar - Wednesday, May 22, 3:00-4:00 p.m., EST As more children receive community-based services, everyone agrees that the typical client in child welfare agencies has grown exponentially more acute and complex. Old models are not working and provider agencies are scrambling to manage and treat the extreme behaviors of youth in their care. Recognizing this fact, more and more states are mandating that child welfare agencies become trauma-informed. The state of California, for example,...

With dedication to innovation in trauma-informed care measurement and implementation, the Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) will soon launch a fully-automated, online version of the widely-used ARTIC Scale. The new online platform will enable organizations and service systems to assess and monitor trauma-informed care in a manner that is user-friendly, secure and cost-effective. Its powerful features include: Online administration at multiple time points Fully-automated data management and...

With dedication to innovation in trauma-informed care measurement and implementation, the Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) will soon launch a fully-automated, online version of the widely-used ARTIC Scale. The new online platform will enable organizations and service systems to assess and monitor trauma-informed care in a manner that is user-friendly, secure and cost-effective. Its powerful features include: Online administration at mulitple time points Fully-automated data management and...

In April 2016, the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale was released. It remains one of the only psychometrically-valid measures of trauma-informed care (TIC) available. In only two years, the ARTIC has been used by over 150 entities in 10 countries, translated into 4 languages, and administered to over 25,000 professionals. In response to rapidly-increasing interest in the ARTIC Scale, this FREE webinar will provide updated information for those considering whether the...