20 Jan 2016
Toolkit

Trauma-Informed Organizational Capacity Scale

How trauma-informed is your organization?

AIR’s Trauma-Informed Organizational Capacity Scale (TIC Scale)* helps you answer this question. Our TIC Scale is the first psychometrically validated instrument to gauge the extent to which health and human service organizations provide trauma-informed care.

Your organizations can use this instrument to

  • assess current capacity to provide trauma-informed care,
  • identify areas for improvement, and
  • monitor changes in practice over time.

TIC scale thumbnailLearn more about the TIC Scale (PDF).

 

 

Learn more about AIR’s Framework for Building Trauma-Informed Organizations and Systems.

*AIR served as sole funder in the development of the Trauma-Informed Organizational Capacity Scale with the Center for Social Innovation and leveraged its prior work, served on the expert panel, provided methodological expertise, and acted in an advisory capacity. AIR shares distribution rights to the instrument with the Center for Social Innovation where the tool is also known by the name “TICOMETER”.

Related Work

15 Jan 2016
Service

Trauma-Informed Care in Service Systems

Organizational trauma-informed care is a systemic approach to service delivery that is grounded in an understanding of the causes and consequences of trauma and promotes resilience and healing.

Infographic: Trauma-Informed Care
10 Jan 2016
Infographic

Assessing Trauma-Informed Care in Organizations

Organizational trauma-informed care is a systemic approach to service delivery that is grounded in an understanding of the causes and consequences of trauma and promotes resilience and healing. This infographic illustrates the basics of trauma-informed care and shows how organizations can assess their ability to care for people affected by trauma.
TIC Framework thumbnail
20 Jan 2016
Toolkit

Framework for Building Trauma-Informed Organizations and Systems

Organizational trauma-informed care is a systemic approach to service delivery that is grounded in an understanding of the causes and consequences of trauma and promotes resilience and healing. The Framework for Building Trauma-Informed Organizations and Systems offers a process and tools for adopting trauma-informed care in social service settings.
10 Dec 2014
Webinar

Webinar Series: Trauma-informed Care and Veterans

In the fall of 2014, the National Center on Family Homelessness at AIR presented a free online program that addressed the impact of trauma on veterans and highlighted trauma-informed care as an organization-wide approach to understanding and responding to trauma. Special focus was given to the experiences of women veterans and how to provide trauma-informed care to this population.
11 Nov 2014
Brief

Brief Series: Trauma-Informed Care for Veterans Experiencing Homelessness

The National Center on Family Homelessness has developed a series of briefs based on findings from Trauma-Informed Care for Women Veterans Experiencing Homelessness, a first-of-its-kind, multi-site demonstration project focused on building the capacity of veteran-serving agencies, particularly those serving women veterans, to adopt a universal, organization-wide approach to understanding and responding to trauma.