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A resilience-based, trauma-informed, inclusive, and intersectional approach
for health promotion involves ensuring equitable, respectful, and engaging participation
in which everyone is treated with thoughtful consideration
of all life experiences that influence and potentially challenge health and well-being.

PS-R is now providing a new resource and service for resilience-based, trauma-informed, and inclusive program assessment of health promoting programs and organizations. This service integrates current evidence about these critical factors into an assessment process by specially trained and licensed qualified mental health professionals who specialize in this work.

While terms such as resilience, trauma-informed, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging (DEIB), and intersectionality are increasingly used to promote optimal service delivery, there are no universally accepted definitions of what the terms involve, or criteria from which to evaluate them. Many program staff and organizations work diligently to clarify, integrate, and implement these vital foundational concepts without clearly defined information and structure for so doing.

We have created an empirically-based template and process for integrating evidence-based findings relating to these key concepts into an interactive process for evaluating all program components. The framework includes assessment of:

SAMHSA Key Assumptions, Key Principles, and Implementation Domains for Trauma-Informed services
Factors promoting and enhancing program engagement, responsivity, and adherence while reducing and alleviating distress, and diminishing barriers to meaningful participation
Neuroscientific factors that influence engagement, learning, memory retention, decision-making, and effective behavioral change
Strategies for implementation

Each of these factors is supported by documented research and resources available for all programs going through the process.

Example Excerpt

Here is an example excerpt from an introduction for grant funded adolescent sexual health programs:

Feedback from participants in the
Assessment for Resilience-Based, Trauma-Informed, Inclusive Content

“This has been an incredibly helpful tool for my company as we develop programs and work to improve our existing programs. I have searched for years for a way to assess whether program components (e.g., content, tools, user-interfaces, etc.) are trauma-informed, as existing tools focus on assessing trauma-informed services. Thus, this assessment fills a crucial gap, and also includes critical program elements such as resilience and inclusivity.”
Aaron PlantCo-Founder, and Vice President Sentient Research

“This tool is much more than your average trauma-informed checklist. It's a design philosophy that holistically incorporates what we know about adolescent brain processing and how trauma affects the brain into the intervention development process. Our teams for the Juvenile Justice Innovation and Impact Network (JJIIN) project have greatly benefitted from participating in this assessment with the talented trainers at Practice Self-Regulation™.”
Alethia GregoryDirector, JJIIN Project The Policy and Research Group (PRG)

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