PS-R provides an organizational assessment process for resilience-based and trauma-informed program evaluation 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, belonging, and intersectionality have been 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 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.