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The effect of initiating trauma informed care on clients' perception of safety - Master's thesis (full text)

Abstract

"In 2011, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) initiated the integration of Trauma Informed Care (TIC) concepts into the agency philosophy, policies, and procedures.  Trauma Informed Care (TIC) is a model of agency operation and service delivery based on the concepts of Trauma Theory that assumes a universal trauma history in order to make services inclusive for trauma survivors and provides physical and emotional safety for the clients seeking services. The first step was to gain support from the administration with the second step in the praxis being to train every CCH employee, regardless of job title and full-time status, in the concepts of Trauma Theory and Trauma Informed Care.  This involved full day trainings in non-violent crisis intervention and on-line trainings in trauma for employees with supplemental training for supervisors in order to make TIC part of the hiring process and the daily conversation in meetings, group and individual supervision with employees, program development, and service delivery. The final step was to introduce trauma screening, which began with pilot programs in July of 2012 and will be integrated into the remainder programs by the end of 2013.... The respondents who indicated that they were asked about traumatic events in their lives reported higher feelings of both physical and emotional safety that respondents who indicated that they were not asked about traumatic events in their lives to a level of statistical significance."

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