Community Resources & Outreach

• Trauma-Informed (T-I) Measures and Research Tools

  1. Ticometer: a measurement tool to evaluate the degree to which an organization is engaged in trauma-informed practices.
     
     
  2. Paces Connection: Trauma-Informed Guides, Presentations, and Self Assessment Tools
  3. NCTSN: TRAUMA-INFORMED SCHOOL STRATEGIES DURING COVID-19
  4. Traumatic Stress Institute: Measuring T-I Care Using the Attitudes Related to T-I Care (ARTIC) Scale
• ACE's and T-I Systems of Care Resources

  1. BSBT: Building a T-I System of Care. Developed By Brain Trust Members Becky Haas and Dr. Andrea Clements
  2. Building Strong Brains Tennessee Impact Brief, October 2020
  3. BSB TN Lunch & Learn -We Are the Medicine: Building the EcoSystem to Take Child Flourishing to Scale
  4. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Strategy FY2021-FY2024
  5. Increasing Empathy Through Trauma-Informing and Training Policing: and the correlation of ACE's and rime increases empathetic approaches and reduces negative outcomes.  Full article is available upon request. 
• General ACE's & T-I Resources

  1. A Trauma Informed Approach to Workforce Development
  2. RWJ: Self Healing Communities Report and Analysis
  3. Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General’s Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health
• Workplace Development & Systems Resources

  1. Strategy for New Jersey to Become a T-I State
  2. Paces Connection: Building Resilience Communities COOP
  3. Alberta Family Wellness Brain Story Certification, Trauma Aware Training (free)
  4. Core Pillars to Promote a Culture of Resilience, Creating a Resilient Return to Campus
  5. CHE Article on Creating and Fostering Campus Well-Being
  6. What and How to Define Wellness.  Quillen College of Medicine Resource 
• Funding Opportunities 

  1. CTIPP Presentation on ARPA T-I Funding
• General Media Articles 

  1. Ballad Health, ETSU Partner to Launch Strong BRAIN Institute to Study ACE's and T-I Culture Change
  2. Chronicle of Higher Education: How to Make Mental Health a Top Priority This Fall and Beyond
• Crafting a Resilient Return to Campus at ETSU. Higher Ed Workplace & System Resources

  1. Below are resources produced in partnership with the ETSU Colloge of Arts and Sciences.  The resources are intended to offer administratos, faculty, and staff a framework which to consider mechanisms that promote resilience in the midst of the ongoing pandemic. 
  2. This PDF offers and evidenced-based framework, adapted from the SAMHSA core pillars to build and embed resilience-building mechanisms and cultureal norms cross a range of applications such as curricula. 
  3. This is a video of Dr. Diana Morelen, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Dr. Daryl Carter, Professor of History, Associate Dean, and Director of Black American Studies, discussing the Resilient Return to Campus Initiative.
• Strong BRAIN Institute Resilience Presentation Series Archive

  1. Dr. Chelsea Robertson, PH.D: Perceptions of Resilience-Informed Education In ETSU Postsecondary Instructors.  This presentation is based on research conducted by Dr. Robertson at ETSU in the Spring/Summer of 2021 to lessen the knowledge gap on trauma-informed (T-I) teaching practices within higher education. The study assessed how instructors disciplinary specialization related to their receptivity to compassionate teaching practices.  A second aim was to implement a brief intervention by informing instructors about ACE's, subsequent effects on learning, and evidenced based T-I teaching practices.  
     
     
  2. Dr. Michael Cull, PH.D. Resilience Reconsidered. The critical component in a more resilient, better engineered, helping system is the team. designing collaborative work in professional teams has the potential to transform our work and support a safer, more effective, and more engaged workforce. Not only are collaborative decisions of teams known to be more effective, the social connectedness that emerges from what the military calls "unit cohesion" may be our most efective buffer against the effects of burnout and work-related stress (including traumatic stress).