Description
I. Understanding Individual and Collective Traumas--Including Our Own 1. What Is Trauma? 2. How Our Own Traumas Influence Our Work 3. Foundational Principles of TIER II. The Evaluation Landscape 4. Representation of Trauma in the Evaluation and Research Literature 5. TIERaEUR (TM)s Congruence with Evaluation Approaches 6. Equity-Focused and Trauma-Informed Evaluation and Research III. Doing TIER 7. Being a TI Researcher and Evaluator 8. Designing and Framing TIER 9. Making Surveys Trauma Informed 10. TI Interviews and Focus Groups 11. TI Analysis and Reporting IV. Growing TIER 12. TI Programs, Organizations, and Systems Appendix A. Recommended Literature Referencing the Six Principles Appendix B. Trauma-Informed Coalitions and Organizations Appendix C. Resources for Deeper Learning. Appendix D. What about Fawning? TIER Glossary References Index
Martha A. Brown, PhD, is an independent evaluation consultant in Minnesota. Her interests and expertise include trauma-informed practices, restorative justice, and culturally responsive evaluation approaches. She has applied these various methods and philosophies to her work as well as to her own healing from adverse childhood experiences and other traumas. As president and founder of RJAE Consulting, Dr. Brown helps individuals and organizations become restorative and trauma-informed through online courses, workshops, and coaching sessions. Aaron W. Kates, PhD, LCSW, is an Indiana-based evaluation consultant with Effect X, where he works with a range of for-profit and nonprofit organizations designing and implementing program evaluations. As a social worker, mental health counselor, evaluation scholar and practitioner, and survivor of childhood trauma, Dr. Kates brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to trauma-informed evaluation and research. He worked as a trauma therapist with unaccompanied minors before pursuing his doctoral education.