Screen Reader Mode Icon

Question Title

* 1. Agency

Question Title

* 2. Q1 a The organization promotes resilience-building activities that enhance basic knowledge about STS

Question Title

* 3. Q1 b The organization promotes resilience-building activities that enhance monitoring the impact of STS on professional well-being.

Question Title

* 4. Q1 c The organization promotes resilience-building activities that enhance maintaining positive focus on the core mission for which the organization exists.

Question Title

* 5. Q1 d The organization promotes resilience-building activities that enhance a sense of hope (e.g., a belief in a clients' potential for trauma recovery, healing and growth.

Question Title

* 6. Q1 e The organization promotes resilience-building activities that enhance specific skills that enhance a workers sense of professional competency. 

Question Title

* 7. Q1 f The organization promotes resilience-building activities that enhance strong peer support among staff, supervisors and staff and/or outside consultants.

Question Title

* 8. Q1 g The organization promotes resilience-building activities that enhance healthy coping strategies to deal with the psychological demands of he job.

Question Title

* 9. Q2 a To what degree does the organization promote a sense of safety?  The organization protects the physical safety of staff using strategies or techniques to reduce risk (e.g. panic buttons, security alarms, multiple staff, etc.)

Question Title

* 10. Q2 b To what degree does the organization promote a sense of safety? Staff in the organization are encouraged to not share graphic details of trauma stories unnecessarily with co-workers.

Question Title

* 11. Q2 c To what degree does the organization promote a sense of safety? Periodically, the organization conducts a safety survey or forum that assesses worker perceptions of psychological safety.

Question Title

* 12. Q2 d To what degree does the organization promote a sense of safety?  Periodically, the organization conducts a safety survey or forum that assess worker perceptions of physical safety.

Question Title

* 13. Q2 e To what degree does the organization promote a sense of safety?  Organizational leaders manage risk appropriately and protect workers as much as possible from dangerous clients and/or situations.

Question Title

* 14. Q2 f To what degree does the organization promote a sense of safety? The organization provides training on how to manage potentially dangerous situations (e.g., angry clients).

Question Title

* 15. Q2 g To what degree does the organization promote a sense of safety?  The organization has a defined protocol for how to respond to staff when critical incidents occur.

Question Title

* 16. Q3 a How STS-informed are organizational policies?  The organization has defined procedures to promote resilience-building in staff (e.g. self-care workshops)

Question Title

* 17. Q3 b How STS-informed are organizational policies? The organization has defined practices addressing the physical safety of staff.

Question Title

* 18. Q3 c How STS-informed are organizational policies? The organization has defined practices addressing the psychological safety of staff.

Question Title

* 19. Q3 d How STS-informed are organizational policies?  The organization's strategic plan addresses ways to enhance staff resiliency.

Question Title

* 20. Q3 e How STS-informed are organizational policies? The organization's strategic plan addresses ways to enhance staff safety.

Question Title

* 21. Q3 f How STS-informed are organizational policies? The organization has a risk management policy in place to provide interventions to those who report high levels of STS.

Question Title

* 22. Q4 a How STS-informed are the practices of leaders (executive directors, CEO's, COO's, administration, etc..)?   Leadership actively encourages self care.

Question Title

* 23. Q4 b How STS-informed are the practices of leaders (executive directors, CEO's, COO's, administration, etc..)?  Leadership models good self-care.

Question Title

* 24. Q4 c How STS-informed are the practices of leaders (executive directors, CEO's, COO's, administration, etc..)?   Staff provides input to leaders on ways the organization can improve its policies and practices regarding STS.

Question Title

* 25. Q4 d How STS-informed are the practices of leaders (executive directors, CEO's, COO's, administration, etc..)?  Supervisors promote safety and resilience to STS by routinely-attending to the risks and signs of STS.

Question Title

* 26. Q4 e How STS-informed are the practices of leaders (executive directors, CEO's, COO's, administration, etc..)?  Supervisors address STS by referring those with high levels of disturbance to trained mental health professionals.

Question Title

* 27. Q4 f How STS-informed are the practices of leaders (executive directors, CEO's, COO's, administration, etc..)?  Supervisors promote safety and resilience to STS by offering consistent supervision that includes discussion of the effect of the work on the worker.

Question Title

* 28. Q4 g How STS-informed are the practices of leaders (executive directors, CEO's, COO's, administration, etc..)?  Supervisors promote safety and resilience to STS by offering additional supervision during times of high risk for STS

Question Title

* 29. Q4 h How STS-informed are the practices of leaders (executive directors, CEO's, COO's, administration, etc..)?  Supervisors promotes safety and resilience to STS by intentionally managing caseloads and case assignments with the dose of indirect trauma exposure in mind

Question Title

* 30. Q4 i How STS-informed are the practices of leaders (executive directors, CEO's, COO's, administration, etc..)?  Leadership responds to STS as an occupational hazard and not a weakness.  

Question Title

* 31. Q5 a How STS-informed are other organizational practices? The organization provides formal training's on ways to enhance psychological safety?

Question Title

* 32. Q5 b How STS-informed are other organizational practices?  The organization provides formal trainings on enhancing resilience to STS

Question Title

* 33. Q5 c How STS-informed are other organizational practices?  The organization offers activities (besides trainings) that promote resilience to STS

Question Title

* 34. Q5 d How STS-informed are other organizational practices?  The organization discusses STS during new employee orientation

Question Title

* 35. Q5 e How STS-informed are other organizational practices?  The organization has regular opportunities to provide team and peer support to individuals with high levels of exposure

Question Title

* 36. Q5 f How STS-informed are other organizational practices?  The organization provides release time to allow employees to attend trainings focused on resilience building or STS management

Question Title

* 37. Q6 a How well does the organization evaluate and monitor STS policies and practices?  The organization assesses the level of STS in the workplace

Question Title

* 38. Q6 b How well does the organization evaluate and monitor STS policies and practices?  The organization routinely monitors workforce trends (e.g. attrition, absenteeism) that may signify a lack of safety or an increase in STS

Question Title

* 39. Q6 c How well does the organization evaluate and monitor STS policies and practices? The organization responds to what it learns through evaluation, monitoring and/or feedback in ways that promote safety and resilience

Question Title

* 40. Q6 d How well does the organization evaluate and monitor STS policies and practices? The organization routinely seeks feedback from the workforce regarding psychosocial trends that may signify an increase in STS (e.g. increased conflict, social isolation)

Question Title

* 41. Q7 What is your gender?

Question Title

* 42. Q8 What is your age?

Question Title

* 43. Q9 Within which of the following services systems do you do the majority of your work with traumatized clients? 

Question Title

* 44. Q10 What is your job role?

Question Title

* 45. Q11 Roughly how many full-time employees currently work for your organization?

Question Title

* 46. Q12 How many years have you worked as a professional helper?

0 of 46 answered
 

T