The NIOSH Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (NIOSH WellBQ) provides an integrated assessment of worker well-being across multiple spheres, including individuals’ quality of working life, circumstances outside of work, and physical and mental health status.
Tool created to help organizations assess their current practices in the context of serving children and families who have experienced trauma. Results from the assessment can drive organizational change that facilitates the recovery of the child and family, supports their ability to thrive, and maximizes physical and psychological safety. Results from the NCTSN TIOA can help guide organizations to identify, prioritize, implement, and sustain trauma-informed practices. This tool is an important part of an organizational transformation process to create trauma-informed organizations.
The Thriving from Work Questionnaires provide a comprehensive measure of work-related well-being. These rigorously validated questionnaires have produced reproducible results with respondents from a wide range of sectors, occupations, educational, and economic backgrounds.
Measure and Understand Student Well-Being With a Research-Backed Instrument: Sometimes referred to as “youth positive development” or as “indicators of thriving,” student well-being is a predictor of outcomes including educational achievement, mental health, economic prosperity, and relationship success. By asking students to reflect on their well-being through surveys, schools and districts can gather actionable data to better support students socially and emotionally. Measuring well-being can contribute to a “whole child” educational approach, signal to students and their families the importance of mental health, help focus limited counseling resources on at-risk students, and inform a community-wide response to the trauma of student suicide.
The SHAPE System offers many tools to improve school mental health systems, including assessments and profiles on school mental health, trauma-responsiveness, culture and equity. Additionally, it highlights assessments available to state/territory and pre-school accounts. To access and complete assessments, create an account and register as an individual, school, preschool, district, state/territory, or entity.
To develop your self-care plan, you will identify what you value and need as part of your day-to-day life (maintenance self-care) and the strategies you can employ when or if you face a crisis along the way (emergency self-care). This website has lots of information on caring for ourselves in high-stress jobs, including a self-care care assessment to download.
The School Mental Health Quality Assessment School Version (SMHQA-S) is designed for school teams to 1) assess the comprehensiveness of their school mental health system and 2) identify priority areas for improvement. The SMHQA-S covers seven domains of comprehensive school mental health, which includes a full continuum of supports for the wellbeing of students, families, and the school community.
This school-based staff survey can be used to gain a better understanding of your experiences and perceptions of social emotional learning (SEL) as a staff member. This resource includes sample letter and survey items to learn from school staff about their perceptions and experiences of social and emotional learning and implementation support so far.
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The way you live your life can have a big impact on your health, well-being, and how well or poorly you handle stress. This self-assessment allows for an individual to reflect and determine how well or poorly you take care of yourself can help you manage your stress in the future.
The Sanctuary Model is a theory-based approach to changing and sustaining a trauma-informed organizational culture has . Website has information on Organizational Assessment and other resrouces to support a trauma-informed workforce.
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