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square bulletTrauma Informed Documentation and Forms Review Process

This tool can help organizations review documents and forms from a trauma informed lens. While there are many ways to use this assessment tool, the approach we have found to be both thorough and time efficient is for your reviewing team to score the document of interest individually and then as a group. The aim of this review process is to gain insight on how documentation and forms present themselves and to remove, when possible, language that can be activating. If certain language cannot be removed (e.g., federal guidelines), staff administering the form can be aware of this potential activation point and plan accordingly.

Source: Trauma Informed Oregon