To our knowledge, there’s nothing like this available in the United States.
We’ve never met a church that doesn’t want to help people who are hurting. But so many churches lack basic training and resources. When that is the case, it’s easy to do more harm than good as we seek to serve others. The Church & Trauma Assessment equips churches to better understand their readiness and capacityย to respond to trauma and foster a healing, gospel-centered community for the hurting.
The assessment asks 16 questions about trauma, community, leadership, and other key areas of church life. The assessment measures two dimensions of trauma-responsiveness: individual and communal.
- The individual dimension measures how well church membersย understand and apply trauma-responsive principles in their own lives,ย focusing on empathy, awareness,ย and readiness to support others.
- The communal dimension evaluates the respondentsโ perceptions of the churchโs leadership, environment, and practices related to trauma.
After a church completes the assessment, we create a custom report that includes the aggregate score, interpretation, areas for improvement, and tangible next steps for the church to grow in trauma responsiveness.
There’s no cost for a church to take this assessment.
Listen to trauma counselor and Wheaton College professor Jamie Aten talk about the need for this tool:
Our ultimate goal is to help local churches become trauma-responsive so that the hurting, oppressed, marginalized, and vulnerable in our midst might know and experience the healing and saving power of Jesus through a loving, life-giving community.
Learn more about the assessment, or if you’d like to talk about how the assessment can help your church, let’s connect.
