Resources

Resources

Conscious Ambassadorship
The Elevated Consciousness Hansra – The Elevated Consciousness and the Conscious Ambassador – COMING SOON! Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory https://www.scu.edu/oml/about-us/theoretical-framework/ Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory Spencer, Dupree, Hartman –  A Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST): A self-organization perspective in context. https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=gse_pubs Resilience Luthar and Cicchetti – The construct of resilience: Implications for interventions and social policies – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1903337/
Conscious Evaluation

Culturally Responsive Evaluation
Hood, Stafford & Hopson, Rodney & Kirkhart, Karen. (2015). In K.E. Newcomer, H.P. Hatry, J.S. Wholey (Eds.). Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (4th Edition). San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass. doi: 10.1002/9781119171386.ch12
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305358037_Culturally_Responsive_Evaluation

Equitable Evaluation Framework
https://www.equitableeval.org/framework
Utilization-Focused Evaluation
https://www.utilization-focusedevaluation.org/

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement resource page for the Model for Improvement and Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycles
http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/HowtoImprove/default.aspx

Quality Management and W. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points of Quality Management
https://asq.org/quality-resources/total-quality-management/deming-points

Trauma Informed Care

Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration
Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 57. HHS Publication No. (SMA) 13-4801. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014.
https://www.samhsa.gov/resource/ebp/tip-57-trauma-informed-care-behavioral-health-services

Critique of the ACES Framework
Kelly-Irving, M. & Delpierre, C. (2019). A Critique of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Framework in Epidemiology and Public Health: Uses and Misuses. Social Policy and Society. 18. 1-12. 10.1017/S1474746419000101.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-policy-and-society/article/abs/critique-of-the-adverse-childhood-experiences-framework-in-epidemiology-and-public-health-uses-and-misuses/9D5EFAD918AAA52C947AD28C2CBA46EC

Conscious Culture: Building Trust

Self Determination Theory
Center for Self Determination Theory – https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/theory/

Everything DiSC
Everything DiSC Research Report (PDF)
About DiSC: Theory and Research (PDF)

Other Resources

Critical Consciousness

Freire, P. (1973). Education for Critical Consciousness. New York, Seabury Press.

Hansra – Navigating Race and Racism during Adolescence:
The Struggle for Identity for African American Adolescent Males in a Predominantly White, Affluent School – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10875549.2011.563178

Hansra and Spencer – Resiliency, Identity, and Competence – https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/diversityineducation/n590.xml

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