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title: "ARTIC Scale: Leading the Way in Trauma-Informed Care Assessment"
description: The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare added the ARTIC Scale with an assessment of “A–Psychometrics Well-Demonstrated,” its highest rating.
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# [ARTIC Scale: Leading the Way in Trauma-Informed Care Assessment](https://blog.traumaticstressinstitute.com/blog/artic-scale-leading-the-way-in-trauma-informed-care-assessment)

 Written by [Steve Brown, PsyD](https://blog.traumaticstressinstitute.com/blog/author/steve-brown-psyd) | August 31, 2021

In August 2021, the [California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare](https://www.cebc4cw.org/) officially added the [Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale](https://traumaticstressinstitute.org/the-artic-scale/?__hstc=122918548.c86252de393b2179c42e458bc83305b1.1621452344409.1629115298360.1629125869355.9&__hssc=122918548.5.1630327898218&__hsfp=1254594787) to their list of evidence-based measurement tools for child welfare. The ARTIC Scale received an assessment rating of “[A – Psychometrics Well-Demonstrated](https://www.cebc4cw.org/assessment-tool/attitudes-related-to-trauma-informed-care-artic-scale/),” the highest rating offered by the CEBC. It is the only measure of trauma-informed care (TIC) listed on the CEBC.

The minimum standard for this “A-rating” is publication of two or more published peer-reviewed studies that establish the measure’s psychometrics (e.g. reliability and validity, sensitivity and specificity, etc.), as noted on the CEBC website. Using a tool with strong psychometric properties ensures that evaluators are, in fact, measuring what they are wanting to measure.

In 2016, a peer-reviewed article was published in [School Mental Health](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12310-015-9161-0) and in 2020 a second study was published [Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.](https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Ftra0000989) Both articles confirmed the psychometric properties of the ARTIC Scale.

Since 2016 the ARTIC Scale has been used in hundreds of trauma-informed care studies and program evaluations globally. The [Paper & Pencil ARTIC Scale](https://traumaticstressinstitute.org/pandp-artic-details/) version, popular with graduate students and university researchers, has been or will be translated into 8 languages (currently Spanish, French, Japanese, Farsi, and Dutch — with Turkish, Greek, and German in process). In 2019 an online version of the ARTIC Scale was launched, with user-friendly automated survey administration, data analysis, and results dashboards for organizations and individual staff. To-date the [Online ARTIC](https://traumaticstressinstitute.org/online-artic-details/) platform has been used to support more than 100 trauma-informed care studies and program evaluations through more than 50,000 survey administrations.

The ARTIC Scale measures professional and para-professional attitudes toward TIC and has become a go-to measure for TIC program evaluation in a variety of settings, including:

- Early childhood education/Head Start
- Traditional K-12 school systems
- Therapeutic schools
- Child welfare systems
- Behavioral health systems
- Hospitals and health care systems
- Juvenile justice systems

 To learn more about the ARTIC Scale and how it can support your TIC program evaluation, schedule a call with an ARTIC Consultant.

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