How to Create an Action Plan with RECSSA Results
Once the results are received, the next step is to create an action planning team to review the results, identify areas of strength, areas for development, and provide the results to smaller teams and/or departments for review. This action planning team can be the same or different than the initial planning team.
Departments and/or teams discuss results and provide feedback to the action planning team. The action planning team creates and executes the action plan. The action plan is shared with staff and includes a process to do periodic checks, to update as needed, and to repeat the RECSSA process every one or two years.
Video: RECSSA Google Forms and Sheets Walkthrough
RECSSA Planning Team Worksheet – Google Sheet
RECSSA Planning Team Worksheet – MS Excel
Testimony from Organizations using the RECSSA:
Question: “What changes occurred in your program after using the RECSSA?”
RECSSA User: “Our staff are able to do art therapy during nap time with an art therapist. They are now fully trained in our creative curriculum. We just added a lot more training and mental-health-self-care things in order for them to have higher morale. And they are still using it! They said ʻPlease don’t take it away!’ So I wrote another grant for it. It would break my heart to take it away from them. The school is now running super smoothly.”
- Michelle Flemming, YWCA of Hawaiʻi Island, Private Preschool
“The RECSSA tool provided us with a baseline on our trauma-informed capacity. The detailed instruction and framework overview that resulted in understandable and detailed ratings assisted us in determining our next steps in our ongoing journey. As a program, we isolated specific areas of focus that would aid in being a more trauma-informed program through supporting the needs of our staff, children, and parents in a practical and useful way. The positive impact resulting from the use of the RECSSA is witnessing our staff take care of one another, the children, and families we serve in a more trauma-informed way.”
- Adoniss Spencer, Ed.D., Head Start assistant director, HCAP Head Start and Early Head Start