DOI: 10.3886/icpsr37624.v1
title: Evaluability Assessment and Baseline Study of the Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm Program, 5 U.S. cities, 2018-2019
title: Version 1

description: The Collective Healing Initiative (CHI) is a demonstration project supporting five law enforcement agencies from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Houston, Texas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Rapid City, South Dakota, and Oakland, California. The purpose was to work with their communities to promote collective healing in the wake of traumatic events. The law enforcement agencies worked collaboratively with various community partners and service providers to implement trauma-informed strategies to improve police-community relations, enhance victim services, and promote officer wellness. Researchers conducted an evaluability assessment and baseline study of the CHI using a mixed methods study design including a comprehensive document review, site visits, a capacity and network survey, and a stakeholder survey. Data analyses included a rigorous qualitative analysis of interview data, a social network analysis of grantee and partner collaboration, and a descriptive analysis of stakeholder perceptions of the CHI and the training and technical assistance provided. Findings from each data source were triangulated to develop site descriptions and logic models, assess collaboration and partnerships, conduct evaluability assessments to inform future research and evaluation plans, and assess the training and technical assistance delivered to the sites.
description: The purposes of the study were to:

Assist law enforcement in developing, implementing, and assessing comprehensive evidence-based, trauma-informed, response strategies, protocols, and interventions for law enforcement agencies that promote community engagement and healing prior to and in the
wake of law enforcement-involved shootings and other high-profile incidents of violence.
To develop and disseminate comprehensive, expert technical assistance resources to law enforcement on trauma-informed culture and practice, to improve an agency's internal capacity to understand and process the impact of vicarious trauma and community harm.
description: In brief, the study covers five topic areas associated with planning, implementing, and assessing the evaluability of the Collective Healing Initiative (CHI): (1) type and extent of collaboration and partnerships with local organizations and agencies; (2) approaches used for developing the local initiatives; (3) community perceptions of the local initiative; (4) demonstration site perceptions of the TTA provided, and (5) future evaluability of the CHI overall and locally. 
The mixed-methods design included participating in regular meetings with the The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the demonstration sites; reviewing documents associated with program planning, implementation, and the Training and Technical Assistance (TTA); facilitating site visits and in-person interviews with each site; administering a web-based Capacity and Network Survey to the grantees and their partners, and administering a web-based Stakeholder Survey to grantees and their partners.
Analytic strategies included qualitative analysis of interview transcripts, descriptive quantitative and social network analysis of the Capacity and Network Survey data, and descriptive quantitative analysis of the Stakeholder Survey data.
description: Not Applicable
description: Response Rates: For the Capacity and Network Survey, the overall response rate when partial completes were included was 73%. 60 individuals were invited to complete the survey, 39 completed the entire survey and 5 partially completed the survey.
For the Stakeholder Survey, the overall response rate when partial completes were included was 71%. 107 individuals were invited to complete the survey, 60 completed the entire survey and 16 partially completed the survey.
description: Presence of Common Scales: None.
description: For both the Capacity and Network Survey and the Stakeholder Survey, all members of the universe were invited to participate.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Capacity and Network Survey Data for Table 3-1
DS2: Capacity and Network Survey Data for Grantee Portion of Table 3-2
DS3: Capacity and Network Survey Data for Partners Portion of Table 3-2
DS4: Capacity and Network Survey Data for Grantee Portion of Table 3-3
DS5: Capacity and Network Survey Data for Partners Portion of Table 3-3
DS6: Stakeholder Survey Data
description: Collective Healing grantees and their partners. Smallest Geographic Unit: City
description: web-based surveyAlthough the study included a qualitative analysis of site visit interview data, the Principal Investigators were not able to fully de-identify the interviews while maintaining their usefulness. The NIJ waived the archiving requirement of the qualitative data.The variable <strong>SITE</strong> (DS1, DS2, and DS3) and<strong> SITEID</strong> (DS4 and DS5) has been de-identified by the Principal Investigators to shield the 5 cities where this study took place in order to protect respondent confidentiality.