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Restorative Integral Support (RIS)
Integral theory offers a comprehensive map useful in considering various dimensions of complex social problems faced in the 21st century. Restorative Integral Support (RIS) is a flexible model that brings attention to the way in which leadership, service systems, and collective contexts work together.
The RIS model:
- Guides post-disciplinary team responses and coordination to address and prevent trauma
- Helps identify two or three "hotspots" considered most crucial that can be addressed within practical limits
- Brings together a variety of best practices with practice wisdom in the local context
- Focuses on strengthening social networks to mobilize resilience
- Develops recovery-oriented systems
- Raises societal awareness and includes policy advocacy
- Involves integrated data collection to inform program development
RIS responses to ACEs may begin to look like "communities of care" guided by an integrally informed team, each with expertise in a particular area who perceives their role within the depth and breadth of an Integral perspective.
The RIS model was designed to support agencies and helping professionals working with any high ACE Score population and was first applied to help people experiencing homelessness at the Committee on the Shelterless (COTS).
The Center for Post-Trauma Wellness offers consultation and resources to support RIS implementation in agencies and communities.
Integral Social Work applies RIS, and the HEARTS Initiative calls for RIS.