This guide was collaboratively produced with Further Education (FE) staff across Wales to support the sector and wider organisations to develop success indicators when embedding trauma and ACE (TrACE) informed practice by using the TrACE Informed Organisations Toolkit (TrACE Toolkit) and associated resources.  The purpose of this guide is to support organisations in the process of defining and tracking progress against self-identified success indicators related to their TrACE journey. This guide could be used at the outset of the TrACE process in order to reflect upon where organisations are, in their organisational TrACE informed journey, and will complement the TrACE Informed Organisations Toolkit and Implementation Readiness Checklist in understanding organisational readiness, progress and achievements. The TrACE Toolkit supports organisations to self-assess their current TrACE practice and set an action plan to track progress towards further embedding a TrACE informed approach. This guide forms part of the TrACE Toolkit and aims to support organisations to:

• deepen their understanding of what success looks like for their specific TrACE journey,
• enable staff to understand the impact their work is having,
• track their success against the intended impact measures they put in place.

This guide will help organisations reflect upon the impact of their TrACE informed approaches in terms of everyone who engages with the organisation, shifts in organisational culture and how effectively trauma-informed approaches are embedded.

Success indicators are a key part of the TrACE Toolkit, in particular, when considering Domain 6 of the self-assessment - Monitoring and Evaluation. This is an opportunity to consider what existing monitoring is in place to attribute to this work but also to consider how better to strengthen the monitoring with additional or different indicators. The development of new indicators and Monitoring and Evaluation plans can be captured in the Action Planning phase of the TrACE Journey. It will be possible to identify some indicators at early stages of the journey, but over time, with a more indepth understanding of the TrACE journey, it may become easier to identify meaningful ways of measuring change and understanding the organisation’s learning needs. Therefore, a flexible approach to monitoring success, with a regular review process in place e.g. annual review, it is a good starting point. As with the ethos of the TrACE Toolkit, collaboration with everyone who experiences an organisation is at the heart of this process, therefore it is important that the success indicators are developed and shared with the whole organisation. In this way, any intended impact will be embedded, which will result in lasting impact, institutionalisation, or potential to scale up when possible.