Safety-Organized Practice for Child Welfare: Recent Episodes
Northern California Training Academy
Safety-organized practices are both practice strategies and concrete tools for "on-the-ground" child welfare workers, supervisors and managers to enhance family participation and foster equitable decision making. These videos include recordings of trainings, examples of the practice, and interviews with experts in the field.
This brief video introduces the development and use of the Three Houses Tool, an information gathering tool that enables child welfare professionals to include the voice of children in child welfare case planning.
This role play demonstrates an effective and complete client meeting utilizing family engagement strategies.
An interview with Charlene Duffy, a Child Welfare Supervisor for Children's Protective Services. Charlene speaks about engaging parents to keep their children safe utilizing several safety focused strategies.
An interview with Aquilino Wambar, an emergency response social worker with Child Protective Services. Aquilino speaks on the benefits of utilizing Harm and Danger statements, Three Houses, and Scaling Questions while working with children and families.
This is the second part of the training with Sonja Parker, one of the creators of Signs of Safety and an Australian social worker, and Phil Decter, a master coach and social worker from Massachusetts. Topics covered include safety planning, making goals with children using the Safety House and the new safety planning tool.
This training is with Sonja Parker, one of the creators of Signs of Safety and an Australian social worker, and Phil Decter, a master coach and social worker from Massachusetts. Topics covered include mapping with families, interviewing children using the Three Houses, and laying the groundwork for enhancing safety.
Recording of the second part of Heather Meitner's July 2011 training, introducing the primary tools of the Signs of Safety method, a foundational safety-organized practice approach.
A recording of Heather Meitner's July 2011 training, introducing the primary tools of the Signs of Safety method, a foundational safety-organized practice approach.