Growing and Sharing in Safety Organized Practice
The power of SOP has always been that it is grassroots–developed and enhanced by the people who use it in practice. One of the key goals of the SOP Toolkit is to create a collaborative space in which this grassroots movement can continue to grow as practices and circumstances continue to evolve.
Have you developed a new SOP tool for your own county you'd like to share? Do you have a great SOP story? Please share with the SOP community through our submission form. Simply fill in the fields, attach the tool, and we’ll be in touch from there!
Stories from the Field
Mapping to Safety
SOP: Stories from the Field Contest winner Marcela Dickinson described how using safety mapping with a youth in a Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP) helped them course correct and transition to a lower level of care:
While transporting a youth to her seventeenth placement; Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP). The youth agreed to participate in a Safety Organized Practice (SOP) mapping exercise. In doing so, the youth was able to identify what we/she were worried about, what was working well, and what needed to happen next for change to occur. As we engaged through the mapping exercise the youth had a realization and was able to articulate what she needed to change in order to be successful in long-term placement. Since completing the exercise she has been stable and is now able to transition down to a lower-level of care.
Tools from the Kit
Shared SOP Tools
Many counties and individuals have already submitted tools they have developed to support SOP in their specific agency. The Shared SOP Tools folder contains tools including but not limited to:
- Example policies and procedures that incorporate SOP (Multiple Counties)
- Form templates that incorporate SOP, such as Screener Narratives, Safety Plans and Performance Development Plans (Multiple Counties)
- Guides for incorporating SOP into court reports (Tulare County)
- Solution Focused Question Unit Challenges (San Luis Obispo County)
- Youth Permanency Map (San Diego County)
- Coaching and Supervision Tools incorporating SOP (LA County)
- Program specific SOP implementation plans (Alameda County)
To browse current submitted tools and/or contribute new tools to the collaborative community, please visit the Shared SOP Tools section of the SOP Toolkit Website.
Share Your Own SOP Success Stories, Tips and/or Tools!
Have you developed a new SOP tool for your own county? Or do you have a success story to highlight? If you have a specific tool or a story from the field you’d like to share, you can do so through our submission form. Simply fill in the fields, attach the tool, and we’ll be in touch from there!
Reminder: The SOP Toolkit Has Moved!
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Read about more Tools from the Kit and Stories from the Field on the SOP Toolkit blog.