Prerequisite: Please attend the first installment of the series, Substance Use Disorders: Foundation prior to attending this course.
About the Series
The SOP and Substance Use Disorders series teaches safety-organized concepts to enhance proficiency in a child welfare social worker’s ability to engage caregivers whose use or abuse of substances may endanger the children in their care, and to effectively plan for long-term recovery from substance use disorders.
About the Course
This installment of the dynamic three-course SOP and SUD series focuses on assessing for danger and safety in referrals and cases where the parent or caregiver is impacted by a substance use disorder.
Who should attend?
This training is geared towards emergency response/investigations social workers, and ongoing social workers who may develop safety plans with families in family reunification and/or family maintenance cases.
What will I learn in this session?
After attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Develop safety assessment skills by using solution focused strategies to interview for safety and danger
- Learn how to use mapping tools to determine substance use effects on caregiver functioning and parenting behaviors that increase child safety
- Understand how to use SDM to help differentiate between a Safety Threat and a Complicating Factor in SUD referrals and cases
- Practice using Circles of Safety and Support to build safety networks and to create culturally responsive safety plans
- Understand how to develop effective safety plans and plans of safe care with families