Safety Organized Practice (SOP) is a collaborative practice approach that emphasizes the importance of teamwork in child welfare. SOP is designed to help all the key stakeholders involved with a child—parents, extended family, the child welfare worker, the family service worker, supervisors, managers, lawyers, judges, other court officials, and most especially the child him/herself—to focus on assessing and enhancing child safety at all points in the case process. SOP is both a framework for practice and a set of tools and strategies.
Through this workshop family service workers will become familiar with SOP strategies and techniques that align with the belief that a child and his or her family are the central focus, and that the partnership between the agency and the family exists to find solutions that ensure safety, permanency, and well-being.