A Training of Trainers for the new and improved SOP Foundational training!
This one-day training for trainers covers the new, two-day SOP foundational curriculum recently revised by the California Safety Organized Practice Backbone Committee. The new and improved two-day training, SOP Foundations, will replace all existing two-day foundational SOP training across California. This Training of Trainers (TOT) will prepare instructors to deliver this curriculum with fidelity, specifically focusing on areas of practice that have been upgraded to support the delivery of foundational SOP tools and strategies.
Who should attend?
While this TOT will specifically cover the SOP Foundations curriculum, all instructors who train or coach any area of SOP are encouraged to attend to learn about these important new upgrades.
About SOP Foundations
SOP Foundations introduces participants to the foundational values, principles, language, practice behaviors and key strategies that are required to effectively incorporate Safety Organized Practice skills and tools into practice with children, youth and families. Participants will have an opportunity to learn about and practice foundational SOP tools, including The Three Questions, mapping, Harm and Danger Statements, Safety Goals, Solution-Focused Questions, Three Houses and the Safety House.
Participants who attend SOP Foundations will be able to:
- Endorse the use of SOP as a practical strategy to provide collaborative, culturally responsive and trauma-informed support to families, children and youth.
- Describe the key elements and values of SOP and how they contribute to effective engagement, collaboration and transparent communication with parents, children, youth and their networks.
- Recognize the components of a rigorous and balanced assessment and the tools and strategies needed to conduct this level of assessment.
- Define key terms within SOP, including Safety, Acts of Protection, Strengths, Harm, Danger and Complicating Factors.
- Identify foundational SOP tools and strategies and how they support critical areas of child welfare practice, including engagement, collaboration, information gathering, assessments, planning and decision-making.
- Describe how SOP operationalizes the California Integrated Core Practice Model.
- Recognize how use of SOP supports a trauma-informed and culturally responsive approach to working with families, children and youth.
- Apply critical thinking, SOP terminology and behaviorally specific language within the mapping process given a case/referral vignette.
- Prepare a Harm Statement, Danger Statement and Safety Goal given a case/referral vignette.
- Formulate Solution-Focused Questions to identify action steps given a case/referral vignette.