SOP Overview for Parent Partners

This training will provide parent partners an overview of Safety Organized Practice (SOP). SOP is a collaborative, trauma-informed child welfare practice model that utilizes skillful engagement, meaningful partnerships with families and their networks, and development of plans that foster behavior change within a family system to ensure child safety, permanency and well-being. SOP is both a framework for practice and a set of tools and strategies that help child welfare staff achieve engagement, assessment, teaming, planning and transition with a family and their network.

Participants will be able to:

• Understand the definition and application of Safety Organized Practice and its use of methods, including cultural humility, appreciative inquiry and solution-focused interviewing
• Define the terminology of Safety Organized Practice, including harm, danger, safety, complicating factors and supporting strengths
• Describe the tools of SOP, including the Three Houses, Safety House, Circles of Support and Safety Mapping