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

Academic Units

CEUs

0.55

Section Number

234WIS617

Instruction Method

Online class

Section Notes

The format of this virtual training will be on Zoom. You will receive login information via email once your enrollment has been received.

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Section Schedule

Wed., May 8th, 2024, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Fees

Instructors

Roger De Leon

Roger De Leon is a minister, parent partner, trainer, and a child welfare consultant who utilizes his personal experience successfully navigating the child welfare and court systems to advocate for the safety and stability of children and families. As an independent contracting instructor for UC Davis, San Diego State University and UC Fresno, he develops and delivers state-mandated trainings throughout California focused on child welfare, fatherhood engagement and enhancing the skills of parent partners. A tireless advocate for children and families, he has positively influenced several statewide and national initiatives focused on child welfare and partnering with parents. In 2023, he received the Casey Family Programs Birth Father of the Year Award. Previously, De Leon was a parent partner with Riverside County. As one of the first parent partners hired, he dedicated more than 8 years to helping develop their program to support families along their journey toward reunification.

Peggi Cooney

Peggi Cooney, M.S.W., is a Safety Organized Practice coach and trainer for Human Services at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education. She has more than 15 years of experience in social services with expertise in child welfare, adult services and supervision in Colusa County. In that same county, Cooney developed the Independent Living Program and was part of the team that developed and implemented the Multiple Discipline Interview Team. During her tenure in Colusa County, she was also an adjunct faculty member, where she taught psychology at Woodland Community College.