Social Workers & Foster Carers know that they will not always know all the answers. Sometimes even their best efforts will not produce the outcome they would have wanted. But just like the children & families they work with, we want them to know they are part of a team who will work together to help them ask the best questions rather than telling them what the answer is. We know that the solution lies within them & that if they ever make a mistake, we will all work together to learn from it and move forward to make things better.
The benefits of using the Signs of Safety SoS approach - Short slide presenta...Alex Clapson
What is Signs of Safety?:
Signs of Safety (SofS) started as a strengths & safety-based approach to child protection casework in Western Australia
It is based upon what those works well with families
It is now used worldwide
It has been introduced into many Children’s Services worldwide as a key practice approach to work with families
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This is by far the final project I am most proud of. This is an example of one of the kinds of programs I hope to introduce to an organization in the future. It was also a final for one of my human service classes
The benefits of using the Signs of Safety SoS approach - Short slide presenta...Alex Clapson
What is Signs of Safety?:
Signs of Safety (SofS) started as a strengths & safety-based approach to child protection casework in Western Australia
It is based upon what those works well with families
It is now used worldwide
It has been introduced into many Children’s Services worldwide as a key practice approach to work with families
Right help - Right Time, Safeguarding guidance from Birmingham CouncilThe Pathway Group
On the 14th February 2020, the Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership published the refreshed threshold guidance “Right Help, Right Time” – Delivering effective support for children and families in Birmingham. (Version 4 - February 2020).
This is by far the final project I am most proud of. This is an example of one of the kinds of programs I hope to introduce to an organization in the future. It was also a final for one of my human service classes
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These solutions not only have the potential to make an immediate impact, but are critical in designing the range of broader technical solutions the ChildStory program will deliver.
Over one hundred frontline staff from across the state, the FACS Secretary and the program team came to Alexandria to see the progress of seven innovative solutions, but also to get hands-on experience using them to evaluate how they could support practice.
This is the presentation from one of the companies we're working with.
Effective Communication about the Early Years UnderstandingEvonCanales257
Effective Communication about the Early Years:
Understanding the Basics of Framing
Babies are great communicators. They communicate from day one, through sounds
(crying, cooing, squealing), facial expressions (eye contact, smiling, grimacing), as
well as gestures and body movements (moving arms and legs in excitement or
distress). Most babies learn to communicate to get attention or to get a need
fulfilled. They continue to develop more sophisticated communication capacities
and are encouraged to do so when their efforts are rewarded by appropriate and
timely responses from the people around them.
As adults, we are not that different. Throughout our everyday lives, we are
constantly communicating both verbally and non-verbally. Over time we learn how
to communicate best with various people and in different situations. We continue to
develop and expand our communication capacities when our efforts are successfully
received by the people around us.
As members of the infant-toddler field, we know how to communicate effectively
with one another. We commonly use jargon about self-regulation, early
intervention, infant mental health and healthy child development. Yet our
professional lexicon may seem like a foreign language to lay people, including
policymakers who want to understand child development and articulate policies
that will help promote healthy development for babies, toddlers and their families.
Policymakers are not likely to be well-versed in the terminology of our field, yet
they are expected to comprehend intricate details of our work in order to create
policies that support infants and toddlers appropriately.
Early childhood development is a complex process and communicating it effectively
can be difficult. However, we must meet this challenge, so that policymakers and
the public fully understand the needs of babies and the solutions that best support
families raising young children. This article is designed to provide infant-toddler
professionals and researchers with a basic introduction to some concepts of effective
communications; first by outlining the fundamentals of framing, and then by
introducing ways to think about reframing your communications. We conclude this
article with some concrete examples of how to reframe a message related to early
childhood development.
Framing 101
Effective communication requires an in-depth look at what we are trying to
communicate and how people make sense of the information. Fortunately, there are
people who dedicate themselves to this challenge. The FrameWorks Institute, a
communications organization, conducts scholarly research on framing the public
discourse about social problems and then translates that research into
2000 M Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036 PHONE 202.638.1144 FAX 202.638.0851 www.zerotothree.org/policy
recommendations and tools for the non-profit sector.1 The FrameWorks Institute
...
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Presentation given in person for the NSW Department of Communities and Justice.
Co-presented by Reegan Barber at CAPS and David Salajan at HubHello and Healthy Australia in June 2023.
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The Best baby gift for all parents to make their kids early perfect learnersSuperDadi
The moment your child can sit up and investigate the world in an entirely different manner with vision, sounds, and collaborations, Animal Island Learning Adventure™ (AILA) is here to convey the perfect substance at the ideal time, curated by teachers and pioneers. No advertisements. No unseemly substance.
ChildStory District Solutions Showcase - TACSI/FutureGov Part 2ChildStory
On 5 February we held a showcase of seven simple technology solutions that were thought up, designed and tested by Districts.
These solutions not only have the potential to make an immediate impact, but are critical in designing the range of broader technical solutions the ChildStory program will deliver.
Over one hundred frontline staff from across the state, the FACS Secretary and the program team came to Alexandria to see the progress of seven innovative solutions, but also to get hands-on experience using them to evaluate how they could support practice.
This is the presentation from one of the companies we're working with.
Effective Communication about the Early Years UnderstandingEvonCanales257
Effective Communication about the Early Years:
Understanding the Basics of Framing
Babies are great communicators. They communicate from day one, through sounds
(crying, cooing, squealing), facial expressions (eye contact, smiling, grimacing), as
well as gestures and body movements (moving arms and legs in excitement or
distress). Most babies learn to communicate to get attention or to get a need
fulfilled. They continue to develop more sophisticated communication capacities
and are encouraged to do so when their efforts are rewarded by appropriate and
timely responses from the people around them.
As adults, we are not that different. Throughout our everyday lives, we are
constantly communicating both verbally and non-verbally. Over time we learn how
to communicate best with various people and in different situations. We continue to
develop and expand our communication capacities when our efforts are successfully
received by the people around us.
As members of the infant-toddler field, we know how to communicate effectively
with one another. We commonly use jargon about self-regulation, early
intervention, infant mental health and healthy child development. Yet our
professional lexicon may seem like a foreign language to lay people, including
policymakers who want to understand child development and articulate policies
that will help promote healthy development for babies, toddlers and their families.
Policymakers are not likely to be well-versed in the terminology of our field, yet
they are expected to comprehend intricate details of our work in order to create
policies that support infants and toddlers appropriately.
Early childhood development is a complex process and communicating it effectively
can be difficult. However, we must meet this challenge, so that policymakers and
the public fully understand the needs of babies and the solutions that best support
families raising young children. This article is designed to provide infant-toddler
professionals and researchers with a basic introduction to some concepts of effective
communications; first by outlining the fundamentals of framing, and then by
introducing ways to think about reframing your communications. We conclude this
article with some concrete examples of how to reframe a message related to early
childhood development.
Framing 101
Effective communication requires an in-depth look at what we are trying to
communicate and how people make sense of the information. Fortunately, there are
people who dedicate themselves to this challenge. The FrameWorks Institute, a
communications organization, conducts scholarly research on framing the public
discourse about social problems and then translates that research into
2000 M Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036 PHONE 202.638.1144 FAX 202.638.0851 www.zerotothree.org/policy
recommendations and tools for the non-profit sector.1 The FrameWorks Institute
...
Caps+HubHello - Safe Presentation for NSW DCJ - June 2023.pptxDavidSalajanHH
A presentation of Safe - the child protection and early intervention program found on HubHello.
Presentation given in person for the NSW Department of Communities and Justice.
Co-presented by Reegan Barber at CAPS and David Salajan at HubHello and Healthy Australia in June 2023.
iHV regional conf: Robin Balbernie - Holding the future: The importance of he...Julie Cooper
Presentation by Robin Balbernie at the Institute of Health Visiting Regional Professional Conferences 2015.
Robin Balbernie is Clinical Director at PIP UK.
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https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
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Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
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Solidarity Zone
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Memorial
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OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
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Signs of Safety SoS short introduction
1. The benefits of Signs of Safety (SoS)
It was introduced into many Children’s Services worldwide as a key practice
approach to work with families supported by Social Care & Early Help Services.
SoS provides a clear framework on how we should work with families – this includes
building better relationships with families to work with them more effectively.
The SoS model aims to create a more collaborative approach within Children’s
Services, partnership organisations & families to address situations where children
have experienced harm, are at current risk of harm or have identified unmet needs.
Developing Good Signs of Safety Practice
1. Creating a clear understanding of past harm, current harm, possible future dangers
for child / young person (if nothing changes), & what the complicating factors to
supporting the family are, means we can create better safety & well-being goals for
everyone to work towards achieving.
2. Identifying existing strengths & existing safety, whilst working with extended family &
community networks helps to improve safety & well-being for children.
3. Ensuring all communication with children, young people & their families is
understandable. Research tells us professionalised language can make it difficult for
families to work with Practitioners because they don’t always understand what the
impact of the worries are for their children & what changes are expected from them
for Services to end their involvement. Hence Danger / Worry statements & Safety /
Well-Being goals should be created & agreed with families.
4. Supportive Action plans are created with families to outline how the safety goals or
well-being / success goals are going to be met – which includes agreed timescales
to ensure children’s lives are getting better. This requires skillful use of Professional
Authority.
5. The Assessment & Planning Framework & action plan should be reviewed
regularly with families to ensure it still remains relevant. Any new information - like
additional risks or additional safety for the child - is considered within the SoS
Framework.
2. 6. Parents / Carers are supported to create Words & Pictures explanations to help
children understand why services are involved & what Services are working with
their parents / families to improve. Child-centered Safety Plans can also be
presented in Words & Pictures format so it is clear for the child / young person what
will happen, what they can expect from everyone involved, & what they can do if they
don’t feel safe.
Signs of Safety Assessment & Planning Framework
The Assessment & Planning Framework is used for ‘mapping’ the dangers / worries,
strengths & required safety & well-being goals for children. The mapping tool has
four domains for discussion with families & other professionals around the family.
The “Three Columns”:
What we are worried about (past harm, current harm, future danger & any
complicating factors)?
What is working well (existing strengths & existing safety)?
What needs to happen next? (this includes agreeing the safety & well-being goals
& how best to plan actions to achieving them).
Children’s Services bottom lines (non-negotiables) that family must maintain / not
do to ensure safety for the children in their care.
Using the analysis from the three columns, the danger / worry statements & safety /
well-being goals are created.
A scaling question linked to the statements & goals is used to gain the
perspective of the Social Worker or Lead Professional, the family, their networks &
other professionals around the family. They scale the current level of safety or worry
about unmet needs.
This helps to develop understanding between everyone involved & to work towards
the required changes for children within agreed timescales.
The SoS Assessment & Planning Framework, identifying the 4 main domains of
enquiry & the seven analysis categories, is set out below:
3. How does Signs of Safety support us to engage with
children & young people?
Talking to children is at the heart of SoS. There are numerous tools that will
encourage practitioners to consider the child’s lived experience & see the “world
through the child’s eyes”.
The Three Houses is the child’s version of the three columns (above) to capture
their experience.
4. Signs of Safety – Where are we on our journey?
There is a clear expectation that SoS will thread through all our practice to ensure
that children, young people & their families are provided with the Right Help, in the
Right Way, at the Right Time, & with the Right Outcomes.
Signs of Safety – 5 benefits:
1. Social Workers & Foster Carers feel safer
Signs of Safety provides us all with an ethos, a way of working & the practical tools we
need. Having a single model helps with confidence, both for Foster Carers & Social
Workers – we all understand the model & therefore speak the same language.
Social Workers say that it makes them feel safer when undertaking complex work in
challenging situations. “It is simple, family friendly, child focused, gives clear goals & you
can use it flexibly.”
2. Families are more involved
From the earliest possible stage we start holding ‘family network meetings’, which give
families, friends & their support networks the chance to come up with their own solutions
for keeping children in their family safe. Children & their parents or carers tell us they like
having the opportunity to take back some control even in the most difficult situations.
For example Clarissa (not her real name) previously had her child removed. Since then
she has had a new baby & another of her other children returned to her care. Clarissa
told me she “liked the family network meeting way of working”, adding: “It is very good
for professionals to listen to families because they know when things are going wrong &
they will say when things are good.”
3. Jargon has been busted
Signs of Safety emphasises the use of plain language. Managers work closely with
Social Workers to agree what they need to say to children & families so that they are
very clear about our worries. As a result our Social Workers feel more confident in using
their authority in a compassionate way.
We have also found that using plain, simple & jargon-free language brings us much
closer together with children & their carers, enabling Social Workers to gain much
clearer evidence about our worries which we can bring to the family.
5. 4. Children are being heard
Signs of Safety has improved the quality of direct work with children by giving Social
Workers the skills to help children understand why we are involved & involve them in the
process.
Children benefit greatly from undertaking ‘words & pictures’ work with their Social
Workers & Foster Carers to help them deal with past traumas.
5. We work in a supportive culture
Signs of Safety encourages a culture of collaboration with families & gives us the ability
to put responsibility for children’s safety back with the family network.
Good practice happens when heart & head come together to allow Social Workers to
take positive risks.
Social Workers & Foster Carers know that they will not always know all the answers.
Sometimes even their best efforts will not produce the outcome they would have wanted.
But just like the children & families they work with, we want them to know they are part of
a team who will work together to help them ask the best questions rather than telling
them what the answer is. We know that the solution lies within them & that if they ever
make a mistake, we will all work together to learn from it and move forward to make
things better.