Charting the Course towards Permanency for Children in Pennsylvania (Charting the Course)
Module 6: Introduction to the Safety Assessment and Management Process
(18 hours)
Module 6 of Charting the Course, Safety Assessment, introduces new child welfare professionals to the safety assessment and management process. Effective safety assessment and management controls threats of serious harm to a child throughout the entire casework process and links to risk assessment and family service plan activities. Assessing and analyzing safety threats and protective capacities serve as the foundation for safety decision making, and planning. Safety assessment and management has an effect on not only safety outcomes, but also permanency and well-being outcomes. Learning to assess safety threats and being able to engage families in the key areas of assessment are critical skills for new child welfare professionals in the child welfare system to know in order to achieve the outcomes of timely safety, permanency, and well-being for children, youth, and families in Pennsylvania. This 3-day session on safety assessment introduces knowledge and skills necessary for performing safety assessment and management in compliance with the federal statute and state law and regulation as well as best practice. This workshop is eligible for 18 continuing education credit hours (CEU) FOR LSW, LCSW, LPC, and LMFT.
Content
Content
Workshop Directory Page
Introduction to the Safety Assessment and Management Process (PowerPoint)
Handouts
Handout #1: Agenda and Learning Objectives
Handout #2: Action Plan
Handout #3: Risk vs. Safety
Handout #4: Global Definitions
Handout #5: Safety Terms and Concepts
Handout #6: Interval Policy
Handout #7: Six Domains as Questions
Handout #8: Maria Delgado Exercise
Handout #9: Structured Case Note
Handout #10: The Vincent Family Scenario
Handout #11: Pennsylvania Safety Threats ***
Handout #12: Smith Family Exercise
Handout #13: Smith Family Structured Case Not
Handout #14: Blank In-Home Safety Assessment Worksheet
Handout #15: Smith Family Safety Assessment Form
Handout #16: Protective Capacity Resource ***
Handout #17: Smith Family Safety Assessment Form – Protective Capacity
Handout #18: Safety Intervention Analysis
Handout #19: Smith Family Analysis Case Study
Handout #20: Smith Family Analysis Information
Handout #21: Blank Safety Plan
Handout #22: My Safety Plan Resources
Handout #23: Actions within Safety Plans
Handout #24: Sample Safety Plan for the Smith Family
Handout #25: Addressing Safety Throughout the Casework Process
Handout #26: Check in on My Learning
Handout #27: Self Assessment
Handout #28: TOL Activities for Mod 6
*** These handouts should be printed on cardstock paper and placed in plastic sleeves.***
Overheads
Overhead #1: Characteristics of Safety & Safe Environment
Overhead #2: Do You See What I See?
Overhead #3: A Rabbit
Overhead #4: A Duck
Overhead #5: Paradigm Shifts
Overhead #6: Agenda
Overhead #7: Types of Assessment
Overhead #8: Safety vs. Risk Scenarios
Overhead #9: Risk vs. Safety
Overhead #10: Global Definitions
Overhead #11: Safety Threshold Criteria
Overhead #12: Risk to Safety Continuum
Overhead #13: Steps in the Safety Assessment and Management Process
Overhead #14: Interval Policy
Overhead #15: Clifford Quote
Overhead #16: Interviewing Protocol
Overhead #17: Definition of Present Danger
Overhead #18: Present Danger Threat Categories
Overhead #19: Definition of Impending Danger
Overhead #20: In-Home Safety Assessment Fields
Overhead #21: Instructions for Smith Family Exercise
Overhead #22: Definition of Caregiver Protective Capacities
Overhead #23: Levels of Protective Capacities
Overhead #24: The Purpose of Safety Intervention Analysis
Overhead #25: Safety Decisions
Overhead #26: What is a Safety Plan?
Overhead #27: A Safety Plan Must
Overhead #28: Information On A Safety Plan
Overhead #29: Safety Plan vs. Family Service Plan
Overhead #30: When is a Safety Plan Sufficient?
Overhead #31: Addressing Safety Throughout the Casework Process
Appendices
Appendix #1 Learning Objectives
Appendix #2 Essential Interviewing Qualities
Posters
Poster #1: In Home Safety Assessment Worksheet
Poster #2: Safety Threshold Criteria
Poster #3: Steps in the Safety Assessment and Management Process
Poster #4: Type of Maltreatment
Poster #5: Nature of Maltreatment
Poster #6: Adult Functioning
Poster #7: Child Functioning
Poster #8: General Parenting
Poster #9: Parenting Discipline
Resources
Resource #1: Recommended Information Collection Protocol for Interviewing Families
Resource #2: Interviewing and Engagement Skills
Resource #3: Use of Authority in CPS
Resource #4: Are the People Who Participate in Safety Plans Suitable to Do So?
Safety Assessment and Management Process Reference Manual
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