Country: Canada
The child’s voice should be central to our assessment and planning, but it is a voice that is often overshadowed. This workshop will help practitioners bring the child’s perspective to assessment and safety planning every step of the way.
Practitioners will be encouraged to practice their skills using their own live cases. Focusing on:
- Learning how to skillfully use questioning approach to bring the child’s voice (regardless of their age) into the child protection assessment, decision making and safety planning processes.
- Practicing using questions to help caregivers see and understand the impact of worrisome adult behaviour on the children.
- Practicing using questions to help caregivers see and understand the things that are going well for that child and help move them into a robust safety planning process.
- Helping practitioners to improve their questioning skills when interviewing children.
- Practice and use various tools such as My Three Houses and Safety House
This workshop is geared to all child protection practitioners -any department, new and or experienced staff.
The workshop is facilitated by Cynthia McLeod and Theresa Vinokuroff licensed Signs of Safety trainers and consultants.
Register
- CAD$175 + HST per person
- Please contact either Theresa Vinokuroff or Cynthia McLeod to register your place