Country: The Netherlands
Email: joke.wiggerink@signsofsafety.net
Languages: English, Dutch
Pronoun: she/her
Licensed Signs of Safety Trainer & Consultant 🟠🔵
Joke Wiggerink is a Dutch Ortho Pedagogue with over 30 years’ experience in youth probation and child protection including directorship roles in the statutory youth care agencies in Drenthe and Groningen between 2006 and 2016. During this period, Joke led the Signs of Safety implementations in both organisations. Joke has worked alongside Andrew Turnell since 2005, initially in the Dutch implementations, then in delivering training and consultation in the Netherlands and internationally and over the past 5 years in leading the international Signs of Safety community.
Joke has worked in many countries around the world and she was the lead consultant in the whole system implementations in Northern Ireland, the Flemish speaking northern half of Belgium and in the completed English Innovations Project. As well as working with agency leaders on organisational alignment, Joke loves delivering Signs of Safety training and working alongside practitioners, supervisors and practice leaders on applying the Signs of Safety to complex cases.
Joke specialises in investigating the parallel processes that are necessary for the whole system implementation so that Signs of Safety practices and culture are woven throughout the organisation creating equivalence between how service recipients are approached, staff are supervised and how the organisation is run.
Joke has worked in many countries around the world and she was the lead consultant in the whole system implementations in Northern Ireland, the Flemish speaking northern half of Belgium and in the completed English Innovations Project. As well as working with agency leaders on organisational alignment, Joke loves delivering Signs of Safety training and working alongside practitioners, supervisors and practice leaders on applying the Signs of Safety to complex cases.
Joke specialises in investigating the parallel processes that are necessary for the whole system implementation so that Signs of Safety practices and culture are woven throughout the organisation creating equivalence between how service recipients are approached, staff are supervised and how the organisation is run.