{"id":32157,"date":"2024-10-24T17:35:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T17:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caseyfamilyv2.wpengine.com\/san-diego-safety-organized-practice\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:37:14","slug":"practica-organizada-de-seguridad-de-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casey.org\/es\/san-diego-safety-organized-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfC\u00f3mo se implement\u00f3 la Pr\u00e1ctica Organizada para la Seguridad en el condado de San Diego?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When concerns of child maltreatment are present, effective family engagement is critical to supporting optimal outcomes, including keeping children safely at home whenever possible. One such collaborative practice approach, Safety Organized Practice<\/strong><\/a> (SOP), emphasizes the importance of engagement in child welfare, building partnerships with the child protection agency and a family by involving natural support networks of friends and relatives.1<\/sup><\/a> SOP is centered on the beliefs that\u00a0all families have strengths<\/a>, the child and the family are central to the partnership between the agency and the family, and the partnership with the family seeks to find solutions that support safety, permanency, and well-being for children.<\/p>\n

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SOP consists of practice strategies as well as concrete tools for child protection caseworkers to operationalize these beliefs by engaging families, enhancing family participation in case planning, and facilitating shared, equitable decision-making. The primary objectives of SOP are to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create effective working relationships and a shared focus among all stakeholders, including the child, family, kin, caseworker, supervisor, and extended community.<\/li>\n
  2. Enhance critical inquiry and minimize the potential for bias by workers through a rigorous \u201cmapping\u201d of safety, danger, and risk, which all stakeholders complete collaboratively.<\/li>\n
  3. Develop a joint understanding among all stakeholders as to what constitutes dangers, risks, protective capacities, and family strengths, and what clear behavioral changes and goals are needed to create and sustain safety for the child.<\/li>\n
  4. Utilize research-based tools to enhance consistency, validity, and equity in the key case decisions that child welfare practitioners have to make every day.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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    The relationship between the investigator and the family can be an intervention. Healing and change can take place in the context of the relationship.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    — Kimberly Giardina, Director, County of San Diego Child and Family Well-Being Department<\/cite><\/figcaption>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n
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    Implementing SOP<\/h2>\n \n \n \n

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    Safety Organized Practice was implemented in San Diego County in 2010\u00a0through a partnership between the County of San Diego Child and Family Well-Being Department (CFWB) (formerly Child Welfare Services), the Academy for Professional Excellence at San Diego State University\u2019s School of Social Work, Evident Change<\/a> (formerly the National Council on Crime & Delinquency), and Casey Family Programs. After implementing Structured Decision-Making\u00ae<\/a> (SDM) in 2006, CFWB realized that staff needed an engagement-focused,\u00a0trauma-informed practice model<\/a>\u00a0to more effectively utilize SDM and other available tools. The department built on the engagement strategies inherent within the Signs of Safety\u00ae<\/a> model and incorporated the actuarial tools available through SDM to implement SOP.<\/p>\n

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    As one of the pioneers in implementing SOP, CFWB identified 60 staff from various program areas to be trained as the early adopters and developers of SOP. Using a structured method that included coaching along with testing various components of the model each month and providing feedback, the early adopters spent a year carefully refining the SOP model. When it was formally launched, the early adopters also became the first trainers of SOP.<\/p>\n

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    Since then, SOP has been gaining momentum across California and beyond. The state\u2019s regional training academies have been working to support counties in their implementation of the practice model, building in part from San Diego County\u2019s experience. Lessons learned from San Diego County have contributed to a refined approach toward SOP implementation and practice. When California expanded its Title IV-E waiver in 2014, SOP was one of the integral components of the waiver, and SOP is now embedded in the core curriculum training for all new caseworkers in California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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    Key elements<\/h2>\n \n \n \n

    Safety Organized Practice is informed by an integration of practices and approaches, some of which are evidence-informed. They include:<\/p>\n