Webinar series for SOP Coaching

Many counties and jurisdictions in California are implementing Safety-Organized Practice (SOP)/Signs of Safety (SofS). One key element for successful implementation is coaching!  We will be hosting a series of monthly webinars as an opportunity for learning about coaching to the practice of Safety-Organized Practice.  We will be examining skills of coaching, enhancing our understanding of the practice, and focusing on dilemmas, challenges and successes of both the practice of SOP and coaching.

Coaching: a process by which the coach creates structured, focused interaction and uses appropriate strategies, tools and techniques to promote desirable and sustainable change for the benefit of the learner, in turn making a positive impact on the organization
~ Adapted from Mink, Owen and Mink,  (1993) and Cox Bachkirova and Clutterbuck (2010)

Two important online resources for coaches:

• Safety-Organized Practice site (you're here!)
• Coaching In Child Welfare site

Accessing the webinars

Please visit http://uc-d.adobeconnect.com/sopcoaching to join the webinars. Enter as a guest and type in your name to be granted access.

Scheduled dates:

• Webinar #1: Overview of Coaching Skills

Nancy Hafer and Rose Wentz, Northern California Training Academy, UC Davis

Author of the Coaching Toolkit

June 21, 2012

10:00 am - 11:45 am

• Webinar #2: Safety-Organized Practice: Key Skills to Develop

Sue Lohrbach: formerly from Olmsted County, Minn. national leader in Safety- Organized Practice and Group Supervision

July 25, 2012

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Webinar #3: Coaching to Safety Mapping

Connected Families, Minnesota

August 29, 2012
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Webinar #4: SDM and Safety-Organized Practice: Coaching for Integrating Both Approaches

Heather Meitner, Children’s Research Center

September 10, 2012

10:00 am -12:00 pm

• Webinar #5: Tools for Coaching: the Use of Practice Profiles, Case Readings, Coaching Skill Assessments, Goal Attainment Scales and others

Holly Hatton, PhD; Cindy Perry, PhD; Melanie Schindell, UC Davis

October 29, 2012

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

For more information or to enroll:

Contact Grace Barajas to enroll at (530) 757-8725 or grbarajas@ucdavis.edu; for other questions, email Jennifer Lowery at jndavis@ucdavis.edu.

ABA Training Video on Interviewing Children

The American Bar Association Section of Litigation Children's Rights Litigation Committee has produced this 38 minute award-winning training video which provides practical guidance and demonstrations of techniques that can help lawyers work effectively with their child clients. Supplemental training materials to be used with the video are available here.

The ABA Section of Litigation Children's Rights Litigation Committee has collaborated with the Barton Child Law and Policy Center of Emory Law School to make this video available through the Internet. Please share this video and the training materials with colleagues who represent children so that we can all try to provide the highest quality of representation for children.

For more information about representing children or the Children's Rights Litigation Committee, contact Cathy Krebs.

Thanks to everyone who helped make the Circles of Sharing a success!

We had great turnout in both Fresno and Eureka and enjoyed the unique opportunity to come together with shared excitement about the future direction of practice!