Signs of Safety

Andrew Turnell and Connected Families:

The Connected Families training team has been trained directly by Andrew Turnell since 2004. In collaboration with Resolutions Consultancy, CF staff provide training and consultation for the purpose of building Signs of Safety organizations. Our training team has partnered with over 50 agencies across the United States, and in Canada to introduce and begin implementation in agencies ranging from 7 – 250 front line staff. Our work is patterned after the work Andrew Turnell did with Carver County during his first four years of ongoing training here. About our work Dr. Turnell says:

I have worked closely with the Connected Families team since 2005. They know the Signs of Safety and Resolutions approaches inside out, since they have used and continue to use them in their own practice with high risk child maltreatment cases. The Connected Families team have been centrally involved in the system wide implementation of the Signs of Safety as the organising framework for all practice in Carver County Community Social Services that began in 2005. Having been directly involved and instrumental in this implementation, the Connected Families team have branched out and now provide training and ongoing consultation for child protection agencies looking to use and implement the approach. I consider myself part of their team in providing this training and consultation work since I act as an ongoing consultant to them supporting them in these endeavours, so in a very real sense if you get them, you get me too.

 

The Connected Families team know and use all of the training, supervisory and developmental methods that are most effective in making sure their Signs of Safety agency work does not stop at a great training experience but actually gets transferred into making a real difference in practice and in the organisational culture. Quite simply if you want to see the Signs of Safety being used in your agency these are the people you want alongside you!

- DR ANDREW TURNELL

If you have any questions about this, or would like to learn more, please contact us.

Signs of Safety Training and Consulting

The Connected Families training and consulting team has provided training and/or implementation consulting with more than 50 jurisdictions/agencies since 2008. In this time we have learned much about how to integrate (and how not to integrate) the Signs of Safety approach into agency practice. Email us at info@connectedfamilies.com if you are interested in receiving high quality Signs of Safety training and/or consultation.

Current Training and Consulting Partnerships

In Minnesota:

• Implementations in Hennepin, Carver, Scott, Crow Wing, Otter tail, Polk, White Earth, Red Lake, Leech Lake, and Isanti counties.
• Our staff members facilitate the Minnesota DHS Virtual training and live regional sessions with another 18 Minnesota counties.

State of Maine Implementation In Partnership with Casey Family Programs:

• Saginaw County Michigan Implementation
• State of Minnesota Statewide Collaborative learning sessions
• Laramie County Wyoming implementation
• Sacramento California implementation
• State of Louisiana Foster Care Overview training
• State of South Carolina early implementation

In North Carolina:

• Catawba and Buncombe Counties.

In California:

• First 5 Mendocino

In Wyoming:

• Campbell County

In Canada:

• Hamilton Ontario consulting
• Waterloo Ontario early stage implementation