1. Coaches Mapping Webinar August 29, 2012
Signs of Safety
Coaches Mapping Webinar
August 29, 2012

2. Agenda Introductions and Check-in How maps are currently being used
Brief summary of the keys points about mapping
Mapping…Controlled scrimmage
Moving forward
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3. Mapping as a Coach What’s working well with mappings?
When do mappings happen?
What do you like about the process?
What do workers like about the process?
What do families like about the process
What are struggles you are having within the agency when it comes to mapping?
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4. Using a Map to Guide Our Work
Setup:
SFBT therapist, Michael Hoyt related back to a golf match he once watched and concluded ‘It’s a long day…”. The map doesn’t give us step-by-step instructions on how to get where we’re going, but it helps us get clear about the ‘hole on the golf course’. Once we know where the hole is, we can start strategizing about how to get there – which clubs to use – what about the wind, water hazards, bunkers, trees – where do I want to approach the green from. Each ‘golfer’ (or mapper) may have a different idea about how to get to the hole – and each family may have a different set of ‘clubs’ they can use to get to the hole – but if we don’t know where the hole is, we’ll never get there.
The Map helps us sort though everything else so in the midst of all the stuff going on, we can always be reminded of where the ‘hole’ is. If golf isn’t your sport – think about the goal line in football – there are infinite ways to move the ball down the field, but you better know which direction to run or you’ll end up like Jim Marshall. Show of hands, who knows the Jim Marshal ‘wrong way run’ story?
Key Takeaway:
The map shows us the territory. No two journeys are the same.
Always know where the hole is.
Relevance:
We can easily get distracted in a case – the map and the hole on the course can help us sort through drama more easily and more effectively asses risk to the children.
Interact:
How do you sort through the drama of a case today to get clear about the hole on the course?
“It’s a long day on the course if you don’t know where the hole is. Have a specific goal and be purposeful on every stroke.”
~Michael Hoyt
(Hoyt, 2000, p. 6)
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5. Building Blocks Of Safety
Mapping/E.A.R.S
Safety of the Children
The quality of existing safety is based on it’s relevance to the building blocks (mortar).
The quality of the danger statement is based on the quality of our understanding of the past harm(s).
Harm Statement
Danger Statement
Safety
Goal
Plan
The quality of the safety goal is based on the quality of the danger statement.
Existing Safety
The quality of the safety plan is based on the quality of the safety goal.
Harm Statement
Danger Statement
Safety
Goal
Setup:
You’re going to see this slide several times over the next two days. I don’t need us to understand each element at this point, but I want you to start getting familiar with the way the building blocks have very logical steps. Again – the process of asking questions around these building blocks get organized in the Map. We use the EARS questioning approach throughout the process, which you will hear more about later.
First we start with the Harm statement: what was reported to have happened that brought us into this families life and what was the impact on the child of that reported behavior.
Again, there is a great amount of work we’ll do with each of these, so for now, just focus on the process more than the details of each block.
Once everyone around this family, including the family themselves, have a clear understanding of what brought us into their lives, we clearly communicate what it is that we’re worried (and everyone else who is worried) might happen if nothing changes, based on what was already reported to have happened. The Danger Statement articulates the concern that’s going to need to be addressed for us to get out of the family’s life. We can have multiple Danger Statements that we’re worried about, but these are based on what happened in the past. Each Danger Statement will have a Safety Goal associated with it.
A Safety Goal is essentially the inverse of the Danger Statement – what is our goal to show that the Danger Statement will no longer be a concern. It expresses ‘what’ the family is going to do in order to address the safety concerns in the Danger Statement. Knowing ‘what’ the family is going to do (i.e. ‘The children will always have an approved, sober caregiver caring for them at all times’ is only part of the solution – we need to know ‘how’ this will happen in real life – not just the dream of the goal, but the plan:
Safety Plan – this is the ‘how’ of safety - how is the family and those committed to the safety of the children going to demonstrate that the children will be safe, even in the midst of the mess that is happening within the family?
Do you see what’s holding all of these building blocks together? The ‘mortar’ of existing safety. Throughout the process we’ll continuously be searching for existing safety – what is already in place to keep the kids safe – what individual strengths are in place – how can we use existing safety to hold the plan together?
The safety of children is based on the quality of the safety plan.
Existing Safety
Existing Safety
Harm Statement
Danger Statement
Existing Safety
Existing Safety
Existing Safety
Existing Safety
Harm Statement
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6. (Turnell & Edwards, 1999) Setup:
This is the original map that was developed by Andrew and Steve. Many different agencies have modified the map throughout the years.
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7. Harm Statement Signs of Safety
Existing strengths demonstrated over time that provide protection related to the danger.
Safety Goals
Danger Statement
Setup:
Here’s a typical 3-column map. Categorically we’re asking ‘what’s working well, what are we worried about and what needs to happen?’ On the map we’ll use the building blocks to clearly communicate harm and danger statements, along with existing safety and safety goals. The safety plan is a separate document; however, without these foundational building blocks it will be difficult to develop a safety plan that directly relates to what we are worried about for the future. For now, I just want us to get used to thinking about the three columns. You see on the bottom there are 2 scales, the safety scale and the context scale. We’ll talk more about that later too.
Key Takeaway:
The building blocks – Harm, Danger, Existing Safety, Safety Goals will guide the process and the map will help communicate what needs to happen.
The map is not something to use back at your office alone without the family – it’s designed to be used with the family.
The map will continue to evolve over the life of the case – it is a living, breathing document.
The map shows transparency with the family and we use the family’s language when we take notes on the map. We also want the family and safety networks voice on the map.
Take note that the 3rd column is called “What needs to happen” versus “Next steps” because if it’s next steps it can turn into running to do list versus a vision for what needs to happen to close the case.
Relevance:
The map is the primary risk assessment tool in SoS – the better you become at the process of SoS, the more helpful your map will be – not just helpful to you, but helpful for everyone involved with the family.
Next Steps
Complicating factors
Adapted from Andrew Turnell,
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8. Napkin
Setup:
Sometimes it’s helpful to use maps to organize a conversation – we call this ‘a three columns conversation’ - where we pay explicit attention to 1) what are we worried about, 2) what’s working well and, 3) what are the next steps.
This type of mapping doesn’t have to be a complicated process – you can make your own map by turning a piece of paper sideways and drawing the lines to create the three columns.
In a three column conversation, we aren’t focused on the risk assessment and all the building blocks – we’re really just focused on the three categorical columns.
Key Takeaway:
A three columns conversation map can be ‘created’ anywhere – even at McDonald’s on a napkin.
A three column conversation uses the techniques of mapping, including our questioning skills, without all the building blocks components.
In it’s simplest form the map is 3 columns. You can have 3 column conversations with families, workers, other professionals involved, etc. at any point in time based on the 3 guiding questions, but that is different than the map that guides the work and is the risk assessment tool.
Relevance:
The mapping techniques can be used in almost any situation – with co-workers, families, your own family, neighbors.
The more habitual we can make mapping in three columns, the closer we get to truly changing our mindset and positively contributing to the culture of the organization.
Interact:
Mapping Exercise

9. Mapping (3 columns) vs. The Map9
Mapping in 3 columns conversations are used to:
Guide conversations with families, professionals, etc.
“Map” an agency
“Map” an issue
The Map of the case is the risk assessment and is used to:
Give vision
Help track the building blocks
Keep an ongoing assessment of safety and danger
Guide conversations with families
Setup:
What you guys have just been practicing was having a 3-columns conversation using the map. Just to re-iterate:
Key Takeaway:
Mapping in 3 columns can be used to:
Guide conversations with families, professionals…anyone!
We can use the map (3 columns conversation) to map an agency or agency issue. [You can give an example of what an agency map or issue may entail.]
We can use the map (3 columns conversation) to map any type of issue. [You can give an example of an issue that could be mapped within CP or outside of CP system.]
The Map of the case is the risk assessment and is used to:
Give vision
Help track the building blocks
Keep an ongoing assessment of safety and danger
Guide conversations with families or the professionals working with the family.
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10. Mapping When do we use mapping?
Any conversation you have with families or professionals
To guide our work with families throughout the life of a case (The Map)
When feeling stuck and consulting with a peer or supervisor
When there is a specific question we want to think through or when a decision needs to be made
Non-case related supervisory/managerial issues
Anytime…
Setup:
Oftentimes we are asked when mapping is used. Here are some of the times we have seen mapping used. You could map just about anything!
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11. ‘Controlled Scrimmage’ Mapping
You will be mapping Bill or Dan on a case
While role-playing Bill will be facilitating a “controlled scrimmage”..stopping randomly to elicit thoughts, questions, feedback
The person whose name is after the person who is mapping will serve as the advisor to the mapper
Pay attention to the process and focus on how you might be teaching others how to map using this exercise
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