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2017 International Signs of Safety Gathering
Kansas City, Missouri
We Are A Signs of Safety Organization
Leadership for Cultural Change
Canada’s Best Diversity EmployerAn inclusive workplace for
Women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, and individuals identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
Tablet vs. Netbook
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
120 different languages
Half of Toronto’s population was born outside of Canada
How does Signs of Safety work?How would it be useful?Why implement?
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2013
2015
Understanding
Implementation Leadership Phases
Common Vision
Culture
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2017->
Integration &Sustainability
Signs of Safety is Formally adoptedPractice LeadsConsultants/Trainers
Humility: “We are not what we want to be”
Living the Principles Sharing our Work
Commitment to resourcing organization-wide Implementation Initiative
Learning Environment
Jumping in: Not Being Afraid to Make a Mistake
Case Consultation
Signs of Safety In All I Do
Senior Leadership: Nancy
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Relationships
Safe Generations
Appreciative Inquiry & Celebrations of Good Practice Group Supervision
Developing relationship with Staff
Performance ManagementMapping organizational problems/issues
Attended mapping with families
Partnering with Consultants Agency Representative
VideoClaudia Lynch
Signs of Safety Implementation: Leading a Global ProcessSenior Leadership: Mahesh
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Organization-Wide Cultural ChangeSetting new direction, begins with humility
Changing Our Community’s Experience
Addressing Fear and Anxiety
Authority and Communications
Need services to support values and principlesWe built a reputation and we can change it
Developing relationship with Staff; cases belong to the agency
Touches every part of the organizationClear values and principles rooted in Signs of Safety
Attended mapping with families; we are in this together
Accountability is not a bad thingFocus on the why, benefits to children and families
VideoOdelia Francis
Appreciative Inquiry
Supervisory Leadership: Mary
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Building Leaders
VideoElnaz Zeytouni
Senior Leadership: Nicole
Leading Towards Equity
Undo oppression through decolonizing practices
We recognize the history of child welfare on Indigenous and marginalized communities
Implicating practice by recognizing our rolein systemic oppression
Leadership modelling
Anti-Oppressive/Anti-Racist practice is both a process and outcome
Implementation Leadership: Fred
Program Management
Appreciative Inquiry
Practice Leadership
Carrying the Torch
Taking Ownership
Organizational Change StrategiesImplementation FrameworkTaking initiatives: whole of organization
approach
MappingGroup Supervision
Message of Responsibility
Structural Point of Reference
2017 International Signs of Safety Gathering
Kansas City, Missouri
Contact Us 416 924 4646
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Nancy Andrews
Nicole Bonnie
Fred Magie
Mahesh Prajapat
