Appreciative Inquiry Interview - March 2008

Appreciative Inquiry Video with CCCSS Staff - Content and Approximate Timings

0:00 to 01:20 Carver staff introduce themselves

01:20 to 18:00 Sarah Manthei (case worker), Michelle Clutch (child and family therapist) and Michele Selinger decribe their experience and details of the work with Julie.

18:00 to 28:30 Carole Cole, an investigative child protection worker with 16 years experience who initially was very sceptical about the signs of safety approach, describes the differences the approach has made in her practice including work with a child sexual case she feels proud of.

28:30 to 32:40 Amy Racich (long term case worker) and Carol describe more details about working the sexual abuse case.

32:40 At this point the audience ask questions of the CCCSS staff as follows:

32:40 to 34:20 How do you get attorney and court buy-in?

34:20 to 36:10 Do you incorporate child's mental health work within the signs of safety practice?

36:10 to 38:30 At what age are you able to involve the children in these practices (assessment and planning using the "Three House", "Words and Pictures" techniques and safety planning)?

38:30 to 40:40 How do you use this at intake?

40:40 to 46:00 How have you involved law enforcement (police) in this? (In this segment Carol Cole and Amy Conzemius talk about police buying into this approach and even taking on scaling, strengths, coping and miracle questions. Carol ends the segment describing how her police colleague lost 4 bets with her 'last week' because she was able to engage 'multi-problem' drug using parents that the policeman believed would be impossible to engage).

46:00 to 50:00 Linda Billman (Supervisor, Olmsted County), Dan Koziolek (Manager CCCSS) offer their reflections on what impresses them about what CCCSS staff have described.

50:00 to 52:00 Andrew Turnell offers final reflection about the "learning journey" involved in using and implementing the Signs of Safety and safety-organised practice.