SafeCare Augmented is an adapted version of SafeCare that incorporates additional training for providers in Motivational Interviewing—a technique that explores and builds on an individual’s motivation to change—and ongoing consultation for providers from local experts in intimate partner violence. SafeCare Augmented has also been adapted for use with high-risk, rural families who do not have a long history of involvement with child welfare services.
Cellular Phone Enhanced Planned Activities Training is an add-on to SafeCare’s parent-infant/parent-child interactions (Planned Activities Training) module that incorporates cellular telephones to promote family engagement between home visits. Specifically, providers send families daily text messages and occasional voice messages to encourage and reinforce newly learned parenting strategies.
Dads to Kids (Dad2K) is an adaptation of the SafeCare parent-infant/parent-child interactions (Planned Activities Training) module for fathers. It includes video-based learning, Motivational Interviewing techniques, and a co-parenting curriculum.
An adaptation team of experts at NSTRC must discuss and approve any potential adaptations to the base SafeCare model.