Trauma-Informed Resources · TI-02

Collaborative Safety-Planning Worksheet

Organize individualized warning signs, options, places, people, professional supports, and safety steps with a qualified clinician.

Clinician-created · specialist review required

Client group: Teens and adults where clinically and developmentally appropriate; clinician-led20-40 minutesGuided worksheetAdult professional use

For clinician-facilitated use

This is a professional resource, not a child-facing online service. A licensed clinician or other qualified adult must determine suitability, explain and adapt the activity, and supervise its use. Do not direct a child to access this webpage independently or enter client information.

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The full-resolution WebP includes print-safe margins and should be downloaded by an adult professional. Read the guidance below before using the page.

How to use it

Complete this only with a qualified professional who can assess current safety and explain available choices.
Choose what to record about warning signs, internal options, safer settings, supportive people, and professional resources.
Add access details, barriers, backups, and any locally required safety steps.
Pause or stop if completing the page increases risk or distress; seek immediate local help when safety cannot wait.

Reflection prompts

Which step is most reachable, and what could make it easier to use?
What backup is needed if a person, place, or resource is unavailable?

Facilitator guidance

Use only within a current individualized risk assessment and the practice's approved safety-planning protocol. Customize professional resources, escalation routes, confidentiality limits, safeguarding duties, documentation, and any means-safety content to local law, licensing rules, setting, age, access, and policy. Confirm feasibility rather than merely filling every box.

Adaptations & accessibility

Create a discreet portable or digital version only when storage is safe.
Use icons, dictation, translated copy, or supported communication.
Develop separate daytime, nighttime, access-barrier, and unavailable-support backups.

Professional-use review

Enhanced licensed trauma/safety specialist, legal, safeguarding, and local-policy review is required before use. Local crisis and emergency information must be added by the implementing practice. This worksheet alone is not a sufficient protection, risk assessment, emergency response, or substitute for immediate local help.

This clinician-created resource is published for professional evaluation. Before client use, the treating clinician or other qualified adult must determine whether it is appropriate and complete every specialist, accessibility, safeguarding, and local-policy review named above. Publication does not represent individualized clinical approval.