If you've followed the prompts in the friendship and peer assessment form, you should now have a clear idea of the main issues causing harm to young people in this context. The temptation at this point is to jump straight into planning a response – but there is another crucial stage before this, which is setting goals. Safety goals are important because they will help you stay focused on what you are trying to achieve and support you to know if you’ve achieved it.
Once you have your completed assessment form, the next step is to turn to the outcomes framework for extra-familial contexts. This framework guides you through the next stages:
1. Setting a small number of goals for the context
2. Planning responses that will meet those goals
3. Deciding how you’ll measure change
In 'related resources' (below) is a blank outcomes framework for extra-familial contexts where you can see the goal statements to choose from. These were developed by converting the indicators on the context assessment triangle into positive statements for what we would like to see for young people to be safe.
Next to the blank outcomes framework for extra-familial contexts there is an exemplar (completed version) to show you how the assessment could be used to identify goals and plan a response for a friendship group.
