SignalFire: Burnout and Risk Radar for Youth-Serving Teams
A privacy-conscious team tool that helps youth-serving organizations spot operational strain before it becomes a client-safety problem. Staff complete a 30-second weekly check-in on caseload pressure, critical incidents, after-hours workload, and coverage gaps; managers see anonymized trends, not therapy-style surveillance. The system flags risks such as too many unassigned follow-ups, repeated missed contacts after a critical event, or a team operating without enough on-call coverage. It then recommends practical actions: redistribute cases, activate mutual-aid partners, run a mini incident debrief, or launch a staff recovery rotation. This draws directly on emergency-management concepts of situational awareness and resilience while addressing a major social-work reality: burned-out teams cannot consistently provide safe, stable support.











