Safety-Care for Families is a practical training program for families and caregivers of individuals with challenging behaviors at home or in community settings. Training is offered in three levels:
Essential Skills
- Topics
- Legal Issues
- Behavioral Understanding
- Differential Reinforcement
- Preventative Strategies
- De-escalation Techniques
- Family Safety Planning
- Post-Incident Response
- Requirements
- Must be 16 years old or older
- No recertification needed
Intermediate Skills
- Topics
- Use of behavioral momentum to improve cooperation
- Protective shuffling
- Shoulder checking
- Wrist releasing
- Grab stripping
- Front hair pull releasing
- Front choke releasing
- Bite releasing
- Managing complex grab situations
- Requirements
- Requires Essential Skills Training as a prerequisite
- Must be 18 years old or older
- Referral from BCBA, Social Worker, Physician, Nurse Practitioner, Psychologist or Mental Health Counselor
- Requires annual recertification
Advanced Skills
- Topics
- Safe use of physical management
- 1-Person Stability Hold
- 2-Person Stability Hold
- Floor Drop Transition
- Forward Transport
- Release
- Recovery
- Debriefing
- Requirements
- Requires Essential Skills and Intermediate Skills Trainings as a prerequisite
- Must be 18 years old or older
- Referral from BCBA, Social Worker, Physician, Nurse Practitioner, Psychologist or Mental Health Counselor
- Requires annual recertification