Safety Care® Crisis Prevention Training provides the skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges with dignity, safety, and the possibility of change. Safety Care® delivers the tools you need to be safe when working with behaviorally challenging individuals. These strategies are appropriate for all individuals as well as those who have experienced psychological or sexual trauma. Safety Care® promotes a reinforcement-based approach to developing new skills, maintaining safety, and reducing or eliminating restrictive interventions such as restraint.

The IU offers an INITIAL training course that provides participants with a one-year certification in Safety Care® Crisis Prevention. In order to maintain Safety Care certification, certificate holders must participate in a yearly refresher training.  The IU provides refresher training opportunities quarterly (January, April, July, & October) and will work with schools to provide customized refresher opportunities as we are able.

2 Day Initial Safety Care Certification

Safety Care provides the skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges with dignity, safety, and the possibility of change. Safety-Care delivers the tools you need to be safe when working with behaviorally challenging individuals using up-to-date and effective technologies from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS).  Safety-Care promotes a reinforcement-based approach to developing new skills, maintaining safety, and reducing or eliminating restrictive interventions such as restraint.

Staff will learn to:

- Understand How & Why Crisis Events Happen

- Reduce the Frequency of Crisis Events with Simple & Effective Strategies

- Respond Appropriately & Safely to Dangerous Behavior

- Effectively Support Individuals Who Have Experienced Psychological or Sexual Trauma

- Prevent or Reduce the Use of Restraint

- Intervene After a Crisis to Reduce the Chance for Recurrence

- Apply Evidence-Based, Trauma-Informed Care-Compatible Reinforcement & De-Escalation Techniques

Refresher Safety Care Training

This workshop reinforces skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges with dignity, safety, and the possibility of change.

This standard refresher training is for individuals who are currently certified in Safety Care Crisis Prevention and are required to receive the annual refresher workshop to maintain certification.

The objectives of the Refresher training are to:

- Review the program content.

- Find out what is or isn’t working for staff.

- Clarify any questions on how to apply the program information.

- Manage behaviors with dignity, safety, and respect.