QBS, Inc.

The core Safety-Care curriculum provides your staff with a comprehensive set of skills for preventing crises and intervening if they occur. Unlike some other similar courses, which rely on clever acronyms and vague bullet points rather than specific interventions, Safety-Care skills training is highly specific and competency-based.

The core curriculum covers these topics:

Introduction

Provides a general introduction to the course, working within a regulatory framework, causes and conditions associated with challenging behavior, the reinforcement model of behavior, and how staff can inadvertently reinforce challenging behavior.

Incident Prevention

Provides a broad set of methods for reducing the likelihood of behavioral crises and improving staff safety. That includes creating a safe and positive living environment, dressing for safety, and safe interaction with potentially aggressive individuals. Staff will also learn, practice, and demonstrate competency in differential reinforcement and basic preventative safety procedures.

Incident Minimization

Methods for identifying crises and stopping or reducing their intensity. That includes detecting antecedents (triggers and signals), predicting behavior, and getting assistance. Trainees will also learn and practice a compre hensive approach to intervention with agitated individuals, de-escalation, and reinforcement of non-crisis behaviors.

Incident Management

How to safely cope with a serious behavioral incident. Includes basic physical safety skills, releases, management of weapons, leadership during behavioral crises, procedures for safe holding, alternatives to holding, emergency release, planned rapid release, and emergency release. Organizations can choose not to use or train certain physical interventions if they believe they are not appropriate to their setting and mission.

Post-Incident Procedures

Recovery procedures (what to do after a crisis), debriefing of staff, debriefing the individual (when appropriate).

Role-Plays

Following the presentation of the Safety-Care curriculum, several role-plays of increasing intensity are presented. These are tailored to the kinds of problems that trainees encounter in their work settings. Role-plays are designed to teach staff not just how to use the skills they’ve learned, but when to use them and how to choose which approach to take.

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