Presenters: Linda Brown, Educational Consultant, CIU#10, Jeff Holter, Educational Consultant, CIU #10, Jennifer Starner, Educational Consultant, CIU #10

Description:  Nonviolent Crisis Intervention is a safe, nonharmful behavior management system designed to help human service workers provide for the best possible care and welfare of assultive, disruptive or out-of-control persons even during the most violent moments.

In this training you will learn to:

• Identify useful nonverbal techniques in the prevention of acting out behavior
• Develop verbal techniques to be implemented when de-escalation of verbal acting out is necessary
• Understand physical principles of personal safety techniques to avoid client and staff injury if behavior escalates to a physical level
• Provide for the best care and welfare for individuals in your facility
• Understand and develop team intervention strategies and techniques
• Demonstrate physical control and restraint techniques to be implemented when physical intervention is necessary
• Apply the material covered to "real life" situations
• Build therapeutic postvention techniques to be implemented after acting out behavior has occurred, to aid the individual in coping with crisis

Competencies:  Participants will:

• Recognize and respond appropriately to crisis development behavior levels.
• Use Nonviolent Physical Crisis Intervention techniques.
• Use a team approach to crisis intervention, which best promotes the care, welfare, safety and security for all staff and students.
• Receive a completion card as documentation of successful participation.

Relationships to Needs Assessment: CIU Professional Development Survey

Evaluation Method:  CPI Standardized Test and Observation

Act 48 Continuing Professional Education:  7 approved hours via CIU 10

Audience:  The CPI Model for Nonviolent Crisis Intervention is a team approach. The techniques and strategies require a minimum of 2 individuals for implementation.  Therefore, buildings will need to have more than one person trained to use the CPI model,  Single participants may attend if they will be joining others in their building who are already trained.
Please contact Jeff Holter ( jholter@ciu10.org )

Number of Participants:  30

Cost: $30.00/per person (Includes CPI workbook, refreshments and lunch each day)

Deadline for Registration:  One week before training
 

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