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Safe & Positive Approaches

The Supervision of Safe & Positive Approaches

The Supervision of Safe & Positive Approaches is an evidence‐based supervisory training program designed for lead staff, first‐line supervisors and middle managers who are responsible for direct care/direct support staff and their implementation of the performance responsibilities trained in the Safe & Positive Approaches® program. Its purpose is to enable supervisors to: (a) understand their roles and responsibilities and legal implications; (b) heighten their knowledge and skill level of Safe & Positive Approaches® concepts and techniques; (c) provide supportive, behavioral supervision; and (d) promote staff’s use, mastery and retention of Safe & Positive Approaches® concepts and skills that reduce and eliminate the use of restraints.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to identify issues that impact their supervisory roles and responsibilities in the prevention and intervention of crisis.
  2. Participants will be able to describe elements of a culturally competent and trauma-informed environment that fosters crisis prevention and the reduction and elimination of restraints.
  3. Participants will be able to develop their knowledge and skills in the concepts, guidelines and techniques trained in the Safe & Positive Approaches® program.
  4. Participants will be able to demonstrate technical accuracy in their evaluation of staff’s performance of Safe & Positive Approaches® skills and techniques.
  5. Participants will be able to implement supportive supervisory strategies for providing performance monitoring and a 7-step process for delivering feedback to their staff.
  6. Participants will be able to facilitate a staff debriefing process in follow-up of crisis situations.

 Program Components:

  •  Module 1: Supervisory Roles, Responsibilities and Legal Implications
  •  Module 2: Safe & Positive Approaches® Knowledge and Skills
  •  Module 3: Supportive Behavioral Supervision of Safe & Positive Approaches®
  •  Module 4: Enhancing and Maintaining Staff’s Performance of Safe & Positive Approaches®