"This course should be required for all first year teachers, new employees and all administrators." -Eddie Reed, Tukwila School District
"Very different from other behavioral model learned- more positive, more proactive, makes more sense, more applicable." -Staff, Mukilteo School District
Standard Curriculum
The standard SECURE curriculum is designed for long-term caregivers such as parents or staff who provide daily, one-to-one support of people with identified behavioral challenges or potentially unsafe actions. This includes roles such as families, parents (foster and natural), educators, counselors, direct care staff, security and others.
The Standard Curriculum explores the complete SECURE Cycle of Crisis Understanding and Response which traces the proactive path of Prevention, De-escalation and Postvention. Our course through this cycle is directed by the 3 Guiding Philosophies of SECURE. These philosophies focus on providing individualized supports as well as maintaining dignity and safety throughout the process of crisis understanding and response. With Prevention, we focus on managing ourselves with Self-Awareness, managing our environments with Proactive Environments and managing the behavior of others with Positive Behavior Support.
Since we may not be able to prevent all crisis from occurring, we teach the De-escalation Process and a mix of general and specific de-escalation techniques to serve most people. Equally important is a focus on the Restabilization of the individual in crisis as well as everyone involved.
What happens after a crisis is just as important as what happens before when it comes to preventing that crisis in the future. For this reason, Postvention features Post-Crisis Teaching and Post-Crisis Learning to ensure all involved learn to prevent this crisis from occurring in the future. Documentation also plays a critical role in learning from the incident and proactively managing it in the future.
Optionally, Physical Intervention techniques may be taught to attendees when they are likely to face potentially unsafe behavior. This includes Self-Protection skills such as Avoidance, Repelling, Protection and Releases. To manage others safely we teach therapeutic Escorts and Holds after an extensive discussion regarding the essential Ethical Considerations and Safety Principles. Physical intervention is not a required component of the standard curriculum although it is typically included.
Attendees are taught to use Physical Intervention as a last resort to maintaining safety when proactive and individualized de-escalation strategies have not been successful. Physical Intervention is not to be used for behavior management, compliance, punishment or retaliation since these actions are ineffective for the purposes of de-escalation or education and are very likely illegal in most situations.
The full seminar lasts 14-16 hours depending on scheduling which may be completed in 2-seven hour sessions, 3-five hour sessions or 4-four hour sessions (additional sessions fee applies).
De-escalation (Standard) Curriculum
Physical intervention is not a required component of the standard curriculum although it is typically included. This is an option for those long-term caregivers who do not have exposure to physical agression. Without the Physical Intervention, the Standard Course time is 8 hours and may also be completed in 2-four hour sessions.