Target Audience: Staff seeking initial CPI certification.
Course Description: This 3 day training provides the opportunity for participants to obtain initial certification in CPI's "Nonviolent Crisis Intervention" program. Participants will receive an introduction to crisis prevention focusing on nonphysical strategies, including nonverbal, paraverbal, and verbal techniques that can be used to assist in deescalating behavior. Participants will receive instruction, role-playing, practice, and feedback in using personal safety techniques, such as blocking, moving, and releasing, to avoid or minimize injury when interacting with an individual who is escalated. This training also includes instruction, role-playing, practice, and feedback in the use of physical restraint strategies, transport techniques, and team strategies to maintain safety when an individual engages in escalated behavior that is dangerous to self or others.
Note: Full attendance, as well as proficiency on end of course test and physical techniques are required to receive certification. Individuals who are physically unable to engage in required physical techniques will not be eligible for certification.