Summary and Safety-Care Alignment: 

Effective: September 30, 2018 

After AB 2657 became effective, schools within California became authorized to use behavioral restraints, including certain physical and mechanical restraints as well as seclusion, to control behavior that is deemed dangerous to fellow pupils or others present. Behavioral restraints can only be used if less restrictive methods have not produced more positive responses.   

Behavioral restraints are prohibited from being used for the purposes of coercion, discipline, convenience or retaliation. 

Minimal protections established in California law for other settings where restraint techniques might be used (healthcare facilities, group homes, rehabilitation centers, etc.) are to be afforded to all students. 

How Safety-Care aligns: Numerous educational organizations throughout the United States and Canada rely upon QBS and our Safety-Care training to provide their staff members with the training they need to help maintain a safe and healthy environment. Safety-Care provides a comprehensive, supportive approach to incident prevention, de-escalation, and management. Your Staff will learn practical strategies for helping students that use evidence-based practices consistent with PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports) and ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis).  

Safety-Care can meet the requirements of Departmental Requirements in the following ways: 

Safety-Care is uniquely designed to provide trainees with the skills to assess potential crises, how de-escalate these situations, and how to respond if the situation is elevated. Our trainings are trauma-informed and focus on modifying behavior to prevent dangerous outcomes. Safety-Care can be taught to all levels of personnel, from administration down to volunteers. Additionally, our core trainings can be supplemented with unique add-on trainings focused on specific needs and professions. Safety-Care uses a Train the Trainer model allowing each district to quickly develop their own core of trainers qualified in the most current behavioral interventions and de-escalation strategies. Our Master Trainers can have up to ten (10) staff ready to train in as little as three days. Safety-Care is geared towards ensuring that all trainees are familiar with a single response system and can respond in-kind to numerous situations regardless of the professional setting.