Summary: 

Passed: 6/1/23 

Effective: 2026-27 School Year 

During the 2026-27 School Year, districts must begin providing behavioral awareness training to all professional and support staff. These trainings must include instruction on verbal and non-verbal de-escalation techniques, trauma-informed care, positive behavior support, and proactive teaching strategies. Additionally, those who undergo the training must participate in regular continuing education courses to remain up to date with current practices.   

How Safety-Care aligns: Numerous school districts 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 learning environment. Safety-Care provides a comprehensive, supportive approach to incident prevention, de-escalation, and management. District 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 LB 705 in the following ways: 

Nebraska Revised Statutes Ch. 79-3602  

Sec. 3 §(1)(b) Beginning in SY 2026-27, each school district shall ensure that each administrator, teacher, paraprofessional, school nurse, and counselor receives behavioral awareness training. The length of such training shall be a reasonable amount as determined by each school board.  

How Safety-Care aligns: 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.

1. Recognition of detrimental factors impacting student behavior, including but not limited to, signs of trauma;  
   
   1. How Safety-Care aligns: (a) 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.  
2. Positive behavior support and proactive teaching strategies;  
   1. How Safety-Care aligns: Safety-Care is focused on encouraging positive behavior prior to the use of any other intervention strategy. Our approach stems from the use of Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) that can prevent and manage challenge behavior
3. Verbal intervention and de-escalation techniques.  
   1. How Safety-Care aligns: Safety-Care certified individuals are trained to use our Help, Prompt, and Wait strategies as early intervention procedures that effectively de-escalate potential crisis situations before any physical management is necessary.  
4. § (1)(a) Each individual who has received such training shall receive a behavioral awareness training review (renewal training) at least once every three years.  
   1. How Safety-Care aligns: Safety-Care certification must be renewed annually in a brief refresher course. Our Master Trainers and curriculum staff work to ensure that the core Safety-Care curricula is current with the most up to date practices in crisis management.
5. Each school district may offer such training, or similar training, to any other school employees at the discretion of the school district.  
   1. How Safety-Care aligns: Safety-Care can be taught to all levels of school personnel, from administration down to volunteers.  Additionally, our core trainings can be supplemented with unique add-on trainings focused on specific needs and professions.   
      
6. All school employees shall have a basic awareness of the goals, strategies, and schoolwide plans included in such training.
   1. How Safety-Care aligns: 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. 
      
7. This training must be available for SY 2024-25, even though it is not required until SY 2026-27.  
   
8. Funding for this training is available from the Behavioral Training Cash Fund, which receives proceeds from the Nebraska lottery.