Summary and Safety-Care Alignment: 

Effective: July 1, 2012

Last Updated: December, 2024

In 2012 the West Virginia Department of Education adopted new rules (Policy 4373) that establish guidelines for “expected behavior in safe and supportive schools”. Regarding the use of restraint, training must now be provided to staff, volunteers, or contractors that may be expected to use physical restraint. This training must be provided on an annual basis, have a core team of trained personnel at each school, including an administrator or designee, and a special education staff member. The training must include methods of prevention and de-escalation techniques, as well as positive behavior intervention and supports (PBIS).

How Safety-Care aligns: Numerous 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.