This innovative course provides an adapted version of our Safety-Care curriculum, designed to provide parents, family members, and others with the skills and interventions needed to improve behavior and to prevent, minimize, and manage potentially dangerous incidents. It is intended for anyone providing support in a home or home-like environment to individuals who present behavioral challenges. The Safety-Care for Families curriculum consists of three sequential sessions. Trainers determine which sessions to train families, depending on their needs.
Safety-Care® for Families
Safety-Care for Families is a training program for family members and other stakeholders working with behaviorally challenging individuals in a home or home-like setting.
Curriculum Content
Session 1: Essential Skills
Essential Skills is intended to take about 3–5 hours (depending on the number of trainees). It discusses legal issues, understanding behavior, differential reinforcement, prevention, de-escalation, family safety planning, and what to do after an incident.
Session 2: Physical Safety
Physical Safety is intended to take about 1.5–2.5 hours. It covers preventative and physical safety skills from the regular Safety-Care curriculum.
Session 3: Physical Management
Physical Management is intended to take about 1.5–2.5 hours. It covers a subset of the physical management skills from the regular Safety-Care curriculum.
Any certified Safety-Care trainer can become a Safety-Care for Families trainer via a convenient online training. Safety-Care for Families trainers can teach the first session to appropriate audiences, while the second and third sessions are taught only with a professional recommendation to trainees who have a current and ongoing clinical relationship with the providing organization. Find our training schedule and sign up for a Safety-Care for Families training.
Training Costs
The organization may choose to charge a fee to family members for training or provide training at no cost. Regardless, the organization must pay certain fees to QBS when Safety-Care for Families training is completed. There is a fee for each certificate generated by QBS (unless only teaching Essential Skills) upon the completion of initial training or recertification training.