Target Audience: To provide ongoing support to certificates required by CPI, this course is limited to Prairie Lakes AEA school districts and staff ONLY, including school staff and AEA staff who work with individuals 3-21 years who engage in problem behaviors that have the potential to result in injury to self or others. AEA staff are required to have supervisor approval to register for this training.

Course Description: This training provides the opportunity for participants to obtain and/or renew certification in CPI''''s "Nonviolent Crisis Intervention" program. Participants will receive an introduction to crisis prevention focusing on nonphysical strategies, including nonverbal, para-verbal, and verbal techniques that can be used to assist in de-escalating 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: These strategies taught in this training are not intended to replace Behavior Intervention Plans for individual students, but rather to provide strategies for school staff to use to maintain safety during unusual situations or circumstances not addressed in a BIP.

Full attendance, as well as 100% accuracy on the end of course test and 100% proficiency in physical techniques,  are required to receive certification. Individuals who are physically unable to engage in required physical techniques will not be eligible for certification. To maintain certification, individuals are required to participate in the CPI''''s "Nonviolent Crisis Intervention" recertification training at least bi-annually.