Orange Pediatric Therapy considers safety the highest priority when it comes to working with our kiddos. We choose to train all our Registered Behavior Technicians in the most up to date behavioral managements practices.
Orange Pediatric Therapy is proud to have THREE certified Safety Care Trainers on staff!!
Got questions?
Reach out to Brooke, Lindsay or Alyse!
WHAT IS SAFETY CARE?
Safety-Care™ provides the skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges with dignity, safety, and the possibility of change. Using the newest and most effective technologies from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS), this Safety-Care program provides staff with strategies for not only preventing and managing behavioral challenges, but also to effectively teach replacement behaviors. Appropriate for individuals experiencing developmental, neurologic, psychiatric and other impairments, Safety-Care results in fewer restraints and a more positive, reinforcement-based approach which leads to behavior modification over time. Safety-Care provides the tools needed to be safe when working with behaviorally-challenging individuals.
WHAT IS SAFETY CARE FOR FAMILIES?
Orange Pediatric Therapy now provides Safety Care for Families! Yes, thats right! Brooke Schneider is now a Safety Care for Families Trainer!! Safety-Care for Families is an advanced module that provides Safety-Care Trainers with a curriculum for training families and others who might provide in-home support. Ideal for parents, siblings, extended family, neighbors, foster parents, and others. Stay tuned for the next training!
WHAT ARE THE CORE PRINCIPLES OF SAFETY CARE?
Respectful, humane, non-coercive interventions.
Emphasis is on prevention over management.
Evidence-based procedures are the basis of intervention. While the course material avoids jargon and is designed to be taught and used in a variety of contexts, the protocols in Safety-Care are based on procedures that have been validated in many studies as broadly effective. These include basic applications of functional assessment, differential reinforcement, antecedent management, functional communication training, and behavioral momentum.
Positive reinforcement is embedded throughout the course.
Effective staff training requires an evidence-based approach incorporating errorless teaching strategies whenever possible.
A least restrictive approach requires a range of options. Staff learn a series of interventions that can be flexibly adapted to the specific circumstances in which they find themselves. Whenever an agitated individual demonstrates a decrease in agitation, staff learn to shape and reinforce that decrease by moving to a less restrictive intervention.
Physical procedures are designed to be simple, effective, safe, and have minimal abuse potential.
Restraint must be used only when there are no other safe options and must end as quickly as possible.
Consistency in standards that reduce risk.