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Safety Care 

Option A: Recertification Course

Instructor: Kara Soccorso
Dates: June 11, 2026     
Time: TBD, 6 hrs total
    2-3 hr Self-Paced virtual training
    4 hr in person training
Location: Maura GIlleran's classroom (room 107 at HOD)    
PDP’s:    6
Priority: Summer Staff and Current Staff with June Recertification

Option B: Initial Training Course:

Instructor: Jason Connelly
Dates: August 24, 2026 & August 25, 2026
Time:  TBD, 12 hrs total
    4-5 hr Self-Paced virtual training
    6-8 hr in person training
Location:  Band Room, Freeman-Kennedy School    
PDP’s: 12
Priority Given: SACC staff, New Staff, and Current Staff who need the initial training

Option C: Recertification Course

Instructor: Kara Soccorso
Dates: August 24 2026     
Time: TBD, 6 hrs total
    2-3 hr Self-Paced virtual training
    4 hr in person training
Location: Band Room, Freeman-Kennedy School    
PDP’s:    6
Priority: SACC staff

Description:

Safety-Care Behavioral Safety Training program 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 will provide your 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 will result in a more positive reinforcement based approach, the development of new skills, and fewer restraints.

Safety-Care provides the tools you need to be safe when working with behaviorally challenging individuals.
 

We can help you to:

  • Understand how and why crisis events happen, and ways in which we might inadvertently contribute to them.
  • Prevent crises using a variety of supportive interaction strategies.
  • Apply simple, evidence-based de-escalation strategies that are effective for any population.
  • Respond appropriately and safely to dangerous behavior.
  • Prevent the need for restraint.
  • Intervene after a crisis to reduce the chance that it will happen again.