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Training > Corporate Culture Change
Corporate Culture Change:
Eliminating the Use of Restraint
A number of recent studies have identified administrative involvement and leadership in restraint reduction as the most crucial element in achieving significant reductions in the use of restraint. When people in positions such as Executive Director, Regional Director, Chief Executive or Chief Operating Officer take an active role in this area, significant reductions if not complete elimination of the use of restraint has been achieved.
Many programs promise quick change; our approach is more committed to enabling you to make permanent changes to your environment. In some cases, change does happen quickly, but the commitment to change requires consistency and predictability on the part of leadership staff, staying the course and holding true to the principles and practices to support people, not just their behavior.
The following quote lays out a fundamental dilemma faced by administrators:
“There is no shortage of turf issues between professions, of tensions between administrators and those who work under their auspices, of conflicts between those of different theoretical orientations or basic values, of competitive struggles for power or income or recognition.
Ethical and Malpractice Issues in Hospital Practice, Kenneth S. Pope
While the article addresses specific issues faced by psychologists practicing in hospital settings, the dynamics discussed are faced by administrators and executive level staff in all human service settings.
The Mandt System® has adapted a set of tools modeled on the principles of Invitational Education to measure an organization’s readiness to move away from coercion and towards environments that provide physical, psychological, and emotional safety for all people. This one day workshop look at the areas which administrative and executive level staff must address in order to develop the strategic plans needed to design, implement, monitor, and modify restraint reduction activities.
At the heart of all these projects and processes is the belief that all human services work is accomplished in the context of relationships. A relationship based model for organizing personnel policies and procedures is presented, as well as models for implementing an Evidence Based Practices program designed to increase the presence of positive behaviors which have and will lead to restraint reduction in the organization.
While this training is predicated upon the principles, philosophies and practices of The Mandt System®, certification in The Mandt System® is not a pre-requisite.
Some responses by executive level staff to this training are:
“This is critical for Executive Directors. All need to attend. I will have better outcomes in my agency than Executive Directors not attending.”
“Data, data, data was emphasized throughout the training which was very informative; the information will help us to move along our path to eliminate the use of restraints, focus on outcomes, and build relationships.”
“The importance of developing positive relationships as a preventative strategy to reduce restraint use was a key point.”
Why should you attend this workshop?
Realizing Vision: We speak about “Safe, Caring and Orderly” schools; from the Council of Ministers of Education – Canada to every provincial Department of Education. Like many things we may speak eloquently about this ideology and may be looking for tools that will keep the principles to achieve this as a daily focus for everyone in the organization. Is there a tool that will guide leadership and student alike in applying concepts that can help us realize this dream? We believe there is and would like to explore this with Administrators in all levels of the educational sector. There are four important components suggested in the “Safe and Caring Schools Guidelines: March 2004” which are key components to guide us.
“Attitudes – because we need to acknowledge that we have a problem and that we can and should address it.
Commitment – because our belief that we will resolve the problem will determine our degree of success.
Action – because safe, caring and orderly schools don’t just happen: we design, create and maintain them.
Accountability – because we need to monitor our progress.”These are the framework of The Mandt System® training which can be applied throughout the organization. For success in safe and caring schools application of dignity and respect for each other must be demonstrated throughout the system from administration through to students. This is possible. Join us May 5th 2008 to explore together how.
Decrease Costs: A number of Workers Compensation Insurance companies in the USA have found that school districts that use The Mandt System® training program have lower WBC insurance claims.
Decrease Restraint: A number of recent studies in the United States have identified administrative involvement and leadership in restraint reduction as the most crucial element in achieving significant reductions in the use of restraint. Many provinces have restraint free policies. This need not only be a dream but specific steps can be taken see this dream become a reality. During this one day workshop we explore current trends, data and steps to realize our dream. Many programs promise quick change; our approach is more like that of a glacier. Glaciers move slow, but make permanent changes to the environment. In some cases, change does happen quickly, but the commitment to change requires consistency and predictability on the part of leadership staff, staying the course and holding true to the principles and practices to support people, not just their behavior. Incorporating data collection formats based on measuring the presence of positive replacement behaviors rather than on the absence of restraint as a staff behavior is presented. At the heart of all these projects and processes is the belief that all human services work is accomplished in the context of relationships. A relation-ship based model for organizing personnel policies and procedures is presented, as well as models for implementing an Evidence Based Practices program of restraint reduction in the organization. If you want to reduce, if not eliminate the use of restraint and other coercive interventions in mental health, developmental disabilities, and educational settings, this workshop will show you how other programs have accomplished the goal.
Evidence, Not Just Talk About Evidence
You will receive tools, information, and evidence of effectiveness. You will see how other organizations reduced workers compensation costs and increased the quality of life of individuals served. We will do more than talk; we will use interactive presentations, provide data, and present an overview of key components of The Mandt System.
Who Should Attend?
Administrators, Directors, Principles and Supervisors in School Districts. All School District Leadership.
Presented by: Dr. Karen Heller, an international presenter, trainer and Faculty member of The Mandt System, Inc. has over 25 years of special education classroom teaching and personnel training experience in K-12 public, post-secondary and human service/mental health facilities. A former college Assistant Vice President and four time invited presenter to the International Conference on Social Tolerance and Civility in Russia. Karen has collaborated with educational, organizational, and social service agency personnel in the U.S., Sweden, Norway, Poland, Russia and Canada in providing positive behavior supports to individuals demonstrating disruptive and antisocial behaviors.
