Free De-Escalation Course On December 17 For Southwest Businesses

Press release from the Southwest Business Association:

December 7, 2020

De-escalation Training: Managing the Mental Health Crisis

December 17th 1PM

This de-escalation training will help build skills around the prevention of and intervention in mental health crisis and wellness recovery. The training will be conducted by Mark Anderson, Executive Director of the Barbara Schneider Foundation trainer (bio below).

TOPICS:

• Understanding mental health crisis

• Physical safety

• Special intervention techniques

• Maintaining professional boundaries

• The whole person in crisis

• Verbal and non-verbal de-escalation tactics and strategies

Mark Anderson is Executive Director of the Barbara Schneider Foundation, an organization named for a woman who was tragically killed by responding officers in the year 2000 in her own home when she was in mental health crisis. The Foundation works with police, jails, hospitals, social workers, educators, local government, courts and community members to improve the response to individuals who are in mental health crisis and to prevent crisis. He was a policy aide to U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone from 1990-2002 on all his mental health, health care and human rights reform initiatives in the US Senate and has been the founding Executive Director of the Barbara Schneider Foundation since 2002.

Microsoft Teams meeting

https://gcc02.safelinks.protec...

Or call in (audio only)

+1 612-276-6670,,260387946# United States, Minneapolis

Phone Conference ID: 260 387 946#

This press release was produced by the Southwest Business Association. The views expressed are the author's own.