Course Overview: This self-paced, online training is designed to provide participants with information to increase knowledge of safety?related issues in child welfare practice and offers practical skills for managing personal safety during interactions with families. This training presents information about worker safety awareness, assessment, and actions workers can take if/when they encounter unsafe situations. The training will also provide participants with ways in which they can apply preparation strategies that promote safety in child welfare practice.

Course Objectives

At the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Explain the importance of awareness, assessment, anticipation, and action as they relate to worker safety.
- Define the common stages of threat/violence escalation.
- Describe the signs that a person�s behavior is escalating, recognize indicators that signal an interaction is becoming unsafe, and use techniques that promote safety during interaction with others at different stages of escalation.
- Describe potentially dangerous situations workers may encounter in the field as they relate to substance abuse, domestic violence, and mental illness.