Early Childhood: Pre-School and Early Elementary School Program
HWC has been training nursery and preschool teachers and psychiatric hospitals serving children as young as three for decades. During that time, HWC has never received a report of an injury to a preschool or elementary-aged child. Our safety record to date speaks to how well engineered HWC’s early childhood program is. It also speaks volumes about the good will and professionalism of nurses, childcare workers and teachers.
HWC’s centerpiece proprietary child holding method is the “Modified PRT for Smaller Children™.” HWC’s holding method offers far more mechanical advantage than the ‘basket hold’ with none of the BH’s problems, including the basket hold’s inherently fatal malfunction mode and the stress that can be placed on the child’s shoulders, elbows and wrists with it if the arms are pulled too tightly as the child struggles. The Modified PRT for Smaller Children is an effective method for children until about middle school age, when the larger size and strength of these children demands a method with the mechanical advantage of our proprietary adolescent and adult holding method; the Primary Restraint Technique® or PRT®. I engineered a smooth transition from the Modified PRT for Smaller Children to a full PRT should you attempt to use our smaller child hold with a larger child (often in that grey area of middle school age) only to discover you need more mechanical advantage than our small child hold offers. You should not need to know that transition if you are working exclusively with children within the preschool and early elementary size range.
Whereas HWC’s program for adolescents and adult populations offers safe and effective personal defense techniques for these populations, our personal defense system for preschool and early elementary school clinicians and faculty is limited to gently stabilizing grabs to clothing and hair and “cover blocking” your face and head. These methods are designed to be safe with young unstable joints.
