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Handle With Care's blog offers insights into crisis intervention, behavior management, and training programs. It features discussions on de-escalation techniques, physical intervention strategies, and trauma-informed care, reflecting the organization's commitment to safety and effective behavior management.
We have recently updated our site and are now working on new content for this section. In the meantime, please find below a list of our historical blog posts that we have migrated the best we can from the old site. Some of these blog posts may contain broken links, so we ask for your patience as we work to clean these up and finalize our new content.
- 7th Circuit Holds: School Not Constitutionally Liable for Autistic Student's Violent Assaults
- A place in our hearts - what makes a hero?
- AASA Releases Report: How Seclusion and Restraint Protects Students and School Personnel
- AASA Releases Second Report: How Seclusion and Restraint Protects Students and School Personnel
- Austistic Child Wants To Be Held
- CA. Los Angeles Judge Objects to School Police Getting Millions Reserved for Students: Routine School Disciplinary Matters Should Be Handled By Schools, Not Police
- CA. PBIS program gets mixed reviews
- Congressman George Miller re-introduces school restraint bill H.R. 1381
- COVID-19 Prevention Guidance Regarding Restraint Procedures
- D.C. Parents of student shot by a Juvenile in the District’s custody sue DYRS for $20 million
- Daystar Residential Center Restraint
- Dozens of Maine educators assaulted in wake of ill-advised changes to restraint rule
- Extreme & Violent Student Behavior Pushing Iowa Teachers to Breaking Point
- FL. Jacksonville teacher suspended for not intervening in kindergarten fight
- Getting A Student Down From A Desk Or Shelf
- HANDLE WITH CARE – COVID- 19 TRAINING PROTOCOLS
- Handle With Care's Response to COVID-19
- Head thrashing in a PRT
- Head Thrashing In A PRT - Q2
- How Does HWC Training Decrease Restraints?
- How HWC holding methods create a calm mind state - faster
- How to Stop the School --> Prison --> Pipeline
- HWC Early Childhood Manual
- HWC in the News: School Security Prepares to Handle Crisis Situations with Care
- HWC Newsletter - Spring 2014
- HWC Newsletter - Summer 2012
- HWC Newsletter - Winter 2013
- HWC PRT® TRIPOD SAFETY ADVISORY
- HWC Q&A: How Does HWC Training Decrease The Need For Physical Intervention?
- HWC Spring 2015 Newsletter!
- HWC SUPINE HOLDING SAFETY ADVISORY
- HWC's Empty-handed take down exercise
- HWC's Evidence Based Approach To Creating Trauma-Informed and Trauma-Responsive Organizations, Healthcare and Schools
- Indiana. IPS introduces new policy allowing limited force by teachers to break up fights
- Kirby's HWC Story: A plane, a meltdown, a PRT and an "I love you"
- Laws Regarding Restraint for Hospitals
- Laws Regarding Restraint for Juvenile Justice
- Laws Regarding Restraint for Schools
- Louisiana Act No. 328 on Seclusion and Restraint in Schools
- Louisiana House Bill 405 Guidelines for the Use of Seclusion and Restraint
- Mexico: Teacher suspended for student death for failure to protect
- MI. Federal Jury Orders School District to Pay Student $800k for Ignoring Pattern of Bullying
- MI. Michigan courts give teachers right to sue if school system fails to discipline students who are safety risks
- Modified PRT for Smaller Children
- Mohave County’s Paul Hernandez, a HWC Instructor, named state Detention Officer of the Year
- National. Law Enforcement and Arrests Replace Teachers and School Discipline
- NC. Department of Education finds school's seclusion use legally justified
- New Texas School Restraint Law does not impact HWC Training
- New York teachers and school safety officers investigated for not intervening in girls' beating (by other students) at Bronx prep school
- NY. School hit with $11 million ruling for failure to protect student from attacks
- NYC Courts rule schools have a duty to inform parents when their child is involved in a school fight
- NYC. Another NYC School to be sued for failing to protect student. 14 year-old blinded in school fight will sue for 16 million.
- Oregon School Sued for Failing To Protect Students
- Oregon. Lincoln County School District sued $2.9 million for failing to protect students against 6-year-old
- Overview of Laws governing Restraint and Seclusion
- PA. Federal District Court Judge Rules That Schools Have a Duty to Train Staff In Breaking Up Fights and Defusing Student's Aggression
- Parent Training May Help Kids With Autism Behave Better
- Pennsylvania School Accused of Failing to Protect Students in Their Care
- Pregnant Female
- Proning — Says COVID Research — Helps Breathing
- PRT Tripod Stand Instructions
- Restraining clients of the opposite sex
- Restraint in School - what the law says.
- SC. Officer throws student in South Carolina classroom arrest
- Senate Revised School Restraint Bill
- State Senator Asks Why Are School Police Department Disciplining Students and Not Teachers
- Stopping a student who is headbutting his desk
- Student attacked on a school bus. Driver may face charges for failure to protect.
- Student's family sues Alabama school for failing to protect
- Student’s family wins $300K settlement in suit against TN school for failing to protect
- Student’s family wins settlement in suit against California school for failing to protect
- Supine restraint for clients with exceptional athleticism
- Teacher Faces Misdemeanor Child Neglect Charges For Letting Students "Slap It Out"
- The Art of Limit Setting
- The Basket hold
- The compliments keep coming. See below for Kyle's response.
- The Science of Behavior Management
- TN. Multimillion dollar suit filed against school for failure to protect, bullying, assault and battery
- Unions in the U.K. Want Restraint Training for Teachers
- UPDATED: HANDLE WITH CARE – COVID- 19 TRAINING PROTOCOLS
- US. Government offers recommendations to discipline to slow school-to-prison pipeline
- Virginia. Schools drafting their own restraint policy and totally disregarding the inane law their legislators passed in March
- WA. Parents of boy repeatedly bullied at school for years sue for 1.2 million
- We want you - HWC Content Cooperative
- We're a hands off facility. What do we do when there is a fight?
- What happens when school policy prevents teachers from stopping fights: Indiana case study
- Why Lying Face-Down Helps COVID-19 Patients Breathe