• • Physical restraint/crisis intervention” means:”Manual restraint” means the use of physical intervention intended to hold a person immobile or limit a person’s movement by using body contact as the only source of physical restraint. Prone restraint is a type of manual restraint or hold that limits or controls the movement or normal functioning of any portion, or all, of a person’s body while the person is in a face-down position, but does not include the temporary controlling of a person in a prone position while transitioning to an alternative, safer form of restraint.

200-RICR-20-30-2 §2.3. Procedures and training.

• • Public education programs shall develop written procedures regarding appropriate responses to student behavior that may require the use of physical restraint/crisis intervention.
  • Methods for preventing student violence, self-injurious behavior, and suicide, including de-escalation of potentially dangerous behavior occurring among groups of students or with an individual student.
  • Required Training For All Staff. Each public education program shall designate personnel to determine a time and methods to provide all staff with training regarding the school’s physical restraint/crisis intervention policies. Such training shall occur at least annually not later than within the first month of each school year. The training shall include:
    • Program’s restraint policy
    • Identification of staff that have received physical restraint/crisis intervention training.
    • Training shall include procedures for preventing the need for physical restraint/crisis intervention, a description of dangerous behaviors that may indicate the need for physical restraint and a method for evaluating the risk of harm in individual situations in order to determine whether the use of physical restraint and crisis interventions are warranted.  Instructions on monitoring physical signs of distress and obtaining medical assistance.  Demonstration of proficiency in administering physical restraint/crisis intervention.

200-RICR-20-30-2 §2.4. Determining when physical restraint/Crisis intervention may be used.

• • Use of Restraint/Intervention. Physical restraint/crisis intervention may be used only in the following circumstances:
    • Non-physical interventions would not be effective; and
    • The student’s behavior poses a threat of imminent, serious, physical harm to self and/or others; and
    • If a behavioral intervention plan has been developed for the student, those various positive reinforcement techniques have been implemented appropriately and the child has failed to respond to those reinforcement techniques.