Topic: Behavioral Problems, Safety
Target Population: Adults, Providers
Sector: Community-Based, Medical Setting, School-Based
This program is delivered to providers and staff who work with children and adolescents age 3 years old and older in all areas of human services and parents, grandparents, and foster parents and is intended to impact providers, adults, children, and adolescents.
Handle With Care® Behavior Management System (HWC), a community-, medical setting-, or school-based crisis management training program, is designed to provide participants with knowledge and preventative skills needed to safely manage children and adolescents who engage in disorderly, destructive, violent, and self-harming behaviors.
No peer-reviewed publications evaluating the effectiveness of this program were located.
This program intends to create an environment of emotional and physical safety for children and adolescents who are behaviorally challenged and the adults who work with them. The program helps providers who work with youth in any area of human service, including schools, child welfare, hospitals, mental health, developmental disabilities, community programs, group homes, social services, and autistic programs. Participants are taught preventative strategies that can decrease the need for physical restraint and are instructed on how to develop and implement management and relationship skills to minimize tension and build and sustain a physically and emotionally safe, calm, and caring environment. Key components of the program include the following:
HWC was created in 1984 and has been implemented in more than 2,000 agencies and schools by over 100,000 practitioners in 50 States and in United States Territories, Canada, and Europe.
On-site and seminar training are available. A 3-day on-site training for up to 10 instructors costs $3,000 per day. Re-certification training is also available. Please visit https://www.handlewithcare.com/on-site-training-and-costs/ or use details in the Contact section to learn more.
Considerations for implementing this program include recruiting staff, ensuring they receive training, and finding a suitable location to learn and practice skills and techniques.
The Clearinghouse can help address these considerations. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
If you are interested in implementing HWC, the Clearinghouse is interested in helping you!
Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
Implementation time varies depending on participant needs.
Information on implementation costs was not located. Please use details in the Contact section for information.
To move HWC to the Promising category on the Clearinghouse Continuum of Evidence, at least one evaluation should be performed demonstrating positive effects lasting at least one year from the beginning of the program or at least six months from program completion.
The Clearinghouse can help you develop an evaluation plan to ensure the program components are meeting your goals. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
Contact the Clearinghouse with any questions regarding this program.
Phone: 1-877-382-9185 Email: Clearinghouse@psu.edu
You may also contact Handle With Care Behavior Management System, Inc., by mail 184 McKinstry Road, Gardiner, NY 12525, phone 1-845-255-4031, fax 1-845-256-0094, email info@handlewithcare.com, or visit https://www.handlewithcare.com/
