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With restraint and seclusion use above the Florida state average (three and ten times, respectively), Marion County Public Schools needed to act fast to keep everybody, from students to faculty, safe.
The District recognized that they had to create a more productive environment for their students and faculty. Their decision? To establish comprehensive, district- wide crisis prevention training.
But they knew the task ahead of them was intimidating. After all, the Marion County School District has 6,000 staff members across 52 campuses — implementing a training program would be no small feat. That’s why they reached out to CPI, to find a partner in safety
that could deploy a plan to help reduce restraint and seclusion use.
To manage the implementation of this initiative, the Marion County School District appointed one of their
incredibly skilled ESE Coordinators, Cori Boney. A Certified Instructor since 2009 with over a decade
of experience in special education, teaching, and leadership roles across multiple organizations, Boney had the knowledge, and the know-how, to lead an ambitious effort like this.
“We needed to make changes for students. We were being very reactive instead of proactive. We recognized we needed to make changes and do things in a better way to keep students safe and staff,” Boney said. “We wanted to find something that would address the mindshift change we needed to make.”
The Marion County School District needed a shift in staff approach and empathy — a true culture change — toward understanding how faculty attitudes affect student temperament (and vice versa) and the principles of verbal de-escalation. Simply put, they needed Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training.
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PREVENTION CONNECTION - FROM REACTIVE TO PROACTIVE