Unrestrained: A CPI Podcast

In this podcast interview, training specialist Christian Milovich explains how meaningful refresher training of CPI’s Nonviolent Crisis Prevention® training has become part of the culture at Oaklawn psychiatric services, a state-designated community mental health center serving 4 cities on 4 campuses in northern Indiana.

Personal support worker Walter Comer of Canada's Victorian Order of Nurses talks about how CPI training helps he and his colleagues stay safe during home visits to people in need, including those with dementia, families with kids on the autism spectrum, new moms, and other people in need.

Guest Dr. Brienne Downing, a special educator working in Southern California's Santee School District, describes how CPI training has transformed her staff's ability to help students in crisis regain self-control and maintain their baselines through behavior management skills and techniques.  

Guest Susan Driscoll, president of CPI, discusses a recent presentation in which she advances the idea that workplace violence in healthcare complicates the care of those served and poses a significant risk for caregivers, clients and visitors. Increased incidents of workplace violence can result in employee injury, lost days of work, increased claims and higher stress levels, leading to employee burnout, turnover, reduced productivity and adverse events. Driscoll details how CPI’s new Verbal Intervention™ Training can help stop workplace violence and foster a safer culture in healthcare facilities.

In this podcast interview, Healthcare trainer Ted Sandquist of Blackstone Consulting discusses how an appreciation of CPI behavioral models and the concept of an Integrated Experience helped him while performing counter-intelligence for the US military in Japan and Iraq as they do today training healthcare employees in southern California.

In this podcast interview, Certified Instructor and professor of special education and literacy Dr. Ernest Solar of Mount St. Mary’s University discusses how CPI training improved RA crisis management skills and significantly reduced the number of behavioral incidents reported by resident advisors in the college’s dormitories. Also featured are Dr. Solar's insights about how he uses creative writing exercises and mindfulness training to sharpen the skills of his teaching candidates. 

In this podcast interview, human services SME Linda Welch of Youth Villages, a secure residential treatment center for kids, explains why even though verbal de-escalation is always preferable, physical restraint procedures are sometimes necessary in residential care settings. Be sure to subscribe to the show. 

Associate Director of Instructional Intervention for the St. Charles Community Unit School District 303

Author, Olympian, and Rhodes Scholar Bonnie St. John explains how busy professionals can learn techniques that reduce stress and promote faster recovery from burnout and fatigue in her book Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, and Energy.

Craig Stowell, a 14-year veteran of the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office, describes the benefits of verbal de-escalation training, including fewer injuries, reduced litigation, less paperwork, and greater safety for all.

Health care SMEs Deb Fabert and Joe Anderson of Indiana University Health discuss the transformative effects of a team approach to violence prevention in health care settings.

Enjoy a voice from points north as CPI Certified Instructor and Inuk Trudy Metcalfe of the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre shares valuable tips for taking a culturally sensitive approach to facilitating training and managing crisis in the workplace.

Behavioral health intervention specialist D.C. Foster of the Arizona State Hospital describes how behavioral management techniques help safely manage individuals identified as Serious Mental Illness and Sexually Violent Persons.

Supervisor Stan Granger of Michigan’s Ingham County Youth Center, a secure, short-term juvenile detention facility, explains why CPI’s behavior management tools are essential in an environment marked by crisis and conflict.

Veteran behavioral health counselor and Certified Instructor Tom Loftus helps demystify the daunting process of redirecting organizational culture and building collaboration between staff, clients, and communities.

Episode 60—Haley Huckabee and Corrie Dyson of the Therapy Management Corporation discuss how a staff-wide training initiative has helped them establish a leading role in advancing the quality of person-centered memory care.

Professor Rowand Robinson shares how the values of Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training can fortify new teachers to enter the classroom with the confidence to face challenges safely and successfully.

Special educator Briona McKinney shares how the guidance afforded by consistent training can provide the freedom to tailor support more effectively to children impacted by autism spectrum disorder.

Paul Dix, founder and principal of Pivotal Education, discusses his approach to and tremendous success implementing restorative behavior management strategies in schools.

Veteran law enforcement professional John Clark explains how a better understanding of crisis development and supportive responses to escalation can deepen law enforcement perspectives on the use of force.

Violence prevention expert and police Captain Kyle Weygandt talks about how the concept of an Integrated Experience can frame effective responses to active shooter incidents.

Anna Dermenchyan, senior clinical quality specialist at UCLA Health, talks about what nurses can do avoid workplace violence while fulfilling obligations to abusive patients.

Lexie Dryden of Autism SA (South Australia) explains their history and mission and why CPI training has become central to the org’s policies, procedures, and culture.

Cori Boney and Courtney Wiher explain how Florida’s Marion County School District achieved dramatic reductions in restraint and seclusion through CPI training.

Julie Hyland of Music & Memory® explains how the program helps people living with cognitive challenges find renewed meaning and connection through the gift of personalized music.

Special educator Pattie Steele explains how providing activities that involve creative thinking and expression can stimulate student participation and excellence in ways far beyond standardized testing.

Three members of Milwaukee Public Schools’ Violence Prevention Team delve into hot topics like social and emotional learning, trauma-sensitive schools, and restorative practices and justice.

Author Sue Scheff talks about her latest book, Shame Nation: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate, and how it empowers readers to take charge of their digital lives.

Professor of Special Education Reece Peterson of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln talks about his groundbreaking study A Review of Crisis Intervention Training Programs for Schools.

Nurse educator Sara Holland of Virginia Mason Hospital describes how one year of CPI training helped the facility achieve a 61% reduction in emergency team response calls to combative behavior.

Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports expert Cyndi Pitonyak talks about how this evidence-based approach improves schools by reinforcing positive behaviors rather than punishing negative ones.

Unrestrained, Episode 43–Denise Esson, an employment counselor with Ontario’s Employment Services Elgin, talks about how CPI training has become central to managing the culture and environment at the agency.

Podcast host Terry Vittone introduces De-Escalation Tales, true stories told by CPI Certified Instructors about successfully de-escalating challenging behavior on the job.

Former Wisconsin governor and author Martin J. Schreiber discusses My Two Elaines, his recent book about learning, coping and surviving as an Alzheimer’s caregiver for his wife.

AlGene Caraulia Sr. and Jr. discuss the founding of CPI and why the values of Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security℠ are central to the identity and mission of the organization.

Becky Eckhardt, Student Services Director and Michele Brand, 6-12 At-Risk Coordinator, discuss the positive effects of CPI training at Nebraska’s South Sioux City Community Schools.

Unrestrained, Episode 38 –Candace Burckhardt, special education coordinator with Indigo Education, explains how CPI’s Flex blended learning option has been successful at charter schools.

Diana Graber, a recognized expert in digital literacy, talks about teaching kids the responsibilities of digital citizenship.

Check out this podcast to learn how the television show Little House on the Prairie and its themes of compassion, forgiveness, and inclusion inspired the founders of Ontario’s Little House Residential Care Services Inc., a treatment center for troubled kids.

Bob Durand, practice leader for healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente, talks about how CPI training helps them eliminate injuries in their San Francisco emergency department.

Jeff Holland, quality assurance manager at the Pine Hills Youth Correctional Facility, describes how CPI de-escalation techniques improve safety for staff and residents.

Kyle Schwartz, third-grade teacher and author of I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids, explains the concept behind her book and Twitter sensation.

Back in 1999, Ross Ellis founded Love Our Children USA℠, an organization and website created to prevent child abuse and fight all forms of violence against children. The organization went on to become a national nonprofit leader and go-to prevention resource, offering effective parenting solutions to behaviors that keep kids from reaching their full potential.

Lori Blaire & Carolyn Garrett of Tender Touch Rehab Services discuss how Dementia Care Specialist training gives clinicians a new focus on remaining abilities and a treatment foundation that’s practical, measurable, and provides better outcomes.

Social service specialist Toby Estler of Telecare, a locked psychiatric unit in Washington, talks about the positive outcomes related to CPI training and techniques, including dramatic decreases in rates of restraint and seclusion.

Unrestrained, Episode 29 – Carleen Doucet, crisis interventionist for the Lafayette Parish School System, explains how CPI training and techniques have made schools safer by improving the outcomes associated with challenging student behavior.

Unrestrained, Episode 28 – Amy Acherman, CPI’s Director of Research and Development, talks about the history, evolution and benefits of eLearning, as well as the development and features of CPI’s Flex eLearning program.

Unrestrained, Episode 27 – John Heiderscheidt, director of school safety and culture for school district U-46 in Elgin, Illinois, talks about how CPI training has helped reduce fights and out-of-school suspensions while lowering staff assaults.

Unrestrained, Episode 26 – James Gulbranson and Paul Ruegemer of the security staff at CentraCare Health of central Minnesota present practice-based evidence regarding the outcomes of CPI training and also discuss the hospital’s team intervention policy.