Program objectives are broken into ten units, with an emphasis on preventive techniques, focusing on team intervention including staff attitudes and professionalism. This training provides opportunities for role-playing and postvention (finding ways after a crisis to help avoid a future event).

Initial Certification Training

All school personnel involved in physical restraint must receive annual training on de-escalation techniques and the use of appropriate restraint and professionally accepted practices in physical management and the use of isolation and seclusion.

Re-certification Training

For administrators, teachers, and staff who have previously been trained in CPI.