50% refund by May 18th.*
*May change individual attending at no cost.
Autism Safe Encounters Training Course will teach and facilitate group discussion on early intervention public education program to show clinicians, first responders, family members, and persons with Autism how safely engage during crisis. The training will include teaching participants to recognize the signs and symptoms that may suggest the person with whom they are engaging has Autism or other invisible disabilities. It will help participants to identify and empathically respond to person that may be in crisis. Additionally, the course models safe engagement with a person with Autism during a crisis and offers tips on referring the person to other appropriate professional support and services as needed. They also train individuals living with a disability, parents, and community partners to recognize the role that clinicians and first responders play in keeping them safe and encourages participants to allow first responders to do so. Participants will discuss case scenarios that pose safety dilemmas and their potential solutions in community, family, clinician, and first responder, and school settings.
Safe Encounters Training was created in 2020 by Pamela and Thomas Goines, educators, parent advocates, researchers, and speakers on the topic of Autism. In 2020, after their adult son with Autism got his license, they contacted their local Evandale Police department to inform them of his new driving and asked that they help to keep him safe. The Chief suggested that Thomas and Pamela not only train their department but all first responders in the area and that is when Safe Encounters Training Not for Profit was established.
Mental Health America of NKY & SWOH is an approved sponsor of continuing education by the Kentucky Board of Social Work (KBSWSP 202211).
This program has been submitted to the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for continuing education units.