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Health Care Facilities Workforce Protection Training

CVPSD partners with health systems to transform workplace violence prevention from a policy into a culture. Our experts deliver customized, evidence-based de-escalation solutions that empower staff across all risk levels to confidently navigate high-pressure interactions. By mastering the skills to recognize early warning signs and intervene effectively, your team can proactively manage conflict involving patients, families, and visitors, ensuring a secure environment where the primary focus remains on delivering exceptional care.

Develop a Culture of Safety

Discover how CVPSD’s system-wide de-escalation training transforms safety protocols into a sustainable foundation for your entire organization.

Elevate Staff Confidence & Retention Empower your workforce with the tools to navigate high-pressure interactions. By mastering proactive prevention, staff experience higher job satisfaction, reduced burnout, and a stronger sense of security, directly improving your long-term retention rates.

Immersive, Evidence-Based Training We move beyond theory with hands-on, scenario-based learning. Our training is tailored to the specific patient populations you serve, ensuring staff develop "muscle memory" for the real-life challenges they face in your units.

A Unified Framework for Safety True safety requires a consistent language across the organization. We design a bespoke training roadmap that aligns with your unique risk profile, equipping every department with a shared strategy to maintain a safe environment.

What makes CVPSD different

Mission-driven + experienced: CVPSD is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on stopping violence through education and empowerment.
Real-world instructors: Our lead instructors bring decades of real-world experience in defensive tactics, and workplace risk management. They teach techniques that are simple, repeatable, and safe for mixed-age and mixed-ability teams.
Workplace-first approach: We design every course around the practical constraints of health & human services work tight spaces, shift work, client interactions, and documentation needs.
Customizable & measurable: Sessions are tailored to your policies, reporting requirements, and the specific environments your teams face. We include evaluation and follow-up tools so you can measure impact.

Verbal De-escalation Training

ConflictIQ™ 100

Cultivates the psychological confidence and verbal fluency required to successfully de-escalate volatile behavior.

Critically assesses situational dynamics to differentiate between routine friction, escalating conflict, and immediate threats.
Utilizes evidence-based communication models and proactive verbal techniques to manage challenging behavior.

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Nonviolent Crisis Response Training ConflictIQ™ 200

Develops the essential competencies for safe disengagement and effective crisis intervention.

Critically assesses situational dynamics to differentiate between routine friction, escalating conflict, and immediate threats.
Utilizes evidence-based communication models and proactive verbal techniques to manage challenging behavior.
Mitigate workplace violence through evidence-based deterrence, intervention, and disengagement skills

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Nonviolent Crisis Response With Advanced Physical Skills

ConflictIQ™ 400

Equips high-risk personnel with advanced de-escalation and safe physical disengagement techniques.

Critically assesses situational dynamics to differentiate between routine friction, escalating conflict, and immediate threats.
Utilizes evidence-based communication models and proactive verbal techniques to manage challenging behavior.
Mitigate workplace violence through evidence-based deterrence, intervention, and disengagement skills
Develops high-level behavioral intervention skills for managing complex and immediate safety risks.

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Workplace Violence Prevention Education

Delivery options

We meet you where you. Formats include:
On-site, hands-on workshops
Blended programs combining an online fundamentals module + in-person practical session.
Train-the-Trainer programs so you can scale skills internally and maintain continuity between sessions.
Each delivery includes a customizable curriculum, printable job aids, and a post-session evaluation package.

What clients say

Thank you again for taking the time to come out to visit with our team and host a few self-defense classes. You were the highest rated class of the day by our team which was great to hear that they got so much out of it!!

I highly recommend the self defense class!! It was empowering both mentally and physically. Instructors were thoughtful, very knowledgeable, and the course was very well done!

Simply Excellent!!!! The information on this site needs to be taught in all schools worldwide!

The presenters were excellent. Very informative. Feel much better attending this seminar. Hopefully I will never need it.

I learned so many informative things today. The class was fun and engaging. I will remember that I am worth defending and I go I go I go home

I feel safer that I have some knowledge that I can apply if necessary..

I learned so much during this class. It was helpful. Setting boundaries and watching my tone.

Training was great! Good knowledgeable trainers loved the content and will definitely use it.

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