Training Description:

DC Peace Team will host a training series for DCPCA's member health centers focusing on nonviolent communication, de-escalation, personal safety, and bystander intervention, with context on D.C. landscape and mental health awareness. This training series aims to address our member health centers emergency preparedness needs and goals as it relates to the safety of patients and staff.

Intro to De-escalation, Bystander Intervention, and Personal Safety Training; November 17th 2:00pm - 3:00pm:

This introductory training focuses on effective skills for assessing, de-escalating, and diffusing a harmful or inappropriate behavior (bullying, harassment, physical violence...). It provides participants with the tools they need to quickly recognize situations, evaluate the consequences for everyone involved, and to take constructive action. DC Peace Team's training sessions promote nonviolent approaches for defusing harmful situations and engaging with the aggressor and those subject to harmful acts. Sessions are interactive and designed to fit the needs of participants. Content includes examples, goals, key factors, strategies, tactics (ex. centering, dialogue and empathy, distraction, dignity phrases, delegate, peel away, and interposition, etc.), and role-plays.

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Intro to De-escalation, Bystander Intervention, and Personal Safety Training