SAAVE is on an ambitious mission to reduce violence in healthcare settings, to decrease dissatisfaction, and to enhance professional recruitment and retention.
We work towards that through implementation of an individualized staff training program that works for your setting. Recognizing that there can be a felt tension between being caring and being careful. Encouraging a trauma-informed approach with patients and employing one ourselves in training. Meeting you and your team where you are and helping you get where you need to be.
Your team can probably learn some violence reduction strategies from a workbook or video course. The question is whether they can learn enough from those sources to actually implement the strategies.
Will they feel confident in their de-escalation skills because they passed a multiple-choice exam?
Will they feel assured that their teammates will be upstanders when they each complete the training separately?
Will completion of a prepackaged training program make them feel that your healthcare organization is attuned to the unique challenges and stressors of your environment?
We developed SAAVE because of a conviction that we have something unique to offer. With our extensive professional experience providing mental healthcare that is both patient-centered and security-focused, we are adept at working within that dynamic.