GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Padded mats are being utilized in classrooms across West Michigan as part of a cutting-edge approach to crisis de-escalation. Lauren Raap, an emotional impairment teacher at ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, or PJALS, provided a workshop Saturday to help teach would-be protestors de-escalation techniques to help keep people safe. Last week, ...

The Pulaski County sheriff's office on Tuesday unveiled a virtual-reality training program intended to give officers another tool to teach de-escalation in stressful situations, the sheriff said. The ...

As a senior instructor for the National De-escalation Training Center, I train law enforcement officers how to de-escalate situations that have the potential to turn violent. A couple of weeks ago I ...

DUBUUQE, Iowa (KWWL) -- It's been just over a year since the Dubuque Police Department has implemented the use of tasers, and so far, the department is seeing success with their use as a de-escalation ...

The pandemic has taken a toll on all of us, and we’re still caught in the emotional waves. Add a war in Europe, the widening economic divide, inflation and a growing political crisis, and it’s ...

If you didn’t realize that the folks who run Columbia think the same as the ones running Biden foreign policy, consider their shared, feckless faith in “de-escalation” and finger-waving. Just as with ...

In “Part 2: Behavioral Threat Assessments, Safety-Conscious Students Critical to School Violence Prevention,” Dr. Marissa Randazzo answers similar questions regarding school violence prevention. The ...

We live in a culture of escalation, drowning in drama, even in our workspace. Reality TV, social media, and other media platforms all scream at your employees that they need to be outraged, loud, and ...