Persuasive Essay On Residential Staff Training

When residential staff is hired we are to complete a wide range of trainings through the company. These trainings include: awareness and boundaries, positive control systems, suicide prevention, ect. The problem with how it is set up right now is that trainings do not need to be completed before working on the floor and closely with the students. Training is to be taken and passed at staff’s convenience, no time frame. The problem with this is we have staff that is trained and staff that are not trained on how to properly handled a violent student and situation. This puts the staff, students, and company at risk. Our company has a specific set of holds and techniques that need to be used to calm a student down and/or restrain them. If a staff is not properly trained, or not trained at all, the company or staff could not only face a lawsuit but …show more content…
Personal belongings and items are checked but somehow potentially harmful items still get into the facility. When the student comes back to the facility after flying home is mostly when we see objects being snuck in. Students hide razors, needles, and other harmful items in their clothing, pockets, and pencil cases, ect. When students arrive on campus a thorough check needs to be done, this includes searching the seams, tags, and pockets of clothing brought back. Room searches are done frequently but need to be done more often and again more thorough. More time should be allotted during this time to ensure the safety of the students. Any item that can be used in a harmful way should be confiscated and not given back. Students also use hygiene products to harm themselves, ex: perfume or other products containing alcohol. Hygiene boxes are locked in a closet and brought out during hygiene time, though the boxes are not inventoried before and after use. When student is returning hygiene products it should be noted if anything is missing from the