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Certified Training for Early Years and Primary Education
Developing staff understanding of children’s needs and behaviours and providing positive support and behaviour management strategies.
Training developed specifically for supporting younger children
Maybo's learning methods are consistent with the principles of positive behaviour support, focusing on primary and secondary strategies for preventing and defusing behaviours of concern. This enables staff to:
- Better understand a child's physiological and emotional needs
- Improve their environment and relationships
- Engage them in ways that reduce behaviours that challenge
- Reduce the need for restrictive practices
By working together to understand your needs and requirements, we will identify the best blend of online and course based training modules and personal safety planning tools to help you create positive learning environments where children and staff feel safe and secure.
Our modules also cover how best to support children with additional needs and we provide a unique online pupil centred personal safety planning tool.
Our program is aligned to:
- Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports (PBIS) approaches
- The Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework
- NDIS Positive Behaviour Support Framework
- Enabling Good Lives Principles
In the UK, we were amongst the first organisations to achieve Certification from the BILD Association of Certified Training.
Maybo Training Programmes
De-escalation programme
Specification
Delivery: In-person / Trainer-led
Duration: 6 hours
Max. Group Size: 12
Blended Learning Option: Yes
Virtual Delivery Option: Yes
Train-the-Trainer: Yes
This programme has been specifically designed for early years and primary educators who may encounter distressing situations and respond to psychological trauma in children and young people.
With a focus on preventative approach built around positive relationships, early years and primary educators will be equipped with comprehensive positive strategies, communication skills and de-escalation. On completion of this programme, staff will:
- Understand risks, rights and responsibilities in the workplace
- Know how different factors influence behaviour
- Know the importance of positive interactions and choices
- Be able to use dynamic risk assessment to inform decision making
- Be able to use safer de-escalation approaches
- Be able to maintain personal safety and follow post-incident procedures
De-escalation, personal safety and guiding programme
Specification
Delivery: In-person / Trainer-led
Duration: 8 hours
Max. Group Size: 12
Blended Learning Option: Yes
Virtual Delivery Option: No
Train-the-Trainer: Yes
This programme has been specifically designed for early years and primary educators who may encounter distressing situations and may need to use personal safety and guiding to manage risks.
Each program is built on a strong foundation of human rights, trauma-informed care, and the reduction of restrictive practices. On completion of this programme, staff will:
- Understand risks, rights and responsibilities in the workplace
- Know how different factors influence behaviour
- Know the importance of positive interactions and choices
- Be able to use dynamic risk assessment to inform decision making
- Be able to use safer de-escalation approaches
- Be able to maintain personal safety and follow post-incident procedures
- Understand the considerations for the use of non-restrictive physical skills
- Be able to use defensive skills to avoid assault
- Be able to use defensive skills to disengage or reduce risk from grips
- Be able to use physical intervention to guide and redirect a person
Physical restrictive practices subject to a TNA. Please enquire should further techniques be required.
Certified Training for Services Supporting Young Children
Click on the boxes below to explore our training modules
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eLearning
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Classroom
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Virtual Classroom
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Train the Trainer
eLearning
Maybo's eLearning programmes utilise the latest learning technologies, realistic scenarios and interactive exercises to offer an engaging self-study learning experience.
eLearning can play a valuable role within a blended learning strategy, underpinning the knowledge and reducing staff abstraction time, or in some instances as a complete solution. It also works well for induction and refresher training.
To find out more or for volume purchases contact our team or visit our eLearning store for individual purchases.
eLearning is also known as self-directed learning. It often precedes Classroom or Virtual Classroom training to provide a foundation of knowledge in advance - this is known as a blended approach.
Classroom
Maybo designs and delivers training to meet your requirements and can deliver direct to your staff wherever you need it. We take time to understand your training needs and the unique challenges and scenarios your colleagues face, to ensure our Classroom courses are highly relevant. Learners receive superb resources and certificates with a range of accreditation and qualification options.
Classroom training can be combined with eLearning to form a blended learning strategy, underpinning the knowledge and reducing staff abstraction time.
Classroom training is delivered by a trainer at an agreed venue. It is also sometimes called face-to-face or in-person training.
Virtual Classroom
Maybo designs and delivers Virtual Classroom training to meet your requirements.
Virtual Classroom training enables staff to benefit from engaging team training with high-levels of participation delivered remotely by a skilled facilitator over video conferencing software including Zoom and MS Teams.
Virtual Classroom training can also be combined powerfully with eLearning to form a blended learning strategy, with eLearning underpinning the knowledge and reducing staff abstraction time.
Virtual Classroom training is live, participatory training delivered remotely by a trainer with video conferencing software.
Train the Trainer
Maybo offers a Train the Trainer model that equips experienced trainers to deliver Maybo's accredited training curricula within their own organisation.
We run regular courses on a variety of subjects that include supporting people with complex needs, positive behaviour support, preventing conflict and behaviours of concern, safer approaches to de-escalation and conflict resolution, personal safety, assault avoidance and low arousal handling skills.
To find out more contact our team.
Trainers receive access to Maybo's online resource centre where they can find everything they need to deliver and certify Maybo training in-house.
Early Years and Primary Education – All
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Understanding Trauma and Trauma‑Informed Approaches
Trauma can affect anyone. When a person lives with trauma their brain works differently and their behaviour changes, yet we as a society often respond in unhelpful ways.
This comprehensive eLearning course seeks to bridge the gap between identifying and understanding trauma, and, responding with intelligence and compassion in a way that opens the door for recovery and a better way forward.
Designed for people providing care and support to someone affected by trauma, four engaging and informative eLearning modules explore the fundamental concepts of trauma and how it affects the minds, emotions, lives and behaviours of people who experience it and those close to them.
This comprehensive course provides a great starting point for those embarking on training and qualifications in trauma-informed approaches. It also provides a pragmatic, engaging and practical way for organisations to provide trauma-awareness training to their whole workforce.
- Psychological trauma and its potential impact.
- Individual factors that can create resilience to trauma and the possible signs and symptoms of trauma.
- Physiological and psychological effects of trauma.
- Adopting a trauma-informed approach.
Delivery methods:
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eLearning
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Promoting Children's Rights and Reducing Restrictive Practices
This module explores the principles of supporting a child or young person's needs through a human rights approach. It develops learners' ability to take effective, person-centred measures to reduce restrictive practices that might be used intentionally or in some cases without realising they are restricting the child's liberty or autonomy.
- Underpinning legislation, principles and definitions
- Strategies to improve quality of life and reduce risk
- Recognising 'restrictive practices' and their impact on children and young people
- Duty of care and ethical decision making
- Dealing with suspected abuse
This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.
Delivery methods:
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eLearning
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Classroom
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Virtual Classroom
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Train the Trainer
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Positive Approaches to Behaviour
RRN Approved
This module provides positive and proactive approaches to managing behaviours of concern based on respect for the individual.
Risks, Rights and Responsibilities
- Behaviours of concern
- Rights and responsibilities
- Planning to reduce risks and vulnerabilities
Factors That Influence Behaviour- Common functions of behaviours of concern
- Instinctive reactions to emotional or threatening situations
- Potential triggers in self and others
- Levels of escalation
Positive Interactions and Choices- People's needs and expectations
- Influencing positive outcomes
- Overcoming barriers to communication
Delivery methods:
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eLearning
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Classroom
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Virtual Classroom
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Train the Trainer
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Safer De‑escalation
This module covers person-centred de-escalation strategies to alleviate a situation and prevent distress or behaviours of concern from escalating.
Dynamic Risk Assessment
- Maybo SAFER model
- Risk identification
- Informed decision-making
De-escalation Skills
- Positive, non-aggressive approaches
- Safer positioning and teamworking skills
- Strategies to defuse, calm and resolve
Personal Safety and Post-incident
- Confronting behaviours
- Heightened risk indicators
- Exit strategies in higher-risk situations
- Post-event impact and responsibilities
This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.
Delivery methods:
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eLearning
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Classroom
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Virtual Classroom
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Train the Trainer
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Personal Safety and Guiding: Children and Young People
This module provides practical strategies for reducing risk and maintaining safety. It can include low arousal guiding and re-direction skills and is relevant where behaviours can present risks of harm for a child and/or those that support and care for them.
Risks, Rights and Responsibilities
- Defining defensive skills and interventions
- Risks of using physical skills
- Authority for the use of physical skills
- Individual and team responsibilities
- The importance of secondary strategies to reduce the need for physical skills
Personal Safety Skills to Avoid Assault and Disengage
- Training and operational risks associated with the use of Maybo physical skills
- Low arousal positioning and defensive skills to avoid assault and reduce risk
- Low arousal skills to release from wrist and clothing grips
- Contextual applications of Maybo assault avoidance and disengagement skills
Low Arousal Guiding and Redirecting Skills
- Skills to prompt or guide a child or young person
- Skills to re-direct a child or young person
- Contextual applications of Maybo guiding and redirecting skills
This module must be preceded by Maybo's Positive Approaches to Behaviour and Safer De-escalation modules.
This module is RRN Approved when part of a BILD ACT Certified Curriculum.
Delivery methods:
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Classroom
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Train the Trainer