Confrontational Avoidance Techniques Training

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida and the Center for Public Safety Innovation at St. Petersburg College are pleased to announce that the Project Safe Neighborhoods Violent Gang and Gun Crime Reduction Program will conduct a one day class on Confrontational Avoidance Techniques Training.

This tuition-free eight-hour course is designed and developed exclusively for any staff member who has to deal with potential hostile conditions in the course of their employment. This updated and proven field & facility instructor level program has been taught nationally since 1992 with an overall 60% reduction in de-escalating use of force. Training focuses on avoidance of verbal and physical confrontations when dealing with irate, irrational, and hostile subjects where lawful staff member intervention is required. Developed within Federal parameters of verbal de-escalation skills, the course also addresses the proper lawful parameters of potential use of force if the staff member is physically assaulted by a subject. The program follows escalation & de-escalation of force based on the highly acclaimed, court proven "TJA Ladder of Force Continuum©." This continuum has been recognized as a standard for juries in Federal Court cases since 1986 in better understanding lawful use of force actions by officials in the course of their employment.

Topics Covered in the Training Include:

  • Confrontational Avoidance Techniques©; understanding the four types of anger (the basis of violence), key verbal de-escalation techniques, and body space parameters.
  • Field proven conversation techniques when handling confrontational and hostile subjects and groups.
  • To develop and understand key knowledge principles for a lawful and defendable written report based on the nationally acclaimed TJA Ladder of Force© Continuum.
  • Proper and judicious escalation of use of force based on Federal parameters is thoroughly discussed base on a national geographic use of force issues and court cases.
  • Proper verbal handling various racial, religious and protesting groups in public or correctional venues when responding to potential hostile conditions.

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This project was supported by Grant No. 2011-GP-BX-0071 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to St. Petersburg College. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Community Capacity Development Office and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking.