Are aggressive, angry and, argumentative visitors affecting the office climate? Is the barrage of student defiance and non-compliance behavior whittling away the patience of the staff? Countless office staff at schools and district offices around the country lose productive hours quelling the all-too-familiar combative and intimidating visitor who demands immediate attention and often disrupts the culture of the office for the rest of the day.

Getting it right - providing leadership, enforcing policy, resolving problems, maintaining control and civility in situations where emotions run high and people have different agendas is a difficult task, at best.

Making things better - not worse, safer - not more volatile, requires specific identifiable skills. Not simple luck.

Without adequate training, school personnel miss numerous problem-resolving opportunities, and additionally, run the risk of creating problems that did not previously exist. Our belief is that an educated and well trained staff will respond appropriately to the realities of our modern, challenging school environments - and get it right.

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School violence and a difficult public is a common theme that headlines the "to-do" list of most principals, teachers, office staff and other district leaders in every region of the country. Metropolitan, urban, suburban, rural, public, and private schools alike more and more frequently are wasting valuable instructional hours diffusing a quarrelsome and contrary community and student population.

AACT or Awareness, Attitude, Communication, Training is a set of comprehensive, practical and easy-to-use skills for successfully negotiating awkwardly combative situations with disagreeable individuals.

TRAINING PROGRAMS

AACT - Conflict and Violence Prevention Training Programs for Public Schools offer on-site training in the verbal, emotional and physical inter-personal skills school administrators and personnel need. Our focus on interpersonal dynamics, and our what to do teaching emphasis is unique, and goes to the heart of protecting the educational environment.

The key to the AACT Training Program model is our emphasis on four focus areas for successfully dealing with potentially confrontational, conflictual and violent situations are:

We directly address recent Cal/OSHA standard recommending the implementation of prevention plans and training related to workplace violence. Our belief is that a workforce that is educated and trained to respond appropriately to work related conflict and the threat of violence stands a substanitally greater chance of avoiding injury and the emotional trauma associated with assault.

AACT programs are FUN and EXCITING!
They RAISE MORALE and MOTIVATE personnel to be more PROACTIVE and MORE EFFECTIVE!

In our work with schools we modify all materials to meet time constraints; satisfy the requirements of specific districts, departments and student groups; and address a wide variety of job classifications such as admnistrators, teachers, reception/clerical staff, campus-aids, and general support staff.

You may request training by filling out the online form located here, or contact us directly by visiting our contact page here.