UNIQUE TRAINING OPPORTUNITY FOR HEALTH CARE, SECURITY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, EMERGENCY (EMT) FIRST RESPONDERS AND OTHER RELATED PROFESSIONALS PPCT VIOLENT PATIENT MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTOR SEMINAR EASTON EMERGENCY SQUAD HEADQUARTERS, 908 PACKER ST., Easton, Pa. 18042. NOVEMBER 12 TO 14, 2010. WHY THE VIOLENT PATIENT MANAGEMENT TRAINING PROGRAM? Research and medical literature document that health care professionals have been and continue to be victims of violent patient assaults. Health care professionals responding to a patient who is in need of medical and/or psychiatric care have been assaulted and/or injured when attempting to render health care services. Recent studies reveal that incidents occurring in an emergency room, a mental health facility, or during calls for emergency services have been identified as some of the many potential situations where serious assaults are likely. It is evident there is a need to develop strategies and skills for the health care professional in subject control and even self defense techniques. These skills and techniques must be designed to be highly retainable, efficient, and must maximize the ability of the health care professional and security personnel to control various levels of resistance. It is crucial that the health care and security professional s safety is maximized as well as the patient and others who happen to be on the scene. The PPCT VPM Training System blends the highly successful PPCT philosophy, principles and control measures to the basic needs of the health care professional setting. Control methods for this training are engineered to defend the health care professional from patient assaults and to control passive and defensive actions, active aggression and life-threatening attacks. All of the control measures have been analyzed by the medical community and evaluated by various doctors relative to each technique s risk of physical injury. These
PPCT VPM Instructor Seminar - 2 - control methods have a track record of success of over ten years in the PPCT Subject Control System. WHY THE PPCT SUBJECT CONTROL TRAINING SYSTEM? Before any administrator decides on any type of training system, he or she should first examine how its methodology was developed, the history of that program s success, and of course, how that system s methodology can minimize liability. PPCT is the most highly-regarded threat management training system in the world. Not only is it the training arm of Homeland Security, it is a training system that distinguishes itself with its comprehensive and documented research and its continuous refinement of its techniques that allows PPCT to continue delivering state of the art survival skills training programs. PPCT s unique commitment to research engineers all its programs to deliver instruction designed to assure medical (the techniques are safe), tactical (the methodology works under survival stress) and legal (court defensibility) acceptability. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: Each subject control technique in the Violent Patient Management training system has been researched to assure that it will work against prevalent types of patient assaults and aggression in all types of medical settings. All control measures are designed with a keen understanding of the sensitive nature and legal underpinnings of the health care professional s environment. The panoply of threat management techniques and skills are refined for simplicity and based on gross motor skills based on the understanding that the health care professional will have a minimal amount of time to respond to the threat and the understanding that he or she will be under a high degree of stress during the event. Health Care Professionals participating in this instructor seminar will learn simple, effective, realistic and highlyretainable skills that are taught in such a way and in such a manner that the response will be automatic because of the Stimulus Response Training Principle. One of the most unique aspects of the PPCT Training System is its Medical research. Six international studies by physicians, chiropractors, neurosurgeons and others have proven all techniques to be safe for both the practitioner and the subject(s) the techniques are used on. SEMINAR SITE The Seminar will begin at 0830 Hours on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 and end at the conclusion of Testing on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2010 at the EASTON EMERGENCY SQUAD HEADQUARTERS & TRAINING CENTER, 908 PACKER ST., EASTON, PA. 18042.. This training site is located about 62 miles from Philadelphia and a few miles from scenic Bethlehem, Pa. Jonathan Nicholas is the EES Director and will host this seminar. He can be reached at 610-258-2866 for additional information, directions, and lodging information.
PPCT VPM Flier - 3 - COGENT PRINCIPLES, CONCEPTS, TECHNIQUES AND COMPONENTS OF THE VPM PROGRAM COMPRHENSIVE 187 PAGE VPM INSTRUCTOR MANUAL. TACTICALLY, LEGALLY AND MEDICALLY ACCEPTABLE TECHNIQUES PROVEN EFFECTIVE AND COURT DEFENSIBLE THROUGH DOCUMENTED RESEARCH. DE-ESCALATION TECHNIQUES ADDED TO THIS COURSE. VERBAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL (PATIENT CONTROL) TECHNIQUES PROVEN EFFECTIVE IN SENSITE HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENTS. EFFECTIVE SUBJECT CONTROL TECHNIQUES DESIGNED FOR THE VOLATILE BUT LEGALLY SENSITIVE HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT. EFFECTIVE BALANCE POINT CONTROL METHODS DESIGNED FOR PROTECTING BOTH THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL AS WELL AS THE PATIENT (AND FAMILY) IN DISTRESS. DEFENSIVE COUNTERSTRIKES DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL AGAINST HIGH RISK ATTACKS IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM, DURING HOME CARE VISITS IN THE COMMUNITY, YOU NAME IT. VPM INSTRUCTOR MANUAL CONTAINS HELPFUL GRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DEPICTING THE CORRECT USE OF THE TECHNIQUES. PROFESSIONAL POWER POINT PRESENTATION, LESSON PLAN(S); HELPFUL TRAINING DRILLS & EXERCISES AND USE OF FORCE REPORTING GUIDELINES UPON REQUESTS (MOSTLY COMPLIMENTARY). REGISTRATION AND TUITION REGISTRATION IS SIMPLE: CONTACT ACTION FIGHTING ARTS by phone, e-mail or by mailing in the attached Registration Form. Please register as early as possible because this class cannot be conducted without sufficient enrollment. TUITION will be $250@student, payable by the first day of the training. Check, cash or purchase order should be sent to: Harry A. Wigder, 4051 Ivy Lane, Easton, Pa, 18045. (610-253-3666) Registrants will receive a letter detailing reporting times, required gear, equipment, etc. ********* ********** ********* VIOLENT PATIENT MANAGEMENT REGISTRATION FORM Your Name Agency Title Address E-Mail Method Of Payment Amount Enclosed, If Any Purchase Order or Check Number. Your Signature Date ACTION FIGHTING ARTS
PPCT VPM Instructor Seminar - 4 - A TOTAL THREAT MANAGEMENT TRAINING SYSTEM www.actionfightingarts.com Harry Wigder, Director 610-253-3666 (H) 484-542-0040 4051 Ivy Lane, Easton, Pa. 18045 ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Harry Hammer Wigder is a 4-time award winning PPCT Instructor Trainer with over 37 years experience as a peace officer and use of force instructor. He is a former Advanced Verbal Judo, O.C. and Firearms Instructor who has trained well over 3000 officers and citizens. Harry is a PPCT IT in Defensive Tactics; Impact Weapons; Pressure Point Control; Escape and Evasion; Inmate Control; Spontaneous Knife Defense (SKD); Ground Avoidance and Ground Escapes (GAGE); VPM; Disruptive Student Management (DSM); Sexual Harassment Assault and Rape Prevention (SHARP); Advanced De-escalation Techniques and Dynamic Simulations. He is in the process of authoring a book on Managing Workplace Violence and is in the process of developing a physical WPV Training program. Some of the hundreds of departments and agencies IT Wigder has trained include: Federal Air Marshals, Somerset, New Jersey. US Power Plant Security Administration, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Resistance Control LTD., Peninsula, New Zealand. Philadelphia Police Department, Philadelphia, Pa. Pike County Correctional Institution Pittsburgh Police Department City of Bethlehem Police Department Fort Washington Hospital. Division Of campus Safety, York College, York, Pa. City of Lancaster Police Department. Norristown Police Department, Norristown, Pa. The Charlotte-Mecklenberg Medical Hospital United States Supreme Court Police Department, Washington D.C. United States Customs and Border Patrol Advanced Training Unit, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Wilmington Police Department, Wilmington, Delaware. New Castle County Police Department, New Castle, Delaware. Dover Police Department, Dover, Delaware. National Security Administration Police Department and Training Unit, Baltimore, Maryland. Hospital Security Associates, Cincinnati, Ohio and Denver, Colorado. Maryland State Police and Correctional Academy, Sykesville, Maryland. Mifflin County Regional Police and Correctional Department, Lewistown, Pa. Wesley College, Dover, Delaware. New Jersey Training Academy, Sea Girt, New Jersey (Correctional) Pennsylvania Correctional Training Academy, Elizabethtown, Pa. Penn State University Police Department, Middletown and State College, Pa. Harrisburg Area Community College Campus Safety Division, Hbg., Pa. Carolinas Health Care System, Police & Training Division, Charlotte, N.C.
VPM Flier - 5 - Williamsburg National Park Police Department, Williamsburg, Virginia. Blackhawk Training Academy, Rochester, New York. National Railroad Police Department, Sydney, Australia. Chula Vista Police Dept., Chula Vista, California. Shillington Boro Police Dept., Shillington, Pa. Hellertown Police Dept., Hellertown, Pa. Pa. State Police, Somerset Barracks, Pa. New York State Police, Stony Brook, New York. Manchester Police Dept., Manchester, New Hampshire. Surry Nuclear Power Plant Police Dept., Surry, Virginia. Maryland National Resource Police Dept., Md. Colonial Williamsburg Police Dept., Williamsburg, Va. Scotland Health Care Organization, Laudensburg, North Carolina. University of Pennsylvania Police Dept., Philadelphia, Pa. Pa. Game Commission Training Unit, Harrisburg, Pa. Pa. Fish & Game Commission, Sayre, Pa. Schuylkill Haven Police Dept., Schuylkill Haven, Pa. Pottsville Bureau of Police, Pottsville, Pa. Muhlenberg Township P.D., Temple, Pa. Saint Clair Police Dept., St. Clair, Pa. YTI-Career Institute, Altoona, Pa. Pike County Sheriffs Dept., Lords Valley, Pa. Sands Casino Security Staff, Bethlehem, Pa. Wesley College Police Dept., Dover, Delaware. Dover Police Dept., Dover, Delaware Philadelphia Bible University, Security, Philadelphia, Pa. Maryland Police and Corrections Training Academy, Sykesville, Md. Lehigh University Police Dept., Bethlehem, Pa. East Stroudsburg University Police Dept., East Stroudsburg, Pa. Montgomery County Sheriffs Dept., Norristown, Pa. Freedom High School Security Staff, Bethlehem, Pa. Bloomsburg Police Dept., Bloomsburg, Pa. Cumru Twp Police Dept., Reading, Pa. Bangor Police Department, Bangor, Pa.