Getting Started: Leadership Toolkit

The resources in this section promote Positive Therapeutic Environments. The toolkit can help leaders who:

• Are considering initiating a project to prevent the use of restraint and seclusion
• Are looking for resources to develop an action plan
• Have taken steps to create positive therapeutic environments and/or reduce the use of restraint and/or seclusion, and would like to assess their progress or identify areas that need improvement
• Are active in restraint/seclusion prevention and promotion of positive therapeutic environments and are seeking more resources.

Any initiative to create positive person-centered, recovery-oriented, trauma-informed treatment cultures free of violence and coercion calls for long-term commitment and vigilance by all levels of leadership. It also calls for involvement of all levels of staff and service recipients in decision-making. We encourage you to review these resources and select those that are most helpful to you at this stage in your development.

• Checklist for Assessing Your Organization’s Readiness
• Six Core Strategies for Reducing the Use of Restraint and Seclusion
• Changing Our Service Culture: Walking in the Steps of Giants
• Pillars of Success: Literature on Motivation
• Leadership Resources

• Tools and Resources
• Restraint and Seclusion Home