TIDES helps to keep you safe.
TIDES aims to develop your skills in preventing and responding to challenging situations, specifically psychiatric and behavioural emergencies (e.g., where someone is becoming anxious, agitated or even violent).
Our training helps you become more trauma-informed and use techniques of collaborative de-escalation and holistic crisis response. We strengthen your skills in assessing environments, building positive relationships and collaborating within a team during these situations. This reduces risks and potential injuries for everyone involved.
TIDES is an education strategy that builds on the expertise and needs of your organization to create unique and highly effective training programs. These have high rates of staff satisfaction (95% positive), and they blend the best clinical practices with the results of intensive literature reviews and more than 20 years of proven expertise in safety education at CAMH (Khan et al., 2020).
How does TIDES work?
We work with you to build education strategies that act as scaffolds for growing skills among staff. The education methodology focuses on reflective practice and simulation training, where you can apply learning in scenarios based on real life.
Does TIDES work?
We survey the people who take part in TIDES training programs, and the results are overwhelmingly positive. For example, when staff at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto took part in a customized TIDES training program, 95% of the participants reported being satisfied with it (Khan et al., 2020).
Furthermore, in 2023, TIDES received a “leading practice” award from the Health Standards Organization (HSO), an internationally recognized not-for-profit organization that works with leading experts and those with lived experience to develop standards, assessment programs and quality improvement solutions.
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