SPEAR CARE™

ETHICAL EVIDENCE-BASED TRAINING FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Blauer Training Systems has always been holistic with its approach to personal safety training.

For decades we have designed programs to help professionals within a vast spectrum of human services manage fear, improve their de-escalation strategies, and, if required, protect themselves with natural and instinctive movement. 

Over the last 40 years, our body of work has predominantly served public safety, law enforcement, and the armed forces.

We recognize that some of the language and tactics from those domains are inappropriate for the care and services domain. The SPEAR CARE™️ program reflects the necessary revisions for our system to be aligned with health and human services.

The SPEAR CARE™️ system is uniquely based on our research studying of fear and aggression for over 40 years. SPEAR CARE™️ is built on the very same sciences of physiology, kinesiology, and psychology that made the SPEAR System® one of the most trusted and effective personal defense systems in the world.

Because our program is built around natural movement and human behavior, it is all-inclusive regardless of gender, role, or experience.

This means anyone from your organization can learn it quickly.

SPEAR CARE™ has been revised and specifically adapted to support the requirements of crisis de-escalation and crisis intervention scenarios.

All SPEAR CARE programs:

  • Empower with skills to de-escalate oneself and manage fear when presented with challenging behaviors from people-served.

  • Help optimize situational awareness and readiness to deploy physical skills, if required.

  • Help reduce risk and optimize personal safety if physically attacked.

  • Help improve confidence through specific learning about the body’s natural response to sudden danger, the startle-response, aka the body’s biological “air-bag” and its influence on fear and emotional state.

We fully appreciate that the regulatory guidelines of physical intervention in custody AND care and services
are distinct and can be vastly different from use-of-force policies or rules of engagement.

  • While our training courses include physical skills and leverage elements of psychology, kinesiology, and neuroscience, none of the skills initiate manual restraint or physical contact.

  • They do, however, reduce reaction time, enabling staff to temporarily control and manage active assault for as long as the person-served is committed to assaulting a staff member.

  • If the person-served doesn’t initiate assault, no contact occurs, allowing staff to prioritize de-escalation.

  • If the person-served becomes assaultive and then discontinues assault when met with SPEAR, de-escalation options can re-emerge, pursuant to policy and pursued if desired.

  • Our proprietary learning models teach healthcare professionals to detect, defuse, or defend against the threat of or risk of violence.

All SPEAR CARE™ courses are designed to help make the provider feel safer so they can be more confident.

OVERVIEW

  • KNOW FEAR® and SPEAR CARE™ prioritize the wellness of staff by emphasizing skills and concepts that empower self-control during high-risk conditions.  

  • KNOW FEAR® and SPEAR CARE™ are the only systems that leverage physiology’s startle-flinch response and how to employ it in a personal safety context, preceding the complex motor skill curriculum within other physical intervention training systems.

  • Most adverse events in care and service systems occur during an ambush moment where the employee was not in a state of readiness to “weather the ambush”.  

  • KNOW FEAR® and SPEAR CARE™ prioritize that moment, enabling the employee to regain and engage in functional thinking more quickly and make appropriate safety decisions.

Our program reduces risk at four levels:

  1. It reduces the risk to the team and staff.

  2. It reduces the risk to the person-served.

  3. It reduces the risk to the organization and its leadership.

  4. It reduces the risk to the community.

Our training is realistic, relevant, and responsible.  

The blend of a practical situational awareness system with verbal and non-verbal de-escalation strategies will help your staff navigate fear and risk during challenging times. SPEAR CARE™️ is morally, ethically, and legally sound...which is a necessary part of the equation in our litigious world. 

We look forward to helping you and your team.

If you would like more information or to host a course, please click here.

Sincerely,

Tony Blauer
Founder, Blauer Training Systems, Inc.

We are proud to partner with JUMPSTART Mastery and their VerbalCraft/ACIT programs, among the world’s leading crisis intervention and de-escalation education resources. We have teamed up to offer specialized and integrated skills training courses that prepare care and services teams for the realities of crisis de-escalation responsibilities.

Together, we are honored to be serving our Nation and workforce with the most innovative, integrated training in personal safety and crisis de-escalation.

Contact us for more details.