Crisis-prevention training is one class a year. Incidents happen months later — and nothing in your training file says whether the skills are still there. The Steady Method pairs a one-day, in-person training at your facility with a daily 5-minute practice app, monthly verified competency checks, and a live compliance dashboard. Skills that stay sharp, files that stay survey-ready.
The training day, the daily five minutes, the monthly competency check, and the record you can print for a surveyor — in plain language.
AI presenter. The Steady Method LLC, Maplewood NJ.
Your staff get certified once a year. RAND Europe followed staff after training like that and found their confidence back at baseline within six months (RR-3148, 2019). Whether the skills themselves last that long has not been measured either way. Between the class and the incident, nothing measures either one. Mental Health Technicians face the highest assault risk in your building with the least ongoing support: high turnover, thin budgets, and a training model built for a binder, not a floor. The Steady Method exists for the other 364 days.
You get ninety seconds in the doorway to explain nine years. SteadyCare is where a parent writes it down once, so the next sitter, respite worker or substitute aide knows their child in sixty seconds instead of guessing.
AI presenter — a digital likeness of Walter Dusseldorp, used with his consent.
A certified Steady Method trainer runs a one-day intensive at your facility: the escalation curve, the verbal toolkit, live scenario labs, and population-specific adaptations — prevention and verbal skill only, with no physical technique taught at any point. Staff leave activated in the app before they leave the room.
Every morning, each tech gets one 5-minute lesson by email: verbal de-escalation, reading warning signs, documentation, self-regulation. 90 days of structured curriculum, then continuing cycles. Scenario checks keep judgment sharp.
On the 1st, a 2-minute scenario exam verifies competency and stamps your training file. Badges climb from Steady to Fluent to Anchor. Miss a month? The dashboard shows it — before a surveyor does.
Supervisors see engagement rates, monthly-check status, and badges per staff member, live. Print to PDF for your survey binder, workplace-violence prevention plan, or licensing review. A dated, per-person competency record you can print for a surveyor.
We come to you — your room, your people, your real situations. Up to 20 people, 8:00a to 4:30p. The day ends with every person activated in the app, so the practice starts the next morning instead of the next year.
One skill a day, written for real shifts: the pacing resident, the med-window refusal, the 3am wanderer. Read it on any phone or computer — nothing to install.
Judgment drills woven through the curriculum and every monthly check. Not trivia — the decisions your staff actually face, with the steady move explained.
An AI coach that answers technical questions anytime — what to say, what to watch for, how to document. Physical technique questions are redirected to your own certified program’s trainer, by design — we do not teach them.
Every lesson readable anytime for study and review, organized by month: Foundations, Populations & Situations, Mastery & Leadership.
Streaks, active days, and a 14-day practice map keep the habit visible — for the tech and for their supervisor.
Techs absorb every incident they steady. The Self-Care Companion gives them a private space to decompress and recharge — because retention is a safety strategy too.
The Steady Method is not a replacement for CPI®, Safety-Care®, Mandt®, or your state-mandated curriculum — it is the retention and compliance layer that sits between their annual certifications. Your certified program teaches the skills; we keep them fluent and prove it monthly.
| Your certification program | + The Steady Method | |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence | 1–3 days per year | Daily practice + monthly verification |
| Between trainings | No practice, no visibility | 5-min lessons, streaks, live dashboard |
| Compliance evidence | A certificate on file | Monthly documented competency checks per staff member |
| Questions at 2am | Wait for the next training | Steady Coach answers 24/7 |
| Physical technique | Taught and certified by them | Not taught by us — prevention and verbal skill only |
CPI®, Safety-Care®, and Mandt® are registered trademarks of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with The Steady Method.
Short videos from Alfredo Fuccilli, M.S., BCBA — our Curriculum Director — on reading the escalation curve and the verbal toolkit, one move at a time. Free to watch, nothing to sign up for.
A single staff injury claim is often larger than a year of training for the whole unit. Two ways in — bring the day to your whole unit, or start on your own tomorrow. No membership fees, no trainer lock-in.
A complete 40-hour RBT training built to the BACB’s official 2026 curriculum outline and reviewed line-by-line by our BCBA Lead Curriculum Director — 43 staged units across Sections A–H with embedded trainer-approved videos, section gateway exams at 80%, and an AI Trainer on call inside every unit. Your hours are verified, not claimed: an active-time clock tracks every minute (pauses when you look away), enforces the BACB’s 40h00m / 5-day / 180-day rules in software, and your official certificate is generated only from that verified record, countersigned by our Responsible Trainer (BCBA) and backed by a public verification code any employer or the BACB can check online. Then the exam-prep drip takes over daily until your test date.
The full verified 40-hour training + daily review drip + exam-prep app (drills, timed mocks, AI tutor) + the official BCBA-countersigned certificate with online verification. Finish in as little as 2–3 weeks (minimum 5 days per BACB rules).
New-hire RBT training that audits itself: verified hours, gateway scores, and countersigned certificates on file for every hire — plus behavioral-safety compliance from the same vendor.
Instant access: your course link and exam-prep app arrive by email the moment you enroll. Founding-cohort pricing.
This training program is designed to meet the 2026 training eligibility requirement for RBT certification. This training is offered independent of the BACB. BACB®, RBT®, and BCBA® are trademarks of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Inc., which is not affiliated with The Steady Method.
No — and it isn’t trying to. Keep your certified program for its curriculum and physical-skills credential. The Steady Method adds what those programs structurally can’t: daily practice, monthly verified competency, and live compliance visibility between annual trainings. Many facilities also use it standalone where no specific program is mandated.
No — not in person, not by app, not at any price. The Steady Method teaches prevention and verbal skill only. If your staff are authorized to use restraint, keep your certified program (CPI, Safety-Care, Mandt) for that credential and let us take the fifty-one weeks in between. If your staff are not authorized to put hands on anyone — most group homes, day programs, outpatient clinics and ABA agencies — prevention is the entire safety program, and this is all of it.
Each tech’s monthly check result (score, pass/fail, timestamp), daily engagement rates, and badge status — all visible live on your dashboard and printable to PDF for survey binders, workplace-violence prevention plans (e.g., Cal/OSHA SB 553-style annual training requirements), and licensing reviews. What the regulations actually require you to document →
No — they’re different credentials for different jobs, and it’s worth being precise. SMCT™ (Steady Method Certified Technician) is our behavioral-safety credential in de-escalation and crisis prevention, comparable in role to Safety-Care® or CPI certification, for staff in any facility. RBT® (Registered Behavior Technician) is a credential granted only by the BACB for technicians delivering applied behavior analysis. Our RBT Academy™ delivers the BACB-required 40-hour training that makes candidates eligible to pursue RBT certification — but the RBT credential itself is issued by the BACB, and SMCT™ does not count toward it. Both happen to be 40 hours; that’s where the similarity ends. RBT Academy training is offered independent of the BACB.
Five minutes a day, two minutes a month, one training day a year. It’s designed for the reality of a unit: no logins to remember (personal magic links), no LMS, works on any phone.
The Steady Method LLC is a New Jersey company built by founders with deep experience in professional certification training and healthcare operations. Our curriculum is directed and countersigned by our BCBA Lead Curriculum Director; training delivery is led by certified in-person trainers; and the platform enforces every requirement in software so your credential is verifiable.
Twenty minutes on a call and you’ll see the dashboard, the curriculum and a real monthly check — the same way your staff would.
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