For over 30 years Maybo has been dedicated to helping organisations reduce risks surrounding behaviours of concern and distress through the design and delivery of engaging, tangata-centred training. We deliver de-escalation and PBS training across diverse environments including tangata whaikaha disability, community services, mental health, and residential care. Maybo is passionate about the delivery of human rights-based models of care that reduce the need for restrictive practices, improve tangata’s quality of life, and enhance kaimahi safety.
Our learning methods are consistent with the principles of positive behaviour support, focusing on primary and secondary strategies for preventing and defusing behaviours of concern. This helps staff to:
- Better understand a person’s physiological and emotional needs
- Improve their environment
- Recognise and reduce restrictive practices
- Promote respect and choices for the individual
- Recognise different and neurodiverse ways of communicating
Maybo’s training programmes are designed to empower providers to safely and ethically implement Positive Behaviour Support Plans (PBSPs), including those that involve regulated restrictive practices. Beginning with a training needs analysis to ensure every programme is tailored to the provider and the individuals they support. This ensures that teams receive the right knowledge, skills, and techniques.
Alongside proactive strategies to improve quality of life, we teach reactive strategies that help to safely de-escalate emotive situations. While our focus is on avoiding the need for physical interventions, some settings may, at times, need to use these to create safety, and we can provide simple low-arousal methods for use as a last resort.
Our programme supports the requirements for:
- Enabling Good Lives principles
- Ngā Paerewa Health and Disability Services Standard NZS 8134:2021
- Aligned to BILD Association of Certified Training
Contact details:
Phone: +61 (0)272 550 607
With a Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland based trainer, we service all of Aotearoa New Zealand, offering on-site direct delivery, train the trainer model, and eLearning.