Pivot Solutions
Training Built for Crisis
Prevention and Response
Training Built for
Crisis Prevention
and Response
Pivot’s solutions build lasting fluency in prevention, de-escalation, and proportionate response across roles, environments, and populations.
Pivot’s solutions build lasting fluency in prevention, de-escalation, and proportionate response across roles, environments, and populations.
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Rooted in Research
Designed Around How Adults Actually Learn
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Every course is built for accessibility so all participants can engage fully, regardless of how they learn best.
Active Learning Strategies
Decision trees, scenario branching, and knowledge checks keep learners engaged and connect concepts to real application.
Mastery-Based Progression
Learners move forward only when they’re ready, ensuring a consistent foundation across the entire team.
Certifications
Rigorous pathways for prevention, de-escalation, and proportionate response
Pivot’s certification programs, including our flagship Professional Crisis Management® (PCM) and Everyday Behavior Tools™ (EDBT) certifications, are designed to build real-world fluency—not just awareness. These pathways combine evidence-based instruction, performance verification, and ongoing recertification to ensure skills translate into safe, effective action across diverse environments.
PCM Certifications
Professional Crisis Management® (PCM) prepares individuals and instructors to respond safely and proportionately when a crisis escalates, combining evidence-based prevention strategies and physical procedures with rigorous performance verification and ongoing recertification.
Certification Programs
Develop the skills required to teach, evaluate, and certify others in crisis prevention, de-escalation, and proportionate response with consistency and precision. The PCM Instructor Certification prepares instructors to deliver Pivot curriculum with fidelity—ensuring training is safe, effective, and aligned with evidence-based, dignity-centered standards. This certification emphasizes instructional fluency, performance-based evaluation, and quality control, equipping instructors to uphold certification standards across diverse learners, environments, and risk levels.
EDBT Certifications
The Everyday Behavior Tools™ (EDBT) pathways equip professionals at every level—from foundational practitioners to certified instructors—with the everyday prevention and de-escalation skills that reduce escalation before it starts. Certification levels are available to match your role and goals.
Certification Programs
Extend your impact. Build the expertise to train others. The EDBT Instructor Certification develops fluency across seven core Behavior Tools and equips professionals to deliver EDBT training with fidelity—reducing escalation early, strengthening relationships, and building prevention-first culture across teams and settings.
Certification Programs
Deepen your practice. Develop fluency across seven core Behavior Tools and apply prevention and de-escalation strategies immediately in your role and setting. This certification blends flexible online learning with live, scenario-based practice—ensuring participants can apply tools confidently and consistently in real-world situations.
Behavior Tools Series
Targeted courses for specific behaviors, environments, and use cases
The Behavior Tools Series offers short, focused courses that address common challenges across settings. Each course delivers immediately applicable strategies that integrate seamlessly with existing practices and reinforce prevention-first approaches.
Behavior Tools Series
This version of Behavior Tools equips parents, guardians, and foster caregivers with the skills to support children through behavioral challenges at home. Using real-world family examples, the course emphasizes connection, consistency, and calm as the foundation for behavior change.
Special Topics
Applied learning for emerging trends and specialized needs
Special Topics courses explore industry trends, evolving challenges, and specialized applications of crisis prevention and de-escalation. These offerings help organizations stay responsive and current in rapidly changing environments.
Special Topics Courses
A trauma-informed care course designed to deepen understanding of how trauma affects behavior, communication, and regulation. Learners gain practical tools to create psychologically safe environments and respond to stress-related behaviors with compassion and structure.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Ongoing learning to maintain fluency and standards
Pivot’s CEU offerings support continued skill development, recertification requirements, and practice refresh—helping professionals maintain fluency, consistency, and alignment with evolving standards over time.
CEU –
Webinar
Behavior analysts and educators frequently use token economies to increase engagement and appropriate behavior, yet many systems fail due to poor design, inconsistent implementation, or an overreliance on punishment. This course reframes token economies as intentional reinforcement systems, grounded in applied behavior analysis and designed to bridge delays to meaningful reinforcement. Participants will learn how to design, implement, and evaluate token systems by defining target behaviors, selecting effective reinforcers, and addressing common breakdowns such as staff response effort and system drift. The course concludes with practical strategies for fading, generalization, and building sustainable systems that work across clinical, school, and home settings.
CEU –
Webinar
This training reviews the role of effective crisis management and accurate programming data collection in supporting individuals with developmental disabilities. Participants will examine evidence-based crisis prevention and de-escalation strategies, ethical and legal considerations, and methods for collecting and analyzing behavioral / program data to inform treatment decisions.
CEU –
Webinar
Educators and behavior analysts often experience exhaustion not from lack of skill, but from systems that rely on constant adult prompting, reflecting a breakdown in stimulus control rather than a lack of student ability. This session reframes self-management as a deliberately designed outcome, showing how control can be transferred from adult prompts to environmental cues and ultimately to the learner. Participants will learn five practical, classroom-ready procedures that build self-monitoring, rule-governed behavior, and contact with natural contingencies. The course also extends these principles to analyst self-management, emphasizing sustainable, values-aligned system design that promotes lasting independence for both learners and professionals.
By Design
Why We Build Training This Way
Our model was designed for today’s complex environments, where learning must be efficient, scalable, and deeply human.
Scalable for Organizations
Online foundations streamline scheduling and reduce travel costs
Consistent Quality
Every learner receives the same evidence-based content and assessment standards
Data-Driven
Learner progress, completion, and competency data help organizations track ROI and training impact
Behaviorally Grounded
Rooted in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Pivot training focuses on prevention, communication, and reinforcement rather than control or punishment
Frequently Asked Questions
View All FAQsPivot offers certification programs, behavior tools courses, continuing education units (CEUs), and special topic trainings.
Some certifications include physical intervention concepts or skills, while others focus exclusively on non-physical prevention and de-escalation.
Behavior Tools courses provide focused strategies for specific challenges, settings, or use cases.
Pivot uses a combination of live instruction and skills labs, depending on the certification.
Yes. Pivot’s training solutions are designed to complement and integrate into existing systems rather than replace them.
