Restraint Use in Residential Programs: Why are Best Practices Ignored?

The journal article, Restraint Use in Residential Programs: Why are Best Practices Ignored?, provides an overview of the national initiative to reduce seclusion and restraint in children’s residential programs that informed the Six Core Strategies framework; Examples of successful implementation efforts at state and residential provider levels are presented in the article.

Implementation teams engage in exploratory work in early stages of implementation to identify and learn about potential evidence-based or evidence-informed programs or practices that may address the desired changes.