Emergency Safety Interventions (ESI)

What is ESI?

Emergency Safety Interventions (ESI) are seclusion and restraint used when the student presents a reasonable and immediate danger of physical harm to self or others.
SOURCE: Kansas State Department of Education

Targeted and intensive resources:

• Emergency Safety Interventions:
  • Revised Guidance Document
  • Requirement Webinar (short version)
  • Requirement PowerPoint (short version)

• Emergency Safety Interventions: Professional Development Series (video collection PDF)
• In the Driver’s Seat program (Bus Drivers and Transportation Supervisors): Mailed to all public school districts in the summer of 2013. Please see your district’s transportation supervisor for more information.

Universal resources:

• A Family Guide to the Use of Emergency Safety Interventions in Kansas
• District Responsibilities on Emergency Safety Intervention Information on Website and Handbook
• Emergency Safety Interventions: Requirements Webinar (full length)
• Emergency Safety Interventions: Requirements PowerPoint (full length)
• Standards for the Use of Emergency Safety Interventions
• De-escalation of Behavior Modules
• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

- Staff