Join the over 25,000 professionals who have rated LSCI training as their best professional in-service experience!

Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) is an evidence-based, trauma-informed, relationship-building approach to turning problem situations into learning opportunities for young people who exhibit challenging behaviors.

LSCI training thoroughly prepares professionals to manage a problem situation with a young person from beginning to end. The skills of LSCI enable any caring adult to step into a young person’s life space–the heat of a stressful moment–and intervene effectively. Thousands of educators, school administrators, psychologists, counselors, social workers, crisis interventionists, paraprofessionals and parents have rated LSCI Certification Training as their single most important professional development opportunity.

LSCI certification provides specific skills for helping children and youth who:

• Act out in stress toward unsuspecting helpers, sparking explosive and endless power struggles
• Make poor decisions based on distorted thought patterns and perceptual errors
• Have the right intentions and motivation but lack the social skills to be successful
• Are purposefully aggressive and exploitive with little conscience
• Act in self-damaging ways due to being burdened with shame and inadequacy
• Become entangled in destructive peer relationships and are vulnerable to manipulation

LSCI Certification training is rated as Promising by the California Evidence Based Clearinghouse.

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To book a training event at your school or organization, email signewhitson@lsci.org.

Who Should Take LSCI?

LSCI Certification training offers advanced professional skills for teachers, special educators, school administrators, social workers, counselors, youth care workers, administrators, psychologists, and other professionals working with youth who exhibit challenging behaviors. It is particularly useful when team members are trained together. Certification in LSCI includes:

• A set of brain-based, trauma-informed, relationship-building skills
• A comprehensive Participant’s Manual covering the training and techniques
• The textbook Life Space Crisis Intervention: Talking with Students in Conflict
• Instructor-led teaching and modeling of intervention skills
• Real-life video sequences
• Structured and small group activities
• Realistic role-play activities
• Demonstration of skills requirement in order to earn certification

Upon successful completion of the training, participants receive a Certificate of Competency in Life Space Crisis Intervention from the LSCI Institute.