A comprehensive, prevention-focused framework that helps schools prevent, recognize, and respond to behavioral escalation—while driving better outcomes for students and staff.
TERTIARY PREVENTION IN ACTION
Red Scale System App for Documentation
Document incidents quickly and objectively
Track triggers, interventions, and outcomes
Generate reports and analyze trends with ease
Export reports for compliance and regulatory needs
Primary Prevention Build a positive school culture, teach expectations, and strengthen social and emotional skills.
Primary Prevention focuses on:
preventing behavioral escalation before it occurs
creating structured, predictable, and supportive educational environments
helping students be able to learn, regulate, and succeed
Primary Prevention is anchored by the Green Behavior Zone™, which helps staff understand what keeps students regulated, engaged, and successful throughout the school day.
In special education, challenging behavior is often a form of communication.
Welle teaches educators, paraprofessionals, therapists, administrators, and support staff to recognize student strengths, understand individual needs, and build relationships that reduce anxiety, frustration, and behavioral escalation.
Rather than asking, "How do we respond when a student becomes escalated?" Welle encourages schools to ask:
"What can we do today to help this student remain successful?"
Secondary Prevention Identify early warning signs, monitor changes in behavior, and respond appropriately to de-escalate the situation.
Secondary Prevention focuses on:
recognizing changes in behavior and early signs of escalation
objectively assessing student behavior
selecting responses that are appropriate for the student's level of need
producing positive outcomes that allow students to be ready and available for learning
This is anchored by the Lalemand Red Behavior Scale®, which provides all staff with Welle's Common Language™ and a structured decision-making process. Secondary Prevention is also grounded in both Verbal De-Escalation skills as well as physical Self-Protection and Restraint skills.
The Red Behavior Scale Helps Staff:
Objectively assess escalating behavior
Recognize early warning signs and respond sooner
Determine the appropriate response based on the level of escalation
Communicate using Welle's Common Language™ across staff and departments.
Document behavior consistently to support trend analysis and continous improvement.
Tertiary Prevention Respond effectively when incidents occur, document objectively, and use data to improve future outcomes.
Tertiary Prevention focuses on:
reviewing incidents
documenting objective information
identifying patterns
improving future outcomes
Behavioral incidents should never simply end when the crisis is over. Tertiary Prevention is anchored in a structured Post Incident Review process and enhanced with consistent Documentation using tools such as Welle's Red Scale System App.
Post Incident Reviews Help:
conduct structured reviews of behavioral incidents
allow for student intervention plans, supports, and classroom strategies to be updated
highlight continuous learning that strengthens future prevention
The Red Scale System App:
creates a comprehensive behavioral history to address each student's unique needs
provides meaningful data that drives proactive decision making and continuous improvement
Trauma-Informed and Student-Centered
Welle's Trauma-Informed Focus will help staff promote:
Safety through predictable environments and consistent responses
Trust through common language and relationship-based interactions
Support through opportunities for autonomy and self-determination
Collaboration through partnering with students, families, and multidisciplinary teams
Empowerment through building coping skills, self-regulation, and independence
Receptiveness through respect for all different life experiences and backgrounds
