Vulnerable populations
When you must restrain someone you are there to protect.
A lateral hold for people who cannot absorb a prone struggle, taught to the programs that meet them most often.
The organizations
Where a hold of a vulnerable person is the last resort.
SafeWrap was built for teams who needed to restrain an aggressive, suicidal, or emotionally disturbed person without joint locks, chokes, or strikes. These are the settings where that problem shows up most often.
Behavioral health
Programs hold people in crisis when there is an imminent risk of harm and lesser steps have failed. The hold has to be monitored, documented, and finished without a prone struggle.
Memory care
Confusion and frailty show up together. The hold has to be one a care team can remember and use without turning the moment into a fight.
Disability services and group homes
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are harmed most by pain-based holds. Staff need control that keeps communication open.
Child and adolescent programs
Residential treatment and children’s behavioral health. The technique has to fit a smaller body, and it has to be one staff can explain to a family afterward.
Training does not replace your restraint policy. It gives the people doing the hold a lateral method that keeps breathing, the face, and communication available.
Who this is written for
Children and juveniles
Smaller bodies and developing frames are a poor match for pain compliance. The aim is control that does not depend on hurting a child to hold them.
Elderly and frail
Joints, skin, and balance do not tolerate locks or a scramble to the floor. Position has to do the work that force should not.
Pregnant people
The lateral position keeps pressure off the abdomen, protecting both mother and baby. If handcuffing is required, it is finished on the side. Never prone.
Neurodivergent people
A chaotic, painful struggle makes communication harder. A visible face and a voice that can still be heard give staff a way to slow the moment.
Higher respiratory risk
Anyone who already struggles to breathe, including people at the highest asphyxial risk in a prone finish, should not be held chest-down. The position keeps the airway open and the chest free of stacked pressure.
A quieter application.
Gentle does not mean unfinished. The three conditions still have to be true.
Start with the people in your care.
A behavioral health program, a memory care home, a group home, or a children’s program. Bring the policy you already work under.