Joel Lashley

Treatment and Outreach

Joel Lashley has worked as a public safety professional for 25 years, including 17 years of service in the health care setting. Joel leads the training program for hospital, clinical, and social outreach staff in Violence Awareness, Prevention, and Management at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, the only level 1 pediatric trauma center in the region, serving critically injured and ill patients throughout the Mid-West

He has trained hundreds of nursing, clinical, social work, psychiatric, and public safety professionals in the management and prevention of violence. He is a certified instructor for Interventions for Patients with Challenging Behaviors and Principles of Subject Control (POSC®) – Security Personnel, and Non-violent Crisis Intervention®, from the Crisis Prevention Institute. He is a member of the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety and the International Association of Non-violent Crisis Intervention Certified Instructors.

Joel has developed a program for managing the care of children, adolescents, and adults with autism and other cognitive disabilites. The fact that his son has autism has made him concerned about how this segment of our population is managed in the medical, security, and law enforcement arenas. Future articles deal with this and other issues facing our medical and mental health facilities as we search for ways to best treat their patients.

Full list of Joel Lashley results

The behavior we allow is the behavior we get
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What do libraries and museums have that prisons and bars don't?
2 things to avoid in prisoner hospital visits: Complacency and Pepper Spray
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Tactics for securing the hospital environment efficiently every time
Gateway Behaviors are like Gateway Drugs
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When I was in junior high school, we used to have to watch those corny “gateway drug” educational films. Do you remember those? They followed a similar plot: Some clean-cut teenage boy would steal ...
Securing the hospital environment
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At any given moment, there are prisoners inside a hospital — sometimes several. The only other public place that can claim these numbers is a courtroom. But unlike a courtroom, most hospitals lack ...
The 'Autism tsunami'
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'Autism tsunami': 1 in 150 births are currently on the autism spectrum; 3 out of 4 are male; half are nonverbal or profoundly verbally limited. They are seven times more likely to encounter the pol...
How to 'speak' autism, Part 2: The First Wave
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'Autism tsunami': 1 in 150 births are currently on the autism spectrum; 3 out of 4 are male; half are nonverbal or profoundly verbally limited. They are seven times more likely to encounter the pol...
How to 'speak' autism
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Part 1 of 2Read Part 2: 'The First Wave'Prisoners with special needs continue to provide challenges for police, correctional, and healthcare security personnel. For example, a subject is arrested o...
Hospital security: Strengthening the weakest link
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By Joel LashleySenior Security Officer, Children’s Hospital and Health SystemMilwaukee, Wisconsin It is estimated there are two security officers for every police officer in America. How well they ...