Hi everybody,
Today an announcement was made for a young man of 17 years old.
He threatened a social worker verbally ("I will destroy you"), he twisted her arm and poured pepper on her hair, he took her by the arms and threw his soft drink over her and often he pretends to throw his hot thee over her and then he sees that she gets afraid...
Now half of the announcement was read to him and he reacted with violence towards himself and made threats: "I will kill myself, it was a joke, she was laughing with it, I will jump out of this window, I will destroy the face of the social worker, you'll see, I want to die," At the same time he was hitting his hand against the window and wall.
The coordinator decided not to leave him with the letter because he thought it could lead to more escalation.
He told the young man that he would come back to read the second part.
The announcements lead to escalation, as we were told during the training. But at this time we are more afraid then before the announcement, towards the safety of our staff... So we'll have to prepare ourselves and increase the safety measurements.
Maybe reactions of this forum could strengthen and encourage the team, because automatically people wonder if we did not provoke him by making the announcement and choosing for NVR...
Greetings,
Annelies