PILLAR 01
Durable medical equipment
Hands-on with walkers, wheelchairs, hospital beds, gait belts, lifts, and bathroom safety gear — so aides set up and use every device correctly.
For home care agencies · Little Rock, AR metro
Hands-on caregiver training that prevents the injury.
Viridian Firm trains your caregivers on the transfers, lifting, and equipment that cause the most injuries and turnover — taught in person by a Doctor of Physical Therapy. Built to satisfy the required 12-hour annual in-service — so your compliance comes handled and survey-ready along the way.
Doctor of Physical Therapy–led instruction
Hands-on, in-person delivery
Survey-ready documentation
Your annual in-service, handled
0/ 12 hrs · per aide
Four quarterly half-days cover all 12 required hours — weighted toward the hands-on transfer and lifting skills that actually prevent injuries. Compliance, handled as a byproduct of better training.
Taught by a Doctor of Physical Therapy
A licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy leads every session — body mechanics done right.
Cuts injuries & turnover
Fewer strained backs and fewer incident reports mean lower workers’ comp costs and caregivers who stay.
12-hour requirement · survey-ready
Rosters, objectives, and proof of hours, mapped to Arkansas's required topics.
The program
A full year of in-service, led by a physical therapist
Twelve in-service hours built around the three things aides do every shift — and the three things that get them and your clients hurt when done wrong. Online modules check a box. We build the skills.
PILLAR 02
Lifting mechanics & injury prevention
The body mechanics that keep aides off the injured list — protecting your team from the back and shoulder injuries that drive turnover and comp claims.
PILLAR 03
Transfer training
Practiced techniques for bed-to-chair, chair-to-toilet, and floor-recovery transfers — with and without equipment, for every mobility level.
The full 12 hours
Mapped to the Arkansas required training topics so your in-service plan lines up with what surveyors look for.
- 01 Body mechanics & caregiver injury prevention
- 02 Safe transfers: bed, chair, toilet, car
- 03 Fall prevention & assisting a fallen client
- 04 Durable Medical Equipment: walkers, wheelchairs, canes — fit & use
- 05 Hospital beds, mechanical lifts & gait belts
- 06 Bathroom & home safety equipment
- 07 Infection control & standard precautions
- 08 Skin integrity, positioning & pressure care
- 09 Dementia & Alzheimer's care and safe mobility
- 10 Personal care with safe mechanics
- 11 Nutrition, hydration & safe-feeding basics
- 12 Emergencies, recognizing decline & documentation
Extended modules 13–16 Multi-state add-on
Four additional hours for agencies operating in states with stricter requirements (e.g., DC, Illinois, Florida) — a 16-hour program that travels with your brand.
- 13 HIV/AIDS & bloodborne pathogens
- 14 Abuse, neglect & exploitation — recognition & mandated reporting
- 15 Sexual harassment prevention
- 16 Assisting with self-administered medications
Services & pricing
What we offer, and what it costs
A caregiver retention, injury-prevention, and workforce-development partner for non-skilled home care agencies — plus education for families and community groups. Taught in person by a Doctor of Physical Therapy.
For agencies
À la carte · agency on-site
Single workshops
Not ready for the annual program? Book a single session — the easiest way to see us before committing.
Lunch & Learn
60–90 min · up to 25 caregivers
from $950
- One focused topic of your choice
- Fall prevention, body mechanics, dementia, burnout
- Low-commitment entry point
Most popular
Half-Day Workshop
3–4 hours · hands-on
from $1,600
- Transfers, gait belts, safe mobility
- Injury prevention, dementia, home safety
- The building block of the annual program
Full-Day Intensive
6–8 hours · whole team
from $2,750
- Competency development & injury reduction
- Communication, retention, family management
- An all-staff training day
New hires
New-hire cohort training
Get new caregivers safe on transfers, body mechanics, and equipment before their first shift. Two ways to run it — share a room and pay per person, or have us all to yourself.
Send aides to our session
A monthly cohort at our training space. Send new hires as you bring them on — several agencies share the room, so it's the best price and zero travel.
$175 / new hire
We come to you
We run the cohort at your office for your hires only — you're buying the whole session, so it's priced per session, not per head.
$1,350 up to 6 hires · +$200 each
Structured program · agencies
Four-Week Caregiver Success Program
Four weekly sessions for your team: fall prevention · safe mobility & transfers · dementia & communication · burnout & self-care.
Staff development series
A month-long development program for your caregiving team, run on a weekly cadence — the four pillars of safe, confident, lasting caregivers.
from $3,900
For families & community
Education & in-home support
Caring for a loved one at home?
Personalized guidance for families, plus caregiver education for churches and community groups. No agency contract needed — just the help you're looking for.
Four-Week Caregiver Series
Our four-week series — fall prevention, mobility & transfers, dementia & communication, burnout & self-care — for family caregivers in your congregation or group. Educational; no certification.
$199 / participant
Family Care Conference
A virtual consultation for families navigating care decisions — aging in place, caregiver planning, resource recommendations. Three tiers by depth.
$199 one hour · one-time · online
À la carte in-home caregiver training
A 60–90 minute in-home visit for families: home safety & fall-risk review, hands-on transfer and body-mechanics coaching at the actual home, and written recommendations. Designed for family caregivers, including those in Arkansas's Medicaid Independent Choices program.
$499 + travel beyond 30 mi
Medicaid Independent Choices billing — pending program approval. Private pay available now.
Need it fast, or outside the metro?
Emergency rush available on any service — a fall just happened, or a survey's coming.
Compliance, covered
Designed to satisfy the 12-hour requirement
Arkansas requires every aide to complete 12 hours of in-service a year, addressing areas tied directly to client care. Viridian Firm delivers those 12 hours as an outside provider — we build the program to that standard and hand you the proof.
Delivered by a Doctor of Physical Therapy
The 12-hour in-service is taught in person by a licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy and documented to the standard the rule calls for — areas tied directly to client care, with the hands-on skills that prevent injuries.
- Every required in-service topic, weighted toward transfers, lifting, and equipment
- Attendance rosters and completion certificates for each employee
- Session objectives mapped to client-care areas
Your survey packet
Every session comes with the documentation a surveyor expects to see, ready to drop into each employee file:
- Signed attendance roster & hours per aide
- Written objectives & evaluation method
- Topic crosswalk to Arkansas requirements
- Individual certificates of completion
We tailor the program to your agency's in-service plan and current Arkansas Department of Health requirements.
How it works
From first call to filed certificates
01
Tell us your team
Headcount, locations, and whether you want monthly or quarterly visits.
02
We schedule
We set a cadence that fits your shifts and come to you — cohorts sized to your team.
03
We train
Hands-on instruction with real equipment, led by a Doctor of Physical Therapy.
04
You file the proof
Certificates, rosters, and the survey packet land in your hands, ready for each employee file.
Why a physical therapist?
Caregiving is a movement problem. PTs are the movement profession.
Nearly every way an aide or a client gets hurt — a bad lift, a missed transfer, a fall, a pressure injury from poor positioning — is a movement problem. Physical therapists are doctoral-trained, licensed specialists in exactly that: safe patient handling, transfer and gait training, fall-risk reduction, positioning, and matching the right equipment to the right body. Caregiver education isn't adjacent to PT practice — it's squarely inside it.
Meet your instructor
Dr. Rhianna Redden — Doctor of Physical Therapy, Owner-operator
Dr. Redden earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy at New York University and has spent 13 years specializing in musculoskeletal injury and transfer training. Before she was a therapist, she was a Certified Nursing Assistant and phlebotomist — she has done the job your aides do, and teaches like someone who remembers what a double shift feels like.
She has served as an adjunct instructor in Howard University's Doctor of Physical Therapy program, trained in wound care at Beth Israel Hospital, practiced vestibular physical therapy in an Ear, Nose and Throat office treating positional vertigo and other balance pathologies, and is a certified first responder. Her additional credentials include Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, certification in dry needling, and orthopedic manual therapy certification. Every Viridian Firm session is taught by her personally — never outsourced, never pre-recorded.
Doctor of Physical Therapy — New York University
Certified in Dry Needling
Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist
Orthopedic Manual Therapy Certified
Certified first responder
Former Certified Nursing Assistant & phlebotomist
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
13 years in musculoskeletal injury & transfers
The core of your 12 hours — lifting mechanics, transfer technique, injury prevention — taught by a specialist who treats these injuries when they happen.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Former Certified Nursing Assistant & phlebotomist
She's been on your aides' side of the bed. Training lands differently when the instructor has done the work — not just studied it.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Vestibular PT — positional vertigo
Years treating dizziness and balance disorders in an Ear, Nose and Throat practice inform the fall-prevention hours — because many falls start with a balance problem nobody caught.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Wound care training — Beth Israel Hospital
Hospital wound-care training underpins the skin integrity, positioning, and pressure-injury prevention module your aides receive.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Adjunct instructor — Howard University Doctor of Physical Therapy program
She has taught movement science to doctoral students. Your aides get the same instructor, translated to the bedside.
EXPERIENCE → YOUR TRAINING
Certified first responder
Emergency preparedness and recognizing decline are taught by someone certified to respond when things go wrong — not just lecture about it.
Service area & travel zones
Serving the Little Rock metro
Free travel within 30 miles of our west Little Rock base (317 S Shackleford Rd). A $150 surcharge applies to Hot Springs, Pine Bluff, and Searcy (roughly 30–60 miles); $250 beyond. Overnight regional work by quote.
Little RockNorth Little RockSherwoodMaumelleBryantBentonJacksonvilleCabotConwayHot Springs · +$150Pine Bluff · +$150Searcy · +$150
Get started
Request a quote
Tell us your team size and how you'd like training delivered. We'll send pricing and the next open dates — usually within one business day.