Project Description:
This project is designed to enhance the capacities of school district personnel, including teachers, administrators, related service personnel, and behavior specialists, as well as family members and outside agency representatives to use positive, assessment-based approaches to appropriately address school-wide issues of behavior support, as well as to support students with disabilities who display significant behavior challenges in their school, home, and community settings.
With a focus on inservice training and technical assistance, this project involves comprehensive, community-based training for educators, family members, and other support providers and brief workshops to promote awareness and extend existing knowledge in positive behavior support. In addition, project staff will provide individualized technical assistance to school district personnel through on-site coaching and phone consultation.
Positive behavioral support (PBS) involves the assessment and reengineering of environments so people with problem behaviors experience reductions in their problem behaviors and increase social, personal, and professional quality in their lives. PBS is the application of behavior analysis and systems change perspectives within the context of person-centered values to the intensely social problems created by behaviors such as self-injury, aggression, property destruction, defiance, and disruption. It is an approach that blends values about the rights of people with disabilities with a practical science about how learning and behavior change occur. The overriding goal of PBS is to enhance quality of life for individuals and their support providers in home, school, and community settings.
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Geographic Areas, Empowerment Zone, Rural/Remote
