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All workshops are ready for presentation to your group. They feature a dynamic and interactive format with accompanying handouts and materials. Additional workshops can be developed to focus on specific clinical and behavioral issues to meet staff and student needs. Trainings listed can be provided in the following formats:
Train the Trainer format: Focusing on building capacity within your district or school, this workshop format is intensive skill-building experience including case studies, in depth training on intervention selection and practice creating effective behavior intervention plans.
Classroom Educators Overview: Training classroom teachers is an essential way to support students. Providing fun, interactive, trainings including easy-to-implement preventive tools, strategies, and interventions will be taught. Workshop or lecture-style trainings are availab
Special Educator/School Mental Health Training: An advanced training geared to professionals consulting to teachers and student programs in schools. Including issues such has differentiating diagnosis, choosing appropriate interventions, identifying common school stressors, and promoting buy-in with teachers.
Speaking Events for Parents: Jessica also offers a variety of parent education programs designed to teach effective parenting techniques in a fun and interactive format.
Rethinking Behavioral Interventions: Understanding and Teaching Students with Anxiety
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reports that one in four thirteen-eighteen year olds has had an anxiety disorder in their lifetime. Without intervention, these children are at risk for poor performance, diminished learning, and social/behavior problems in school. Understanding the role anxiety plays in a student’s behavior is crucial and using preventive strategies are key to successful intervention. Effective behavior plans for these students must avoid the reward and punishment-based consequences from traditional behavior plans and focus instead on the use of preventive strategies and on explicitly teaching coping skills, self-monitoring, and alternative responses
Behavioral and Educational Best Practices for Students with Mental Health Disabilities
About 10 percent of kids in school --approximately 9-13 million students -- struggle with mental health problems. Whether they’re running out of a class, not doing their homework, disrupting others, or quietly being defiant, their behavior is often misread and misdiagnosed. The frustration level teachers and parents face can be overwhelming, and traditional behavior plans are often ineffective and even unhelpful in addressing certain behaviors because they do not acknowledge the underlying causes. The training will provide empathetic, flexible, practical, and more importantly effective strategies for preventing inappropriate behavior from the start in the classroom, and dealing with it once it’s already happening.
Accepting the Challenge: Effective Strategies for Students with Oppositional Behavior
Children with oppositional behavior are usually the most challenging to include in the classroom and the most stressful to manage at home. This workshop will outline how you can help a student with oppositional behavior comply and perform better academically and socially. Adults can do much to improve oppositional behavior in children, maintain demands, set limits, and foster school and homework productivity.
Reaching the Withdrawn Child
When we see a child who is withdrawn and shut down parents and teachers will sympathize and make attempts to cheer up the student. When these attempts fail and the child continues to have low energy, to be irritable, and never express happiness, adults can feel at a loss. This workshop will give adults the right tools to make these students feel better and become more engaged.
Proactive, preventative approach for reducing problem behavior for students
Ninety percent of any effective behavior program is preventative. This workshop will review easy to implement evidence-based strategies to prevent challenging behavior from occurring in children with autism.
Effective Intervention for Students with Sexualized Behavior
Sexualized behavior can be relatively uncommon in school-aged children but can be very upsetting to professionals and parents. Students display sexualized behavior for a host of reasons, and there is not a single common profile. For most students pointing out the behavior is inappropriate and it needs to stop is all that is needed but for many the behavior will persist and requires specific interventions. Myths about sexualized behavior will be tackled and practical and effective interventions will be taught.