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This practice group is a conduit for families, researchers,
administrators, and practitioners to find common interests and practices
related to SMH and PBS. PBS approaches are designed to prevent
problem behaviors by proactively altering the environment before
problems begin and concurrently teaching appropriate behavior.
School-wide positive behavior support systems support all students
along a continuum of need based on the three-tiered PBS prevention
model. SMH can be thought of as a framework of approaches
that promote children’s mental health by emphasizing prevention
programming, positive youth development and school-wide
approaches. These approaches call for collaboration among mental
health providers, educators, families, related service providers and
school administrators in order to meet the mental health needs of all
students. By working collaboratively, this practice group seeks to
clarify the relationship between PBS and SMH in order to promote
seamless practice at the local level.
There are currently no discussions.
What is a Dialogue Guide? Dialogue Guides are tools designed by the IDEA Partnership to foster interactive discussions across stakeholders. The purpose of these tools is to promote open dialogue regarding an issue of high interest to the education community. The aim is to examine assumptions, seek common ground, and generate joint action surrounding the given topic. If you are not familiar with Dialogue Guides, please check out some at: http://www.ideapartnership.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=35&Itemid=111
What will you be asked to do if you agree to participate? Within the next 4-6 weeks, you’ll be asked to do the following:
1. Read and reflect on a topical brief about the issue - mental health and PBS (4 pages). Refer to http://www.bazelon.org/pdf/WayToGo1.pdf (this Brief will also be posted on the SharedWork site)
2. Generate 2-3 reaction and application questions that will be used to share perspectives and consider action
3. Participate in a 1 hour conference call to finalize the Dialogue Guide questions (during the week of April 12th or 19th)
4. Review the draft questions and send edits to the team leader
If you are interested in participating to the development of this Dialogue Guide, please email Susan Bazyk (moderator of the PBS group) by Friday, April 2nd .