Program wide Positive Behavior Support in Iowa

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Program wide Positive Behavior Support in Iowa

• Annual PBS Conference
• Tom Rendon
• Suana Wessendorf
• October 1, 2007

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Session Overview

• What is PBS and PW-PBS?
• History of PBS and the Development of PW-PBS
• Statewide PBS

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Guiding Principles/Values

• Supporting young childrens social and emotional
  development to prevent challenging behaviors
• Individualizing interventions to meet childrens
  and families unique interests, strengths, and
  needs
• Promoting skill building with enough intensity to
  affect change
• Implementing strategies in the context of
  naturally occurring routines and environments
• Ensuring fidelity of use through a systematic
  change process and
• Modifying strategies to meet the cultural and
  linguistic diversity of families and children.

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The Pyramid Model Promoting Social Emotional
Competence in Infants and Young Children
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History of PBS

• Iowa Behavioral Initiative
• Success4/Learning Supports
• Tri-County Consortium
• Statewide PBS with AEA and Des Moines (FBA-BIP)
• Schoolwide PBS 8 Demonstration sites
• 5 year RFP

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Programwide-PBS (PW-PBS) Project the beginning

• Three year training thru the Iowa DE
• Dr. Lise Fox and Susan Jack
• 0-5 Early Childhood
• 12 Head Start, Des Moines, AEA 11 site teams
• AEA/UEN Infrastructure (60)

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PW-PBS Guidelines for Implementation

• Assign a single PBS point of contact.
• Create a local PBS site team (including a parent)
  for each site charged with implementing PBS at
  the site.
• Create a PW-PBS team should consider including
• a contact person for disabilities,
• mental health,
• family support,
• curriculum/education
• Management
• policy council
• Teams meet monthly- supported by AEA and/or Head
  Start T/TA staff.
• Team will be responsible for the development of a
  PBS Plan

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PW-PBS Guidelines for Implementation

• Send up to 5 individuals for training (3
  trainings per year)
• Ensure the participation by all relevant staff in
  additional training and develop and implement
  efforts that ensure strategies from training are
  implemented in the classroom. Additional
  training
• introductory training for those not attending
  training
• module training
• scheduled follow-up training
• special topic training
• attending annual PBS state conference
• quarterly IHSA-sponsored PBS networking session.

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PW Benchmarks of QualityAssuring fidelity of
implementation

• PBS Team
• Staff Commitment
• Consistent Response to Problem Behaviors
• Crisis Plan
• Data-based Decision Making

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Benchmarks (contd)

• Positive Social and Communication Skills are
  Identified and Taught
• Lesson Plans for Teaching Expectations/Rules
• Training Plans
• Evaluation

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Three key success imperatives

• Administrative commitment and resources
• Comprehensive training program
• Ongoing technical assistance

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Administrative commitment

• Using a collaborative decision-making/problem-solv
  ing process
• Fostering a climate of risk-taking
• Identifying and implementing evidence-based
  practices
• Refocusing resources to support promotion and
  prevention

• Collaboratively building a vision and setting
  expectations
• Seeking and valuing the input of all stakeholders
• Identifying performance goals
• Dedicating time to an ongoing process
• Using data to make decisions and monitor progress

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Comprehensive training program

• Training in all modules 1, 2, 3-A, 3-B, 4
• Customized training to all staff teachers, asst.
  teachers, food preparers, home visitors,
  child-care partners, family members,
  community-based staff
• Periodic refresher

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Ongoing technical assistance

• Open, regular communication
• Team-based approach
• Data based decision making
• Solution orientation

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PWPBS Sites Cohort 1 2006-2007

• UDMO (Graettinger)
• NICAO (Mason City)
• MICA (Marshalltown)
• YOUR (Fort Dodge)
• MATURA (Creston)
• Des Moines Independent School District

• Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp. (Decorah)
• DMPS-HS/DMPS (Des Moines)
• HACAP (Washington Ceder Rapids)
• SIEDA (Ottumwa)

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PWPBS Sites Cohort 2 2007-2008

• Eagle Grove CSD
• Ottumwa CSD
• Happy Time Child Development Center (Vinton)
• Triumph EC Childhood Program (Creston)
• Lake Mills Community Preschool

• New Opportunities (Carroll)
• C.A. of Siouxland (Sioux City)
• Mid-Sioux (Remsen)
• CASI (Burlington)
• Bettendorf CSD
• CAEI (Davenport)

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Programwide PBS Cohort One

• State Data

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The next stage

• Statewide PBS

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Statewide Team

• AEA
• CCRR
• Child Care
• CHSC
• CSEFEL
• Dept of Ed
• ECSE

• Head Start TA
• Head Start Collab.
• Iowa State Univ.
• EC Programs
• SW-PBS
• Title V/First Five

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Statewide PBS draft

• Vision All young children in Iowa early care and
  education settings receive services that embody
  the pyramid model of positive behavior support to
  promote behavioral and social-emotional
  competence.
• Mission The purpose of the Iowa Statewide PBS
  Planning Team is to develop a statewide system
  that provides ongoing training, technical
  assistance, coaching and implementation support
  to assure PBS is well understood and being
  implemented with high fidelity, and that programs
  implementing PBS are using data to improve
  services.

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Statewide PBS draft

• Goals
• Develop a model for a statewide system that
  builds effectively and efficiently on the PBS
  work currently being done in Iowa (i.e.,
  school-wide PBS, program-wide PBS and PBS child
  care training)
• Develop a data-gathering process that documents
• what programs have adopted PBS
• what training has been completed
• the extent of their implementation
• the results they have
• Develop a communications plan to promote PBS as
  an effective tool for addressing challenging
  behaviors.
• Plan for sustainability.

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PW-PBS and PBS Child Care Project

• PW-PBS

• Child Care Project

• System intervention
• Focus on developing program wide systems of
  support
• Leads to M.1, 2, 3-A, 3-B training
• Data gathering systems
• T-POT
• Benchmarks of Quality

• Training intervention
• Focus on training directors, then directors
  training staff
• Directed at M.1, 2, 3-A, 3-B training
• No data gathering

• BIR
• PIR
• SSRS

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PBS Child Care Project
PW-PBS
CSEFEL -coach training -data implications -I/T
modules
Statewide PBS System

• Ongoing training
• Coaching and technical assistance
• Data collection
• Tracking implementation
• Ongoing networking, learning (COP)

Recruitment, sustainability
Monitor statewide implementation
ID, recruitmore sites
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Iowa Department of Education

• Suana Wessendorf, Education Consultant, (515)
  281-5447
• Suana.wessendorf_at_iowa.gov
• Tom Rendon, Head Start State Collaboration
  Office, [phone]
• Tom.rendon_at_iowa.gov