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Welcome to PBIS

PBIS MISSION
The Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices. The Center has two foci: Broad dissemination to schools, families, and communities about a technology of school-wide positive behavioral interventions and support. Demonstrations at the level of individual students, schools, districts, and states that school-wide positive behavioral interventions and support are feasible and effective. For more information check out the "About the Center" link on the left-hand column of this page.
What's New
It's Coming!!!!!! Our website is undergoing exciting new changes for you. The format and content of the website will be changing in October. Thank you to all the readers who responded through surveys and emails giving us feedback on the site over the past five years. If you would like to submit a paper for presenting at the Second International APBS Conference Click Here If you would like to help promote the APBS Conference Click Here Here's a great School Wide Idea from Dunleith Elementary in Marietta, Georgia. Click Here Check out the link to an interactive model for Understanding Behavior: This Interactive Tutorial, is a web-based tutorial developed as part of a series of training materials to support the efforts of the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. It's from the University of Kentucky. click here Project FIVE is a research project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), and is directed by Tary Tobin, Ph.D. and Teri Lewis-Palmer, Ph.D. It is administered from the Educational and Community Supports research unit at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S. Department of Education. For more information click here Association for Positive Behavior Support Join Today The Association for Positive Behavior Support (APBS) is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of sitive behavior support. (www.apbsinternational.org) click here Items of Interest PBIS Newsletter To see a copy of our newsletter, click here. If you would like to be added to our mailing list for the newsletter, send an e-mail to subscribe@pbisnews.org. The latest newsletter focuses on Positive Behavior Support and Person Centered Planning. Newsletters have been on hiatus. They will begin soon. Resources The Arizona Behavior Institute has created a wonderful new video about a schoolwide effort for PBS. To view their site click here: ABI To order Behavior Intervention Planning: Using the Functional Behavioral Assessment Data by Terry M. Scott, Ph.D., Carl J. Liaupsin, Ph.D., C. Michael Nelson, Ed.D. Click here. To order a 20 minute video on Positive Behavior Support in schools contact: Claudia Vincent at the University of Oregon.
Relevant Literature
Interested in Youth Violence? Would you like to read what the Surgeon General has to say? Click here: Surgeon General To read President Bush's new law "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" check out this site: Click Here The Technical Assistance Guide is available here for download in WORD format. Click here for a paper titled School Climate and Discipline: Going to Scale, written by Dr. George Sugai and Dr. Rob Horner. For a Word Document version, click here. The Positive Behavior Support Practices are brief fact sheets that describe effective practices in PBS. Each Practice includes a rationale, overview, examples, issues and needs, and frequently-asked questions on a designated topic. Research Briefs are user-friendly summaries of key research articles in Positive Behavior Support. They have been designed to facilitate practitioners' familiarity with and use of current research. Research Briefs are currently available as PDF files.
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The Center is supported by a grant from the Office of Special Education Program, with additional funding from the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program, US Department of Education.

For more information contact Laura Riffel, Ph.D. at riffy@charter.net Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports