People and Settings

Community Living: Roberto, Don, Paul

EXAMPLE: Positive Behavior Support and Community Living Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 1 A new fast food restaurant opened in Oakwood City. The restaurant offers fast food items: hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, kid’s meals, French fries, and ice cream. The menu lists items with the price for each type of food item. Recently, the restaurant […]

Children and Family Services: Garcia Family

EXAMPLE: Positive Behavior Support and Children and Family Services Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 1 The Garcia family includes Tom (dad) and Glenda (mom). They have four daughters: Natalie (12), Rebecca (10), Pati (8) and Julianna (6). Glenda’s mother, Elena, and Glenda’s adult sister, Victoria, also lives with the Garcia family. Victoria has […]

Positive Behavior Support and Aging: Kemal

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 1 River Bend supports elderly people with physical, cognitive, and/or mental health challenges. Participants can attend different types of activities three to five days per week. These activities provide opportunities for people to make new friends, mentor young people, and cook meals. Other activities include arts and crafts […]

Learn More About Positive Behavior Support

Positive Behavior Support (PBS) refers to research-based strategies and tools that are used to increase quality of life and decrease challenging behavior by changing social interactions and settings that tend to be associated with challenging behavior. Four key elements of positive behavior include: Valued Outcomes – Interventions considered must be person-centered in spirit and culturally […]

Stories Across the Lifespan

The stories on this page describe how positive behavior support can be used to improve quality of life and decrease challenging behavior over time for children and adults.

Minnesota Positive Behavior Support Standards of Practice

Thanks for visiting the Standards of Practice page. This site is being  created with positive behavior support champions across the state of Minnesota who support children and adults across the lifespan. Each of the boxes below are meant to provide information to different community partners who are interested in positive behavior support. You can still […]

Defining Positive Support

The term Positive Support refers to strategies and practices that are: Person-centered in nature, sensitive to the unique cultures and backgrounds of each individual, and respectful towards people receiving these supports; Evidence-based or promising practices; Adapted and improved over time using assessment processes to guide use; and Often implemented with more than one evidence-based or […]

Learn More about Person-Centered Planning & Practices

Being person-centered is a way of thinking and acting that empowers people to have a high quality of life. Person-centered practices assist people in creating a positive and meaningful life and build on people’s unique interests and strengths. They refer to strategies and tools that are used in many different situations and settings to support […]

Person-Centered Practices and Families: Steven and Tony

Steven’s and His Mother’s Story One Personal Futures Planning facilitator was very worried. The person’s mother was not saying anything at all during the Personal Futures Planning meeting. This was a mother that had often been very vocal about her views. The facilitator was concerned that she might be upset. They talked afterward, and the […]
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