Dupree Edwards, a self- advocate, Arc Board Member, and staff at the University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration is interviewed on the topic of positive behavior support by Margaret Moore. 2/26/2024
In late 2010, the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS), in partnership with the Center for Disability Resources (CDR) at the University of South Carolina, conducted a national survey of state developmental disabilities agency policies and practices regarding behavior supports.
Recorded May 10, 2024. Day two topics included: a review of positive behavior support, establishing goals, steps of FBA and FBI process, creating a function-based behavior intervention plan, PBS prevention strategies, replacement strategies, response strategies, and a review of case studies highlighting a variety of strategies.
Recorded on May 1, 2024. Day one topics included: the 3- component model of anxiety, assessing anxiety in Autism, and various strategies for treating anxiety integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
This brief provides an overview of Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT)—an intensive service delivery model intended for people with serious mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system.
Objective: Team design is meticulously specified for assertive community treatment (ACT) teams, yet performance can vary across ACT teams, even those with high fidelity. By developing and validating the Teamwork in Assertive Community Treatment (TACT) scale, investigators examined the role of team processes in ACT performance.
A number of second and third generation studies have shown that ACT programs have not achieved a similar degree of positive outcomes as the original PACT research. Typically lack of strong fidelity to the ACT model is the demonstrated contributor to poorer results. Therefore, this new version of the National Program Standards for ACT Teams not only provides minimum standards for program operation but it also provides brief descriptions of the rationale for many of the ACT requirements which have been difficult for providers and administrators to understand and implement.
Wraparound has become a predominant tool for implementing interagency systems of care. The system of care concept was developed in the mid-1980s as a response to (a) a dearth of mental health and other services for students; (b) the fragmentation of services across mental health, education, child welfare and juvenile justice services; and (c) the history of poor outcomes for students with emotional disturbance and their families. The key idea behind the development of a system of care was a coordinated network of community-based services that is organized to meet student and family needs rather than agency needs.
