Community-Based Positive Supports

The modules in this section provide information about how positive supports work and focus on one type of practice: positive behavior support or PBS. These modules can be a helpful way to learn more about supporting people who might experience challenges in everyday life and/or when transitioning back into the community after a visit to the emergency room or hospital.  There are currently four modules in this section:

1. Introduction to Community-based Supports – an overview of how individual supports can be put in place using a tiered approach with increasingly intense interventions that can be tailored for each person. Includes an introductory video that is 50 minutes in length by Rachel Freeman and another 1 hour video on trauma informed supports led by John Hoch.
2. Positive Approaches to Community Supports – An overview of how to assess challenges that come up using functional behavioral assessment and multiple strategies a person can choose based on why problems may be occurring. Includes an introductory 1-hour video on positive behavior support by Joe Reichle and a 1-hour preesntation on self-injury by Adele Dimian
3. Skill-building Practices – This module describes how basic social interactions and changes in everyday routines and settings set the stage for positive strategies.  Includes shorter, 20-minute videos that can be used for training purposes targeting skills that help create positive interactions.
4. Long-term Planning & Supports – The content in this module describes what types of action planning is needed to make sure that planning processes consider how to create a consistent, long-term plan for success with a focus on quality of life across a person’s life as they grow and evolve. Includes a 1-hour video on this topic.