Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

http://www.pbis.org

Center Overview

The Center has two overall objectives: (1) Identify and enhance knowledge about, and practical demonstration of, school-wide PBS practices, systems and outcomes along the three-tiered continuum (primary, secondary, tertiary). (2) Develop, conduct, and evaluate technical assistance and dissemination efforts that allow evidence-based practices to be implemented on a large scale with high durability and effectiveness.

Methods

The Center uses a "resource agent approach" to technical assistance that facilitates expanded implementation of schoolwide PBS. Knowledge development and evaluation activities focus on expanding: (a) the levels of effective school-wide PBS to those students with the most extreme behavior support needs, (b) contexts where school-wide PBS is effective to include the unique challenges of urban schools and high schools, and (c) accessibility of school-wide PBS practices, systems and outcomes through a coordinated system of dissemination efforts

States

Center Type

  • TA&D

Dates

  • 2003-10-01
  • 2008-09-30

Department of Education Contact

Center Contact

Recipients

  • Personnel Development Staff
  • Community-Based Recipients
  • Families
  • Service Providers
  • Local Agency Administrators
  • State Agency Staff

Categories

  • Behavior/Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports/Discipline/Juvenile Justice