Montana Behavioral Initiative - Positive Behavior Support (PBS)

Positive Behavior Support (PBS)

School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: What is it?

The overall goals of the PBS Technical Assistance Center are to:

• Identify and enhance knowledge about, and practical demonstration of, school-wide PBS practices, systems and outcomes along the three-tiered continuum (primary, secondary, tertiary); and
• 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.
  http://www.pbis.org/main.htm

The Association for Positive Behavior Support is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of positive behavior support.
http://www.apbs.org/main.htm

Electronic versions of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/proedcw/jpbi

The Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center  is a U.S Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs funded project that helps build the capacity of State Education Agencies and Lead Agencies in improving programs and services for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities. The MPRRC is the technical assistance division of the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University.

The mission of the University of Oregon’s Positive Behavioral Research and Support Unit is to develop and apply a science of human behavior and social systems to improve the education and support available to individuals with disabilities and at risk for disabilities, and their families. Five work groups engage in an array of applied research, personnel preparation, and technical assistance activities.
http://www.uoecs.org/
http://www.pbssurveys.org/pages/Home.aspx
http://www.uoregon.edu/~proj5csd/

The mission of the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior (IVDB) is to empower schools and social service agencies to address violence and destructive behavior, at the point of school entry and beyond, in order to ensure safety and to facilitate the academic achievement and healthy social development of children and youth.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Eivdb/

This site Creating Positive Classroom Environments  provides suggestions and strategies for maintaining positive classroom environments that facilitate high rates of student success. Within each module, scripted video scenarios demonstrate the difference between correct and incorrect application in actual classroom settings.
http://www.coe.ufl.edu/centers/lastinger/Modules/ClassroomBehavior/index.html

Google group on PBS
groups.google.com/group/PBIS

The Division of Educational Research and Service (DERS) at The University of Montana, believes in promoting the social and academic achievement of all learners by designing, evaluating, and disseminating programs that support the well-being of students and communities. Their primary focus areas of research and service delivery are safety, health, and early intervention. http://www.dersum.org

Links to other states’ MBI/PBS related programs:

Alabama –
http://www.alsig.org/pbs.cfm

Arizona -
http://www.nau.edu/ihd/positive/

California - The Positive Environments, Network of Trainers
http://www.pent.ca.gov/

Colorado – School-wide Positive Behavior Support
http://www.cde.state.co.us/pbs/

District of Columbia –
http://www.dcsig.org/pbis.htm

Florida – PBS Project
http://flpbs.fmhi.usf.edu/

Georgia - Behavioral Intervention Program
http://www.pbsga.org
http://www.ebisgeorgia.org

Illinois –
http://www.pbisillinois.org/

Kansas -  Institute for Positive Behavior Support
http://www.kipbs.org

Kentucky - Behavior Home Page
http://www.state.ky.us/agencies/behave/homepage.html

Maryland – Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) Initiative
http://www.pbismaryland.org/

Missouri –
http://www.cise.missouri.edu/links/pbs-schools/index.html

Michigan – Michigan’s Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative (MiBLSi)
http://www.cenmi.org/miblsi/Default.asp

New Hampshire –
http://nhcebis.seresc.net/whatispbis.php

New Mexico –
http://www.nmpbs.org/

New York -
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/sss/MentalHealth/PBIS-short.html

North Carolina -   State Improvement Project
http://www.NCSIP.org

Tennessee - LRE for Life
http://web.utk.edu/~lre4life

Washington –
http://beaconsproject.org/

West Virginia –
http://www.as.wvu.edu/wvpbs/