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Building Positive Relationships with Young Children — Building positive relationships with young children is an essential task and a foundational component of good teaching. All children grow and thrive in the context of close and dependable relationships that provide love and nurturance, security, and responsive interactions.
Effective services for individuals with ID and behavioral health needs Who is in crisis, the service recipient or the system? Joan B. Beasley, Ph.D. 2/08 — PPT Presentation
Inventory of Practices for Promoting Children’s Social Emotional Competence — designed to be used by individuals and/or teams to identify training needs and plan a course of action to address those needs related to four general areas: (a) building positive relationships, (b) creating supportive environments, (c) social emotional teaching strategies, and (d) individualized intensive interventions.
Promoting Children's Success: Building Relationships and Creating Supportive Environments — Variety of useful tools
Reinventing Quality — disseminates "best practice" information on individualized, person-centered supports and related quality management activities.
Systemic, Therapeutic Assessment, Respite and Treatment — Effective Service Systems: The 3 A’s • Access • Appropriateness • Accountability
Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children — Check out the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports site for more resources! http://www.pbis.org/default.aspx
Tool Kit Resources for Supporting Community Living 2004 — This tool kit was developed at the request of volunteers, advocates, self advocates, and professionals concerned that the remarkable progress made towards the inclusion of people with cognitive, intellectual and developmental disabilities (our constituents) into the fabric and mainstream of community life in America was at risk.
Where Does Social Support Come From? The Social Network Basis of Interpersonal Resources for Coping With Stress — Although scholars used to think that a (post)industrial loss of community had dried up interpersonal sources of support, we now know that community has stood up well to the large-scale social transformations of urbanization, industrialization, bureaucratization, technological change, capitalism, and socialism