Your FBA is a Fantasy: Creating Trauma-Informed FBAs and Behavior Plans

Full-Day 4/20/2023

Lunch Break: 11:00am PST

Time: 7:00a - 2:30p PST / 8:00a - 3:30p MST / 9:00a - 4:30p CST / 10:00a - 5:30p EST

Platform: Zoom (Email with registration link will be sent 1 week prior to training date from email address: [email protected])

• Educators, Administrators
• Mental Health Providers
• Parents, Caregivers & Advocates, Childcare Providers

Creating Trauma-Informed, Brain-Based, Skill-Focused Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Support Plans that Improve Emotional, Behavioral & Academic Performance, and Build Resilience!!

• Strategies for looking deeper, beyond what a child is trying to “get or avoid”, to assess the underlying skills that need to be built
• Comparisons of how brain-based, skill-focused FBA’s & BSP’s more effectively address the impacts of trauma than traditional models
• Processes to assess and plan proactive regulation as part of a plan to help a child become more accessible for intervention
• Strategies for intervention components of the FBA and BSP to ensure that the brain can tolerate and grow from the experience
• Application of how to take the information learned and create successful and effective Behavior Support Plans

This workshop-style training is intended for educators - administrators, classroom teachers, school counselors, educational assistants, etc. Participants will experience a combination of didactic instruction, visuals, and examples, followed by hands-on creation of a plan to take back to their particular setting to implement with students who struggle due to trauma impacts or other causes of chronic challenging behavior.

Rick Bowman's qualifications include:

• M.A. in Clinical Psychology
• Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Clinical (CTRP-C®)
• Certified HeartMath and "The Resilience Advantage" Trainer
• Certified Trainer in Collaborative Problem Solving®MGH (Think:Kids, Massachusetts General Hospital)
• K-21 licensed school administrator in the state of Oregon
• Founder and Leader in the "Transforming Trauma `~ Raising Resilience Connected Community" (www.bowmanconsultgroup.com/ttrrcc)

His training and consultation background has included mental health and human service agencies, non-profits, and corporations, as well as speaking/consulting internationally in Russia, Cuba, and Jamaica.

Rick has been employed as a Clinical Psychologist, Community College Professor, Assistant Principal, Alternative School Director, Student Services Director, and non-profit Assistant Executive Director. His recent implementations of CPS have been:

-- With children in a non-profit alternative middle school and high school setting in the David Douglas School District in Southeast Portland where students face significant barriers to their social, emotional and educational progress such as homelessness, severe poverty, drug & gang involvement, and disengagement from school.

-- With teens in a Long Term Care and Treatment school for students in Level 5 residential foster care who have experienced significant trauma.

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Doris Bowman's qualifications include:

• M.S. in Education/Special Education
• Advanced Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Clinical (CTRP-C®)
• Advanced Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Education (CTRP-E®)
• Certified HeartMath and "The Resilience Advantage" Trainer
• Certified "Stress & Well-Being Assessment" Provider, HeartMath
• Certified Trainer in Collaborative Problem Solving®MGH (Think:Kids, Massachusetts General Hospital)
• K-21 licensed special educator and school administrator in the state of Oregon
• Founder and Leader in the "Transforming Trauma `~ Raising Resilience Connected Community" (www.bowmanconsultgroup.com/ttrrcc)

Doris has co-authored Going to Bed is Easy Now, and Going to School is Easy Now, the first two in a series of children's' books designed to support children with challenging behavior (www.easynowbooks.com). She has a broad background in special education and behavior consultation with over 20 years experience working with and supporting children with challenging behaviors and their families.

Host or Publisher Bowman Consulting Group www.bowmanconsultgroup.com