BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT, AND TRAINING

Essential Behavioral Solutions™

Mains’l Services offers a series of behavior management training courses, teaching caregivers to successfully manage crisis behaviors as they occur. Parents/caregivers, foster parents, residential staff, school staff, and individuals with challenging behaviors learn ways to reduce and manage dangerous behaviors, and increase the behaviors that allow people to be successful. 

• Give your staff the confidence and training they need to work with people with challenging behaviors
• Reduce liability insurance costs, by decreasing risk of injury to employees and consumers
• Provide the tools to keep employees and consumers safe
• Acquire intervention AND prevention techniques
• Create an environment that promotes maximum safety, increased dignity, and total effectiveness
• CEUs available for most classes

Essential Behavioral Solutions equips people with the tools, training, and techniques needed to anticipate and manage critical situations, as well as prevention practices to maintain productive behaviors. 

TRAINING CLASSES

Basic BehaviorTools (2nd Tuesday of every month; 1-day training, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., $99/person includes $15 workbook); maximum 12 participants; six (6) CEUs. 
Learn three key BehaviorTools, the foundation for building positive relationships with people who exhibit challenging behaviors.
Objectives

• Demonstrate how to strengthen relationships
• Define antecedents, behavior, and consequences (ABC data)
• Identify coercive interactions and their effects
• Define reinforcement
• Demonstrate how to use reinforcement
• Identify “junk behavior”
• Demonstrate how to Pivot from junk behavior
• State what BehaviorTool to use in a particular situation

Who attends:    All staff who work with people with challenging behaviors, including management, direct support, and paraprofessional staff
Pre-requisite to BehaviorTools and/or suggested pre-requisite to Professional Crisis Management (PCM)

BehaviorTools (1-day training, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., $99/person includes $15 workbook); maximum 10 participants/instructor; six (6) CEUs.
This class advances participants in using three additional BehavioralTools to effectively set expectations, analyze behavior and identify replacements, and demonstrate all the tools learned in a variety of situations.
Objectives

• Setting expectations
• Creating behavior contracts
• Redirecting behavior
• Analyzing behavior

Who attends:  Mid and upper management staff, teachers, and those people entrusted to create behavioral contracts
Suggested pre-requisite to Professional Crisis Management (PCM)

Understanding Rights Restrictions: (3 hours, 9:00 a.m. -12:00 noon, $59*/person); 3 CEUs
This class helps clear the confusion and sometimes difficult task of understanding and respecting consumer rights while managing risks, challenging behavior, IDT conflict, and group living dynamics.  Participants will learn to define the issues, and present realistic solutions that can be implemented across a variety of services settings. Rights of individuals under guardianship and how to resolve conflict is also covered in this class.
Objectives:

• Identify rights vs. restrictions
• Respect and Dignity to persons with disabilities
• Privacy Issues
• Guardian and consumer choice conflict
• Rights and monitoring technology
• Completing a rights restriction
• Social networking and protection

Who attends: QDDP (previously called QMRP), managers, case managers, direct care staff, guardians, teachers, paraprofessionals
*$99/person for both Understanding Rights Restrictions and Rule 40 training, if taken same day.

Rule 40: (3 hours, 1:00 p.m.  -4:00 p.m., $59*/person); three (3) CEUs
This course provides a more comprehensive discussion and interpretation of issues related to Rule 40, and assists in the development of comprehensive behavioral support plans that may include the use of a controlled procedure.
Objectives:

• Understanding Rule 40
• Definitions and Key Terms
• Exempted Actions and Procedures
• Identifying Permitted and Controlled Procedures
• Emergency Use of Controlled Procedures and completing documentation
• The purpose of the Internal Review Committee

Who attends: QDDP (previously called QMRP), managers, case managers, direct care staff, guardians, teachers, paraprofessionals
*$99/person for both Understanding Rights Restrictions and Rule 40 training, if taken same day.

Professional Crisis Management (3-day training, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. day 1, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. day 2, 9 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. day 3, $199/person includes $30 workbook); maximum 10 participants/instructor; 22 CEUs.
PCM is a detailed and highly systematic approach to crisis management. PCM was developed by Professional Crisis Management Association (PCMA), based in Florida, and offers national certification. All strategies and procedures are implemented in a precise fashion, according to specific criteria. PCM's step by step approach to crisis intervention eliminates much of the guess-work and subjectivity that is often involved in other less rigorous and less systematic intervention systems. As a result, people utilizing the system will have a better sense of what to do next and how to proceed, regardless of how difficult or how confusing the crisis might become.   Participants will partake in curriculum for Practitioner, Practitioner 1 and Practitioner 2.  Certifications are awarded based on completion of performance checklists, 80% or better on written exam (including passing all “critical items”), and passing all items on practical examination in each of three areas.
Objectives

• One and Two person transportation techniques
• Vertical immobilization (one, two and three person)
• Horizontal immobilization
• Four primary strategies:
• Crisis Prevention
• Crisis De-escalation
• Crisis Intervention
• Post-Crisis Intervention
• Personal safety
• Non – physical strategies

Who attends: all employees working with individuals with high-intensity crisis behaviors

On-Site Advanced Behavior/Crisis Management Follow-Up (Up to six hours, $75/hour)
A PCM certified instructor/behavior analyst will complete an on-site assessment, including observing staff “in action,” applying the skills learned in classroom settings to natural settings, reviewing incident reports, documentation, and pertinent safety equipment, as well as assuring certified staffing (certificate on-site). 

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OUR QUALIFIED TRAINERS
Sue Canty is a certified PCM, Basic BehaviorTools and BehaviorTools instructor, and has worked in the human services field for more than 20 years, including experience in a crisis unit for the criminally insane and dangerous, at a Regional Treatment Center. She attended Mankato and St. Cloud State Universities, majoring in Psychology and Special Education.

Jared Cheak is a certified Basic BehavorialTools and BehaviorTools instructor. He has worked in the human service field for 12 years and has held a variety of positions from direct care, Human Resources, and program manager in 24 adult foster care sites. Jared is a member of the Minnesota National Guard.  He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Human Resource Management from DeVry University in Edina, MN.

Tara is a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA)/Behavior Analyst), with a psychology degree from Florida State University. She has taught BehaviorTools in a classroom setting and through on-site follow-up training with parents of abused and neglected children. The majority of her work experience has been gained through one-on-one work with parents and caregivers of children with developmental disabilities on parenting skills, problem behavior reduction, and child focused skill acquisition training. 

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