Brought to you by Foster the Family DC and Project Belong VA
And Presented By: Leslie Perez and Erica Mann of UMFS

When: Tuesday, February 28th from 6:00-8:00pm
(Dinner is provided and will be served at 6, training begins at 6:30)
Location: Holy Trinity Church: 850 Balls Hill Rd. McLean, VA 22101
Childcare can be provided upon request, while available
Registration: $10/person
Please Register Here by February 24th

MORE ABOUT THE TRAINING:

Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) offers a relational approach to building skills and resolving conflict in a way that creates lasting pathways in the brain. In this training, parents will learn how to equip their kids to build skills like flexibility, frustration tolerance, and problem-solving, rather than simply motivating kids to behave better. The CPS approach recognizes what research has pointed to for years – that kids with challenging behavior are already trying hard. They don’t lack the will to behave well. They lack the skills to behave well.

The CPS approach is  proven to reduce challenging behavior, teach kids the skills they lack, and build relationships with the adults in their lives. This approach works whether someone is momentarily “stressed out” or managing the long-term effects of trauma.

The process begins with identifying triggers to a child’s challenging behavior and the specific skills they need help developing. The next step involves partnering with the child to build those skills and develop lasting solutions to problems that work for everyone.

The CPS model includes a philosophy and intervention guided by three principles:

• People will do well if they can, because everyone wants to be successful.

• Challenging behaviors are best viewed as byproducts of lagging thinking skills such as problem solving, flexibility, and frustration tolerance, rather than a result of a lack of motivation.

• Teaching these skills is most effectively accomplished when adults and children learn to address conflict in a collaborative and mutually satisfactory manner rather than relying on systems of rewards and punishments.    

Effective implementation of this model has demonstrated:

• Reduction in restraints, seclusion

• Sustained reduction in challenging behaviors

• Increase in parent confidence

• Decrease in parent and teacher stress

• Increase in child’s sense of safety