Resources About Health and Human Services

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5 Steps To Getting Started With Inclusive Language

Inclusive writing considers, recognizes, and respects the viewpoints of individuals with varying backgrounds...

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2023 DSP Survey Report

The 2023 DSP Survey Report highlights feedback from 763 direct support professionals (DSPs) across the country on job satisfaction, supervision, career ...

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The Impact of Psychedelics in Behavioral Health Treatment

Relias’ course, The Impact of Psychedelics in Behavioral Health Treatment, provides an introduction to the use of psychedelics for the treatment of ...

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Human Service’s Social Dilemma: How You Can Prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Read Relias’ white paper, Human Service’s Social Dilemma: How You Can Prioritize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to help you approach DEI at your ...

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The Fatal Five

The Fatal Five, previously known as the Fatal Four, are the top five preventable conditions that often result in death for people with an intellectual and ...

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TRAUMA-INFORMED SUPPORTS

Most adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or IDD, have experienced trauma. The effects of trauma can last a lifetime...

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Fatal Five Posters

Relias created these Fatal Five infographics to help you educate your employees and protect the people you serve. Print these out as posters on legal-sized...

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Rapid-Fire Retention Strategies: How To Improve Behavioral Healthcare Provider Retention

View this webinar to hear Hassan M. Abdulhaqq, DBA share how to improve retention at your organization...

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Client’s Experience of Trauma-Informed Care

This course provides healthcare professionals with information on how to promote a trauma-informed care environment by walking them through an immersive ...

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Addressing Moral Injury in Law Enforcement

Police officers routinely encounter violent and traumatic events as part of their jobs. In some instances, officers may be faced with a situation that ...

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Practicing Clinical Skills to Prevent Suicide in Children and Adolescents

This sample course will provide clinicians with an opportunity to apply their existing knowledge of suicide prevention to assess and intervene with an at-...

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2022 Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Report: Key Findings

Tune into this webinar to hear Nellie Galindo, MSW, MSPH, and Lance Kruse, Ph.D. share the results of the 2022 Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training ...

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Career Growth in IDD

Join us to learn best practices for providing career growth opportunities and engaging your DSP workforce with career development tracks, peer mentoring, ...

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Learn About Hiring Assessments for QIDPs and IDD Nurses

In this webinar, Relias speakers, Nellie Galindo, Product Marketing Manager, and Katy Kunst, Curriculum Designer for HHS, discuss how Relias developed its ...

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Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Report

Featuring responses from nearly 3,000 behavioral health and IDD providers across the United States, the report uncovered interesting trends on increasing ...

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Crisis Response Strategies For Human Service Organizations

View this webinar to hear the Executive Director of Healing Transitions, Chris Budnick, MSW, LCSW, LCAS, CCS, share how his peer-based, recovery-oriented ...

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Guide to Learning Management Platforms for Human Services Leaders

Watch this webinar session to hear Nellie Galindo, MSW, MSPH, and Chris Reiling, Client Success Manager, share how the right learning management platform ...

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Innovations in Staff Training for DSPs and IDD Staff

Staff training continues to evolve, with new learning theories and principles used to improve knowledge retention and knowledge application. Watch this ...

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Using a Trauma-Informed Approach in Crisis Intervention

In this webinar, you’ll learn how using a TIC framework in your organization and services can complement your crisis prevention and intervention strategies...

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Upskilling and Reskilling 101 for Healthcare and Human Service Leaders

In this webinar session, Deborah Waddill, Ph.D., President of Restek Consulting, discusses the ins and outs of upskilling and reskilling employees for ...

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Creating a Culture of Learning: What Human Service Leaders Need to Know

In this webinar, Leigh Steiner, Ph.D., Partner for Behavioral Health Solutions at Relias and Erik Gore, Assistant Director of Training and Development ...

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Solutions to Earn Magnet Status

Earning Magnet status and following the program guidelines can be time-intensive, and can require significant investment. View this infographic for your ...

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Trauma-Informed Care and the LGBTQ+ Community: Understanding the Impact of Psychological Trauma on Healthcare Needs, Engagement, and Outcomes

In this workshop Meg Hamilton, LCMHC, ATR and Sarah Dunsmore, LCSW provide an overview of trauma-informed care and its importance in supporting the LGBTQ+ ...

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The Right Assessment for the Right Patient: The Power of Standardized Outcome Measures

The benefits of rehabilitation therapy — physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology — include improved mobility, enhanced ...

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Best Practices for Suicide Prevention to Postvention

Suicide prevention can seem like a daunting undertaking for any workforce, but as the number of deaths by suicide keep increasing, it becomes a necessary ...

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In Session: Practicing Clinical Skills to Prevent Suicide

This course gives learners the opportunity to apply their existing knowledge of suicide prevention in a simulated clinical setting...

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The Art of Supervision in IDD: Q&A With Dennis Reid, Ph.D., BCBA-D

Watch this webinar to hear, Dennis Reid, Ph.D., BCBA-D, answer audience submitted questions on being a great leader, mentor, and supporter for your DSP ...

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Prioritizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Behavioral Health

Learn about the impact diversity, equity, & inclusion has on client health outcomes and how organizations can prioritize cultural competency...

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Transitioning From DSP to Supervisor

This course helps new supervisors understand some of the challenges they will face in their new roles and provides strategies for managing them...

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The 2021 DSP Survey Report: Key Findings on DSP Satisfaction, Engagement, and Retention

Watch this webinar to hear Relias and ANCOR experts share key trends and insights on DSP job satisfaction, supervision, recognition, and career advancement...

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Using Claims Data to Assess Treatment Quality of First-Episode Psychosis

Coordinated specialty care (CSC) has become the standard of care for first-episode psychosis (FEP) but the gap between CSC best practices and the actual ...

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The Need for Speed: Rapidly Delivering Quality and Effective In-House Training Courses

Experts, John Jay and Rebecca McDougall, share how you can leverage Course Creator to easily develop your own training modules within the Relias Platform...

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CCBHCs: Using Technology to Grow Your Team and Develop Your Staff

Watch this webinar to hear experts from innovaTel Telepsychiatry and Relias share how organizations can leverage technology to grow and develop their staff...

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Taking Care of DSPs: 6 Strategies for Promoting Resilience

Watch this webinar to hear six strategies for promoting resilience in your DSPs and learn the importance of building a resilient organization...

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5 Emerging Trends in Medication-Assisted Treatment for OUD

Watch this webinar as our presenters discuss emerging trends in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder...

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CCBHC and COVID-19: Monarch Shares CCBHC Experience While Navigating the Coronavirus Pandemic

Learn how Monarch has been able to better serve their community since receiving CCBHC designation and ways the CCBHC model of care prepared them to ...

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The 5 Principles of Navigating and Leading Through Change

Watch this webinar to hear John Nash, Executive Director at The Arc of North Carolina, share how you can effectively lead through change...

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What Is Racial Trauma? Understanding Race-Based Traumatic Stress

One aspect of trauma-informed care that is beginning to gain more awareness is the effect of racial trauma among people of color. This white paper provides...

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5 Reasons to Emphasize Training in 2021

As we enter 2021, it’s time to reemphasize the importance of training. Focusing on learning can help your staff gain the skills necessary to continue to ...

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5 Steps to Get Started with Self-Care

Employers without systems that support staff self-care have lower productivity, higher turnover, and higher healthcare costs. This infographic shares 5 ...

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Understanding and Addressing Racial Trauma in Behavioral Health

This course will move beyond a discussion of diversity and cultural competence by exploring current research and best practices for identifying implicit ...

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Lessons From 2020: How Behavioral Health Organizations Can Adapt in 2021

Relias discusses 2020’s key events in behavioral health: lessons learned from customers on strategies for agility and innovation, Relias’ own tactical ...

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2020 State of Training and Staff Development in Public Safety

Get a deeper dive into Public Safety industry trends as well as insight into current practices in staff development pre- and post-COVID-19...

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Building Organizational Resilience in Healthcare: Leading Your Team Through Uncertainty

To help you continue to inspire, engage, and support your behavioral health organization, Relias has created a leadership toolkit with best practices and ...

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Lead Your DSPs and IDD Staff Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

Whether you lead a small team of DSPs or oversee an entire organization, your leadership abilities continue to impact how you and your staff provide care ...

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Leveraging Protective Factors to Help Mitigate the Effects of Racial Trauma in 2021

In this webinar Jamila Holcomb, Ph.D., LMFT discusses the use of protective factors to help mitigate racial trauma and racism in 2021 and beyond...

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Building Resilience: Empowering Your Clients and Your Staff

People can, and do, recover from trauma. By building upon existing strengths and applying new tools for coping, resilience is a skill that can be fostered...

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2020 State of Training and Staff Development in Health and Human Services

Get a deeper dive into Health & Human Services industry trends as well as insight into current practices in staff development pre- and post-COVID-19...

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Addressing Racial Trauma in the Clinical Setting

In addition to knowing the impacts of racial trauma, clinicians should know best practices for addressing racism and racial trauma from the minute they ...

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New Certificates of Achievement: Professional Development Plans for DSPs and Other Staff in IDD Organizations

Learn how the Certificates of Achievement can help you create engagement and improve retention at your IDD organization...

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Building a Better Learning Experience in Behavioral Health

Take a look into the future of the Relias Platform and content related to Behavioral Health that will benefit your organization...

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How FQHCs Can Address Racial Disparities in Healthcare

FQHCs are uniquely positioned to address racial disparities in healthcare. Learn about specific racial inequities, and how to address them organizationally...

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Building a Unified Learning Experience in IDD/ABA

Learn more about platform improvements and how leverage them to deliver a better learning experience at your organization...

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Relias & Open Minds: How PerformWise Can Help You with Business Sustainability

Relias has partnered with Open Minds to offer an advanced subscription solution designed specifically for HHS and IDD provider organizations...

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Addressing the Growing Rate of Suicide in the Black Community

Statistics on the growing rate of suicide in the Black community and what organizations can do to improve suicide prevention and treatment...

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Trauma-Informed Care 101: Basics of Trauma and the TIC Framework

Trauma-informed care (TIC) has become a widely recognized paradigm for creating safe spaces for individuals who have experienced trauma and reducing the ...

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5 Key Elements to Trauma-Informed Care for IDD Organizations

Download this white paper to learn more about how trauma-informed care can positively impact persons served and staff at IDD organizations...

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What Is Racial Trauma? Understanding How Trauma Affects the Black Community

Hear Dr. Jamila Holcomb, Ph.D., LMFT discuss how racial trauma affects the Black community and ways both clinicians and organizations can better connect ...

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Creating a Trauma-Informed System of Care: Addressing Individuals, Professionals, and Organizations

Download this e-book to learn how to become a trauma-informed organization, including the key elements of the trauma-informed model of care...

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Ask the Experts: innovaTel Telepsychiatry Shares Telehealth Best Practices

During this Ask the Expert webinar, experienced telehealth practitioners from innovaTel Telepsychiatry shared tips for preparing yourself and clients for ...

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Best Practices for Delivering Telehealth

This course aims to teach you about different modalities of treatment using telehealth in the behavioral health sciences, including a description of the ...

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CCBHC Certification Criteria: Hiring, Training, and Reporting

Discover how Relias can help clinics hire and onboard staff for newly created roles, train board members and staff on CCBHC required competencies, and make...

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Private Equity in ABA: What Providers Need to Know

While mergers and acquisitions in other fields of behavioral health have slowed, autism-related service providers are still in demand...

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The DSP Retention Strategy You’re NOT Using: Improving Supervision in IDD Services

Learn some of the principles and tools you can use to help your front-line supervisors provide strong direction and support for your DSPs...

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The Future of CCBHCs: Opportunities for Expansion and Lessons Learned From the Field

Join leaders from the National Council for Behavioral Health and Relias, as they discuss the current and future state of CCBHCs...

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Ask the Expert: How to Provide Strong Supervision in IDD

In this webinar, Dennis Reid discusses how front-line supervisors can improve staff performance and increase DSP retention...

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How to Become an Employer of Choice When You’re Short on Staff and High on Turnover

A guide for behavioral and community health care organizations. Download this guide to learn step-by-step how to update your hiring, interviewing, and ...

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Pinpoint Knowledge Gaps and Increase Engagement Among Staff

With the behavioral health workforce shortage only projected to get worse, it’s imperative that you implement strategies that improve the way you hire, ...

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Relias Training and Personnel Assessments: How They Work Together for IDD

Hiring, training and employee development—IDD service providers need to look at all three when they create a plan to increase retention of their direct ...

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A Service Provider’s Guide to Customized Employment

Customized employment can help you work with the people you serve and local employers to create positions that benefit both. Download the guide now...

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How to Develop Employment Partnerships in IDD

Learn more about The Arc@Work program's approach to supporting corporations to develop, implement and maintain neurodiversity hiring initiatives...

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Is Your Training Smart About Learning?

Download this research brief to learn how brain science combined with personalized learning can help you improve performance...

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Crisis Management Across Health and Human Services

Provide health and human services staff with the ability to apply critical thinking, knowledge and skills in simulated clinical sessions and to real-world ...

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The Substance Use Professional of the 2020s

How does organizational leadership ensure that their clinical staff possess and can apply the core competencies needed for effective practice in the decade...

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Supporting Choice-Making in People With IDD

As an IDD service provider, helping the people you serve assert their thoughts, desires and goals is a fundamental part of being person-centered...

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ABA Rule Changes That IDD Providers Need to Know

Under new rules, you don’t have to be a Behavior Analyst to supervise RBTs®. This change could open new opportunities for IDD service providers...

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BACB Changes for Supervisors: What You Need to Know

The Behavior Analyst Certification Board® has announced changes to training and qualification requirements for supervisors. Here's what you need to know...

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Reentry Planning and Continuity of Care

Individuals releasing from incarceration face a myriad of challenges that can impact how successful they are in maintaining a non-criminal lifestyle...

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In Session: Suicide Assessment and Intervention for Adults

This course is designed to provide behavioral health clinicians with the ability to apply critical thinking, knowledge and skills in simulated clinical ...

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Deep Dive Into Our DSP Survey Results

What motivates a direct support professional to stay on the job for five, 10 or even 20 years? What can you do to encourage your newer DSPs to stick around...

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The Next 5 Years in Behavioral Healthcare: An Environmental Scan

Watch our esteemed panel of behavioral healthcare leaders discuss what they see ahead over the next five years including future predictions, innovations, ...

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Five Steps to Confident Care Delivery: Building a Competent Staff

Download this e-book to discover five simple steps you can take to identify, address and improve your staff’s competencies so they confidently care for ...

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Suicide in Corrections: Identifying Suicide Risk

Preview this course on suicide in corrections which covers suicide risk factors, correctional stressors, warning signs and strategies for identifying ...

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Why Should Your Staff Stay? Invest in Their Success to Ensure Your Own

Get a look at how behavioral health organizations can use assessments and learning in combination to help your employees feel competent and effective in ...

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Guide Your DSPs to Greatness

Being a DSP is often a difficult and complex job, and it takes great commitment, enthusiasm, fortitude and self-motivation to be a successful DSP. When ...

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Behavioral Health Screening Tools

Behavioral health screening can improve the identification of disorders that may have otherwise gone unnoticed and untreated, facilitate referrals to ...

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Learn About Assessments for QIDPs and IDD Nurses

Relias offers job knowledge assessments for qualified intellectual disability professionals (QIDPs), managers, and nurses. Learn how assessments can help ...

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The Impact of FFPSA on Foster Care: How Can You Be Prepared?

Download this white paper to learn more about the changes, how they will impact your service agency and how to prepare for them...

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ABA Training for IDD Service Providers

Providing ABA services is a great way for organizations that serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to diversify their funding...

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Hiring and Retaining Great QPs

Developing a great qualified intellectual disability professional (QIDP) isn’t easy, and keeping one is even harder. Learn how to develop QPs as future ...

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Integrated Care and Care Coordination in a Value-Based World

Value-based initiatives continue to evolve in behavioral health. These initiatives require the delivery of high quality, comprehensive, whole person care ...

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Current Trends in Children’s Services: How to Stay Competitive

Get an overview of current trends in the child welfare and children’s services industry, regulatory changes and what this means for the future...

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Challenges for Nurses in IDD: Practice Settings and Role Ambiguity

Watch this webinar to learn how the transition from institutions to community settings affects nurses and what challenges nurses face in different settings...

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Evidence-Based Treatment for First Episode Psychosis

This course covers evidence-based treatment for working with individuals experiencing initial symptoms of psychosis...

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Strategies for Decreasing DSP Turnover

Download this helpful eBook to discover strategies for improving hiring and placement, boosting engagement and retaining your DSPs...

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Trauma and the Brain

Enhance your staff’s knowledge of how trauma affects the brain and continue to reinforce the trauma-informed approach at your agency...

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Promoting Normalcy for Youth in Foster Care

Help your staff stay current on best practices and trends in caring for youth in foster care with online training...

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Developing Supervisory Skills in Your QPs

For IDD service providers, improving the supervisory skills of their QIDPs is an essential part of any DSP retention strategy. Learn how to craft an ...

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Person-Centered Health Care for People with IDD

Providing care in IDD settings can be challenging for nurses. Learn how to navigate the conflicts between person-centered and medical models of care...

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How to Develop a Culturally Competent IDD Organization

By elevating your cultural competency, your organization can become a hub connecting the diverse populations within your community...

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Combating Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model

Watch this webinar to get information on the MOM model, available funding, and evidence-based solutions for strengthening the delivery of integrated care...

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How to Lead Your IDD Organization During Change

Join John Nash of The Arc of North Carolina as he gives valuable insight into the best ways to lead your idd organization through change...

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State of the Union: Behavioral Health

Chuck Ingoglia from The National Council for Behavioral Health discusses the present landscape of behavioral health and where the field is poised to go in ...

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Million Hearts® 2022: The Critical Role Community Health Centers Play in Success

Watch this webinar to learn about the current state of cardiovascular health in the US and all about The Million Hearts® 2022 framework...

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How to Boost Retention in IDD Services

Learn how assessments can help you make better hiring decisions and how creating personalized development plans for your employees can improve retention...

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Micro-Credentials for Direct Support Professionals

Watch this webinar to learn how professional development of DSPs boosts retention and why credentialing is critical to the professionalization of direct ...

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How to Create a Positive Company Culture in IDD Organizations

Providing great IDD services begins with creating a company culture based on respect and dignity. Learn how focusing on culture can improve your ...

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Hiring and Developing Staff to Create a Better Workforce

The consequences of high turnover and a poorly prepared workforce are severe. Being short-staffed negatively impacts the remaining staff, and the quality ...

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How Illinois Improved Care Coordination Quality Through Health Homes

Learn from the first-hand experience of Chestnut Health Systems and Illinois BHHC on their evolution as a behavioral health home provider coalition...

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Improving Hiring, Retention, and Development with Assessments

High turnover is a challenge facing organizations providing behavioral health services or services to people with intellectual and developmental ...

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Hiring Conundrums in Human Services Organizations: Hunting Unicorns or Chasing Cats

Download this white paper to discover strategies for making data-informed hiring decisions and retaining your staff...

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Trauma-Informed Supervision: It’s for Everyone

Learn how trauma-informed care principles can be infused into your supervision work to increase your staff’s job satisfaction and engagement...

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The Importance of a Trauma Informed Approach

Experts at National Council discuss the value of trauma informed care, the integration process for providers and the positive impact it has on clinical ...

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From Experience to Advocacy: Matt Runnalls’ Story

Hear how Matt Runnells took his and others' experiences of battling mental illness and suicidality, and turned it into fighting stigma through education ...

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Better Opioid Stewardship Through Data-Informed Education

Discover proven contributors that motivate prescribers to improve opioid stewardship and learn from organizations that use data-informed education...

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Risky Business: Tools & Strategies to Safeguard Your Organization

This webinar highlights strategies and techniques to identify, manage and report on areas of risk such as human resources, governance and finance as well ...

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Using Assessments for Employee Development in Human Services

Turnover rates of direct care staff in human services organizations can be as high as 80%. Learn how assessments can improve onboarding and employee ...

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Welcome to the New World of RBT Readiness

On January 2, 2019, Relias is releasing its revamped training plan for Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs). Get a preview of the new courses...

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The Undertow: The Ashley Hunt Story

Ashley, a survivor of sexual assault, speaks out to reduce stigma and remind others that those impacted by trauma recover and survive...

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5 Key Elements to Trauma-Informed Care

Download this white paper to receive resources and assessment tools to help your organization become more trauma-informed...

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The Role of Technology in Solving the Opioid Crisis

It’s been about one year after a State of Emergency was declared and the Opioid Commission issued its recommendations. Where are we now...

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Increasing DSP Retention Through Peer Mentoring Programs

In this on-demand webinar, Arlene Bridges, an IDD business expert, gives you concrete steps that will help you develop better, more committed DSPs...

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Changes in Technology and Governmental Regulations Will Happen

Discover what successful organizations do when faced with change and how the evolution of healthcare continues to drive changing business needs for ...

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Remaining Optimistic When Treating Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

This webinar takes a deep dive into the challenges of treating the OUD consumer and the high degree of stress and burnout for the treating provider...

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To Manage Risk in IDD and ABA, Focus on Quality

While IDD and ABA organizations provide a variety of services, the potential for injury is significant because of the needs of the population served...

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Adolescent Suicide and Depression: Ariel Blackwood’s Story

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for children and young adults between 5-24 years old. Ariel shares her story of dealing with suicide and ...

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Evaluating the Impact of Telepsychiatry

The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of telepsychiatry services by comparing study participants receiving telepsychiatry interventions versus ...

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Stages of Change and Integrated Health Care

Watch Dr. Carlo DiClemente, co-creator of the Transtheoretical Model of intentional behavior change, discuss adoption and use of this model within a whole ...

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The 2%: The Kevin Hines Story

Watch Kevin Hines tell his story of struggling with mental illness and surviving a jump from the Golden Gate bridge...

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Practical Tips for Working With Offenders With Mental Health Diagnoses

This webinar provides a brief overview of mental health diagnoses and symptoms that may be faced when dealing with the public and offenders...

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DSP Retention Strategies from an IDD Expert

In this webinar, Arlene Bridges, an IDD business expert, offers applicable strategies to improve the hiring process and increase the retention of DSP staff...

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State of Workforce Management: How Are You Engaging Your Employees?

Your staff are the backbone of your organization. Watch this webinar to hear from the industry’s top executives about organizational improvement in 2018...

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Spotlight on Opioid Crisis Response in Ohio

In this webinar, Dr. McCombs outlines the success of Project FORT in Ohio and shares what he has learned about creating good outcomes via evidence-based ...

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The Impact of Training Modalities on Registered Behavior Technician™ (RBT)® Exam Pass Rate and Job Readiness

This study explored what training modalities and length of training are currently being used and which are best at preparing staff to pass the RBT Exam and...

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Front-Line Through C-Level: Using Assessments for Employee Development

Download this research brief to learn how assessments can help organizations hire the right person for the job and improve the effectiveness of onboarding...

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CCBHC What You Need to Know and How Relias Can Help

Watch this webinar to learn the key principles behind CCBHCs, grant requirements and objectives for recipients, and ways Relias can assist you with ...

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How Performance Management Analytics Can Boost the Performance of Your Integrated Care Initiatives

The success of delivering integrated care can be significantly enhanced with the implementation of a rich performance management analytics solution...

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Hiring, Developing, and Retaining Great People in ABA

Watch this webinar on how to manage people in a competitive ABA labor market. Sharpen your knowledge of best practices for building a great team...

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Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder Presentations in the Emergency Department

The mental health and substance use crisis in the US has had a major impact on emergency departments. Learn how to get better at community-based treatments...

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Scenario-Based Training and Teaching Safe Eating Practices

This study explored the impact of online scenario-based training on direct support professionals’ implementation of safe eating and drinking practices with...

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The Sky is Falling – Maybe? The Need for a Systematic Approach to Risk Management in the Human Services Field

Download this white paper to discover today's top threats to human services organizations and learn how to systematically manage risk...

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Risk Management: A Primer for Providers of Community-Based Services for People With ID/DDs

Download this white paper for a high-level primer on what the process looks like for managing risk, specific risks you may encounter, and best practices...

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Financial Discipline: Key Opportunities in Leading an ABA Organization

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Why Is It So Hard to Take Care of Ourselves?

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Mental Health First Aid

Mental Health First Aid is an 8-hour course that teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use ...

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Lessons from the Field: Stories from Accreditation Surveyors and Consultants

Watch this webinar to hear real-life examples about how organizations have successfully and not-so-successfully prepared to become nationally accredited...

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Leading an ABA Organization: Developing a Leadership Culture

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Is Your School/Agency Ready for RBTs?

During this on-demand webinar, we review factors to determine if the RBT credential is the best next step for your agency or school...

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Becoming Accredited? What You Need to Know

Get a review of the major phases of the accreditation process and the benefits of becoming accredited, including enhanced revenue opportunities...

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How ACT and OBM Benefit Your ABA Agency

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MACRA Is Here! (And It Will Make or Break Your Reimbursement)

A comprehensive, easy-to-digest white paper to help you navigate the ins and outs of all things MACRA. Learn more about preparing for changes...

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The Fatal Four

This course covers common health problems for people with IDD, including dehydration, UTIs, constipation, and aspiration...

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Population Health Management: Let’s Get Started

Having the tools for population health service delivery and financial management is a must for healthcare providers’ future business sustainability...

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Certificates of Excellence Program Update

Watch this webinar to learn how the certificate program works, review available certificates, and discover how to gain the most benefits from the program...

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Training Front-Line Staff to Become RBTs

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Opioid Commission Final Report: Recommendations and Effects on Payers, Insurers, and Providers

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Providing Services to LGBTQ Youth

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Mental Health in Public Safety

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Recovery Residences to Improve Long-Term Outcomes

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The Fatal Four and Other Health Hazards

This webinar reviews common health emergencies and chronic health conditions that can rob a person with developmental disabilities of their health and life...

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Telemental Health: A Solution to Access and Resource Shortages

Telehealth, telemental health, and telepsychiatry play important roles in solving the challenges of access and timeliness. If you have a telehealth program...

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Collegiate Recovery: Recovery Support & The Continuum of Care on Campus

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Balancing Therapy and Harm: Treating Pain and the Opioid Epidemic

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Best Practices for Training DSPs

Discover the 9 elements of successful Direct Support Professional training programs and how focused learning can improve your training...

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How Social Determinants of Health Influence Reimbursement and Patient Experience

Watch this webinar as we discuss and learn about the social determinants of health and how they can impact the patient experience and how this, in turn, ...

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The Challenges of Integrated Care: Lessons Learned from PBHCI Grantees

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Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction

Using various teaching tools, this course will help you to formulate a plan of care, goals for recovery, and confidentiality guidelines for individuals ...

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Ways to Address the Opioid Epidemic in Youth and Young Adults

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Implementing Science-Based Research to Better Care Value

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10 Point PREA Audit Checklist

To be in compliance, it is important your organization be ready for a PREA audit at any time. These tips cover the entire spectrum of the audit process...

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Darkness Under the Lights: The Joe Williams Story

After playing 5 years in the National Rugby League followed by a boxing career Joe Williams shares his story about battling with suicide and mental illness...

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Value-Based Payment Models for Children’s Services

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Managing Medicaid Members with Multiple Chronic Conditions

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The Impact of Integrated Care on Children and Families

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Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology

As a behavioral health professional, it’s important to be familiar with child and adolescent psychopharmacology to help clients and their guardians ...

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Roadmap to Fighting the Opioid Epidemic

The opioid epidemic is straining our healthcare system to its limits while devastating families. Learn strategies providers and payers can use to fight ...

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Shining a Light on Employee Engagement

Reducing turnover is a persistent challenge for many healthcare organizations. Learn how employee engagement can help to overcome it in this research brief...

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The Impact on Health and Cost Outcomes of Online Training in Integrated Care for Behavioral Health Professionals

Organizations serving persons with mental illness should consider online integrated care training programs as a strategy to help ensure their clients are ...

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Be Attentive: All Language Matters! Using Trauma Sensitive Language

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Managing the Opioid Epidemic: 4 Secrets in Plain Sight

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Social Determinants: The Role Social Factors Play in Delivering Quality Care

Does your provider staff fully understand the importance and role that social health factors play in care delivery? Download this white paper to learn more...

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Choice Making for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Intended for direct care workers such as CNAs in post-acute care settings, this course covers the assessment and management of urinary incontinence...

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Supervision: Specifying Staff Performance Responsibilities

This course tackles the problem of getting front line staff to do what you need them to do to produce the most efficient learning clients...

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Data-Based and Analytical Decision Making in Case Management

This course provides an overview of innovative ways that data are being applied to improve healthcare costs, quality, and outcomes...

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Suicide Screening for Direct Care

In the past decade, the number of deaths by suicide has increased, and even greater numbers of people attempt or have frequent thoughts about suicide. It ...

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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care

Being a trauma-informed organization isn’t a one time implementation or the responsibility of a committee. Preview our introduction to TIC course...

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Value Based Purchasing

In the rapidly changing atmosphere of healthcare reform, value-based purchasing is emerging as an effective strategy for decreasing healthcare costs, while...

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Game-Based Training to Teach HIPAA & Social Media

This study examined whether an online game-based training can result in statistically significant increases in their ability to identify situations that ...

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Ethical Decision Making

As a health professional, you have to make ethical decisions on a regular basis. Many of them are quite straightforward and common sense. Others, however, ...

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Trauma-Informed Care and the Focus on Staff

The effects of working in behavioral health and human services can take its toll, and working in a trauma-informed way requires focus and positive energy...

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Keeping Up With Healthcare Changes

What changes will the delivery system have to adapt to? Discover the 7 trends that are changing the future of healthcare in America...

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What Does Becoming Trauma-Informed Mean for Non-Clinical Staff?

Watch this webinar to get a look at what “becoming trauma-informed” means for direct care behavioral health and community providers...

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Compassion Fatigue, Secondary/Vicarious Trauma and the Importance of Self Care

How do we go from compassion fatigue to compassion satisfaction and regain the love for the work we do...

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The Autism Diagnosis

Autism is a general term used to describe a constellation of complex developmental disorders known as Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). PDD is like ...

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What is the VB-MAPP?

The VB-MAPP is a valuable component in designing a curriculum (intervention program) and can help determine if an intervention is working...

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Escape Behaviors

Escape behaviors occur when the student anticipates an unpleasant activity or item. This video reviews some helpful tips and strategies to prevent escape ...

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Error Correction

Error correction is a procedure used to increase motivation in learning situations by preventing mistakes and creating more opportunities for reinforcement...

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What is ABA?

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the application of behavioral laws to change socially significant behavior to a meaningful degree. Socially significant ...

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Autism Spectrum Disorders

According to the CDC, 1 in every 110 children and 1 in every 70 boys is affected by Autism Specturm Disorders (ASD). It is more common than diabetes, ...

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Differential Reinforcement

Decreasing Behavior Through Differential Reinforcement Procedures Problem behavior is often a way students communicate something. Using differential ...

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Examples of Tacts

The tact is a form of verbal behavior where the speaker sees, hears, smells, tastes something and then comments about it. The tact is often associated with...

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ABC Data Practice

ABC Data also known as Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence data is one of the essential steps in carrying out a Functional Behavior Assessment to determine why...

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Teaching Imitation to Help Build New Skills

Imitation skills Imitation refers to the emission of a behavior that is topographically similar and temporally proximal to the behavior of a model. In ...

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Errorless Learning

Errorless learning involves early and immediate prompting of the target, so that student response is sure to be correct. These immediate prompts guarantee ...

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Features of the Mand

This autism video discusses features of the mand in detail. The consequence of a mand is direct and specific reinforcement. This means that the speaker ...

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Teaching Listener Responding

Listener Responding is a form of verbal behavior that requires the listener to respond to another’s verbal behavior (e.g. Where is your shoes?, Get a ...

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Commonly Used Graphs in ABA

This video is an introduction of using graphs to chart progress in an educational or behavioral program. It reviews the basic components of a line graph (x...

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Online Training Videos and Paraprofessional’s Behavior

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of an online training technology on the implementation of mand training on three paraprofessionals...

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Using Extinction to Decrease Problem Behaviors

ABA Training Video This type of extinction has nothing to do with animals species that don't live anymore! This extinction has everything to do with ...

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Echoic Behavior

Echoic Behavior The Echoic is a form of verbal behavior where the speaker repeats the same sound or word that was said by another person, like an echo. ...

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Positive and Negative Reinforcement in ABA

Autism Training Video What is the difference between positive and negative reinforcement? In this ABA training video, this most misunderstood behavioral ...

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Intraverbal Behavior in ABA

ABA Training Video The intraverbal is a form of verbal behavior where the speaker responds to another's verbal behavior (e.g. like in a conversation). ...

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Using Preference Assessments to Understand Motivation

Preference Assessments help us determine what motivates our learners. Knowing what motivates our learners helps us use these items and activities within ...

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Understanding Verbal Operants

The verbal operants are categories of verbal behavior identified by the work of B.F. Skinner and presented in his book, Verbal Behavior. The book proposes ...

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Receptive Language Programs for Early Learners

Early learners that need to learn receptive language skills could greatly benefit from these programs being introduced in a structured teaching formats as ...

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Chaining and Task Analysis

Each step is taught and mastered and then chained together using backward or forward chaining. Watch the teachers in this autism teaching strategies video ...