Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Center for Effective Schools


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OSEP Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
The Technical Assistance Center on PBIS is dedicated to providing schools with capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
The mission of CECP is to Support and promote a national preparedness to foster the development and adjustment of children with or at risk of developing serious emotional disturbance.

Fast Track Project
Fast Track is a comprehensive, multi-site intervention designed to prevent serious and chronic antisocial behavior in high-risk children.

School-Based Crime Prevention (Gottfredson, 1998)
In Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising.
A report to the US Congress. Empirically reviews interventions for crime and delinquent behavior in schools. Concludes successful school-based crime prevention programs focus on altering the school and classroom environments instead of trying to change students' attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

Way to Go: School Success for Children with Mental Heath Care Needs.
Report from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Documents how states and school districts have successfully combined school-wide positive behavior support (PBS) with effective mental health services to foster a school environment that is conducive to learning and improves children’s lives.

Oregon Social Learning Center
OSLC is a non-profit independent research center dedicated to the study of child conduct problems.

Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
The first Surgeon General's report on mental health, including the mental health of children. The report includes information on evidence-based practice for children's mental health.

Transition to Independence Process (TIP) System
The mission of TIP is to assist young people with emotional and/or behavioral difficulties (EBD) in making a successful transition to adulthood, with all young persons achieving goals in the domains of education, employment, living situation, and community life.

Institute on Violent and Destructive Behavior (IVDB)
The mission of IVDB is to empower schools and social service agencies to address violence and destructive behavior, at the point of school entry and beyound, in order to ensure safety and to facilitate the academic achievement and healthy social development of children and youth.