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FLIP IT®:
Transforming Challenging Behavior

FLIP IT

FLIP IT® is our newest resource designed to help young children learn about their feelings, gain self-control, and reduce challenging behaviors.


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DESSA in the News!

The DESSA and DESSA-mini, our newest strength-based screening and assessment tools designed for school age children, were referenced in The Daily Herald, a publication of the greater Chicago area. To read the full article, click here!

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Click the links below to read or listen to the interview with one of our nation's leaders in children's mental health and learn from her many years of experience working to improve our nation's mental health systems.

 

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FLIP IT is four supportive steps that are designed to help young children (ages 3-8) learn about their feelings, gain self-control and reduce challenging behavior. This online course helps learners delve into the four steps in the FLIP IT mnemonic which stands for F-Feelings, L-Limits, I-Inquiries, and P-Prompts. FLIP IT offers a simple, kind, strength-based, commonsense and effective four-step strategy for day-to-day challenges and challenging behaviors from children. . This on-line learning course has a running time of 2.5 hours. Upon completion of the course, 0.5 CEUs are offered (5 hours) factoring in time for the interactive pieces, reflection, application of the skill, and learning assessment. The course can be completed over time and not in just one sitting. For more information or to take this course, go to www.netsmartu.com/FLIPIT.

 

Upcoming Webinar Sessions

1-hour free introductory webinars on FLIP IT®! Join us for one of the free upcoming webinars on an introduction to FLIP IT, offered to you by the Author, Rachel Sperry!

  • Thursday, February 16, 2012, 1-2pm (East Coast Time) — To register, click here.
  • Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1-2pm (East Coast Time) — To register, click here.
  • Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 1-2pm (East Coast Time) — To register, click here.

Join Paul LeBuffe, Co-Director of the Devereux Center for Resilient Children, national trainer, and researcher, as he presents free, informational webinars on the Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA) and the DESSA-mini. Together, these tools provide a comprehensive system for assessing and monitoring the social-emotional strengths and needs of children, Kindergarten through 8th grade.

  • Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 1-2pm (East Coast Time) — To register, click here.

Webinar sessions

Click here to view a 1-Hour Webinar on Supporting the Social and Emotional Health of Young Children:  The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (Birth Through Five) delivered on November 9, 2010.  Presenters include Paul LeBuffe and Linda Likins, Co-Directors of the Devereux Center for Resilient Children, Joyce Kilmer, Administrator of the Washington State Department of Early Learning, and Suzanne DiLillo, Assistant Director of the Contra Costa County Community Services Bureau in California.

To view 1-hour recorded webinar sessions on the DECA for Infants and Toddlers, the DECA-C, or the DESSA, click here!


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Starting Point Celebrates Resilience
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Starting Point for Child Care and Early Education, Northeast Ohio's early care and education resource and referral agency, received the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative's (DECI) Program of Excellence Award at a May 9 event, A Celebration of Resilience, at Cleveland's Holiday Inn Select.

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