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Promoting Social Emotional Competence

Leadership Strategies for Supporting Children’s Social and Emotional Development and Addressing Challenging

Behavior

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Purpose of Workshop

•Time to Reflect and Focus

•Tools for Problem Solving

and “Working Smart”

• Resources on Evidence-

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Agenda of the Day

• Reflection Questionnaire• Introduction, Purpose, Principles• Evidence-based Practices and Systems• Roles for Leadership• Challenges to Evidence-based

Practices/Strategies• Collaborative Planning Model• Action Planning• Take Home Activities

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Learner Objectives

1. Participants will identify common barriers to implementing evidence-based practices in local programs

2. Participants will identify at least one strategy to remedy each barrier.

3. Participants will practice developing program polices and staff development plans to promote the sustained use of evidence-based practices.

4. Participants will identify steps to collaborative planning for programs and systems that support all young children’s social and emotional development and provide evidence-based interventions for children’s challenging behavior

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Link Between Program Administration and Child &

Family Outcomes

“..an adequate infrastructure increases the likelihood that recommended practices will be used to deliver services and supports to young children and their families…”

“..When quality [evidence-based] practices are used consistently it is more likely that children and their families will experience positive outcomes.”

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Link Between Program Administration and Child &

Family Outcomes (cont.)

“..The interdependent relationships between structure, services, supports, and outcomes are consistent with ecological theories of development….these theories suggest that the child’s development is influence not only by the family, neighborhood, subculture, and community, but by the systems of services and supports that serve them as well.”

-- Harbin & Salisbury, in Sandall, McLean & Smith, 2000

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Effective, Evidence-based “direct- services” to children and families

Need…

Effective, Evidence-based “indirect supports”, e.g. administrative policies and procedures, systems, training, etc.

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CSEFELGuiding Principles/Values

• Intensity

• Clear Criteria for Efficacy

• Cost and Time Efficiency

• Long-term Essential Outcomes

• Family Centeredness

• Cultural Sensitivity and

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Activity

1. Silently read your 1/3 of the DEC Concept Paper on the Identification of and Intervention with Challenging Behavior

2. Be prepared to answer the question: what is one important concept or idea?

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Workshop Philosophy and Terminology

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Most children’s behavior and development does not require intensive intervention

Most social/emotional development and behavior is promoted through positive preventive measures

Promotional, preventive and intervention practices should be based on proven approaches (“Evidence-based”)

Question to ask about practices/standards: what is the evidence that it works?

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Workshop Philosophy and Terminology (cont.)

• Most children’s behavior and development does not require intensive intervention• Most social/emotional development and behavior is promoted through positive preventive measures

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Workshop Philosophy and Terminology (cont.)

• Promotional, preventive and intervention practices should be based on proven approaches (“Evidence-based”)• Question to ask about practices/ standards: what is the evidence that it works?

•Published research findings•National Consensus positions (NIMH, NAEYC, DEC, etc.)

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Promoting Social and Emotional Competence

Classroom Preventive PracticesClassroom Preventive Practices

Building Positive RelationshipsBuilding Positive Relationships

Social and Emotional Social and Emotional Teaching StrategiesTeaching Strategies

Individualized Individualized Intensive Intensive

InterventionsInterventions

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Evidence-Based Practices

• What do we know about evidence-based practices in:

• services• systems/programs• service utilization

• The Center for Evidence-based Practices: Young Children with Challenging Behavior (www.challengingbehavior.org) syntheses• CSEFEL “What Works Briefs” (www.csefel.uiuc.edu)

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Synthesis of Evidence Related to Systems of Service

Center for Evidence-based Practice: Young Children with Challenging

Behaviors

Funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education

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Defining a Service System

• Differentiated funding streams• “Programs” versus “system of services”• Definitions used: - System:..interdependent group of items (e.g. funding streams, programs forming a unified whole - System of services: system (unified whole) of programs/resources/ policies/services (federal, state, local, program level) that impact positively on children’s social-emotional development and behaviorCSEFEL

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Recommendations for Systems

• Systems must provide a range or continuum of service from promotion to prevention to intervention• Systems must provide a comprehensive array of services. • Services must be individualized related to child and family needs, culture and language.

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Recommendations for Systems (cont).

The “systems of care” concept used in mental health offers promising guidelines. “System of care” refers to the weaving together of multiple existing services or programs into a cohesive, collaborative system that reduces overlap, fills gaps and addresses transition issues for children moving from one service to another or needing to access multiple services

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Recommendations for Systems (cont).

• Systems should be family-centered and include both child-focused services and family supports to addressing challenging behavior• Personnel need the resources and working conditions to provide evidence- based services.• System must ensure there is adequate funding, reasonable case loads, collaborative arrangements, professional development opportunities,wages, and benefits to ensure that they know about and can practice what works CSEFEL

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Activity

• For your table, list two

common practices related to

challenging behavior and what

you think the evidence is.

• Where could you find out?

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Summary Thus Far

1. Philosophy2. Link between

administration/systems and children’s/families outcomes

3. Terms- promotion, prevention,

intervention- Evidence-based practice- Systems

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Roles and Evidence-based Practices of Program Leadership

• Set Tone and Vision• Ensure Child Well-being and

Progress• Ensure Compliance with

Requirements• Establish Fiscal, Administrative

and Personnel Procedures• Other?

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Setting the Tone/Vision

•“Outcomes Oriented”

•“Work Smart”

•“Cost Effectiveness”

•“Personal Effectiveness”

•“Evidence-based”

•“Can’t is a 4-letter Word”

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Setting the Tone and Vision

Do We: •Reflect on our expectations for children’s behavior? Are they developmentally and culturally appropriate?•Reflect on the relationship of our behavior and children’s behavior?•Set a vision that our expectations and practices are evidence-based?•View all stakeholders (program personnel, families, community) as partners?•Other?CSEFEL

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Ensuring Child Well-Being and Progress

We:• Help others understand the relationship

between program quality and child

progress?

• Raise awareness of the national

standards for quality, e.g.•Head Start Performance Standards•NAEYC Accreditation Criteria•DEC Recommended Practices

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Ensuring Child Well-Being and Progress (cont.)

We:• Create an environment of

continuous quality improvement• Hold ourselves and our program

accountable for child progress

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Ensuring Child Well-Being and Progress (cont.)

We:• Support access to and use of

evidence-based practices by staff

and families• Meet needs that our program can’t

meet through community

partnerships

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Ensuring Compliance

•What are the requirements related to

children’s social/emotional

development and challenging

behavior?• Head Start Performance Standards• IDEA, ADA• State and Local requirements

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Establishing Fiscal, Administrative and Personnel

Procedures

Procedures:• Are necessary to support children’s social/emotional development and address challenging behavior• Are needed to ensure staff and consultants use evidence-based practices• Are needed to promote better use of community resources

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Administrative/Systems Challenges to Evidence-Based Practice to Promote

Social/Emotional Development and Address Challenging Behavior

Focus groups with T/TA providers, state policy makers, program personnel and families identified challenges •Four Categories of Challenges:

•Lack of knowledge/skill•Beliefs/Attitudes•Lack of adequate fiscal resources and procedures•Lack of collaboration within programs, with families, within communities

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Activity

• List some strategies for

addressing challenges by the

category of challenge your

table has been assigned (see

samples in your “Participant’s

Workbook”)

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Address Challenges Through Collaborative Action

Planning• Many heads are better than one

• Stakeholder ownership and commitment

• Shared beliefs, values, and understanding

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Steps for Collaborative Planning for Program Improvement and Systems

Change

•Make the commitment and provide leadership

• Build commitment among stakeholders (staff, families, other agencies, consultants, etc.) through information and experiences

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Steps for Collaborative Planning (cont.)

• Build leadership and commitment through team decision-making • Build a vision with the Stakeholders Team of supporting children’s social/emotional development and addressing challenging behavior through evidence-based practices• Identify challenges to vision with the Team (beliefs, policies, systems, fear of change)

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Steps for Collaborative Planning (cont.)

• Engage in action planning with the Team• Continue to build and expand the commitment through incentives, recognition, T/TA, fiscal and other resources • Continuously evaluate the process and the outcomes of the collaboration and action planning

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Commitment

Leadership:•Administration•Stakeholder Team

Vision Setting

Evaluation:•ProcessOutcome

Action Planning:•Objectives/StrategiesAction StepsResourcesTimelinesOutcome/Impact

Assessment of Challenges to Vision

Information Experiences

Collaborative Planning Model for Program Improvement and Systems Change

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Action Planning:Identify Challenges

• Follow steps of Collaborative Planning Model (commitment, team, vision, etc.)• Develop Team Definitions and Philosophy (Evidence-based, Promotion, Prevention, Intervention, etc.)• Brainstorm the Statement: “We’d like to use evidence based-practices to promote social/emotional development and address challenging behavior, but…

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Action Planning:Identify Challenges (cont.)

• List the challenges that emerge from

brainstorming

• Transfer to Action Plan Form

• If a challenge is believed to be a written

policy or procedure…GET A COPY!

Don’t believe it ‘til you see it!

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Action Planning:Identify Strategies (Objectives)

• Establish criteria for trying possible

strategies (ease, timelines, durability, etc.)• For each challenge, brainstorm this

statement: “We could remedy this

challenge by….”• Select strategies from the brainstorming• Transfer to Action Plan Form

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ACTION PLANNING FORM

Team Members

Challenge to be addressed:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Objective / Strategy

Action Steps to be Taken

Date to be completed &

Persons Responsible

Resources & Supports Needed

Date Accomplished

Impact

Date: _________________________ Status: _______________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Status: _______________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Status: _______________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Status: ________________________ _______________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Status: _______________________________________________________________________ Date: _________________________ Status: ________________________________________________ _______________________

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Take Home Activity(20 minutes)

1. Identify two challenges to using evidence-based practices that are related to:

1) An administrative/fiscal issue

2) Skill development/ supervision

2. Identify a strategy for each of the two challenges

3. Name team members for extra planning

4. Draft an action plan for both challenges (action plans are in workbook)

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Resources for Evidence-based Practices

• CESFEL-www.csefel.uiuc.edu

• Center for Evidence-based Practices:

Young Children with Challenging Behavior

- challengingbehavior.org

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Take Home Activity(5 minutes)

• Reflect on implementing the Collaborative Planning Model in your community with the goal of planning a system of care for young children

• Write who should be on the team

• Write how you might get started?

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