• Teachers and school support staff
• Pupil service staff
• Administrators
• Mental health providers
• Mental health providers

We specialize in social and emotional learning (SEL), providing practical and proven training, consultation and support to address social, emotional, behavioral and mental health barriers to learning.

Our trainers can help you

• Assess and address student needs
• Develop action plans that effectively manage student behavior
• Create school-wide systems to support staff and improve school climates

The programs we present are evidence-based and yield measurable outcomes.

Programs

• Functional Behavioral Assessment/Behavior Intervention Planning (FBA/BIP) »
  FBA/BIP teaches you how to determine the reason behind a student’s behavior and then create an action plan for addressing those findings.

• Student Targeted Aggression Replacement Training (START) »
  START is a cognitive-behavioral intervention program for chronically aggressive students in K-12th grades. Its goals are to improve social skills, anger control and moral reasoning skills. Learn to conduct START groups in your school with our START Learning Lab.

• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) »
  PBIS is a systematic approach to preventing and responding to school and classroom discipline problems by developing school-wide systems to support the staff; creating consistent expectations and discipline for students; and promoting positive behavior. Members of our staff act as coaches to many local schools implementing PBIS.

• Social Emotional Learning SEL
  Overview, core competencies, resources, New York State resources

Other Professional Development Trainings

• Check-In/Check-Out (CICO)
  We use this highly efficient process in our school programs. It supports large numbers of students in an elementary or middle school setting. CICO provides students with frequent positive feedback, praise, and encouragement on a regular basis for their academic and social behavior. CICO is an effective targeted intervention to reduce problem behaviors.

• Consultation and Technical Support
  We provide consultation and support around
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Behavior intervention
  • Whole school strategies to improve school climate and safety
  • Implementation of evidence-based practices
  Training and support and programming are tailored to the needs of the specific school or school district.

• Positive Behavioral Strategies for the Classroom
  We focus on strategies to cultivate a safe classroom environment, foster meaningful teacher-student relationships and reduce negative student behaviors. Through this six-hour training, educational staff will learn how to lead, engage and connect their students to learning.

  For information about these trainings and our consultation services, contact Susan VanCamp, director of school-based services, at svancamp@contactsyracuse.org , or 315-2512-1400, ext. 122.

• Community Trainings for Educators and Youth Workers
  
  1. Mental Health First Aid
     This training provides help to someone developing a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis. The ability to provide Mental Health First Aid may determine how quickly a loved one, co-worker, student, or friend gets the right help and/or recovers.

  2. Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
     Contact Community Services is now offering Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) workshops, the same suicide intervention used on the Contact Hotline and Lifeline. We can all help the community become "suicide-safer." Check our schedule page for training times.

  3. Contact Hotline 24/7
     The Contact Hotline responds to more than 23,000 calls a year and provides support to people of all ages on a wide range of issues and concerns: suicide prevention and other suicide-related calls; crisis intervention; and counseling. The 45-50-hour volunteer training teaches active (or reflective) listening skills, including reflection feelings, empathy, use of questions, focusing, paraphrasing and confrontation. Check our schedule page for training times.

     These community trainings may be important for parents of some of your students.

  4. Children 1st Workshops
     This training is a 6-hour workshop for parents who are separating or divorcing.

  5. Anger Management Workshops
     This workshop meets for 90 minutes a week for six weeks and teaches adults how to use anger in more constructive and healthy ways.