Moving From Power and Control to Collaboration and Problem Solving (and Meeting Kids Where They’re At): The Collaborative and Proactive Solutions Model
- When: Dec. 11-12, from 8:30 am to 3 pm each day.
- Where: Wylie Inn and Conference Center, Beverly
- Register here
Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) is the evidence-based, trauma-informed, neurodiversity affirming model of care that helps caregivers focus on identifying the problems that are causing concerning behaviors in kids and solving those problems collaboratively and proactively.
Join us for a two-day session (Dec. 11-12) to learn more about CPS, with a focus on building:
Knowledge & Understanding
- Explain the key tenets of the CPS model, including the belief that kids do well if they can.
- Differentiate between traditional discipline approaches and CPS, including the shift from “willful noncompliance” to “unsolved problems.”
- Identify the core components of the three options for problem solving (Plans A, B, and C) and when each is most effective.
Skill Development
- Use the Assessment of Skills and Unsolved Problems (ASUP) to identify skills students are struggling to access and prioritize unsolved problems.
- Apply the Empathy Step (Step 1 of Plan B) to gather information from students in a nonjudgmental, curious way.
- Practice the Define Adult Concerns Step (Step 2) to articulate adult concerns clearly and respectfully.
- Demonstrate the Invitation Step (Step 3) to collaboratively generate realistic and mutually satisfactory solutions.
Mindset & Application
- Recognize and reflect on their own assumptions and beliefs about student behavior, and how these impact classroom practice.
- Apply CPS concepts to real classroom scenarios, including individual, small group, and whole-class situations.
- Build confidence in shifting from reactive discipline to proactive problem-solving with students.
The CPS model is a departure from approaches emphasizing the use of consequences to modify concerning behaviors. In families, general and special education schools, inpatient psychiatric units, and residential and juvenile detention facilities, the CPS model has a track record of dramatically improving behavior and dramatically reducing or eliminating discipline referrals, detentions, suspensions, restraints, and seclusions. The CPS model is non-punitive, non-exclusionary, trauma-informed, transdiagnostic, and transcultural.