Haring Center
Live and Recorded Trainings
Upcoming Live Trainings
| Date: | Title: |
| 01/27/2021 |
Title: Virtual Social and Emotional Support: Zoom Social Skills for All Learners
When: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Cost: $25, includes 2 Clock Hours and/or 2 BACB Learning CEUs Description: Supporting social and emotional skills during distance learning is incredibly challenging for teachers and providers! Yet we know that children are struggling to maintain connections with others and receive instruction on social and emotional skills. In this webinar, Drs. RinaMarie Leon-Guerrero and Ariane Gauvreau will discuss concrete ways teachers and providers can provide social skills instruction, strategies for facilitating social skills groups online, and other means to increase social opportunities for students during distance learning. Objectives: 1) Gain information on facilitating social skills groups online. 2) Learn how to structure online groups to ensure learners are engaged. 3) Learn how to partner with families to support their child’s engagement. Target Audience: Preschool and elementary teachers, BCBAs, RBTs and anyone providing social and emotional support Presenters: RinaMarie Leon-Guerrero, Ph.D., BCBA-D Ariane Gauvreau, Ph.D., BCBA-D |
| 02/10/2021 |
Title: Green Screen Workshop: Using a Green Screen to Create Active and Engaging Lessons for Learners of All Ages and Abilities
When: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Cost: $25, includes 2 Clock Hours Description: This workshop will cover everything you need to know about green screens. We’ll introduce tricks for setting your space and uploading photos for your background, show lots of examples of how you can teach a range of social and academic skills, and review how to use green screens in large, small and individualized settings. We recommend participants come with 3-4 yards of green felt OR green butcher paper and a yard stick or paint stirrer to fully participate (but feel free to join us if you don’t have those things yet, too!). Objectives: 1) Discuss how green screens can be used to promote learner engagement during virtual instruction. 2) Review multiple examples of how green screens can be used for large group, small group and individualized instruction. 3) Practice uploading photos on our own green screens. Target Audience: All teachers and providers Presenters: Lindsey Lawrence, M.Ed. |
| 02/17/2021 |
Title: Culturally Responsive Strategies for Building Relationships with Families
When: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Cost: $25, includes 2 Clock Hours Description: This webinar will focus on building parent-teacher relationships by increasing cultural awareness. We will share the importance of identifying cultural differences and strategies to address the needs of students and families. We will discuss strategies to manage and understand personal biases and their effects on family partnering. In addition, we will talk about how to determine the difference between equal and equitable practices. Objectives: 1) Understand how to address individual needs of students and families by increasing self-awareness and understanding personal biases. 2) Recognize the difference between equality and equity. 3) Implement inclusionary strategies to build community rapport. Target Audience: All teachers and providers Presenters: Monique Worthy, M.Ed. Zoe Leverson, M.Ed., NBCT |
Recorded Trainings
Recordings that you can access at your own pace, anytime, anywhere.
| Title: |
|
Title: Leveraging Technologies to Support Families During COVID: Strategies for Virtual Family Support and Home Visiting
Cost: $25, includes 2 Clock Hours and/or BACB Learning CEUs Description: Family support is a large part of a special educator’s role, but the shift to online learning has made this incredibly difficult. This webinar will cover ways of supporting families during COVID-19 and with the shift to distanced learning. We will share resources for conducting virtual home visits and discuss ways school staff can connect with families, assess their needs, connect them with resources and support them in meeting their child’s needs at home. Objectives: |
|
Title: Early Childhood Education in the Time of COVID: Voices From the Field
Cost: $25, includes 2 Clock Hours Description: This webinar will center the voices of early childhood special educators (teaching in Birth-Grade 3 settings) with the goal of learning from strategies, practices, and supports that have effectively and efficiently supported families and young children. Haring Center staff will be joined by several educators, sharing their experiences teaching in both virtual and in-person settings. Please join us for a collaborative conversation around best practices and lessons learned as we all navigate this new normal! |
|
Title: Early Childhood Education in the “New Normal”: Strategies for Supporting Preschooler and Early Elementary Students with Online Instruction
Cost: $25, includes 2 BACB Learning CEUs and/or Clock Hours Description: This webinar will share strategies for supporting a range of learners, with and without disabilities, in online settings. This school year brings a range of new challenges for teachers, school staff, parents and children. Join the Haring Center staff in a discussion about ways of engaging learners (preschool – early elementary) in online settings. Objectives: |
|
Title: Supporting Parents with Challenging Behaviors at Home
Cost: $25, includes 2 BACB Learning CEUs and/or Clock Hours Description: This training will explore current practices in the implementation of online parent coaching for challenging behaviors at home. The focus is for early childhood staff working with families around behavior support. This training will teach educators best practices in providing parent coaching. In addition, this training will focus on decreasing engagement in challenging behavior through the implementation of preventative, antecedent strategies, and appropriate replacement behaviors. Lastly, will also discuss factors affecting the consistent implementation of strategies at home, ensuring the strong contextual fit of proposed interventions. Objectives: |
|
Title: Research in RBT Supervision
Cost: $15, includes 1 BACB Supervision CEU Description: This webinar explores current research findings and related content about supervision practices for Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs). While there will not be an exhaustive analysis of the methodology or critique the data analyses from each study, the primary focus will be on the content and findings and how they apply to our supervision practices. The participant will learn about supervision predictors of positive client outcomes, barriers to effective supervision, predictors of burnout in RBTs, and self-identified training needs among RBTs. |
|
Title: 201: Sexuality, Disability and ABA Practice: Professional Practices for Client Safety
Cost: $20, includes 1.5 BACB Ethics CEUs Description: This webinar introduces the topic of ethical practice in situations involving social-sexual behavior of clients with special needs. Participants will discuss the ethics of touch and privacy for growing children and adolescents with special needs. A mini case study featuring a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder will be followed by recommendations for addressing the personal safety of all clients in our professional practice. |
|
Title: 202: Sexuality, Disability and ABA Practice: Ethical Management of Sexualized Behavior
Cost: $20, includes 1.5 BACB Ethics CEUs Description: This webinar focuses on the ethical analysis of a behavioral consultation case study involving masturbatory behavior of an early adolescent with a developmental disability. Participants will take part in guided discussion about the multitude of professional challenges that arise when managing behavior change in socially sensitive situations. Topics include functional behavioral assessment, culturally sensitive practice and parent-professional collaboration. |
|
Title: 203: Sexuality, Disability and ABA Practice: Preparing for Social-Sexuality Instruction
Cost: $20, includes 1.5 BACB Learning CEUs Description: Are you ready to take the plunge? This webinar walks you through steps to take to start integrating social-sexuality instruction into your services. Social-sexuality instruction is relevant for all ages of clients or students with special needs as it includes self-care and hygiene, social relationships, social-emotional regulation skills, safety, and body knowledge. Participants will learn about national sexuality education guidelines, staff preparation, initial communication with parents, and gathering instructional resources. Participants will leave with suggested avenues for obtaining teaching lessons and materials. This webinar is useful for practitioners looking to teach comprehensive social-sexuality education as well as those only interested in providing client-specific instruction. |
|
Title: 204: Sexuality, Disability and ABA Practice: Providing Instruction for Personal Safety
Cost: $20, includes 1.5 BACB Learning CEUs Description: Are you concerned about your clients or students’ vulnerability and personal safety? This webinar is designed to broaden practitioner understanding of the development of self-protection skills against sexual abuse. The presenter will first discuss traditional challenges in teaching personal safety then introduce a developmental theory of self-protection which promotes new approaches to old challenges. Participants will then learn about selecting topics for instruction and programming for important skills acquisition. Participants will also leave with recommendations for available self-protection and personal safety instructional resources. |
|
Title: 205: Sexuality, Disability and ABA Practice: Social-Sexuality Curriculum Resources for Learners with ASD
Cost: $15, includes 1 BACB Learning CEU Description: Finally…a comprehensive social-sexuality curriculum and resources webinar! This webinar presents an overview of modern social-sexuality instructional resources for learners with ASD. After a short review of literature on teaching social-sexuality knowledge and skills to individuals with ASD, the bulk of this webinar involves looking at existing resources, reviewing sample lessons, and hearing a brief overview of their contents. This includes resources used by a professional to design or implement instruction as well as those designed to be used directly by a learner. Existing resources specifically designed for family or caregivers will also be referenced. Participants will receive a resource list to accompany this webinar. |
|
Title: ABA Business 101: Business Fundamentals
Cost: $20, includes 1.5 BACB Learning CEUs Description: ABA 101 will have an administrative focus that concentrates on how to open and manage an ABA business as a business leader. Topics will include components of state licensing, liability insurance, employees vs. contractors, outsourcing vs. insourcing tasks, in-network vs. out-of-network services, insurance vs. private pay, taxes, scheduling, billing, credentialing, authorizations, onboarding new staff, administrative policies and procedures, as well as overall management strategies. |
|
Title: ABA Business 102: Clinical Fundamentals
Cost: $20, includes 1.5 BACB Learning CEUs Description: The second part of this Business Series: ABA 102 will have a clinical focus that concentrates on how to manage the clinical responsibilities needed in effective and ethical programming from a leadership perspective. Topics will include components of handling referrals, authorizations, conducting intakes, assessment and reassessment, functional behavior assessment, treatment planning, technician vs. BCBA delivery of therapy, supervision, care coordination, ethical clinical decision making, insurance/funding source constraints, and discharge, as well as general overall clinical management strategies typical of a clinical director. |
|
Title: ABA Business 103: Staff Retention
Cost: $15, includes 1 BACB Learning CEU Description: Regardless of what format of ABA your company provides, staff retention at the direct care level in this profession is a significant challenge. This webinar will discuss the issue of staff retention of behavior technicians in applied behavior analysis companies. Challenges and the state of the industry will be reviewed and followed by 7 different areas supported by research that companies may be able to intervene in to increase staff retention and decrease employee turnover. |
|
Title: Navigating the Waters of Insurance Reimbursement for ABA Providers
Cost: $15, includes 1 BACB Learning CEU Description: Insurance reimbursement for applied behavior analysis therapy is a rapidly changing field and providers are expected to know the ins and outs of this industry or run the risk of not getting paid for their services. This recorded webinar will give both an introductory look at getting connected with insurance companies as well as a more advanced understanding of how to navigate some of the more challenging business aspects. Participants will leave with an understanding of the pros and cons of being in-network vs. out-of-network, as well as an understanding of contracting (including negotiations), authorizations and credentialing. |
|
Title: Supervising RBTs: Transforming Trials and Tribulations into Triumphs
Cost: $30, includes 2 BACB Supervision CEUs Description: Are you supervising registered behavior technicians (RBTs)? Have you experienced challenges to this new responsibility? If so, then this webinar is for you! In this engaging and interactive webinar, participants will learn the BACB requirements for supervising RBTs, identify ethical issues as they relate to supervision of RBTs and the BACB Professional and Ethical Compliance Code, and utilize various forms and checklists to deliver effective feedback to behavior technicians using evidence based methods. |
|
Title: Project DATA Model for Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Cost: $75, includes 6 Clock Hours Description: Would you like to learn how to implement educational services for young children with autism? Project DATA (Developmentally Appropriate Treatment for Autism), a school-based program for preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder, has over 20 years of research, testing, and refinement and has been replicated in schools across the country. This training focuses on building capacity of teachers to support preschoolers with ASD in learning to be more independent in school and community settings. School-readiness skills such as attention to teachers and materials, following directions, social skills and independent use of school materials are a focus of the Project DATA model and are a primary focus of this training. Participants will leave this workshop with practical tools for immediate classroom use. Topics covered include an overview of autism, assessing children with autism using the Project DATA Skills Checklist, instructional programming, progress monitoring, family support, and collaboration. |
The Haring Center is an ACE provider, #OP-19-3112.