For School Administrators

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based three-tiered framework to improve and integrate all of the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes every day. PBIS creates schools where all students succeed.

Association For Positive Behavior Support (APBS)Enhance the quality of life of people across the life-span by promoting evidence-based and effective positive behavior support to realize socially valid and equitable outcomes for people, families, schools, agencies, and communities.

Developing a Functional Behavior Analysis(FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plan(BIP)
This flowchart will help guide educators through the process of conducting a FBA and BIP.

Iris Center
The IRIS Center is a national center dedicated to improving education outcomes for all children, especially those with disabilities birth through age twenty-one, through the use of effective evidence-based practices and interventions.

For Educators

The IRIS Center
This module explains the seven phases of the acting-out cycle: calm; trigger; agitation; acceleration; peak; de-escalation; recovery.  The modules include strategies to implement at each phase with video examples, educator toolboxes, IRIS fundamental skill sheets. The modules are divided into elementary and secondary classrooms.

Addressing Challenging Behaviors (Part 1, Elementary): Understanding the Acting-Out Cycle

Addressing Challenging Behaviors (Part 2, Elementary): Behavioral Strategies

Addressing Challenging Behaviors (Part 1, Secondary): Understanding the Acting-Out Cycle

Addressing Challenging Behaviors (Part 2, Secondary): Behavioral Strategies

PromotePrevent
PromotePrevent is proud to be part of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)—a leading global nonprofit organization established in 1958 that designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic development.

Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use issues.

Professional Resources

Behavioral Alliances of South Carolina (BASC)
The Behavioral Alliance of South Carolina (BASC) seeks to build capacity for supporting students with or at risk of developing emotional disabilities in SC, and to promote positive impacts across social, health, emotional, behavioral and academic areas of student functioning.

Southeastern School Behavioral Health Community
Promoting academic and personal success by reducing barriers to learning and supporting the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of all youth and families in the southeast.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAM)
NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

Mental Health.Gov
MentalHealth.gov provides one-stop access to U.S. government mental health and mental health problems information. MentalHealth.gov aims to educate and guide.

South Carolina Department of Mental Health (DMH)
Supporting the recovery of people with mental illnesses. Through a Statewide network of community mental health centers, clinics, and hospitals the Department of Mental Health’s clinical staff provide a complete array of medical and support services for children, adults, and families throughout South Carolina.

School Social Work Association of American
The School Social Work Association of America empowers school social workers and promotes the profession to enhance the social and emotional growth and academic outcomes of all students nationally and globally.

CREATE
CREATE is a scholarship program sponsored by the South Carolina Department of Education Office of Special Education Services . The program is designed to increase the number of highly qualified, credentialed professionals in SC public/charter schools and SCDE-operated programs who serve the needs of students with disabilities.

Virtual Toolbox for Mental Health in School
This online toolbox compiles a sample of various brief resources developed by the national Center. There are many additional resources accessible by clicking on the Center's Online Clearinghouse Quick Finds and the catalogue of Resources and Publications.

South Carolina Educational Interpreting Center
The South Carolina Department of Education and Clemson University have partnered to create the South Carolina Educational Interpreting Center, (SCEIC) in order to undertake four cornerstones of service for in-service educational interpreters, school districts, the State Department of Education, and most importantly Deaf and Hard of Hearing students and their parents.

Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NCI) provides your staff with the skills to safely recognize and respond to everyday crisis situations. NCI training complies with all current legislation and is evidence-based and fully accredited, so your staff can earn continuing education credits.