Community Outreach and Training Resources

A list of resources for schools and community mental health providers provided by CYDI.

Antecedent-Based Intervention: can be used in classrooms to decrease an interfering behavior and increase on-task behavior.

Check-In/Check-Out (CICO): can be used by general education teachers to help increase on-task behaviors in classrooms and improve classroom management.

Evidence-Based Strategies for Classroom: Provides multiple strategies for different domains, e.g., social engagement and inclusion, stress management, and more. 

Functional Behavior Assessment: Can be used to understand challenging behaviors in classrooms, specifically behaviors that interfere with students’ ability to learn.

Peer-Mediated Interventions: Effectively addresses social skill interactions and academics skills for students with ASD.

Schedules: Helps students with ASD understand expectations and routine.

Self-Management/Self-Monitoring: Helps students with ASD understand the rules, expectations, and norms in classroom settings.

Social Skills Group/Training: Provides ways to improve students with ASD’s social skills.

Video Modeling: Uses video technology to provide model for targeted behavior or skill.

Self-Regulation in Adolescents/Young Adults: Provides tips on how to practice self-regulation for youth and adolescents.

Helping Traumatized Children Learn: Provides tips on how to create a conducive learning environment for students who have experienced trauma.

The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences: Gives resources on preventing and mitigating the effects of adverse childhood experiences for adolescents and young adults.

Trauma-Informed Classrooms: How to create classroom environments for children who have experienced trauma.

Trauma-Informed Policy Framework: Introduces trauma-informed policy framework to respond to trauma through public policies.

Trauma Toolkit for Educators: Provides facts, statistics, as well as suggestions for educators of children exposed to traumatic events.