This workshop will provide a brief overview of Positive Behaviour Support as a framework for setting up meaningful and successful outings and interactions with children. Evidence-informed supports and strategies that have strong peer-reviewed research support will be reviewed. Learners will walk away with details about how to set up the environments they work in to ensure that children in their care will be able to participate and engage to their fullest ability.

Living Inquiries:

Well-being and Belonging.
Engagement with others, materials, and the world.
Communication and literacies.

Pathways:

Joy in relationships with people, place, materials and ideas.
Emotions, thoughts, and views.
Every child is a gift.
Time for engagement.
Local community connections.
Interests and inquiries.
Language and communication.

Suitable for ECE students, parents, adult instructors/administrators, intermediate and experienced early care and learning professionals working with children of all ages, from infants/toddlers to school age children, including children with extra support needs.

Facilitator(s): Michaela Jelen & Janet Harder

JHMJ Coaching & Consulting is a team of 2 professionals, Janet Harder and Michaela Jelen. Janet and Michaela are committed to working with families, professionals, and service providers, providing coaching and training in early intervention supports, strategies, and models that are rooted in evidence-informed practice. Janet and Michaela have a great depth of experience working with children, families, service providers, and professionals in a wide range of home, community, and school-based settings.

Janet Harder is both a Speech Language Pathologist and Board Certified Behaviour Analyst. Michaela Jelen is a Behaviour Consultant, a doctoral Student, and has deep expertise in Positive Behaviour Supports. Both team members are certified Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) therapists and trainers, ESDM Parent coaches, and were part of a small team of Coach Trainers for the Parent and Child Early (PACE) Coaching Project led by the Universities of British Columbia and Alberta from 2017-2020.