The Social Decision Making/Problem Solving Program

Trainings are provided regularly throughout the year, usually at the school site. In training, teachers learn to facilitate and coach children to use and develop their readiness and thinking skills. Teachers are trained in a variety of specific applications tailored to common situations, including corrective discipline, mediating conflict, motivating children to develop plans for reaching a goal, diagramming decisions, and applying sklls to real-life situations. Training techniques used include live and videotape modeling, repeated participant practice, and positive corrective feedback. Parents, other school staff, school nurses, bus drivers, playground aides, and other community members can be trained to use the "readiness"prompts and cues that children learn throughout SDM/PS so they can speak the children's "shared language." Leadership/Managment Training Program: Program developers note that major challenges of institutionalizing the program in a district are developing a coordinated strategy for system-wide participation and developing mechanisms for program managment, leadership, and expansion. In their experience, SDM/PS takes three years to establish in a school building and five years to establish district-wide. Program developers will facilitate planning and short-and long-term goal setting, developing a scope and sequence across grade levels, program managment, evaluation, technical support and parent outreach. SDM/PS staff also provide comprehensiveconsultation services to teachers and school staff.

 

 

The Office of Prevention Services Research, a division of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey - University Behavioral Health Care, is dedicated to promotion of emotional wellness and preventing emotional, behavioral, and related disabilities and problems in living.Their multi-disciplinary staff partner with schools, health and human service providers, religious institutions, businesses, community groups, and professional organizations to address varied behavioral health issues through an array of activities that include:

-the design and implementation of prevention programs
-consultation and training in prevention technology
-mental health education in the community and work place
-preventive intervention evaluation and research, and
-product development

The Office of Prevention Services is staffed by psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and other behavioral health professionals. Services offered by this division include needs and resources assessment; program design; consultation; training; program implementation; behavioral health education; program evaluation and research; curriculum design, and other technical assistance.

The Office of Prevention Serves has designed, field tested and disseminated a number of nationally recognized, innovative programs. Staff can assist organizations in replicating these research-based models, help organizations to select and adapt model programs that have been developed elsewhere, as well as custom design programs to meet customer needs.

Issues of concern include, but are not limited to: violence against youth, suicide, crime victimization, depression, workforce readiness, delinquency, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, school dropout, AIDS, loss and coping, parenting effectiveness, and tragic loss.

The Learning Institute offered through OPSR provides workshops, courses, and related training activities that further the mission that has remained the same: to help educators explore new ideas and adopt promising and evidence-based strategies and programs in order to enhance the well-being and, ultimately, the acacemic achievement of the youth they serve. Visit the Learning Institute:

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Training & Consultation Resources

Training and Consultation Resources coordinates, monitors, supports, delivers and evaluates professional educational programs to maintain and enhance UBHC staff competency. TCR also designs and markets training by UBHC professional, including Institute faculty, to organizations in the community. Training is provided at the TCR's spacious and comfortable facilities in Liberty Plaza in New Brunswick, at central locations throughout the state, or on-site at the client's own offices. Inquiries should be addressed to Training & Consultation Resources, 335 George Street, Suite 3700, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The offices are open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

TCR provides professional educational programs in clinical and non-clinical areas; these programs may include multimedia and computer-based presentations. Because of the extensive range of educational programs and academic interests represented at UBHC and the Institute, the range of educational programs offered in behavioral healthcare is extremely broad. The role of TCR is to facilitate the design, delivery and evaluation of educational programs that convey state-of-the-art information and best practices in the field of behavioral health, with the goal of competency-based learning for professionals from various disciplines. Evaluating the effectiveness of these educational/training programs, as part of the Institute's mission to promote outcomes research, is an integral aspect of TCR's services. TCR also provides organizational consultation in areas such as staff development, leadership and program planning. Consultation services are provided internally and externally, with broad goals related to assessing organizational training needs, designing effective outcome measures, and enhancing organizational functioning.

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