Family Focused Positive Behavioral Support: Building a Collaborative, Community-Based Model of Sustainable Services for Children with ASD and their Families by Lori R. Vallelunga, Ph.D., Center Director and Georgia D. Winson, MS, LCPC, Director of Operations, The Autism Program, Springfield, IL.

The Family Focused Positive Behavioral Support workshop will discuss a family-focused, community-based and culturally sensitive model of treatment for children with ASD and their families. Participants will develop new ideas about integrating family empowerment and community support across all facets of a clinic; have a better understanding of a multi-system, multi-agency, multi-community model of collaboration; gain an understanding of ways to measure the strengths and weaknesses of a collaborative model; learn about the interface between Family Focused Positive Behavioral Support, Medical Home and community-based, culturally-sensitive models; gain an understanding of sustainability issues involved in developing a clinical service model; and learn how to monitor the model for fidelity and how to evaluate outcomes of the model.