Pyramid Plus Approach

Pyramid Plus Approach Training is a 46-hour course (18 Modules / 9 Sessions) during which participants will learn specific strategies to enhance the social-emotional development of the children they work with, how and why to encourage inclusion, and how to better support children with challenging behavior.

Classes Starting SOON:

FRIDAY WORKDAY via ZOOM 2023 - 2024 : All classes are 8am to 2pm Starting 09/22, 10/27, 11/10, 12/08, 01/05, -2/23, 03/08, 04/19, 05/10

FALL 2023 Online El Paso County: Saturdays 8-3and Wednesday Evenings via Zoom 6-8:30 pm

Dates and Times

Wed 10/11 PPA Orientation: 6pm-8:30pm

Sat 10/14 Session 1 and 2: 8am-2pm

Wed 10/25 Session 3: 6pm-8:30pm

Sat 10/28 Session 4 and 5: 8am-2pm

Wed 11/08 Session 6: 6pm-8:30pm

Sat 11/11 Session 7 and Session 8 8am to 2pm

Wed 11/15 Session 9: 6pm-8:30 pm

Sat 11/18 Session 10 and 11 : 8am-2:30pm,

Sat 12/02 Session 12, Session 13 8am to 2 pm

Wed 12/06 Session 14 6-8:30

Wed 12/13 Session 15 : 6pm - 8pm

Sat 12/16 Session 1 6and 17 : 8am -2pm

Wed 01/10 Start Session 18: 6pm to 8:30pm

Sat 01/13 Finish Session 18: 8am - 2pm

Pyramid Plus Approach 1, 2, 3

  • Orientation -

  • SESSION 1 - Introduction to the Pyramid Plus Approach

  • SESSION 2 - Inclusion: Understanding IDEA and Beyond

  • SESSION 3 - Effective Workforce and Systems

Pyramid Plus Approach 4, 5, 6

  • SESSION 4 - Defining Social Emotional Development and Evidence Based Practices

  • SESSION 5 - Nurturing and Responsive Relationships

  • SESSION 6 - Partnering Effectively with Families

Pyramid Plus Approach 7, 8, 9

  • SESSION 7 - Supportive Environment: Physical Environments

  • SESSION 8 - Supportive Environment: Schedule and Routines

  • SESSION 9 - Supportive Environments: Expectations and Transitions

Pyramid Plus Approach 10, 11, 12

  • SESSION 10 - Universal Screening: Early Detection of Social Emotional Growth

  • SESSION 11 - Teaming with Families / Writing Functional Goals and Outcomes

  • SESSION 12 - Intentional Planning and Embedded Learning Opportunities




Pyramid Plus Approach 13, 14, 15

  • SESSION 13 - Screening: Early Detection of Social Emotional Growth

  • SESSION 14 - Teaming with Families / Writing Functional Goals and Outcomes

  • SESSION 15 - Intentional Planning and Embedded Learning Opportunities




Pyramid Plus Approach 16, 17, 18

  • SESSION 16 - Overview for Creating a Behavior Support Plan

  • SESSION 17 - Understanding the Functions of Behavior and Assessment

  • SESSION 18 - Developing, Implementing and Monitoring Strategies for Behavior Plans

 

Positive Solutions for Families

Next Class Starts: September 11th 2023 - November 14th 2023 / Registration OPEN 08/01/2023

Tuesday evenings from 6:00PM to 8:00pm via Zoom
Positive Solutions 7 Sessions Adverse Childhood Experiences / Resiliency Bonus Session for a total of 8 weeks

Cost: $80 per family, Includes Family Handbook and Family Routine Guide

The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations has developed an evidence-based, user-friendly parent training series of six sessions to help professionals working with parents promote positive and effective parenting behaviors, which will in turn promote children’s social and emotional development and address the challenging behavior and mental health needs of children in child care and Head Start programs.

The training materials provide information for families on how to promote children’s social and emotional skills, understand their problem behavior, and use positive approaches to help children learn appropriate behavior. The training is designed to give parents general information on key strategies that may be used with all children. Sessions are not designed to offer parents specific advice for their child’s individual issues. Facilitators of the training session should be knowledgeable about local agencies and service providers that may be able to assist families who have complex support needs or children with problem behavior that requires the guidance of a professional. In the last session, parents will be offered a routine guide that offers advice for supporting their children across common family routines.

Session 1: Making a Connection
This session focuses on the importance of building relationships, quality time, and the use of positive language as reinforcement and encouragement to change behavior.

Session 2: Keeping it Positive
Learn how to use playful interactions to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship, understand the meaning of challenging behavior, and how to use positively stated directions.

Session 3: ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
This session offers an introduction to the neuroscience of early childhood development and how and adult’s Adverse Childhood Experiences impact both our parenting and our children. We will also explore what we can do to build resiliency.

Session 4: Behavior had Meaning
Learn how to determine the meaning of behavior, make expectations clear, and develop/use household rules.

Session 5: The Power of Routines
Setting up successful routines and transitions. Using evidence and research based prevention strategies.

Session 6: Teach Me What to Do
Learn how to increase your child’s social-emotional vocabulary and help them to appropriately express their feelings, manage anger, problem-solve, and handle disappointment.

Session 7: Responding with Purpose
Understanding how to respond to challenging behaviors to ensure the integrity of the relationship is maintained.

Session 8: Putting it all Together with a Plan Developing a behavior plan to use during daily routines. Learn how to use your Family Routine Guide.

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At times all parents feel lost or without a clue about what our child might need from us. Imagine what it might feel like if you were able to make sense of what your child was really asking from you. The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.

Using the COSP™ model developed by the Circle of Security originators, our trained Facilitators work with parents and care-givers to help them to:

  • Understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs

  • Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions

  • Enhance the development of their child's self esteem

  • Honor the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure

Your COSP Facilitators for this workshop are Nicole Donatto, DI, Pyramid Facilitator and Dayna Webb MA LPC. This dynamic team have combined experience in early childhood of more than 26 years.

Here are some founding principles that underlie the Circle of Security models of intervention

1 Attachment problems in infancy and early childhood increase the probability of psychopathology later on in life.

2 Secure attachment relationships with caregivers are a protective factor for infants and preschoolers, setting the foundation for social competence and promoting effective functioning of the emotion regulation and stress response systems.

3 The quality of the attachment relationship is amenable to change.

4 Learning, including therapeutic change, occurs from within a secure base relationship.

5 Lasting change in the attachment relationship comes from caregivers’ developing specific relationship capacities rather than learning techniques to manage behavior.

6 All caregivers want what is best for their children.

Positive Solutions for Community Partners/Groups

Want a group class? We offer Positive Solutions for groups, either online or in person.

Online: $2,000

In Person: $5,500
Up to 40 participants

Trauma Informed/Resilience Building

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