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WORKSHOP #10 3:30 PM THURSDAY • 8:30 AM SATURDAY • CAPTIVA 1-2
A Parent-Implemented Treatment Model for Families of Preschool Children
with Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Challenges
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To identify the key components of the Regional Intervention Program (RIP)
2. To describe methods to understand and encourage pro-social behavior
3. To define evidence-based, behavioral intervention strategies for young children
4. How to implement concrete steps to establish a parent-implemented, positive discipline program with preschool
children in local communities
5. How to become a certified RIP-Expansion satellite site
This Workshop will focus on the Regional Intervention Program (RIP), a nationally-recognized, community-based,
parent-implemented training program for families of young children with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.
Faculty will emphasize evidence-based, positive discipline strategies to enhance parent-child interactions and improve
child interactions with family members, peers, and teachers.
The information to be highlighted includes the clinical foundation of the RIP Model; the 3-tiered Management-By-
Objectives system used at RIP; evidence-based strategies to understand and encourage pro-social behavior in preschool
children; and an objective, data-based outcome measurement system. Practical strategies will be presented to establish
and operate a community-based, parent-implemented, positive discipline training program for families of young children
with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges including funding, physical space and location, personnel (parent and
professional), staffing patterns, instructional materials, scheduling, marketing, referrals, evaluation, and sustainability.
The information and strategies to be presented are based on the work of the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Services (TDMHSAS), the RIP Advisory Committee, the RIP Expansion Project, and the RIP
headquarters located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Establishing clinical and structural foundations of a community-based, parent-driven, early intervention program
• Implementing evidence-based, positive discipline strategies used with young children
• Identifying funding and support resources from state agencies and local communities
• Building relationships with community referral agents
• Obtaining adequate space, location, and physical facility layout
• Ensuring a culturally and linguistically competent staff
• Planning developmentally appropriate activities and materials
• Structuring an objective, data-based, outcome measurement system
The session will include a small group activity and “Parenting That Works,” a brief video overview of the Regional
Intervention Program (RIP). The faculty team for the session will offer the perspectives of a program
coordinator/clinician who is the parent of a child with emotional challenges and a parent staff member who is a
graduate parent of the RIP program.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Kate Kanies, M.A., M.L.S., Program Coordinator, Tennessee Department of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Services, Regional Intervention Program, Nashville, TN
Scott O’Neal, Parent Staff Case Manager, Regional Intervention Program, Tennessee Department of Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Services, Nashville, TN
Training Institutes 2012
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