Dublin City Schools Parent Mentors & SEAC
PRESENT
Finding Success: Setting Up Home Programs
Thursday, March 7, 2019
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Dublin Community Rec Center
5600 Post Road
Dublin, OH 43017
Are you struggling with some of the behaviors that your child is engaging in at home? Feeling
frustrated or overwhelmed? The Parent Mentors for Dublin City Schools and the Special Education
Advancement Council (SEAC) will host a presentation focused on setting up programs within your
home that can help your family use a positive and supportive approach to successfully change
behavior. Melinda Thurman, (MS, BCBA, COBA), a Behavior Support Specialist with Nisonger
Center will help the attendees understand the following:
• What is home programming centered on behavior support?
o Why is it important?
o How does it help?
o When should you seek outside assistance for problem behaviors?
• What are the foundational concepts needed for behavioral support programs to work?
• What are the functions of behaviors? How can families identify problem behaviors?
• What are some universal techniques that I can use at home to teach appropriate behaviors and prevent inappropriate ones in order to move forward towards behavioral change?
This training is designed to help parents understand home programming and how it can work
together with other supports and services to provide a well-rounded approach to the needs of their
child. The approaches used in this presentation can be used for a child of any age. There will be
time at the end of the presentation for parents to ask questions.
This free event is open to any parent in Central Ohio. Please feel free to share.