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The Iowa Behavioral Alliance is a collaborative effort among the following:

  • Drake University
  • Iowa State University
  • Iowa 4-H Youth Development of the University Extension
  • Iowa Federation of families for Children's Mental Health
A Coordinating Council consisting of these partners and other collaborators meet regularly to provide guidance and direction for the entire program.  The Alliance vision is for Iowa's children to be healthy and socially competent and to succeed in school is for Iowa's children to be healthy and socially competent and to succeed in school and to graduate from school prepared for productive adulthood.

There are three components of the Iowa Behavioral Alliance:
  • positive behavior support
  • children's mental health initiative
  • dropout prevention

The work of the Alliance is funded through a five-year grant from the Iowa Department of Education. Work of the Alliance is supported through additional expertise from sources such as the Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports at the University of Oregon.

Advisory Groups

Advisory groups for the three specific areas meet as needed to provide direction. The state PBS Leadership team meets monthly, the Mental Health Advisory meets as needed, the Dropout Prevention Advisory Group also meets as needed.

Funding Sources

Funding for this project is through IDEA 2004 Part B Funds

Supporting Documents

Specialized Services Workgroup Information in a Box Series

 To help schools and others work effectively with students who have emotional, behavioral, social and cognitive problems, the SSG and the University of Iowa’s Child and Adolescent Educational Services Department worked together to create this series of SSG Training Packages.  Each Training Package, or In-service-in-a-box, includes books and pamphlets, a notebook of articles and handouts, and a professionally made videotape about the disorder suitable for sharing with a school in-service or a study group. Training Packages are housed in the Parent Educator Connection Media Libraries in every AEA in order to make them broadly accessible to schools, AEA staff, parents, and support organizations.

icon Inservice-In-A-Box Brochure (2006-10-23)

Directory of Youth Services

icon Going Places Iowa Residential Educators (2006-11-09)

Supporting Links

Wraparound/Tertiary In Iowa
The Iowa Behavioral Alliance, an initiative of the Iowa Department of Education, has been involved in school based training of the wraparound process in five sites across Iowa.  For more information clink on the following link:

http://www.rc4alliance.org

http://www.pbis.org

http://www.swis.org

 

Contact

Suana Wessendorf
515-281-5441
suana.wessendorf@iowa.gov

 

Last Updated ( Friday, 30 November 2007 )