PBS Trainings

The PBS program provides free trainings to build the skills and capacity necessary to better serve individuals with challenging behaviors and to improve their quality of life. The PBS program is excited to announce the launching of several free self-paced web courses. In addition to the webinars and self-paced courses, PBS offers multiple in person training opportunities throughout the year. Connections Matter is the newest addition to the PBS training curriculum as well as added opportunities for In-Person Facilitator Training in the increasingly popular behavior tool, Anger Management for Youth. The PBS program also offers private agency trainings based on need and the availability of the PBS staff. If you are interested in attending a training or have any questions, please contact pbs@hsc.wvu.edu or 855-558-4692.

Live Webinars

A three-part series OR 1 day in-person overview of ACEs and the impact it has on children and adults.

4.5 Social Work CEUs Approved

Objectives
- Become familiar with the 10 types of ACES and the basic brain science behind it
- Introduce ways to overcome ACES
- Introduce steps individuals, families, schools, and providers can do to prevent ACES
- Learn ways to teach resiliency
- Understand variables related to resilience; protective factors; and safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments
- Learn to identify some of the root causes of ACES
- Identify best practices for preventing ACES
- Identify what you and your organization can do to prevent ACES
2025 Schedule
- February 11-13, 2025 10:00am-11:30am
- June 10-12, 2025 1:00pm -2:30pm
- September 23-25, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am
A free, interactive training for youth to learn strategies to identify and cope with their anger in healthier ways and be the bigger person. No CEUs are available for this training as it is geared toward youth. A certificate of completion will be available.

Objectives
- Identify what it feels like to be angry
- Discuss stress reduction tactics
- Practice relaxation strategies such as progressive muscle relaxation
2025 Schedule

Please contact us at pbs@hsc.wvu.edu for registration information.
- January 28, 2025 (elementary)
- February 25, 2025 (secondary)
- March 25, 2025 (elementary)
- April 29, 2025 (secondary)
- May 20, 2025 (elementary)
- June 24, 2025 (secondary)
- July 29, 2025 (elementary)
- August 26, 2025 (secondary)
- September 30, 2025 (elementary)
- October 28, 2025 (secondary)
- November 25, 2025 (elementary)
- December 16, 2025 (secondary)
A discussion on how to interact with someone when they are angry to help de-escalate them.

2 Social Work CEUs Approved

Objectives
- Differentiate between compassion fatigue and being burned-out.
- Discuss how stress and anger impacts us and the negative consequences.
- Examine the S.T.E.P program.
- Recognize a power struggle and ways to avoid it.
- Understand the risks of restraints
- List positive reactive strategies
- Identify ways to effectively de-escalate a situation
2025 Schedule
- January 8, 2025 10:00am-12:00pm
- February 4, 2025 1:00pm-3:00pm
- April 3, 2025 10:00am-12:00pm
- July 9, 2025 10:00am-12:00pm
- August 5, 2025 1:00pm -3:00pm
- September 4, 2025 10:00am – 12:00pm
- October 16, 2025 1:00pm-3:00pm
- November 18, 2025 10:00am-12:00pm
Increasing Social Awareness provides an overview of social learning theories and insight on the five areas of social awareness. Participants will learn how to identify social deficits and ways to help improve them. This training is intended for behavior support providers, therapists, counselors, educators, social workers. Though, we encourage parents, caregivers, foster parents, and kinship caregivers to join us as well!

1.5 Social Work CEUs Approved

Objectives
- Understand why social skills are critical to overall development and quality of life.
- Recognize social deficits and ways to improve them.
- Understand the five areas of social awareness.
- Help parents and caregivers use social skills training at home.
2025 Schedule
- January 16, 2025 10:00am – 11:30am
- June 3, 2025 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- November 12, 2025 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- December 10, 2025 10:00am -11:30am

In-person Trainings

The Facilitator Training in Anger Management for Youth provides the opportunity to acquire the necessary skills to facilitate the PBS Program’s Anger Management for Youth session. During this training, participants will learn to facilitate emotional awareness skills and coping strategies that are specifically created for youth. Upon completion of the training, participants will have access to the materials necessary for providing quality anger management sessions.

4.5 Social Work CEUs Approved

Objectives
- Provide a quality training session
- Know how to facilitate emotional awareness with youth
- Acquire several coping strategies for youth
- Gain access to the training materials and presentation
2025 Schedule
- April 8, 2025 10:00am – 4:00pm, CED – North, Morgantown
- July 16, 2025 10:00am – 4:00pm, CED - North Office, Morgantown
- August 20, 2025 10:00am – 4:00pm, CED - South Office, Charleston - Equities
This free two-day training will prepare participants to facilitate person-centered planning using MAPs (Making Action Plans) and PATHs (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope) to help people create an action plan to help reach their dreams. Participants will have a chance to utilize this tool in class during hands on learning. We will also discuss the differences between system-centered and person-centered approaches and how to best increase adherence to the plan of action.

9 Social Work CEUs Approved

Objectives
- Explain at least three of the values on which person-centered planning is based. Identify the steps involved in each of the person-centered planning tools: Circle of Support, MAP, and PATH.
- Utilize person-centered planning techniques to involve individuals in planning for services and integration into community settings.
- Provide instruction and techniques to empower individuals and their teams in developing goals, identifying needs, and generating action plans
2025 Schedule
- March 12-13 2025 10:00am-4:00pm, CED-North Office, Morgantown
- May 6-7, 2025 10:00am – 4:00pm,CED-South, Charleston – Equities
- October 7-8, 2025 10:00am-4:00pm CED-South, Charleston – Equities
4 Social Work CEUs Pending

Participants will learn how to create trauma informed positive behavior support interventions by practicing an applying these philosophies to their own lives.

Objectives
- Develop proactive strategies to help someone go to individual calming techniques.
- Identify how to create a functionally equivalent replacement behavior.
- Create strategies in the 8 dimensions of wellness.
- Develop individualized positive behavior support interventions based on the person’s interests.
2025 Schedule
- April 9, 2025 10:00am – 3:00pm, CED North Morgantown
- May 8, 2025 10:00am – 3:00pm, CED-South Office, Charleston
- July 23, 2025 10:00am 3:00pm, CED-South Office, Charleston
- October 9, 2025 10:00am – 3:00pm, CED-South Office, Charleston
- November 4, 2025 10:00am 3:00pm, CED-North Office, Morgantown

Self Paced Webinars

A free self-paced web course designed for parents, caregivers, foster parents, educators, day care providers, etc.

Objectives
- Understand positive parenting model.
- Strategies for creating structure in the home.
- De-escalation action steps to help child in crisis.
- Build resiliency.
- PBS for Parents Web Course
- PBS for Parents II Web Course
A free, self-paced, web course that incorporates the 8 dimensions of wellness and finding internal motivators to help others improve their quality of life.

2 Social Work CEUs Approved

Objectives
- Define the quantitative versus qualitative measures to assess quality of life
- Examine different aspects that contribute to someone’s overall quality of life
- Give examples of quality of life interventions
Increasing Quality of Life Web Course
Participants will learn about how to create interventions by writing a trauma informed PBS plan for themselves.

2 Social Work CEUs Approved

Objectives
- Recognize the impact of trauma on emotional and behavioral functioning and survival mechanisms.
- List ways to implement trauma informed positive behavior support.
- Identify how to create a functionally equivalent replacement behavior.
- List ways to improve quality of life.
- Develop ways to create individualized positive behavior support interventions.
TIPBS Self-Paced Web Course
An overview of trauma and how it affects the brain, our survival reactions and how to build resiliency.

2 Social Work CEUs Approved

Objectives
- Identify sources of potential trauma and complex trauma for individuals served by child serving systems.
- Recognize the impact of trauma on emotional and behavioral functioning
- Describe principles of trauma-informed systems.
- List ways to provide trauma informed care.
Self-Paced Trauma 101 Web Course

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