Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Support
The Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Support Network (PAPBS Network), through training and technical assistance, supports schools and their family and community partners to create and sustain comprehensive, school-based behavioral health support systems in order to promote the academic, social and emotional well-being of all Pennsylvania’s students.
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports is an evidence-based, cost-effective, systems approach for establishing the social culture needed for schools to be effective learning environments for all students. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports eliminates barriers to learning, creates and maintains a safe and effective learning environment in schools, and ensures that all students have the social and emotional skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports helps schools teach students expected behaviors and social skills, creates student behavioral health and academic support systems, and applies data-based decision-making to discipline, academics, and social/emotional learning. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports uses the three-tiered approach of universal interventions (for all students and settings), secondary interventions (for students who are at-risk), and tertiary interventions (for individual students needing specialized assistance).
Devereux Center for Effective Schools Dr. Angela Kirby Ed.D. | Director
Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) Kelley Lamanno Chief Operating Officer Early Intervention Specialists, Inc. SPEC, Inc. Dr. Amanda Lannie PhD, BCBA-D Associate Clinical Professor: Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis Drexel University Dr. Becky Millspaugh MTSS Project Consultant Montgomery County Intermediate Unit Dr. Toni Miguel Ph.D. | Consultant (she, her, hers)
Early Intervention Technical Assistance | Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network Kelly Perales Co-Executive Director
Midwest PBIS Network Dr. Kathryn Poggi Regional Lead Learning Environment and Engagement Initiative Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) Brynne Rice Regional Lead Learning Environment and Engagement Initiative Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) Timothy Runge PhD, NCSP, BCBA | Educational Consultant for Integrated MTSS; Research and Program Evaluation Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) Dr. Chanda Telleen Ed.D., NCSP | Associate Program Director of Training & Consultation Early Childhood and Special Education Services Department Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 Dr. Lisa Thomas Ph.D., NCSP, LP, BCBA Director of School Consultation for Philadelphia and Surrounding Areas May Institute Dr. Elizabeth Serpentine Ph.D., CCC-SLP | Educational Consultant Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) Melissa Stueck ECE Special Projects Director PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION Kelly Swartwood State Lead Learning Environment and Engagement Initiative Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN)
For More Information, Please Contact:
kpoggi@pattan.net PaTTAN - West
kswartwood@pattan.net PaTTAN - Central
brice@pattan.net PaTTAN - EAST
PBIS Resources
Information on PBIS in Pennsylvania such as yearly evaluations, newsletters, and community resources that assist schools in the implementation of PBIS
Go to ResourcesNetwork Facilitators
If you are a Network Facilitator and cannot access the password protected sections please complete this form to request access to Network Facilitators sections.
Request Access
Provisional Facilitator
Are you interested in working with Pennsylvania school teams to successfully implement PBIS? The PAPBS Network is currently accepting applications for motivated professionals to become trained as local PBIS Facilitators!