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The EBD Task Force was established by the Kentucky Department of Education in 1987 to guide Kentucky's educational systems change efforts for students with or at risk of developing emotional and behavioral disabilities. The multidisciplinary, multi-agency EBD Task Force worked for five years to create a practical, objective definition of the student population and procedural guidelines to assist school districts in the screening and identification of students for services under the EBD label.

Kentucky Center for Instructional Discipline (KyCID)

The mission of the Kentucky Center for Instructional Discipline is to train and support schools in the implementation of positive, proactive, and instructional strategies so students become self-disciplined, responsible, and productive members of the Commonwealth.

Project REACH

Project REACH is a National Center, funded by the Office of Special Education Programs for 5 years, to work with students with intensive social, emotional, and behavioral needs. The project is a collaborative effort between Lehigh University and the University of California, Riverside. Researched-based behavioral interventions for parents and teachers are described in detail on this Web site.

Social Skill Resources

Social Skill Resources have been located and organized in this section. Links to Sopris West, Thinking Publications, Boys Town, and Research Press Web sites are provided to make it easy for you to locate the social skills program of your choice.

Anger Resources

Resources that address student anger management have been organized in this section of the Behavior Home Page.

Bullying Resources

Resources that address bullying have been organized in this section of the Behavior Home Page.

Functional Behavioral Assessment Resources

This area of the Behavior Home Page provides functional behavioral assessment resources.

The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ)

EDJJ: The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice is a collaborative research, training, technical assistance and dissemination program designed to develop more effective responses to the needs of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system or those at-risk for involvement with the Juvenile Justice System.

Illinois State Board of Education Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities/Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Network Statewide Component (ISBE EBD/PBIS)

The Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities Partnership (EBD Partnership) was formed in 1990 by the Illinois State Board of Education to assist educational systems in developing collaborative, community-based supports for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities.

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice: Mental Health

The Mental Health issue area on the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice's web site provides links to many mental health related resources.

Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health Report

This report introduces a blueprint for addressing children's mental health needs in the United States. It reflects the culmination of a number of significant activities over the past year. A new public-private effort to improve the appropriate diagnosis and treatment of children with emotional and behavioral conditions was launched with a White House meeting convened in March 2000.

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice: Wraparound Mini-Web

CECP's Wraparound Planning Mini-Web provides many resources related to Wraparound Planning. This mini-web was developed with the assistance of John VanDenBerg, one of the CECP's Expert Practitioners.

Behavioral Disorders: Focus on Change

ERIC Digest #518. This digest focus on identifying new behaviors, providing opportunities to practice new behaviors, treating social skill deficits and errors in learning, teaching students to take responsibility of there own behavior, and teaching functional skills that will have broad applications.

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