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What are the conference strands for APBS 2025 Annual Conference?

• Early Childhood: The Early Childhood strand includes presentations about systems change efforts, research, evidence-based practices, and case study presentations related to young children (birth through age 5) and positive behavior support implementation.
• Integration and Alignment: Presentations in this strand provide frameworks for integrating and aligning systems of support (e.g., academic and behavior MTSS supports, positive behavior supports and mental health systems, juvenile justice) to enhance student success and interagency collaboration and cooperation.
• Individual Students and Tier 3: This strand emphasizes the use of positive behavior support principles and technology to support individual students within a school setting. The focus is on one or more specific students, rather than the school system.
• Classroom: Presentations in this strand focus on how the principles and technology of positive behavior support are implemented within classroom settings for students with or without disabilities.
• Tier 2: Presentations in this strand focus on delivering interventions to individuals who require targeted supports in addition to universal supports and are at risk for developing more serious challenging behavior.
• School-Wide Systems (Tier 1): Presentations in this strand highlight current work in school-wide positive behavior support. Emphasis is placed on efforts to “scale-up,” implement and sustain positive behavior support principles and technology across multiple schools in districts and states.
• Equity: Presentations in this strand focus on applying positive behavior support principles and technology to support a fair and inclusive educational system that results in higher student achievement, increased quality of instruction, improvement of low-performing schools, and/or better outcomes for students from diverse circumstances.
• Home and Community: Presentations within the home and community strand focus on how the principles and technology of positive behavior support are implemented across the lifespan in a variety of settings such as home, community centers, adult employment, residential settings, eldercare facilities, etc.
• IDD: Presentations in this strand will highlight the application of positive behavior support principles and technology to support children and/or adults with IDD in settings outside of school (e.g., home, community). An intellectual disability is characterized by limitations in intellectual functioning and difficulties in a variety of everyday social and practical skills. A developmental disability is attributed to a cognitive or physical impairment that results in limitations in areas such as self-care, language, and mobility. The term IDD covers a broad range of disorders and syndromes.
• Families and Parent Supports: Presentations in this strand highlight working in partnership with parents and other family members when implementing positive behavior support in school, home, and community settings. Presentations may be focused on how professionals can understand, support, and include the family perspective when serving families, or, be aimed at helping parents and family members learn to understand and implement positive behavior support with their family members and in their community.
• Mental Health: The presentations in this strand focus on physiological or neurological issues, health, quality of life, and well-being. They also include presentations that describe how positive behavior support principles and technology are implemented within mental health settings.