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).

Karen Brady	MTSS InterActing Statewide Lead Educational Consultant  Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN)
Lisa Gragg	EITA Project Manager  Early Intervention Technical Assistance/Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network
Beth Huertas	Social Emotional Supports Manager   Public Health Management Corporation
Dr. Rachel Eisenberg	Consulting & Research Psychologist  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)