WHAT'S NEW

✓ There's a new page in the SHARE section of the website providing you with the highlights -- through streaming video -- from the First Annual Lives in the Balance Conference on Collaborative Problem Solving.  CLICK HERE to check it out!

✓  There's also a new page in the COLLABORATE section of the website -- Good and Bad News -- to keep you up to date on how behaviorally challenging kids are being treated in different places.  Yes, it's usually the bad news that makes the headlines...and yes, there's more work to be done.

✓ Are your school's discipline practices in line with what we now know about why kids have behavioral challenges? Take the new School Discipline Survey (in the CONNECT section) and find out! 

✓ The weekly radio programs are in full swing! Collaborative Problem Solving at School airs live at 3:30 pm on Mondays and Parenting Challenging Kids airs live at 11:00 am on Tuesdays (Eastern time). You can listen to recent and past programs in the Listening Library. If you're an educator, you'll especially want to check out the Anytown High School programs on Collaborative Problem Solving at School, where you can listen in as the staff at an urban high school learn about and implement the CPS model. And your school can learn right along with them! To listen to any of these programs, go to the Radio Programs/Listening Library section of this website.

✓ Collaborative Problem Solving was the topic of a recent blog by school psychologist Dr. Rebecca Branstetter.  Read it here.

✓ Dr. Greene was a recent guest (along with Dr. Michael Thompson) on Minnesota Public Radio to discuss school discipline.  CLICK HERE to listen to the program.  To hear (and read) additional interviews, CLICK HERE.

✓ The Lives in the Balance Bill of Rights for Challenging Kids was recently featured on KidsLink, the website of the Child and Family Professional journal (CLICK HERE). 

✓ There are always touching new stories being added in the Tell Your Story section.

✓ The Assessment of Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems has been revised to reflect the flow of information that takes place during discussions in which lagging skills and unsolved problems are being identified.  You can find the new (2011) ALSUP in The Paperwork section. 

✓ Lives in the Balance has begun recognizing people who have who've been valiantly, and sometimes in the face of the some pretty intense resistance, implementing the CPS model in their homes, schools, and therapeutic facilities. But we need your help! Check out the Trailblazers section of the website and nominate someone you know.

✓ Lives in the Balance sponsors workshops on the Collaborative Problem Solving approach for parents and educators...they can be found on the Workshops/Training page.  Additional workshops, webinars, advanced trainings, and certification trainings can be found on a different website (CLICK HERE).