Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

Facility-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a proactive approach to establishing the evidence-based behavioral interventions and social culture needed for success for youth in secure facilities. PBIS, a systematic framework, utilizes a data-driven decision-making framework to improve facility climate and culture, including a range of systemic and individualized strategies to reinforce desired behaviors and diminish the reoccurrence of problem behaviors to achieve improved academic, emotional, and social outcomes, including those with the most complex and intensive behavioral needs. OBHS staff members work closely with facility staff and expert PBIS consultants to support PBIS programming in all DJJ secure facilities.

Implementing PBIS creates facility-wide environments where positive behavior is actively enforced while helping youth correct problem behaviors. In addition, PBIS provides a framework for more intensive or targeted interventions for youth who do not respond to primary intervention strategies.

The framework of PBIS empowers the DJJ Managing Teams within our facilities to identify the needs of all youth, match the level of support to the severity of the condition, and then assess the youths' responses to the intervention.

PBIS Program Plan

Mission statement
Purpose
Expectations and acronyms (Mascot)
Behavioral matrix
Lesson plans/resource guides
Youth Reinforcement System
Staff Reinforcement System
Supporting materials (data collection checklists, youth handbook, brochure, etc.)

CONTACT THE DJJ PBIS TEAM

To learn more about PBIS at the Department of Juvenile Justice,

Contact:

Jennifer Cannington - Statewide PBIS Administrator

478-231-1214

3408 Covington Highway

Decatur, Georgia 30032