4-Hour DESSA Comprehensive System Webinar

The Devereux Center for Resilient Children brings you Paul LeBuffe, National Trainer and Author of the DECA, DECA-C, DECA for Infants and Toddlers, and now the Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA) and DESSA-mini. Paul brings a wealth of knowledge along with an engaging presentation style to his webinar training events.

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Training Description

4-Hour Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA) Webinar

An expanding body of research indicates that social-emotional competencies contribute to school success and resilience. As a result, many states are including these competencies in their educational standards. This, in turn, necessitates that schools are able to easily and efficiently screen, assess, monitor progress, and evaluate outcomes in the social-emotional domain.

This webinar will train participants to utilize the recently published DESSA Comprehensive System to meet these emerging standards as well as support the healthy social and emotional development of their students. The system includes the DESSA-mini a universal screening and progress monitoring tool, and the DESSA, an assessment of eight key social and emotional competencies. The use of the system in screening, assessing, promoting and evaluating social-emotional competencies will be the focus of this webinar. In addition, the use of the DESSA Comprehensive System in promoting parent-professional collaboration will be highlighted.

Learning Objectives for this webinar include:

Use the DESSA and DESSA-mini to screen and assess the social-emotional competencies in children grades K-8.
Explain how to evaluate and monitor progress in the acquisition of social-emotional competenices at the individual child and aggregate (e.g. classroom, school) level.
Discuss how the DESSA and DESSA-mini can be used to promote parent and teacher collaboration

Information covered in session 1 on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
1:00 pm-1:10 pm: Welcome, orientation to Go-to-Meeting
1:10 pm-1:20 pm: The importance of social-emotional competencies in school and life success
1:20 pm-1:40 pm: Theoretical background and development of the DESSA Comprehensive System
1:40 pm-2:20 pm: Screening for social-emotional competence with the DESSA-mini
2:20 pm -2:50 pm: Administration and Scoring of the DESSA
2:50 pm-3:00 pm: Q & A, wrap-up of day one, reminder of second session

Information covered in session 2 on Wednesday, February 15, 2012
1:00 pm-1:10 pm: Welcome, summary of Day 1
1:10 pm-2:00 pm: Interpretation of DESSA results and use in planning to promote social-emotional competencies
2:00 pm-2:20 pm: Ongoing progress monitoring
2:20 pm-2:45pm: Advanced interpretation including parent-professional collaboration and evaluating outcomes
2:45 pm-3:00 pm: Q & A, evaluation, wrap-up

Continuing Education:

The Institute for Clinical Training and Research (ICTR) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists and maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The Institute for Clinical Training and Research (ICTR) is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors (Provider #5110) to offer continuing education for the National Certified Counselors. We adhere to NBCC continuing education guidelines.
The Institute for Clinical Training and Research (ICTR) is not offering Social Work Credits at this time. However, participants are encouraged to talk with their state board to determine if this event meets requirements for continuing education credit for social workers.

Participants attending the entire program and completing a program evaluation will receive 4 continuing education credits. For participants from other disciplines, it is the participant’s responsibility to contact their licensing/certification boards to determine eligibility to meet continuing education requirements.

Webinar Logistics:

Once registered, the participant will receive a confirmation e-mail 3 days prior to the event that provides information for accessing the computer and audio portions of the webinar.
Handouts for the webinar will be e-mailed to each participant prior to the webinar.

- PC-based attendees are required to have: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

- Macintosh®-based attendees are required to have: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer