Behavioral Institute for

Children and Adolescents

Collaborating Partners

These companies and organizations offer products and/or services that support the Institute's vision of improving learning and social outcomes for challenging children and youth.

The Appreciation Station

(www.TheAppreciationStation.com)

There are countless opportunities to notice and appreciate the positive efforts and actions of your children. When their best is being appreciated children can begin to feel increasingly better about themselves and their ability to cope with life's challenges. They can learn to make good decisions, reason clearly about choices, manage time wisely, and problem solve. Through the use of this Model of Appreciation you can help your children become people who will one day do as they should and behave as they ought, even when you're not there.

Bolder Options

(www.bolderoptions.org)

In the early 1990s, two runners in Bolder, CO, came up with a fresh idea to help youth avoid the juvenile justice system: a unique program coupling one-on-one mentoring with goal-setting and athletic activities.  Bolder Options Minneapolis was born when the Minneapolis Jaycees Charitable Foundation adopted the model for Hennepin County. In 1995, former MN Gopher and NFL great Darrell Thompson took the helm as executive director and Bolder Options graduated its first six youth. Since becoming an independent non-profit in 19998, Bolder Options has improved the lives of more than 500 youth. Using our unique model, we've succeeded in raising school attendance, enriching academic performance and offering at-risk kids what they need, when they need it: training for life.

Developmental Therapy Institute

(http://www.uga.edu/dttp/index.html)

This nonprofit Institute was incorporated in 1978 by the State of Georgia for training and research in Developmental Therapy-Developmental Teaching (DT-DT) for troubled children and youth. The Institute teams with professionals and paraprofessionals in State education agencies, schools (K-12), technical colleges, higher education, and families to improve programs in prevention, early childhood, general and special education, psychoeducation, and mental health. Of special concern are those who are severely emotionally disturbed (SEBD), those with autism, and young children at-risk - as well as for students with other special education needs who also have difficult-to-manage behavior.

National Association for the Humor Impaired

(www.drhumor.com)

Dr. Stuart Robertshaw, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and an attorney, currently serves as the President and CEO of the National Association for the Humor Impaired.

Dr. Robertshaw, a national speaker and humorist, is known throughout the nation as “Dr. Humor”^®. His review of research led him to conclude that, “15 percent of people in America are humor impaired and another 15 percent are ‘at risk,’ and it’s no laughing matter.” As a result of his review, he founded the Association in 1990.

Dr. Robertshaw has presented to over 700 business, government, healthcare, and education organizations in 37 states.

Free membership in the National Association for the Humor Impaired is open to all interested persons who send a description of the funniest true story that happened to them or someone they know. The story has to be a real event and not fiction or a joke.

Partners for Violence Prevention

(http://partnersforviolenceprevention.org/)

Partners for Violence Prevention (PVP) was created in 1996 with funding from two local foundations. Convinced that the health care system could impact the causes and effects of violence, these foundations responded to the need identified by PVP’s founding partners: To reduce the incidence and impact of violence, as well as the injuries and health problems resulting from violence. Funding was awarded also on the basis of the unique, collaborative nature of PVP’s strategy. We are proud to work with more than 70 health care and social service agencies, businesses, churches, schools, city, county and neighborhood organizations.

Starry Night Collective

(www.starrynightcollective.org)

Because children with E/BD often learn best through methods that traditional education models do not recognize, these children are often taken out of mainstream classes and put into settings and programs that do not offer the arts and music as learning modalities. Thus these students are deprived of what may be their best chance for learning—an arts-infused education—and learning how to be responsible, aware, happy and self-reliant members of society. We work to correct this problem as a 501c(3) nonprofit corporation driven by passionate volunteers and generous supporters.

Taproot Inc.

(www.taprootinc.com)

Taproot Inc. is a family-operated business, founded by two sisters. It  provides education on essential social/behavioral issues-through the use of art, entertainment and digital technology. We make community-based movies and show others how they can too. All project templates and program models are well researched, deconstructed, and can be economically replicated by other communities. Over the past seven years, we have developed a process that accelerates learning, based upon the latest research in neuroscience: The Power of Paying Attention.  We have used this process to create pro-active educational film and stage productions that are completely deconstructed into a "How To" format, so your own community can replicate them. 

Minnesota Youth Intervention Programs Association (MNYIPA)

(www.mnyipa.org)

The Minnesota Youth Intervention Programs Association (YIPA) has been serving the needs of youth service providers since 1978. YIPA's mission is to provide: training and professional development opportunities for youth service professionals; program development opportunities and educational products for youth serving agencies; collaboration, networking and advocacy for early intervention youth service organizations in Minnesota; and a voice for the youth of Minnesota.