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A How-to: Prompting 101

Prompting Understanding and applying prompts is an important component of a Safety-Care trainer’s skillset. A prompt is a supplemental stimulus…

Fantasy Sports: The Great Socially Distanced Social Activity

What? Why? If you’re not familiar with fantasy sports (if you skip ahead to the next section) the basic concept…

Traveling with Safety as a Priority

According to TSA, on March 28th, 2021, 1,574,228 traveled within The United States of America. This is the busiest travel…

Creating and Maintaining Healthy Behavior Patterns

I don’t know about you, but every morning when I wake up, the first thing I do is grab my…

Setting Up the Learning Environment: Tools and Strategies for Successful Instruction

In our Safety Care curriculum, we focus heavily on the importance of our physical environment(s) and how modifications and intentional…

How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep During the Pandemic

Why we may not be getting the sleep we need: COVID-19 has erupted into our world and brought with it…

Reinforcement MythBusters

The concept of rewarding a person for desired behavior is not uncommon, as there is a large body of research…

Group Contingencies: A simple method for decreasing the use of cell phones in a High school classroom

Cell phone usage can negatively impact academic performance. In July of 2018, the French government passed a law banning cell…

Organizational Resilience: Understanding burnout

Burnout-related turnover is a complex, systemic problem that is highly disruptive to organizational functioning. Preventing and managing burnout may contribute…

A Glimpse into the Work of a Master Trainer at QBS

As a Master Trainer working for QBS people often ask me about what my work week looks like.  I completely…

Self-Care for Providers

Why Do We Need Self-Care? Whether we work as a Behavior Analyst, Counselor, Nurse, Correctional Officer, or the many other…

Self-Monitoring: A How-To for Behavior Change

Self-monitoring, also sometimes referred to as self-observing or self-recording, is an effective tool for behavior change.  In simple terms, it’s…