Community Partnerships
Local Knowledge Shapes Useful Change
Community partnerships help CBSI understand what is changing on the ground, bring together people with different roles and perspectives, and develop supports that are practical in the settings where they will be used.
Community Role
Connect needs, voices, and workable responses
CBSI can convene listening and planning sessions, clarify shared and differing needs, facilitate collaboration, develop or adapt training and tools, support implementation, and evaluate what is helping. Community partnerships may remain local, connect several organizations, or inform a broader state or national initiative when partners and evidence support expansion.
Areas in Development
CBSI engages in community partnerships that respond to shared workforce, training, and service needs. These efforts may combine cohort learning, train-the-trainer approaches, mentoring, facilitation, and implementation support so participating organizations can develop local knowledge and sustain the work over time. Stay connected to learn more about upcoming community partnerships such as the following:
Behavior-Consultant Pathways
Developing training pathways that strengthen the knowledge, skills, and practice standards of behavior consultants and clinicians working in community-based settings.
Secondary Trauma and Workforce Well-Being
Developing practical approaches to help professionals and teams recognize, address, and prevent the effects of secondary trauma while strengthening workforce recruitment, retention, well-being and sustainability.
Connection to HANDS
Built through community partnership
HANDS in Autism® has a long history of working with local leaders, advisors, families, professionals, and community partners to build knowledge and capacity. CBSI carries this approach forward through collaborations that connect needs and expertise across professions, organizations, and systems.
Growing With Community Priorities
CBSI's community partnerships will continue to develop in response to needs identified by communities and collaborating organizations. New work may address behavioral health, education, employment, safety, workforce, family, or organizational priorities.
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