FASP Interest Group

Interest groups are responsible for representing the specialized interests of FASP members in their area of focus.

Deloris Bright, FASP Interest Groups CHAIR

The Interest Group committee helps to promote awareness of professional activities and best practices pertinent to the special interests of school psychologists. Please visit the Interest Group Forum on our FASP Members page to connect with other FASP members who share similar interests, to contribute your ideas, and to engage in discussion on a variety of special topics of interest.

Listed below are some resources for a few of the special topics of interest that our FASP members have identified. Please share with us others areas of interest that you would like us to include.

BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION

• PBIS in Schools - https://www.pbis.org/school
• Ideas That Work - https://osepideasthatwork.org/evidencebasedclassroomstrategies
• Florida PBIS - http://flpbis.cbcs.usf.edu/foundations/PBIS.html
• NASP Center/A Special Series on Systemic Behavioral Interventions - http://www.naspcenter.org/teachers/sbi.html
• Ideas That Work/Supporting and Responding to Behavior https://www.pbis.org/common/cms/files/pbisresources/Supporting%20and%20Responding%20to%20Behavior.pdf

MENTAL HEALTH IN SCHOOLS

• American Psychological Association (APA) - http://www.apa.org/pi/families/children-mental-health.aspx
• Association for Conflict Resolution—www.acrnet.org
• The Institute on Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University—www.gmu.edu/departments/ICAR
• National Mental Health Association—www.nmha.org
• SAMHSA Child and Adolescent Mental Health Information—https://www.samhsa.gov/children

DIVERSITY

• NASP – https://www.nasponline.org/resources-and-publications/resources/diversity/cultural-competence
• The Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE) - http://manoa.hawaii.edu/coe/crede/
• The National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (NUA) - http://www.nuatc.org/
• Teaching Tolerance - https://www.tolerance.org/
• The Toolkit for Cross-Cultural Collaboration - http://www.awesomelibrary.org/multiculturaltoolkit.html

We look forward to hearing your ideas and engaging in discussion with our members about topics that are important to you.