PEP - Positive Educational Partnership
The Positive Educational Partnership offers care, support, wraparound and service coordination to
schools, in partnership with families of children from birth to eleven years old, who have emotional,
behavioral, and/or mental health challenges, and attend a PBIS/PEP school or early childhood setting
that is implementing PBIS.
All students in schools benefit from PBIS at the school-wide level (universal system).
However, while this is sufficient for about 80% of students, others need more specialized attention.
PEP will serve students who present the most challenging behavior (Intensive Individual Interventions,
Tier Three) with regular services involving outside agencies. Schools implementing school-wide PBIS have
developed systems to support all students’ social and emotional behavior. PBIS allows students who continue to
have behavioral problems to be easily identified, and provides intervention services. Students who are at risk for
developing more serious behavior problems are often those who perform poorly academically, have limited family or
community support, suffer the ill effects of poverty, and/or have disabilities. For these students, the universal
and secondary strategies are insufficient.
Students in Tier Three need supports that schools alone cannot offer. Interagency collaboration with
community mental health agencies is essential for the individualized services that children with significant
mental health needs require. PEP provides that integration and shared infrastructure (schools, RICASSP,
early childhood) for collaboration, coordinating, intervention, and integrating services and wraparound.
CLICK HERE for a list of current schools linked to the PEP Initiative.
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