Training the Whole Team Bundle: Supporting Staff & Caregivers with SBT

Description

Training the Whole Team Bundle: Supporting Staff & Caregivers with SBT

2.5 Supervision CEUs

*This is a bundle of individual courses from the “Beyond the Protocol” workshop, a comprehensive workshop on PFA and SBT.

Description: This bundle covers how to bring everyone around a learner into assent-based care—both the staff who implement it and the caregivers who carry it into everyday life. Whether you’re training staff or coaching caregivers, the foundation is the same: buy-in and training are ongoing, relationship-driven work rather than boxes to check, and resistance is information to get curious about rather than a personal failure.

These modules walk through building values alignment before training procedures, distinguishing skill gaps from a buy-in problems, and adapting how you coach and give feedback to fit the individual in front of you. On the caregiver side, the focus is on cultural humility, fitting implementation into the realities of family life, and deciding how much to train based on capacity and urgency. On the staff side, focus is on scaffolded supervision, coaching efficiently, and building the in-the-moment decision-making that makes an implementer effective when you’re not there.

Together, these modules help you extend high-quality, values-aligned care beyond your own hands to the whole team supporting a learner. This is an ideal bundle for anyone responsible for training others (technicians, school staff, or caregivers) to implement this work with fidelity.

Courses included in this bundle:

• Bringing Joy to Everyday Life: Supporting Caregivers with SBT (1.5 Supervision CEUs)
• Training Staff to Think: Building Capacity & Clinical Decision-Making in SBT (1 Supervision CEU)

What you’ll learn:

• How to build buy-in and sustain it through hard phases, treating resistance and disengagement as information rather than a personal failure
• How to lead with values alignment before procedures, and distinguish a skill-based “can’t do” from a buy-in-based “won’t do”
• How to train staff through behavior skills training and scaffolded supervision, building generalizable, in-the-moment decision-making rather than teaching them to follow a rigid script
• How to coach efficiently by quickly diagnosing training needs and adapting feedback to the individual implementer
• How to apply cultural humility and treat caregivers with the same assent-based care extended to clients
• How to decide whether to train caregivers on the full protocol or core components based on capacity, motivation, and urgency
• How to fit caregiver implementation into family life and use tools like motivational interviewing and reflective practice to help families continue independently

Presenter Bios:
Liisa Podosek, MSW, M.Ed, BCBA, LBA built and delivered mentorship programs that transformed how hundreds of practitioners implement PFA/SBT and assent-based care, guiding clinicians from “I read about this” to “I can do this confidently.” She brings a trauma-informed lens to mentorship, helping practitioners navigate difficult cases and develop authentic caregiver partnerships. She currently leads the development and coordination of educational offerings through PFA & SBT Community.

Dr. Edward Sanabria, Ph.D, BCBA, LBA designed and implemented large-scale PFA/SBT mentorship systems that trained clinicians across the country in assessment and treatment approaches that prioritize client safety, dignity, and assent. His research interests in interdisciplinary collaboration, reflective practice, and the large-scale adoption of behavioral interventions inform his approach to helping practitioners develop humility-driven clinical practices that build strong therapeutic relationships. He currently serves as Senior Director of Functional Analysis and Treatment Implementation at Centria Autism, where he oversees national assent-based care training initiatives and PFA/SBT mentorship.

Beth Nelson, M.Ed leads with joy while bringing Skill-Based Treatment (SBT) to students in Bellingham Public Schools, where she has been coaching and supporting educators with implementation since her introduction to the process in 2019. Through strong relationships and collaborative practices, she initiated and partnered with colleagues to fuel enthusiasm for the safe and ethical outcomes of Skill-Based Treatment, fostering genuine buy-in from families and staff, and strengthening teams to better support students with complex behavioral profiles. Beth also has extensive experience with SBT as a parent, bringing a perspective few providers can offer — one grounded in both professional expertise and the lived reality of family life. Her 14-year-old daughter has been the recipient of SBT services and is now a self-proclaimed “my way expert” who loves to help teach staff how to implement the process.

**Purchase includes 6 months of access to every course in this bundle.

Published October 2026

The PFA & SBT Community is an Authorized Continuing Education Provider for the BACB® and IBAO®. Our BACB® provider ID is OP-23-10256.