April 2022 Webinar: Proactive Safety Measures in Public School Environments with Clelia Sigaud and Patrick Jecmen

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Webinar Focus:

Considerations related to pre-teaching and reinforcing safe behaviors, use of PBIS concepts at tier 1, use of BST to help school staff acquire key skills, physical environmental management to limit restraint and seclusion, ethical considerations related to creating proactive environments in the often VERY resource-scarce school setting.

About the Presenters:

Patrick Jecmen, BCBA

Patrick Jecmen is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst from Sandwich, Illinois. Patrick graduated from Illinois State University in 2012 with a degree in Special Education and began teaching in a therapeutic day school. In 2016, Patrick took a job in a public middle school to establish a program for students with emotional disabilities. Patrick left the classroom in 2019 to become a K-12 special education coach, while pursuing his master’s degree at the University of Southern Maine. In July of 2021, Patrick graduated with a master’s degree in Educational Psychology with a Concentration in Applied Behavior Analysis. Patrick now serves as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst for an Early Childhood to 5th grade district in the suburbs of Chicago and contributes to LearningBehaviorAnalysis.com. He spends his days focusing on delivering dignified services to students, coaching school staff on the implementation of behavior analytic interventions, training staff in de-escalation skills, and creating content for

Dr. Clelia Sigaud, Psy.D, BCBA-D.

Dr. Sigaud is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Certified School Psychologist practicing in northern New England. Her background is in special education, with a focus on individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities who engage in severe problem behavior. She has a Master’s degree in Special Education, a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology, and a PsyD in School Psychology. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Neurobehavioral Unit at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Maryland and at the Southeastern Regional Education Service Center (SERESC) in New Hampshire. Dr. Sigaud currently serves as faculty in the Educational Psychology department at the University of Southern Maine, the Special Education department at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, and works as a school psychologist and behavior analyst in schools in Maine and New Hampshire. In her free time, she founded and co-manages a behavior analysis dissemination website at LearningBehaviorAnalysis.com