The Behavior Specialist Program provides direct service to Douglas County students in grades K-12 with significant emotional and behavioral disabilities. The overall goal of the behavior specialist program is to reduce risk factors in students that lead to personal dysfunction including impaired interpersonal relationships, suicide, behavior problems, failure in school, school drop-out and early onset of drug use and abuse. The program is both proactive and reactive with components for prevention and intervention.

The program provides individual and group counseling, family intervention, parent education, teacher consultation, inservice training for teachers and school staff, and inter agency referral and coordination. These services are provided by six itinerant behavior specialists who travel to all 13 school districts on a regular basis. For more information, call 440-4761.