Behavior Management Strategies
RESOURCES
Parents
- SELPA Behavior Strategies for Parents Handbook
- Improving Your Child's Behavior in Public Settings
- Challenging Behavior in Children
- Factors that Contribute to Challenging Behavior
- About-face for Stormy Preschoolers
- Practical Solutions to Common Behavior Problems
- Kern County SELPA Behavior Support Plan

Teachers
- Tips for Preventing Explosions in Easily Frustrated Children
- The Behavior Home Page
- Behavior Interventions and School Safety
- Behavior Management Advice Site
- Behavior Contract Samples
- Understanding Violent Behavior in Children and Adolescents
- Behavior Management: Getting to the Bottom of Social Skills Deficits
- Behavior Problems at School
- School Discipline/Behavioral Issues & Special Education
Specific Behaviors
- Behavior and Students with AD/HD
- Behavior and Students with Learning Disabilities
- Encouraging Your Child with LD to Follow the Rules
- H.E.A.R.T.S Connection
Meetings are held monthly throughout Kern County for family members and friends. Meetings provide information on organizations and services and opportunities to meet other families to share joys, challenges and information. For more information, please call 661.328.9055. - Henrietta Weill Memorial Child Guidance Clinic
The Henrietta Weill Memorial Child Guidance Clinic provides the services and resources necessary to prevent and treat emotional and behavioral problems for Kern County children and their families. For more information or to make an initial appointment, please call the Child Guidance Clinic at 661.322.1021, Bakersfield or 661.725.1042, Delano. - Kern County Department of Mental Health
The mission of Kern County Mental Health System of Care is to provide the most effective, culturally appropriate, highest quality combination of treatment and support to persons with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and/or addiction. For more information, please call 1.800.991.5272
- Respite
- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)
- Reading and Learning Disabilities
- Autism/PDD
- Down Syndrome
- Conduct Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
- Emotional Disturbance
