IRELAND, THIS PAGE IS FOR YOU!

Here in Ireland, there are few things we like better than a nice chat. We are naturally curious, and love to find out more. This page is a bit like a chat! It gives you a chance to find out more about Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) in Ireland, to hear from Irish people who use CPS in their homes, their schools, and their services, and to keep in touch with us about current and upcoming developments.

The evidence-based CPS model has 30 years of practice and research behind it, but it’s only been in Ireland for a few years. It has landed here at a good moment! Ireland has emerged from its history of harsh treatment of people with differences, and is embracing a more effective, compassionate, and rights-based approach to helping people. Not only does CPS align with new laws, policies, and rights-based standards, it also gives us the tools to work in a way that is actively collaborative, respects the concerns of all parties, and leads to solutions that are mutual and realistic.

The fact that you’ve found your way to this page tell us you may be curious about how the CPS model is different from other ways of helping people, what opportunities it offers to children, adults, families, and staff who have not benefited from conventional approaches, how it might fit in with the other work you are doing, and how you might get started. We’re created a graphic to provide you with a bit of a pathway to guide you through the different ways to become familiar with a get trained in the model. Just as each season has a different pace and different activities, each stage of implementing CPS leads seamlessly into the next. To download the CPS Pathway for Services in Ireland, click here.

– If you have 5-6 people on your team ready to dig in and get started, click here to find out about our 6-session Early Adopters training, with small group instruction and as much practice and feedback as we can squeeze into six weeks, click here.
– As you’ll read on the pathways document, the 24-week Certification Training offers the highest level training for those interested in becoming proficient in the CPS model. If you’d like to apply for the CPS certification training (you’ll be grouped with other participants from Ireland) click here.
– If you’d like to watch videos of the problem-solving process (Plan B) and how to use the assessment tool of the model (the Assessment of Skills and Unsolved Problems), click here. We’ll have new videos of Plan B with kids and adults in Ireland and of Irish ASUP meetings on this page soon!
– If you need consultation on a specific student or are struggling with any facet of implementation, click here.
– You can find all the paperwork of the CPS model — the ASUP, the Plan B Cheat Sheet, the Drilling Strategies Cheat Sheet, etc. — here.
– If you want to find out about our artificial intelligence programme to practice writing unsolved problems and solving problems collaboratively, click here.
– If you would like the names of Certified CPS Providers in Ireland, click here.
– And if you’d like to review the accumulated research supporting the evidence base of the CPS model, click here.

Coming soon to this page! By the end of November, you’ll be able to watch a one-day training video to provide you with much more information about the details of the CPS model and its application to children and adults! And you’ll be able to watch any variety of additional videos showing you what the model looks like in the Irish context.

And if you’d like to talk to a real human being right now, contact us! We look forward to hearing from you!