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THRESHOLD'S CURRENT TRAINING LISTINGS
SEE OUR NEW FORMATS AND FEE SCALES STARTING FALL 2009

Call Sharone Lee at 503-375-9462
Or Email: sharone@understandingautism.org

Day of Month & Time
Each Group Meets
GROUP NAME
Purpose of Each Group

Contact by Phone/Email
or Local Meeting

For parents recently diagnosed, going through milestone challenges, or in crisis with systems of power. Initial contact is by phone or email and LEAP orientation groups are offered online. Whereever you are we can help you get connected to basic best Autism practices and providers closest to you.
L>E>A>P

LEAP is for New-to-Autism Family Members & Novice Autism Service Providers who need to first become more familiar with Autism information and community resources in relation to their individual conditions and situations. This is a free service to our Autism community. We return long distance calls once. You can also sponser a local meeting in the PNW region of the US. After first contact call LEAP phone appointments must set up at then end of each call or by email in advance.

NOW ENROLLING
PNW FALL 2009

This group open again for locations in Oregon and Washington along I-5. Send in enrollment request to get on wait list. CALM may be scheduled and co-sponsored as a weekend intensive with other Autism organizations and private nonprofits and public agencies. Then wait list folks will be notified about that opportunity in their region
C-A-L-M

For New-to-Autism Family Members & Novice Autism Service Providers who need to first become more familiar with Autism information & community resources. Then you can to choose from and begin to use best Autism practices. Weekend intensive fee is $75.00 per enrollee with a minimum of 15 enrollees per group. One meeting per week for a month (four meetings) in our local small group is $100. Workshop is supported by online discussion forum. All CALM graduates may join groups for free for CALM review and as peer mentors.

Second Tuesdays 6-10 PM Salem, Oregon

GRAD GROUP will meet again starting Fall 2009 for past and new CALM trainees and ADAPT grads. It includes phone support & its own online group space. ADAPT group trainings may also form at other CALM workshop locations.
A.D.A.P.T

For graduates of CALM Series who have chosen to go onto our best developmental Autism practices. Subscription Fee is $25-75 per month depending on participant's own plan and needs for site-based program development support. Length of time range from 1-2 years and depends on rate of progress an work effort using model elements. Previous graduates may attend for free as peer mentors.

Individual Consulting Time Provided to Threshold Service Subscribers
By Appointment

Starting January 2010 Dr. Sharone Lee will begin offering individual consuting appointments for service and family professionals who have participated in our LEAP online orientation cohorts, completed our CALM workshops, and graduated from our ADAPT trainings
SHARONE F2F

These appointments will not take the place of the need to particpate in groups for our basic orientations, intermediate workshops, and model trainings. Rather, appointments will be help our training participants and graduates to speed their progress at critical points when private meeting time is your best path forward. Appointment fees are negotiatable on a sliding fee scale of .001% of annual gross family income. (e.g. 5K gross annual income = $5 per hour up to 150K gross annual income = $150 per hour as our top fee rate.) Previous graduates who participate in groups as peer mentors may pay a reduced rate.

THRESHOLD'S GROUP SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION
Each group you subscribe to will have its own fee structure, schedule, and resource sets.
You can apply to enroll now by sending your name, address, and email/phone contacts. All information sent is kept strictly confidential and we will not solicit you for enrollment.
We will only send back the registration form and meeting information for the group that you specifically request. Your first group meeting to any basic LEAP or CALM training is FREE and there you can subscribe and pay ahead for your next month. Individual and Group Rates may change without notice--we always work to keep group rates as low as posible.
Call or Email Sharone Lee at 503-375-9462 or use our homepage CONTACT US link.

SUBSCRIBER NOTICES: In order to keep our mutual costs very low and encourage faster progress and greater success, monthly service subscriber fee amounts are due and payable the month before, whether a subscriber attends that next month or not. However, all enrollees can make up missed meetings by attending either of our other groups. ALL enrollment payments for all groups are due by the 25th of the previous month and must be made timely by a check payable to THRESHOLD. All our service training models and materials are copyrighted intellectual properties and trademarked products and are NOT being offered as trainer-trainings for sale. For more information on each of the training options above please see our L>E>A>P, C-A-L-M, A.D.A.P.T, and TRAIN links in OUR PRACTICE row.


OUR FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODEL APPROACH
Threshold has offered an array of local face-to-face trainings in best practice developmental Autism Intervention Models since 1992. These trainings have provided open quarterly enrollment and low cost parent and teacher training alternatives in Oregon for over a decade. Over time our trainings had evolved to become more formal separate course series including:

L>E>A>P (Learn>Explore>Access>Practice)™ Initial Autism Orientation Seminar

C-A-L-M. (No More Tantrums)™ Full-Spectrum Parenting Class,

BIG THEMES Fun•ctional Holistic Inclusive Curriculum™ Online Resource Base Coming Soon

A.D.A.P.T. (Adaptive Developmentally Appropriate Practice & Theory)™ Provider Education Series.

Each of these services was designed by our responding to enrollee feedback meant to help us meet the needs of family and service providers, as we travel on our long journey to a better understanding of Autism. It has been a great honor and a privilege to walk with you on this long and difficult learning path together. However, based on those same training development guides, we are needing to change our course to better serve your needs.

Over the last several years, we have begun get more requests for project-based trainings by institutions and organizations seeking to set-up affordable and effective model Autism programs, and to have access to online consultation services. My case load of professional and family clients is currently full and I need to take a sabbatical from some of our services to develop our online resources and to complete my Ph.D in 2008-2009. We will begin enrolling for CALM and hold ADAPT grad meetings again in Fall 2009 and back to full operations in the Pacific Northwest on the ground and globally online in 2010.

Please see our new time/dates for monthly provider mentoring groups above and send in your information by email to get on a wait list.

Sharone Lee, M.A.
Executive Director
THRESHOLD