THRESHOLD'S LOCAL/ONLINE TRAINING & PEER MENTORING GROUPS
NEW FORMAT STARTING JULY 2005

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

Day of Month & Time Each Group Meets	NAME OF GROUP	Purpose of Each Group
First Tuesdays 7-9 PM This group is FULL It meets face-to-face each month. It includes phone support & its own online group space.Send in enrollment request to get on wait list.	ABLERIVERCANYON Conversational Group For Adults w/ASD/AS	A safer & more adaptable space for adults with Mild Autism/Aspergers to interact & converse in a small group. There is no charge for this group. Please, an interview is needed first before we can offer an invitation.
Second Tuesdays 6-10 PM THIS GROUP IS FULL It meets face-to-face each month. It includes phone support & its own online group space. Send in enrollment request to get on wait list.	A.D.A.P.T	For graduates of CALM Series who have chosen to go onto our best developmental Autism practices. Subscription Fee is $25-50 per month depending on participant's own plan an needs for program support. Lenght of time range from 1-2 years and depends on rate of progress an work effort using model elements.
On Sabbatical This group is closed for 2007. Send in enrollment request to get on wait list because 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.	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. Intensive fee would be $75.00 per enrollee with a minimum of 15 enrollees per group.
By Phone/Email For parents recently diagnosed, going through milestone challenges, or in crisis with systems of power.	L>E>A>P	For New-to-Autism Family Members & Novice Autism Service Providers who need to first become more familiar with Autism information & community resources in relation to their individual conditions and situations

THRESHOLD'S GROUP SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION
Each group you may subscribe to will have its own fee structure, schedule, and resource sets.
You can apply to enroll any month by sending your name, address, and email/phone contacts.
We will send back the registration form and meeting information for the group you request/need. Your first group meeting is FREE. Then, you subscribe and pay for your next month.
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, (CLOSED FOR 2007/FULL CASE LOAD)

BIG THEMES Fun•ctional Holistic Inclusive Curriculum™ Workshop

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 2007-2008.

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