Focused Audience: Waiver Support Coordinators; Direct Support Professionals providing Day Support, Residential Habilitation, Companion, Personal Supports and Respite Services; Supported Employment Coaches; and Behavior Assistants. Class Description: In this class the students will discuss the analysis of challenging behavior with an emphasis on techniques and tools used to gather data toward achieving an understanding of the function or meaning of an individual's challenging behavior. Describe and discuss the purpose of a behavioral analysis. This class will emphasize that there is a function to challenging behavior, and for challenging behavior to persist over time, it must be meeting a need for the individual. Students will discuss the concept that for behavior support techniques to be successful a replacement behavior must be taught in order assist the individual to meet the need being met by the challenging behavior in a more acceptable manner. This class will emphasize the impopr