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Our Purpose
Curriculum Overview
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Why MindSet?
We offer an efficient and empathetic approach toward developing culture, de-escalation and the reduction of more restrictive interventions.
Our proactive approach promotes safe climates for growth and developing a culture of prevention. MindSet creates positive outcomes for staff and the individuals served.
The MindSet Curriculum
The MindSet Training Curriculum has been developed to support education, mental health, foster care, and caregivers who provide direct in-home and outpatient support services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Equal emphasis is placed on developing customized strategies for preventing aggressive behavior, as well as becoming proficient in proven physical containment techniques.
Our training program covers the establishment of proper documentation, oversight, and ongoing guidelines essential to protecting the rights and well-being of everyone involved.
We strive to provide training and follow-up support with personal attention to your own organization’s needs and the needs of your trainees. We provide the personal level of service you need for creating and maintaining an environment of prevention.
Our Mission
We assist organizations in building a culture of prevention. We facilitate insight, raise awareness, enhance skills, and ultimately certify professionals in a system of preventing and managing aggressive behavior. Our goal is to eliminate the need for physical restraint and seclusion.
These are the states that we currently operate in.
We are available to provide training and certification at your location.
Meet Our Team
What Do People Say About MindSet?
ESMS PBIS DISTRICT COACH TCS
TIFTON, GA.
Steve McMahon has worked diligently throughout his thirty-year career in education to shift the culture and climate of schools toward a culture of prevention. Steve was certified as a PMAB instructor in 1998 by the late Marshall Siler and has been committed to training staff to reduce physical restraint in schools ever since. In 2007, while working as a district-wide behavior intervention teacher in Henry County Schools, he began to work alongside Marshall Siler to provide MindSet Instructor Certification training to school district personnel throughout Georgia. He is presently the CEO of Intervention Support Service and the director of MindSet Instructor Training. He and his beautiful wife, Tammy have raised six children and have six grandchildren. They are fortunate to live just outside of Clayton, Georgia in Rabun county. 
With a background in special education and degrees from the University of Georgia, David delivers the MindSet Safety Management Curriculum in order to certify trainers in districts across the nation. In addition, he provides district and organizational level consulting and training in various content including: Behavior Management, Collaborative Teaching, Data Analysis, Restorative Practices, PBIS, Trauma-Informed Care, and Tier I Teacher Coaching.
David’s most recent role as Coordinator of Behavior Supports for a diverse Title I school district adds to experience in leadership and teaching roles across various settings and specialized programs within public schools. He’s also worked in emergency shelters, therapeutic residential settings, and a school which is part of the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support (GNETS).
David is married to Kathryn, an inspirational educator in her own right. They have four children and reside in Athens, GA. 
I have worked with children and adolescents identified as having severe emotional and behavior disorders since beginning my career in 1995 at Hillside Hospital. It was here, as a Behavior Specialist, that I met and worked alongside Marshall Siler, the creator of the Mindset Curriculum. In 2001, I moved into the public-school setting as a special education teacher in a program serving only students with severe emotional/behavior disorders and autism in Henry County, Georgia. During my 21 years with this program, I have served as Instructional Lead Teacher, Crisis Interventionist, Behavior Specialist but always as a Mindset Trainer. The more I got to know my students and their vast array of behaviors, the more interested I became in childhood trauma and the impact it has on learning and the brain. Drawing from personal, professional, and educational experiences with childhood trauma, I developed a training to help our program better understand and serve our students. As my passion for this subject grew, I realized the knowledge I had gained about childhood trauma and resilience had too many implications for the way we teach, serve and parent our children not to share with as many people as possible.
In 2016, I became a Certified Trauma Practitioner and Trainer for the National Institute of Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC) and founded K. Hodges Consulting, LLC with the hopes of spreading the word on childhood trauma and resilience to all who would listen. My dog Skillet and I also passed our exam with Therapy Dogs International, and I introduced him to the students as our first Program Therapy Dog. Today, Skillet and I continue to work part-time as a Behavior Specialist team for the program in Henry County while also educating others throughout the state and country on childhood trauma and resilience and serving as a Mindset Master Trainer. I am constantly seeking to further my knowledge in trauma and resilience practices and most recently have become a trainer of Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model in Education. The more tools you have in your toolbox, the more individualized supports you can provide. I love that Mindset was one of the first tools I honed when I began my journey and only serves to enhance all the other tools I’ve acquired along the way.
Raised in Johannesburg, South Africa and holding a Masters Degree in Special Education, Jackie Holland brings a wealth of versatile experience in special education to her clients. She brings a unique perspective with an ability to connect resources to individuals and families in need of behavioral support. Jackie’s passion for this work was inspired by someone very close to her as she lived the struggle that so many families face when it comes to seeking and finding guidance. Jackie has worked as a paraprofessional, teacher, special education administrator, and behavior specialist for a diverse Title I district.
Jackie provides district level training in the MindSet Safety Management Curriculum, Circle of Security (Parent Coaching), PBIS, Trauma Informed Practices and Care, Tier 1 Classroom Supports, Coaching Cycles with an emphasis on collaborative teaching best practices, Restorative Practices, Data Collection, and Behavior Intervention Plan development based on the needs of the individual. She currently resides in Watkinsville, GA with her husband and son.
Heysha Rodriguez is a Behavior Interventionist, originally from Puerto Rico, and has been in Georgia for 12 years. With a Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master’s in Educational Psychology from the University of Alabama, Heysha has gained vast amounts of experience working with diverse populations inside and outside the academic setting. More importantly, Heysha has had over eight years of hands-on experience in educational settings working in multiple Georgia school districts. Within this role, she helped create a positive school environment for students and staff through the management of PBIS programs that earned a distinguished rating for several consecutive years, successfully implemented positive behavioral interventions, and effectively trained personnel to implement these. Additionally, Heysha has created successful programs for behavior management and social skills that use research-based interventions and supports. Her knowledge of Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans has assisted in increasing school-wide appropriate behaviors.
My name is Aaron Kastanek and I live in Marshall, NC. I’ve always been sort of a “techie” guy, computers and technology have always fascinated me. I attended culinary school but ultimately chose to work in the IT field. I taught myself to be a web developer and graphic artist while running a small on-site IT company called Asheville Onsite. I would repair computers, design and create networks, anything from small e-mail issues to big corporate networks with multiple servers.
Kyle Hostetler has worked with youth in Residential Treatment Programming in Indiana since 2006. Kyle began his career as a direct care staff and has worked in many areas including conduct disorder, substance abuse recovery, and mental health. During his 16 years at this facility, he learned that intentional connection is crucial while providing youth with an opportunity for change. In 2011, the organization introduced Mindset as the primary training for crisis intervention and physical restraint. After learning, implementing, and mastering the techniques of the program, Kyle was selected as a primary instructor for the organization under the guidance and instruction of Marshall Siler. The culture shift and impact Mindset had within the organization was both dramatic and beneficial.
Having always been drawn to helping individuals, I decided to gain my Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Purdue University and my Master of Education degree, specializing in behavior and learning disabilities, from Georgia State University. I have had the opportunity to work in residential facilities, trauma intervention programs, special needs classrooms, schools which are part of the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support (GNETS) and work my way to the district level in Henry County, Georgia as an Intervention Support Teacher where I became a MindSet Master Trainer. Through conversations with individuals who work in the behavioral field and hearing about the need for extra assistance in school districts and agencies, I developed Southeast Behavior Supports, LLC. which provides such assistance to those in need. Most recently, I have taken on the role of Consulting Operations Manger for MindSet where I run the consulting branch. 
