Services Workshops Dr. Ottavi can customize trainings to address your staff or district needs around issues of detached students.  Drawing from a range of mulitdisciplinary information, intervention, and prevention methods,  an advancement of team and individual approaches can be achieved.  Varying amounts of background information  about trauma and/or attachment can be included to provide a research-based background to applications. Presentations Dr. Ottavi has been presenting professionally for over 13 years.  He actively engages groups to increase awareness, knowledge and skills in an interactive and enjoyable way.  He is committed to a "learning by doing" approach to youth mental health issues.  Dr. Ottavi also brings new ideas to build on current foundations and coordinate with familiar approaches to helping families and children.  He is available for speaking engagements that are focused on increasing professional advancement and expansion of approaches to children who are detached from relationships, school and learning. Consulting and Coaching Specific case consultations can be set-up with an executed Release of Information and hourly contract.   Dr. Ottavi provides intensive consultation to general and special education, agency and shelter schools, residential treatment centers, and juvenile justice facilities.  School professionals often struggle to meet the needs of students with social, adult relational, emotional and behavioral challenges.  Often, more traditional discipline procedures -- such as detention, behavior modification plans, suspension, expulsion and so forth -- fail to adequately address the needs of students who are detached and have intensive base problems with relationship and trust-building.   To learn more or to contact Dr. Ottavi, please use tottavi8@mchsi.com.