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You Don't Have to Keep Figuring This Out Alone.
Reduce severe challenging behaviors and build a stronger relationship with your learner using a clear, step-by-step plan.
Connection Foundations
Connection Foundations™
is for caregivers who are exhausted from navigating challenging moments and want a clearer path toward safer, more connected, and more enjoyable everyday life with their learner.
It's more than a course...
Get exclusive access to weekly virtual Q&A sessions and the Connection Foundations™ Community for support, guidance, and encouragement as you put what you're learning into practice with your learner.
Life is Hard Enough.
You shouldn't have to constantly manage...
Explosive Meltdowns
that leave everyone feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsafe.
Daily Power Struggles
over transitions, routines, and things your learner doesn't want to do.
Walking on Eggshells
to avoid triggering another difficult moment.
It's Time for a Change.
The Connection Foundations Program
gives you access to:
Spend less time managing challenging moments and more time enjoying life with your learner.
After Connection Foundations™, you’ll know how to:
Identify what may be contributing to challenging behaviors and recognize patterns before situations escalate.
Prevent challenging moments by creating supportive environments and building stronger connections with your learner.
Respond to challenging behaviors in ways that prioritize safety, preserve dignity, and support recovery.
Teach communication, flexibility, regulation, and everyday life skills that increase meaningful participation.
Use a clear, step-by-step plan to track progress, adjust your approach, and know what to try next.
Connection Foundations™ is for caregivers who:
Feel stuck in a cycle of challenging behaviors and constant crisis management.
Want to feel safer, more confident, and better prepared for challenging moments.
Want to prevent challenging behaviors and teach skills that support greater independence and meaningful participation.
Are tired of advice that sounds good in theory but falls apart in the realities of everyday life.
The Connection Foundations Program
Module 1: Become the Caregiver You Want to Be
Challenging moments can make it difficult to respond the way you want to. By identifying your values and the kind of caregiver you want to be, you'll have a clearer guide for making decisions, navigating difficult moments, and reconnecting with what matters when things don't go as planned.
Module 2: Understand Your Learner
Challenging behavior doesn't happen in a vacuum. Understanding your learner's interests, strengths, communication, skills, and patterns can help you recognize what may be contributing to difficult moments and identify practical ways to make everyday life more successful.
Module 3: Make Room for What Matters
Not every expectation needs to be addressed in every moment. Learning to distinguish what is truly necessary from what can wait helps you prioritize safety, health, dignity, and important responsibilities while reducing unnecessary conflict and providing the support your learner needs to participate.
Module 4: Strengthen Your Connection
When challenging behavior dominates family life, enjoyable time together can become harder to find. Intentionally creating opportunities for shared enjoyment, connection, and positive interactions helps strengthen your relationship and build a foundation for future learning.
Module 5: Build Skills That Change Everyday Life
Learners need effective ways to communicate what they want and need, navigate situations when the answer is no or not yet, and shift toward activities that matter in everyday life. Teaching these skills gives your learner more ways to participate successfully and can reduce the need for challenging behavior to communicate or navigate difficult situations.
Module 6: Grow Meaningful Skills for Life
Every learner deserves opportunities to pursue what matters to them, participate in meaningful experiences, and have a say in their own life. By building on foundational skills, you'll help your learner develop the abilities to explore interests, navigate everyday challenges, connect with others, and participate in activities and routines that make life meaningful to them.
Module 7: Track Progress and Plan Next Steps
Progress isn't always obvious in the middle of a challenging week. Learning to notice patterns, track meaningful changes, and evaluate how your strategies are working helps you make informed decisions about what to continue, what to adjust, and what your learner may need next.
Module 8: Keep Growing, One Step at a Time
Meaningful change rarely happens in a straight line. Reflecting on your experiences, making thoughtful adjustments, and recognizing what is improving helps you keep moving forward without expecting perfection from yourself or your learner. The goal is to keep learning and creating more opportunities for safety, connection, and meaningful participation.
Bonuses
Member Community: Access to support so you can ask questions, gain clarity, and feel more confident in your decisions.
Virtual Implementation Consultations: Join our Q&A sessions focused on implementing the tools and strategies. Submit your own questions and/or learn by listening to others.
Ready-to-Use Resources: Downloadable step-by-step forms you can use immediately to equip you with prevention and response strategies you can use with confidence in your most challenging moments.
Added Bonuses Value: $1,200
Regular Course Value: $1,000
Total Combined Value: $2,200
Your Price: $597
Meet Your Instructors
Hi, We’re Ashley and Meggin, the creators of Connection Foundations™!
Ashley Bauer, MEd, BCBA, LBA began her career as an in-home early interventionist. She then got into the educational field as a paraprofessional, then certified special education teacher. Today, as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and a mom of 2, with one son who has an extremely rare genetic syndrome who experiences behavioral and communication challenges, she brings both professional expertise and personal understanding to this work.
Meggin Funk, MSEd, CCC-SLP, BCBA, LBA is a mom of 3, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Speech-Language Pathologist with 20+ years of experience. She has supported hundreds of educators and school behavior teams. Her work highlights the powerful connection between communication, behavior, relationships, and meaningful participation. She has also presented nationally, training professionals in practical communication and behavioral strategies that support meaningful, lasting progress for learners.
Why We Created Connection Foundations
We know it can be exhausting to navigate challenging behaviors. With so much advice available, it can be hard to know where to start or how to put it all together.
That's why we brought together decades of personal and professional experience to create Connection Foundations™: a practical, step-by-step framework to help you understand what contributes to challenging behavior, prevent and respond to difficult moments, strengthen your relationship, and teach skills that make everyday life safer, to allow for more meaningful participation for your learner.
Instead of piecing it together on your own, you'll have a clear path forward and a plan to guide your next steps.
Our goal is to help you feel more confident, prepared, and supported as you build a safer, more connected life with your learner.
We’re so glad you’re here! Let's take the next step together,
Is This Course For You?
Do you want to learn how to respond to challenging behavior with confidence instead of being exhausted of not knowing what to do?
Do you want to strengthen the connection you have with your learner?
Do you wish you knew which skills to teach and how to teach them so that your learner can more meaningfully participate in life?
If you answered 'Yes'...
this is for you!
Who Is This Course NOT For?
Those who want a quick-fix punishment-based system instead of teaching skills and building relationships
Those who are not willing to take instructions, practice new strategies, or reflect on how adult responses affect behavior
Still Not Sure?
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is the Connection Foundations Program?
Connection Foundations is designed to be practical and manageable alongside everyday caregiving responsibilities. You can work through the lessons at your own pace and apply the framework gradually in real-life situations.
The program includes ten weeks of weekly virtual Q&A sessions, giving you opportunities to ask questions as you put what you're learning into practice. You don't need to have everything figured out before you begin.
How long do I have access to the program & when does it start?
You get immediate access access to the course materials and community from the moment you enroll. Your access lasts for 3 months from your purchase date.
Can't I learn all of this on Youtube?
YouTube has helpful ideas, but it’s scattered, inconsistent, and often contradictory.
Connection Foundations gives you a cohesive, step-by-step system so you know exactly what to do, in what order, and why it works. Instead of hunting through random videos, you’ll have one clear roadmap that progresses through the program.
How is Connection Foundations different from other parenting programs or behavior advice?
Instead of giving you another list of strategies to try, Connection Foundations brings together years of professional experience in behavior analysis, communication, and skill development into one step-by-step framework.
You'll learn how the pieces fit together, what to focus on first, how to teach skills systematically, and how to use what you observe to decide what to do next. The goal isn't simply to manage behavior. It's to build safer, more connected everyday experiences and help your learner participate in ways that matter to them.
What if my learner's behaviors are severe or unsafe?
Connection Foundations was designed with significant challenging behaviors in mind, including behaviors that can affect safety, relationships, and daily life. You'll learn to identify contributing factors, create more supportive conditions, respond with safety and dignity in mind, and build skills that support meaningful participation.
However, an online program cannot provide immediate crisis support or replace individualized assessment and treatment when needed. If your learner's behavior creates an immediate safety risk, seek appropriate professional or emergency support.
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DISCLAIMER: Connection Foundations™ provides educational information, resources, and guidance to help caregivers, educators, and other supporters better understand challenging behavior, strengthen relationships, and teach meaningful skills. The program is intended for educational purposes only and does not guarantee specific outcomes. Individual experiences and results vary based on many factors, including individual needs, available resources, consistency of implementation, and other circumstances. Connection Foundations™ is not a substitute for individualized assessment, treatment, or professional services from qualified providers when needed. Participation does not establish a professional-client relationship, and we are not acting as your individual BCBA, speech-language pathologist, mental health provider, or clinical team through this program. You are responsible for determining how to apply the information and strategies to your circumstances and for seeking additional professional support when appropriate. If you or someone you support is experiencing an immediate safety concern, seek appropriate emergency or crisis assistance. Meaningful progress takes time, practice, and ongoing adjustment. Connection Foundations™ provides a framework to guide your efforts, but participation alone cannot guarantee change.