Supporting schools, families, counties and centers.
Services
Schools.
We provide training and support to teachers, paraprofessionals, and other support staff in the following areas:
Behavior Intervention Plan or Positive Behavior Support Plan (BIP/PBSP) development and support
Classroom behavior management training and support
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) development and support
Individual Education Plan (IEP) goal support
Language and functional/daily living skills assessment
Development and training use of data collection systems
De-escalation and crisis support planning
Professional development
In-Home/Family
We provide training and support to parents, personal care assistants (PCA) and other caregivers in the following areas:
Initial assessment of individual and caregiver/family needs
Communication
Daily living and leisure skills
Challenging behavior and tolerating skills
Individual and caregiver/family plan; Focusing on:
Communication (e.g. asking before doing, appropriately expressing dislikes, etc.)
Independence with daily living skills (e.g. toileting, hygiene, etc.)
Leisure skills (e.g. playing alone, playing with siblings, etc.)
Community skills (e.g. eating at a restaurant, going to a store, etc.)
Developing routines (e.g. morning routine, after school, bedtime, etc.)
Challenging behavior support planning
Communication (e.g. asking before doing, appropriately expressing dislikes, etc.)
Teaching tolerating skills (e.g. waiting, accepting no, etc.)
Developing house rules and reward system
Teaching self-regulation (e.g. taking a break, making an alternative choice, etc.)
Center-based/Clinical Support
We provide consultative support to clinical supervisors, behavior therapists, speech language pathologists (SLPs), occupational therapists (OTs), and other service providers:
Diagnostic assessments and CMDEs
Functional Behavior Assessment development and training
Developing program goals for individual treatment plans (ITPs)
Comprehensive and on-going staff training systems
Development and training of continuous data collection systems
De-escalation and crisis system training (e.g. PCM)
Professional development
BCBA supervision
County Support
We provide training and support to direct support staff, foster families, case managers, and other county service providers:
Group home and residential settings
Develop programming based on Individual Service Plans (ISPs)
Develop programming based on behavioral challenges competing with home and community experiences
Train direct support staff on programming to build home and community skills
Train direct support staff on de-escalation and alternative skills to challenging behavior
Develop and train data collection reporting systems
Foster/Adoptive Familes
Building positive relationships with caregivers, siblings, etc.
Developing and maintaining effective communication
Developing routines and structure
Train on de-escalation and alternative skills to behavioral challenges
Case managers
Targeted trainings on topics of interest/need
Professional Crisis Management Training
It’s important when supporting individuals that have a history of engaging in unsafe/dangerous behaviors
that you and/or your team are trained in a crisis management system that prioritizes prevention and de-
escalation strategies while additionally providing training in safe and humane physical restraint
procedures for unavoidable emergency situations.
We have trained Professional Crisis Management (PCM) instructors. PCM is a behavior analytic crisis management
system that teaches:
Prevention: strategies to proactively avoid occurrences of unsafe/dangerous behavioral incidents.
De-escalation: identification of behavioral changes indicating potential escalation and strategies to support the individual in moving back to stable functioning with a goal of decreasing the likelihood of needing to use physical restraint procedures.
Personal Safety: physical strategies in the case of behavioral escalation that can be used to safely remove harmful objects from individuals and/or safely avoid and release yourself from physical contact from an individual.
Physical Restraint Procedures: physical holding procedures in the case of an emergency that ensure the safety and dignity of the individual and others.
Re-Integration: strategies to ease the individual back to normal daily activities following escalation to avoid re-escalation.