Our Services
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
PBIS services are provided to participants who have significant behavioral difficulties that jeopardize their ability to remain in their community of choice due to inappropriate responses to events in their environment. The primary goal of PBIS services is to decrease the intensity or frequency of targeted behaviors, and to teach more socially appropriate replacement behaviors.
Services are provided in the waiver participant's home, in the community.
PBIS refers to an environmental, antecedent, support-oriented approach to helping individuals with problem behavior. The approach has developed within the tradition of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and shares with that tradition the following features;
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Systematic observation of behavior
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An understanding of behavior as a result of its antecedents and consequences
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Objective analysis of behavior, using both (1) correlational observation of the behavior’s antecedents (what occurs before the behavior) and consequences (what occurs after) and (2) systematic experimentation based on hypothesized causes of the behavior
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Systematic teaching procedures, including modeling, prompting/cuing, shaping, chaining, and the like..
PBIS services include but are not limited to:
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A comprehensive assessment of the individual’s behavior in the context of his/her medical diagnosis, abilities/disabilities and the environment which precipitates the behaviors
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A detailed holistic behavioral treatment plan including a clear description of successive levels of intervention, starting with the simplest and least intrusive
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Arrangements for training informal supports and waiver and non-waiver Service Providers to effectively use the basic principles of the behavioral plan
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Regular reassessments of the effectiveness of the plan and modifying the plan as needed
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An emergency intervention plan when there is the possibility of the participant becoming a threat to him/herself or others
