School Consultation Services
Key Benefits
- Our work is consistently rated as faster, better, and more cost-effective than other providers'
- Ongoing program supervision, and total service monitoring, by Certified School Psychologists
- Strategic consultations seek to empower faculty, administration, and parents in win-win collaborations
Summary of School Consultation Services
The Institute for Behavior Change staff have a proven track record of excellence over the past five years in consultations with several Pennsylvania Charter Schools, and consultations at Approved Private Schools to develop comprehensive educational rehabilitation and treatment programs for students. Institute staff can perform diagnostic psychoeducational evaluations to determine if a child should be classified as a student in need of Special Education. Our staff's evaluations are consistently praised by school faculty, administrators, and parents.
If a child requires behavioral support in order to remain in placement due to the presence of mental illness symptoms (including disruptive behavior, dangerous behavior, self-injurious behavior or severe withdrawal symptoms), The Institute for Behavior Change can provide staff to deliver EPSDT "Behavioral Health Rehabilitation" (BHR) services to support the child until he or she is able to function more age-appropriately and independently in the classroom. Institute staff can meet with students to provide in-school mental health counseling (Mobile Therapy) via the EPSDT BHR service program for children who require this level of intervention, and can also consult with children who have more academically-oriented needs. Mobile Therapy services are funded via the EPSDT BHR service program, and like all EPSDT services, there is no cost to the school or the parent in Pennsylvania and some other States. When it is necessary to explain complicated Special Education regulations to parents or others who are exasperated with these complexities, Institute staff can usually manage and redirect discussions into positive, productive outcomes.
Reference Accounts
- The Chester County Family Academy Charter School, West Chester, Pennsylvania
- The Pennsylvania Leadership Academy Charter School, Malvern, Pennsylvania
- The Philadelphia Electrical and Technology Charter School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- The Royer-Greaves School for Blind, Paoli, Pennsylvania
- The 21st Century Cyber Charter School
- The Wissahickon Charter School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania