Collaboration with Schools: Call to Action

How can I get involved?

• Increase your competence:
  • Webinars (more coming soon!)
  • Educate yourself and your staff on education law and methods for navigating collaborative services

• Demonstrate how this can work/Prepare your organization for helping it work
  • Think long-term/beyond this one client
  • Develop procedures for onboarding and assessing clients who are “in school” only.
  • Create internal policies and agreements for interactions with schools, staff, and therapy within schools
  • Create conflict management procedures (i.e. whose Bx plan is followed and when, how to handle parent/RBT/teacher complaints…)

• Engage with schools
  • Communicate success
  • Reach out to schools to discuss how services can be collaborative
  • Prepare a pitch for services

• Request district policy that aligns with the Bill
  • Send policy to COABA to develop a resource for providers
  • Collect information about denied services or access

• Help COABA in this mission
  • Share success stories (redacted) to disperse on social media/news
  • Volunteer
  • Donate
  • Join the subcommittee to develop curriculum/standards of practice in the school’s place of service.