The Global Autism Project's experience during the COVID-19 pandemic offers behavior analysts a concentrated case study in adaptive leadership, organizational resilience, and the ethics of equitable access to evidence-based services. The organization's work — building capacity in local communities across multiple countries to provide autism services — was already operating against substantial logistical constraints before 2020.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Women in Behavior Analysis
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Join Free →The Global Autism Project is all too familiar with the challenge of empowering global communities in their access to autism services. It has helped empower female leaders across the globe to address the need of autism services in their communities for the past 15 years. Nearly everyone in the world, including the global autism community, has faced brand new challenges throughout 2020. The challenges that have come with a global pandemic have halted autism services worldwide, including those taking place in Global Autism Project partner sites. Despite the challenges 2020 has brought Global Autism Project, its partner sites, and ABA providers across the globe have used innovation, empowerment, and leadership to turn this crisis into an opportunity. This leadership has often come from the strength of women, by creating a cultural shift through adapting behavior analytic services on a global scale. This panel discussion will provide an update on Global Autism Project and SkillCorps and how it and its partner sites have fared and adapted during these challenging times. Subsequently, the speakers will implore audience members to act in their own communities and to see the opportunity that comes from any crisis.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | Supervision |
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