NYSABA Hosted: Advocating Across Systems: Advancing ABA Through Policy Work becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside clinical documentation, payer communication, supervision records, and leadership review. In Advocating Across Systems: Advancing ABA Through Policy, for this course, the practical stakes show up in service continuity, accurate reporting, and defensible clinical decisions, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via New York State Association for Behavior Analysis
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Join Free →NYSABA's Public Policy Committee will present our advocacy efforts and results from the past year, working across state agencies. This presentation will focus on advocacy tools that Behavior Analysts can use to participate in public policy efforts. Over the past few years, NYSABA has led advocacy efforts, culminating in our successful removal of our scope restriction. Since that monumental event, NYSABA has focused on several other areas of need, including contributing to and authoring articles for the field. There are several lessons learned throughout our advocacy process, and many skills that are not taught in school, or covered in typical fieldwork. Through this presentation, we will outline the skills needed for advocacy. We will present information that we have learned working across several state agencies that has resulted in policy change. Attendees will learn how to shape their existing skills and increase their understanding of why advocacy is a crucial skill for a behavior analyst, especially in NY.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Maureen O’Grady is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and NYS Licensed Behavior Analyst, who has been practicing since 2014. Maureen began her career as a school-based behavior consultant, parent trainer, and ABA program supervisor. Maureen expanded her skill set and supervised an after-school program for teenagers with severe behavior and provided training for a Saturday special needs recreation program. Maureen became an Assistant Clinical Director in 2015, overseeing home-based services and managing all insurance-based services for the agency where she was employed. In 2016, Maureen began her experience in child welfare and became a Program Director for Autism Services at New Alternatives for Children. Maureen aids the child welfare system by providing specialized consultations to foster care staff and foster parents, helping to keep children with complex needs in their foster homes. Maureen also leads a specialized Social Skills Program, using ABA to teach children and teens valuable skills for sustained friendship and peer engagement. Maureen immediately saw the disparity between children living below and above the poverty line. She began advocating at the local and state level for legislative changes to make services accessible to all. This advocacy let her to join NYSABA's Public Policy Committee, which she now serves as the Chair.
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