ABOUT OUR COMPANY
At Comprehensive we are dedicated to providing the highest level of professionalism in our services. Whether we are in the home or in the classroom, we view ourselves as guests and act accordingly. Our staff is continuously trained not just on therapeutic and mental health topics, but on first aid, proper restraint and how to avoid having to use it, and on confidentiality to protect the privacy of our clients and their families. We are a growing company because families, schools, and other mental health professionals have put their trust in us and have willingly referred us to others.
Comprehensive Children and Family Services has been serving northwest Pennsylvania for over 20 years and currently operates out of four offices. Our main office is located in downtown Sharon and serves Mercer County. We also have an office located in New Castle which serves Lawrence, Beaver, and Butler Counties, an office in Meadville which serves Crawford and Venango Counties, and an office in Ellwood City.
ABOUT OUR SERVICES
COMPREHENSIVE’s services are based on the unique needs of each child, youth or young adult. The areas of need are determined by looking at the child’s whole environment, including the emotional, social, medical, legal, educational, cultural, and familial circumstances.
Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) are flexible within the context of the community and are modified to fit the child, youth, or young adult as developmental and environmental needs change, working to ensure the success of each child. IBHS are provided in a culturally sensitive manner reflecting the unique needs of each child.
INTENSIVE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES
Intensive Behavioral Health Services, or IBHS, are interventions and supports for children, youth or young adults under the age of 21 with mental, emotional or behavioral health needs. They can be provided in the home, school or other community setting.
IBHS include Individual Services, Applied Behavior Analysis Services (ABA Services), Group Services, and Evidence-Based Treatment (EBT), provided through Individual Services, ABA Services, or Group Services.
Individual Services
Individual Services are therapeutic interventions and supports that are used to reduce and manage a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s needs that are identified in the individual treatment plan (ITP). They help increase coping strategies and support skill development to promote positive behaviors.
Behavior Consultant (BC) Services
BC services include assessment of a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s needs and development of an ITP that includes the interventions that will be used to meet the identified needs. Both the assessment and the ITP are based on discussions with important people in the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s life. BC services also include coordination and consultation with other service providers regarding behavior plans and interventions and discussion with the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s treatment team about the behavioral interventions that should be used and when they should be used. The treatment team includes people who are involved in the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s treatment. BC services can be used to address behaviors in the school, home, or any other place where a child, youth or young adult needs behavior supports and to learn strategies to better succeed.
Mobile Therapy (MT) Services
MT services are used to provide therapy to a child, youth, or young adult and family members to work on identified goals for the child, youth or young adult. It is provided in the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s home or other appropriate community setting. MT services include conducting assessments to determine a child’s, youth’s or young adult needs and developing an ITP that includes the interventions that will be used to meet the identified needs. Both the assessment and the ITP are based on discussions with important people in the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s life. MT services can also be used to help a child, youth or young adult process emotional difficulties, trauma or behavioral health problems.
Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) Services
BHT services are used to implement a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s ITP.
Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Services
involve the review of a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s behavior within his or her environment. ABA Services explore why a behavior occurs and then uses specific interventions based on why a behavior occurs. ABA Services seek to increase useful or desired behaviors. ABA Services include Behavior Analytic services, Behavior Consultant-ABA services, Assistant Behavior Consultant-ABA services and Behavior Health Technician-ABA services.
Behavior Analytic (BA) Services or Behavior Consultant–ABA (BC-ABA) Services
BA services and BC – ABA services include assessment of a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s needs and development of an ITP that includes the interventions that will be used to meet the identified needs. Both the assessment and the ITP are based on discussions with important people in the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s life. BA and BC-ABA services also include overseeing the other services provided to a child, youth or young adult and consultation with the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s treatment team. BA services and BC-ABA services can be used to address behaviors in the school, home, or any other place where a child, youth or young adult needs ABA services to succeed.
Assistant Behavior Consultant-ABA (Asst. BC-ABA) Services
Individuals who provide Asst. BC-ABA services assist staff who provide BA services or BC-ABA service. Asst BC-ABA services may also be used to provide direct ABA interventions as part of implementing a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s ITP.
Behavioral Health Technician-ABA (BHT-ABA) Services: BHT-ABA services are used to implement a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s ITP that includes ABA interventions.
Behavior Consultant (BC) Services-ABA
BC-ABA services include assessment of a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s needs and development of an ITP that includes the interventions that will be used to meet the identified needs. Both the assessment and the ITP are based on discussions with important people in the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s life. BC services also include coordination and consultation with other service providers regarding behavior plans and interventions and discussion with the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s treatment team about the behavioral interventions that should be used and when they should be used. The treatment team includes people who are involved in the child’s, youth’s or young adult’s treatment. BC services can be used to address behaviors in the school, home, or any other place where a child, youth or young adult needs behavior supports and to learn strategies to better succeed.
Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) Services-ABA
BHT-ABA services are used to implement a child’s, youth’s or young adult’s ITP.
GROUP SERVICES
Group services are intensive therapeutic interventions that are provided mostly in a group format. They can be provided in a school, community or community like setting. Community like settings mimic an environment a child might typically be in such as a school, daycare or afterschool program. The following are examples of Group Services:
Group ABA
A group of children, youth or young adults that participate in treatment activities, which include ABA interventions. The treatment activities are designed to help the children, youth or young adults develop individual skills.
School-Based Programs
Treatment programs that happen while children, youth or young adults are at school. School-based programs use primarily group activities and some individual interventions to target the behavioral health needs of groups of children, youth or young adults. Each child, youth or young adult will have his or her own treatment plan. In addition, all school-based programs will have a family involvement component to ensure families are involved and knowledgeable about their child’s program. School-based programs are different from outpatient services provided in schools or behavioral programs developed by the school.
After School Programs
After school programs are used to help groups of children, youth or young adults develop specific skills or address behavioral health needs in the hours after school. The children, youth or young adults may work in a group on activities that will increase their behavioral success in school or focus on a specific therapeutic purpose such as addressing trauma or anxiety. After school programs are different from outpatient services provided in schools or behavioral programs developed by the school.
Summer Therapeutic Activities Program (STAP)
STAP is a behavioral health program that occurs during the summer. Most STAPs are several weeks long and meet for several hours a day. Children, youth or young adults that participate in a STAP work on developing skills and strategies that will help them be more successful in dealing with their behavioral health disorder.
Our Autism Program
Autism Program Features:
A caring, knowledgeable staff sensitive to the needs of the individual and family.
Collaboration with families to meet the needs of the child, as well as those of the family.
Educational materials and support groups covering a variety of topics pertaining to Pervasive Development Disorders are available.
Utilization of methods that enhance appropriate development using components of various therapeutic approaches.
Generalized learning that includes the home, school, and community environments.
Collaboration with treatment team members in specialized therapies, such as occupational, speech, and physical.
COMPREHENSIVE’s Specialized Autism Program:
The Autism/PDD Program at COMPREHENSIVE Children and Family Services helps children achieve their fullest potential. We provide families with a support network of information and consulting services that strives to meet the behavioral and emotional needs of the child. Our program develops self-esteem, self-sufficiency, and social skills enabling the child to successfully function within the community. At COMPREHENSIVE Children and Family Services, we take multiple approaches to treat your child. We believe that each child is unique, has special qualities, and that care should be individualized and reflect this philosophy. Our knowledgeable, caring, and experienced staff is committed to providing the highest standards of service.
COMPREHENSIVE’s Autism Support Group:
We are pleased to be able to offer a support group for parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Each meeting a topic is selected and information is presented by a member of our clinical staff, discussions are held on issues important to you as parents, and space is provided for your children to play under the supervision of members of our TSS staff. To find out the date, time and topic of the next meeting and for additional information on this aspect of our autism program, please call our Sharon office at (724) 981-9900 or Toll Free (800) 630-2237.
Services and employment are provided in a nondiscriminatory manner without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, ancestry, religious creed, disability and age.