Consultation
CSC is your partner
in change.
We offer expertise, strategic advice, systematic problem solving, assessment and treatment planning, and hands-on training to help your organization reach its vision of excellence. We work with families, schools, mental health centers, juvenile justice agencies, policymakers, and other youth-serving agencies and providers to implement effective, yet practical changes and achieve desired outcomes.
Initiate collective impact collaboratives, bringing community partners together to solve complex behavioral health needs
Conduct needs assessments and advise on strategy
Facilitate strategic planning, prioritize goals, develop outcome measures
Design community-based programs
Analyze data and design targeted interventions
Develop data collection systems
Offer behavioral health consultation to caregivers and providers
Restructure or advise changes to policies and procedures
Support policy efforts
Reform laws and statutes to align with published literature
Assist teams in defining roles and responsibilities
CSC’s consultation approach is both an art and a science; one that welcomes your expertise and knowledge throughout its entirety. We use research-informed assessment techniques to capture a comprehensive understanding of the presenting problem, and assessment results inform a personalized action plan grounded in evidence-based best practice solutions. We then work collaboratively with you and your team to tailor the action plan to meet your unique needs and to ensure we are designing a system that is practical and a good contextual fit for your organization.
School Consultation
CSC’s expert consultants create customized solutions for school administrators, teachers, and staff surrounding chronic absenteeism and truancy, student engagement, and behavior. We build the capacity of district and school leaders and their teams to examine key data, organize a multi-tiered strategy, identify barriers and inequities, mobilize the school community, and monitor data to determine progress. Our customized solutions help prevent burnout and turnover, overreliance on suspension and expulsion, student isolation and withdrawal, unproductive and chaotic learning environments, and school bullying and violence.
Conduct assessments and analyze key data (e.g., rate of chronic absenteeism, suspension and expulsions)
Administer functional behavior assessments
Develop behavior intervention plans
Design multi-tiered systems of support
Select IEP and 504 plan accommodations
Design school-wide, classroom, and individualized interventions to nudge good behavior and promote a positive learning environment for all students
Design rehabilitative disciplinary procedures that keep students in school, limit out-of-class time, and teach and reinforce the use of functional skills
Create effective academic interventions
Provide training, guidance, and support for administrators, teachers, and staff
Develop effective communication and outreach to students and families
Create effective internal and external attendance messaging systems
Develop a cross-departmental attendance team
Standardize the truancy reporting process
Identify barriers and inequities
Mobilize the school community
Assist in establishing meaningful community partnerships
Mental and Behavioral
Health Consultation
We collaborate with mental and behavioral health centers, organizations, and businesses to build their capacity to effectively serve complex mental and behavioral health needs, improve client outcomes, and expand their services. We consult on clinical cases and provide expert opinions and treatment recommendations, when appropriate.
Analyze individual and organizational data and provide recommendations
Assist in organizational strategic planning
Administer organizational needs assessment and develop targeted action plan
Advise changes in policies and procedures
Provide hands-on training, support, and guidance in administering functional assessments and developing behavior intervention plans
Enhance clinical and research skills through education, hands-on training, modeling, support, and guidance
Collaborate on clinical cases, making treatment recommendations when appropriate
Design targeted evidence-based interventions
Troubleshoot behavior challenges
Modify environmental events to improve employee performance and workplace culture
Support intervention implementation
Juvenile Justice System
Consultation: Child Welfare
CSC’s expert consultants help child welfare systems develop practices and procedures to address the needs of vulnerable children, adolescents, and families. We advance reliable, high-quality services and build sustainable programs that support the safety and well-being of at-risk children and adolescents, while also supporting the professionals that serve them.
Assist in organizational strategic planning
Administer organizational needs assessments
Provide hands-on training in behavior management and crisis prevention and intervention strategies for child protective service workers, social workers, intake officers, foster parents, group home managers, etc.
Design trauma-informed re-integration plans
Assist in managing behavior during removal, placement, and re-integration
Support child protective service workers, social workers, intake officers, foster parents, group home managers, etc. in rapport-building, opening lines of communication, identifying and avoiding triggers, preventing run away situations, and identifying warning signs of substance use, suicide, and non-suicidal self-injury
Develop social and life skills groups
Prepare and support adolescents aging out of foster care
Assist in policy and legislation related to child welfare
Advocate for ethical treatment and provide recommendations to court personnel
Juvenile Justice System
Consultation: Offenders
Aligning with a behavior-analytic framework, CSC’s consultants believe that there is “no such thing as a bad boy, only bad environment, bad modeling, and bad teaching” (Oursler & Oursler, 1949, p. 7), in other words, bad circumstances (Friman, 2021). We ignite compassion for problematic behavior, always viewing it in the context of the person’s life events and immediate environmental circumstances. CSC’s expert consultants work within the juvenile justice system to advance rehabilitative and compassionate behavior-analytic responses to illegal and antisocial behavior while supporting legal personnel, juvenile services officers, juvenile probation officers, case workers, juvenile correctional officers, and law enforcement. We advocate for ethical treatment, design prevention strategies that increase protective factors, and provide education on factors contributing to adolescent criminal behavior such as brain development, adverse childhood events, family history, parenting practices, level of education, peer pressure, and social media.
Assist in organizational strategic planning
Administer organizational needs assessments
Implement facility-wide (e.g., juvenile detention centers, alternative schools, juvenile correctional facilities) behavior interventions (e.g., token economy, differential reinforcement procedures, naturalistic teaching, crisis prevention and intervention, de-escalation, social and life skills groups)
Implement individualized interventions (e.g., social and life skills training, controlling emotions, functional communication training)
Implement family-based interventions (e.g., collaborative family therapy, behavioral parent training, reciprocal social skills training)
Activate community support via a community reinforcement approach
Assist in implementation of multisystemic therapy
Develop teaching family homes (e.g., Boys Town, Achievement Place) using the Teaching Family Model
Provide hands-on training, guidance, and support in behavior management and crisis prevention and intervention strategies for court personnel and juvenile services workers
Modify environmental events to nudge good behavior
Support juvenile services workers in rapport-building, opening lines of communication, identifying and avoiding triggers, preventing run away situations, and identifying warning signs of substance use, suicide, and non-suicidal self-injury
Develop social and life skills groups
Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to develop and review transition plans and progress
Advocate for ethical treatment, provide recommendations to court personnel, advise on juvenile sentencing guidelines, advise on conditions of release/probation, and assist in policy and legislation related to juvenile offenders
Prepare adolescents and families for court hearings
Develop prevention programs (e.g., classroom and behavior management, social and life skills training, conflict resolution and violence prevention, bullying prevention, mentoring)
Behavior Therapy
We take a comprehensive and collaborative approach to the assessment and treatment of everyday and more severe behavior displayed by children, adolescents, and families. Using evidence-based strategies grounded in applied behavior analysis, we treat, for example,
Academic under-productivity
Adjustment to major life changes
Adoption-related concerns
Aggression
Anxiety
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related concerns
Bedtime struggles
Depression and other mood disorders
Disruptive behavior
Divorce-related concerns including adjustment to divorce, blended family issues, co-parenting, and reunification
Executive functioning
Fears/phobias
Parent-child conflicts
Parent-teen communication difficulties
Peer relationship difficulties
School refusal
Sibling rivalry
Social skills deficits
Sleep hygiene
Temper outbursts
Caregiver Coaching
Caregiver coaching sessions are focused on the child’s caregivers. We change the child’s behavior by empowering their caregiver with the knowledge and skills to be an effective change agent. Through instruction, modeling, practice, and ongoing support, caregivers learn how to implement best-practice strategies with their own family to create positive lasting changes.
How to implement positive discipline strategies
How to gain instructional control
How to set limits
How to implement effective consequences
How to encourage good behavior
How to teach new skills
How to create routines
How to identify environmental variables contributing to behavior
How to create environments that promote good behavior
How to advocate for your child
How to maintain appropriate privacy and communication
How to promote independence
How to manage your child’s anxiety and depression
How to handle antisocial and illegal behavior
How to motivate the unmotivated child
How to use de-escalation techniques
...and much more!