Services
At PBS Bendigo, we deliver Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) services through your NDIS plan under Improved Relationships. We deliver services in the locations that best suit your needs. We come to you.
Functional Behaviour Assessment (FBA)
Our participants voice is central to our assessment process. We hear their story and seek to understand what a good life looks like for them. We individualise all our assessment processes to ensure inclusion.
We start with an assessment called an FBA using a number of evidenced based assessment tools. The assessment process includes the participant and key people known to the participant. We prioritise this so that we can understand what the behaviour is communicating, this allows us to develop an effective plan to bring about change.
Behaviour Support Plan (BSP)
Our participants goals and values are central to their planning process. This is a individualised process to help communicate how we partner with them to achieve a good life.
A BSP is an action plan of strategies and recommendations needed to build quality of life and reduce behaviour of concern. Recommendations in the BSP will include changes required in the person’s environment, skills the person needs to develop, short term strategies and response strategies including a safety plan.
Implementation
Our participants are involved in the the implementation process, we jump in alongside and work with everyone to implement the plan.
PBS Bendigo will monitor the implementation of the BSP. This may include consultation, treatment and training. Services may be delivered to our participant, parents, carers, support staff and other key stakeholders. In a holistic BSP, PBS Bendigo places the participant at the centre and works collaboratively with other services, or if needed, recommend additional services. An outcome report will be prepared for the NDIA to summarise progress.
Positive Behaviour Support.
A little about the model
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is an applied science that enables a skilled practitioner to build a person’s set of skills to reduce problem behaviour and review the environment in which a person lives to improve quality of life factors contributing to problem behaviour.
PBS emerged from Applied Behaviour Analysis, inclusion movement and person centred values. Applied Behaviour Analysis is the foundation upon which PBS has evolved. ABA provides a conceptual framework of behaviour change and informs assessment and intervention strategies. PBS provides an alternative to aversive strategies.
Some resources for additional information about PBS.
Carr et. al (2002) Positive Behaviour Support Evolution of an Applied Science. Journal of Positive Behaviour Intervention.
Gore et. al (2013) Definition and Scope for Positive Behaviour Support, BILD, International Journal of Positive Behavioural Support