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A. Professional Supervision & Training of
treatment providers. Ask for credentials.
B. Professional Collaboration between Professionals,
Teachers and Parents. Collaboration is indispensable.
C. Treatment plans include tested individualized interventions, time frames and goals, not
"guesswork."
D. Progress Monitoring techniques that
categorically establish the "medical necessity" for prescribed
services.
The five core values that support excellent
treatment programs
1. Tell the Truth --
nothing else matters if this isn't your, and your provider's, top value
2. Be Thankful --
you & your treatment provider should be thankful for each other
3. Help Others
-- your provider should want (and be able) to prove that their efforts
are helping
4. Share Fairly
-- you & your provider should fairly share the responsibility for
helping your child
5. Move Forward
-- you & your provider should chart a course for the future that is
positive and optimistic
They probably exist in your community right now, but the most
successful practitioners often don't advertise because they have more work
than they can manage. This is where
OurCaseManager.pro comes in.
We can help any provider of treatment services work more efficiently and
effectively. We'll help them develop better treatment plans and more
effective treatment outcome monitoring strategies that can be enormously
helpful in terms of getting and keeping funding for necessary treatment.
With our help, their treatment plans will be better. With our help,
your child's IEP will be better. Together, we can help your child
receive the best possible services from any of the providers in your local
community who will work with you to accomplish those goals.
Government officials have to answer to lots of authorities. The
10th Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits the Federal government
from meddling in the affairs of State governments, so Federal government
officials can't dictate what state governments can and can't allow
licensed professionals do. Federal authorities can create broad
laws, like the Social Security Act, Medicaid, EPSDT and other sources of
treatment funding for children, but the Federal courts have to get
involved on behalf of US citizens who bring actions against the State when
the State is not doing what it's supposed to do under Federal laws.
Although it feels wrong, State and other government officials are often
more lenient toward some professionals than others, but government
officials usually don't want to jeopardize statewide Federal funding under
Medicaid, or incur fines and penalties, so they usually respond favorably
to challenges that would clearly be decided against them (based on
precedents set in similar matters in comparable jurisdictions).
We know what many of those precedents are, how to present information
that references them, and how to frame arguments that may be more
compelling on your child's behalf to State and other government
authorities and the Managed Care Organizations with which they contract.
We are not lawyers, and do not offer legal advice, but we do know how
current laws governing the funding of treatment for children with special
education and mental illness symptoms (including children with Autism
spectrum disorders) are being implemented throughout America. In at
least 37 states, behavioral treatment for disabled children is available
through Medicaid at absolutely no cost to parents, regardless of family
income!
We do. Our standards for the supervision and training of
unlicensed behavior support staff are higher than those that exist
anywhere else in America. Most states permit psychiatrists to
operate community mental health treatment centers, but set no
requirements for the psychiatrist to personally supervise the
treatment providers. That responsibility is often shifted to others,
including social workers, who report to the psychiatrist periodically or
occasionally. Our staff are accustomed to completing diagnostic
evaluation reports that address dozens of aspects of a child's functioning
from a life-domain bio-psycho-social perspective, and typically consist of
15 or more pages. Our Masters-level mental health professionals meet
personally with licensed psychologists for at least 1 hour each week and
can consult any of these psychologists at a moment's notice in
emergencies. Our psychologists all have decades of professional
experience, and our director is also a certified school psychologist with more
than 30 years of professional experience.
You can watch a brief video of our director's vision for
OurCaseManager.pro
which was introduced at the Autism Society of America's Phoenix
chapter on 2/21/2009 as
"The Issachar Project."
The cost of a one-hour consultation with an
OurCaseManager.pro staff is
$100. We will pro-rate this cost rounded down to the nearest
quarter-hour. Our services are always "at your request" and never
include hidden charges.
For example, if you request help with the review of an Individual
Education Plan (IEP), or a Behavior Treatment Plan, we will ask you to
mail or fax the document to our office in Pennsylvania. Depending
upon the complexity of the document and the issues you are concerned
about, we will propose a reasonable amount of time to complete our review,
write a summary (no more than 1 hour for this), and provide up to one hour
of follow-up consultation with you. You are free to stop the
process at any time. If you are satisfied that you are receiving
valuable information, we can continue to provide input and charge our
standard hourly fee. You may request as much help as you need to fix
problems and revise the documents to meet national standards for
compliance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for
Individual Education Plans, or our standards for Behavioral Treatment
Plans.
You can visit
www.ibc-pa.org for more information about our staff and their
credentials, and review our standards for Behavioral Treatment Plans
at
www.treatmentplansthatworked.com.
