With these practices in place, families were assured that their child’s therapist received high-quality training and guidance while working in the school and would bring that training into the family’s home. The “home component” of Vista’s program is designed to enable a child to transfer skills gained in the classroom to the home and to provide parents with needed training and support. The Vista Foundation further improved this model by obtaining a Mental Health Partial Hospitalization certificate from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare to operate its Educationally-Integrated Behavioral Support (EIBS) Program. This enabled The Vista Foundation to assume the behavioral health responsibilities and adopt a new service description that significantly improved its ability to recruit and retain high-quality staff and foster a greater sense of teamwork.
With these practices in place, families were assured that their child’s…