Harbor Regional Center’s clinical staff of Board Certified
Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) offer a wide variety of services
and supports to families across age and diagnosis.
We offer classes that help HRC families with a child
exhibiting behavioral challenges.
Classes introduce and discuss behavioral principles and teach new
skills using practical and individualized examples.
Please contact your Harbor Regional Center Service
Coordinator if you are interested in participation in
behavior training classes.
Behavior Services and Supports
Orientation Sessions
Orientation is designed to inform caregivers about offerings,
answer questions about ABA, and discuss how to access
services and supports.
Attendance at a Family Orientation Meeting is required as a first
step in receiving these behavioral services.
Who Should Attend?
Families interested in receiving HRC-funded behavior services
Families interested in learning more about ABA
What is Discussed?
- What is Applied Behavior Analysis
- (ABA) and why Regional Centers and insurance fund for ABA
- How to access ABA through insurance or HRC
Please contact your HRC Service Coordinator to register to
attend an orientation session for participation in behavior
training classes. After attending a Family Orientation
Meeting, parents may contact your HRC Counselor to enroll in a
class.
Understanding Behavior
Are you experiencing challenging behaviors?
Not sure what to do? Are you out of ideas?
HRC is offering a class to provide support to decrease
challenging behaviors and to increase desired behaviors! Join us
to learn about Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and the benefits
of using Positive Behavior Supports.
This class meets for two hours, once a week, for 6 consecutive
weeks.
What Will I Learn?
- Why behaviors occur
- How to respond when behaviors occur
- How to prevent behaviors from occurring
- How to help your child.
- How to decrease unwanted behaviors
- How to increase desired behaviors
- Examples of Proactive Strategies and Positive Reinforcement
- Tour of HRC’s Resource Center
Please register for classes with your HRC Service Coordinator.
Routines, Self-Care, and Social Development
Toilet Training Class
HRC is offering a workshop about toilet training for caregivers
of HRC clients age 5 years and older. Caregivers will learn about
effective strategies to increase readiness and minimize barriers.
This one-time workshop meets for two hours.
What Will I Learn?
- Practices to reinforce toileting
- Common barriers to successful toilet training
- Your child’s readiness for toilet training
- Your readiness for toilet training your child
- Preparing the environment to increase successes
- Resources for toileting
Please register for this class with your HRC Service Coordinator.
Promoting Social Interactions
HRC is offering a workshop for caregivers on how to prepare their
son/daughter (all ages) for social interactions.
This one-time workshop meets for two hours.
What Will I Learn?
- Prerequisites for social skills
- Information on social development
- Ideas and ways to foster social interactions
- Information on social skills groups
Please register for this class with your HRC Service Coordinator.
Increasing Independence
HRC is offering a workshop for caregivers of HRC clients on how
to increase their child’s independence.
This one-time workshop meets for two hours.
What Will I Learn?
- What is a prompt?
- What us prompt dependency?
- How to minimize prompt dependency
- Strategies to increase my child’s independence
- How to apply strategies across different skills
Please register for this class with your HRC Service Coordinator.
Using Visual Supports
HRC is offering a workshop for caregivers of HRC clients about
the use of visual supports. Caregivers will be provided
with basic information and understanding on how to create and
implement visual supports for different routines.
This one-time workshop meets for two hours.
What Will I Learn?
- An understanding of visual supports
- Benefits related to visual supports
- Examples of visual supports
- Implementing visual supports
- Opportunities to create visual supports to use at home
Please register for this class with your HRC Service Coordinator.
Boundaries, Puberty, Sexual Development, and Safety
Puberty Talk
For families with children ages 10 – 13 years. This class meets
once a week, for 6 consecutive weeks. The first week is a
mandatory caregiver meeting.
Do you need help teaching your child about puberty?
Health Connected’s Puberty Talk curriculum is a comprehensive
sexuality education curriculum designed in accordance with the CA
Education Code and CA Healthy Youth Act to educate 10 – 13 year
old’s about the changes they face during puberty.
This six week class provides parents with information and
guidance about how to talk to their pre-teen and teenaged
children about topics related to development, sexuality and
appropriate body boundaries. Classes consist of one hour of
parent training and one hour of trainer-mediated parent/child
interaction in which the parents teach their children lessons on
each topic. Topics covered include: self-esteem, personal
boundaries and safety, public vs. private, puberty and social
media/internet safety.
Why Puberty Talk?
For families with children ages 14-17 years. Establishes a
foundation and common language for talking about sexual health
with parents/trusted adults, peers, and partners.
Class Model
- The first hour consists of interactive client instruction
- The second hour is trainer-mediated caregiver/child review
- Caregivers and their child will complete a weekly interactive
activity
Please register for this class with your HRC Service Coordinator.
Teen Talk
This class meets once a week, for 6 consecutive weeks. First week
is a mandatory caregiver meeting.
Do you need help teaching your child about puberty and
development? Health Connected’s Teen Talk curriculum is a
comprehensive sexuality education curriculum designed in
accordance with the CA Education Code and CA Healthy Youth Act to
educate 14- 17 year olds about the changes they face during
teenage years.
Why Teen Talk?
To provide clients with the information and skills they need to
make informed decisions about sexual health and relationships
throughout their lives.
Topics discussed include: Anatomy & Body Image, Understanding
Identities, Consent, Sex & Abstinence, Birth Control and
Pregnancy options, STIs, Sexual Safety & Decision-Making, Health
Relationships & Boundary-Setting.
Class Model
- Orientation for caregivers/client
- Direct instruction on topics with optional follow-up
activities and additional videos
- Intentional engagement with trusted adults to help families
share their values regarding the content
Please register for this class with your HRC Service Coordinator.
Elevatus Sexual Education
For clients 18 years and older. This class meets once a week
for 6 consecutive weeks; clients are required to attend an
Orientation session
People with disabilities are often excluded from discussions
about sexuality when, in reality, they too need the information
and skills for making healthy decisions. In response, Elevatus
has developed an evidence and trauma informed curriculum to teach
people with disabilities about sexuality-related topics.
Class Format
- Elevatus Sexual Education will take place via online learning
and is for clients only
- Clients are required to attend Orientation to Elevatus Sexual
Education to determine if the class is appropriate for them;
Caregivers are encouraged to attend as well.
What Will I Learn?
- Types of Relationships
- Public and Private Behavior
- Decision Making
- Internet, Social Media, and Communication
- Gender Identity and Expression
Please register for classes with your HRC Service Coordinator.
