Services are based in the home and in the community to address goals in the areas of social, behavioral, safety, self help, and play skills. BEST PALS staff are trained and educated to recommend and teach activities individually with the family or in a group setting, if peer or social activity is a targeted goal. Parent training is essential to functional skills training and parent involvement is an important and required element. Ongoing participation in this service is always based on the parents ability to show progress with goals enabling them to maintain and generalize behaviors across environments.
Parents begin to work with their child as soon as they enter the program.
Parents may be trained in several areas depending on personal needs and targeted objectives. New skills and behaviors are more readily utilized, effectively generalized, and maintained over time with parent education. Perhaps the most important key to the success of the program is the foundation of the team approach. The child will demonstrate the ability to maintain the targeted behaviors. Agency funding ceases.