Behavioral Specialists

Just as one of the key purposes for Counselors to attend to behavioral management needs in our schools is to enable teachers to focus on their expertise of educating children, one of the key purposes for the Behavioral Specialists is to aid TDT staff so they can focus on their expertise of providing quality therapeutic services to our clients and their families.

To this end, Behavioral Specialists have the following responsibilities:

• Assist staff with observations
• Serve pro-bono clients
• Assist with client de-escalations
• Serve as driver on outings-client pickups and drop offs-routes and staff commutes
• acilitate securing signatures for documentation
• Confer daily with staff to identify their needs
• Prepare for psycho-educational groups when needed
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with school staff to promote the program, elicit referrals, and maintain census and growth of the program
• Attend the site’s staff meetings
• Conduct family contacts on an as needed basis
• Develop and obtain permission slips for therapeutic outings
• Assist in obtaining daily attendance of all clients in the county
• Purchase food and supplies needed for program
• Manage distribution of snacks
• Ensure the care and maintenance of vehicles i.e. inspections, registration, fuel, etc.
• Assist potential clients and families with overcoming obstacles with approval process i.e. transportation to assessment appointments
• Foster relationship development with clients, their families and administration by attending extracurricular activities periodically
• Attend all related school review team meetings, staffings, etc. related to a client when staff is unable to attend
• Attend all annual mandatory agency training (Handle with Care, First Aid & CPR, Human Rights, HIPPA, etc.).
• Other duties as assigned.