ABA in Non-Profit Settings: with Aaron Blocher-Rubin

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Matt Cicoria

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Aaron Blocher-Rubin joins me in Session 232 to talk providing ABA services as a non-profit agency. Aaron is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Arizona Autism United, a multi-site provider of ABA and other therapeutic services.

In this conversation, we talk about how Aaron got into Behavior Analysis, what led him to found the agency he now runs, supporting the family along with the client, and the importance of offering a variety of services. We also spent a considerable amount of time discussing what it's like to work in a non-profit setting. From funding, to governance, to staffing, we get into the nitty-gritty details, and one can't help but to contrast these settings with private equity funded nation-wide providers.

And Aaron and his colleagues must be doing something right because they were recently voted the 2023 Arizona Top Workplace (and for the second time at that!).

We also talked about some of Aaron's essays on what he calls ABA Red Flags that he's posted on LinkedIn, as well as some of the reactions to them.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to session 232 of the behavioral observations podcast. I have a great show in store for you today. I'm talking to Dr. Aaron Blocker Rubin, and we talk about providing ABA services as a nonprofit agency. Aaron is the president and chief executive officer of Arizona Autism United, which is a multi-site provider of ABA, and you'll come to learn other
0:23.0	therapeutic services. In this conversation, we talk about how Aaron got into behavior analysis,
0:28.2	what led him to found the agency he now runs, supporting the family along with the client
0:32.8	and the importance of offering a variety of services. We also spent a considerable amount of time discussing what it's
0:39.1	like to work in a nonprofit setting, and we contrast that with other settings. Of course, from funding
0:44.3	to governance to staffing, we get into the needy-gritty details, and one can't help but to contrast
0:49.3	these settings with private equity-funded nationwide providers, and we do discuss that a little bit also.
0:57.5	And Aaron and his colleagues must be doing something right, because they were just recently
1:01.0	voted the 2023 Arizona Top Workplace. And it was the second time they had been voted the
1:06.5	top workplace in the state of Arizona at that. So, uh, congrats to those guys.
1:12.3	Uh, we also spent a little bit of time talking about some of the, uh, blog posts that
1:17.2	Aaron has done on LinkedIn, uh, specifically talking about, uh, what he calls ABA red flags.
1:22.5	Uh, there's things that he sees in the service arena, if you will, that kind of worries him. I've put a link to his
1:31.3	LinkedIn account in the show notes of this episode, as well as the other resources that we
1:36.6	discuss. So you'll want to go to behavioral observations.com to check them out there. And if you want to
1:43.0	get these show notes sent directly to your email inbox,
1:46.2	when you go to behavioral observations, just sign up for the email list and you'll get these
1:50.4	show notes delivered straight to you. Before we get to the interview itself, I want to let you know that
1:55.1	we're brought to you today by the University of Cincinnati Online and their online Masters of
1:59.9	Education and Behavior Analysis Program. It's 100% online and their online Masters of Education and Behavior Analysis Program.
2:02.3	It's 100% online and asynchronous.
2:04.6	You log in when it works for you.
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