How to Develop a Skilled RBT Workforce: Apollo Case Study Series 7

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

Science, Mental Health, Skinner, Behaviorism, Behaviorconsultant, Aba, Behavioralpsychology, Health & Fitness, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy, Fba, Social Sciences, Verbalbehavior, Bcba, Functionalassessment, Discretetrial

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

I've been asked many times to highlight the work of Registered Behavioral Technicians, and in this installment of the Apollo Case Study Series, we do just that.

Dr. Jim Moore, Rachel Packiam (Director of Clinical Excellence), Christina Halverson (RBT Training Coordinator), and Emily Jackson (Lead RBT) joined me to discuss Apollo's unique organizational strategies for onboarding and training their RBTs.

As you'll learn in this episode, by the time an RBT works 1:1 with a child, they have had the training and confidence necessary to implement programming successfully. It is important to emphasize that this just doesn't happen by accident. There are many additional hours of supervising and mentoring that happen - hours that go far beyond the basic requirements. And as an outsider looking in, it's impressive to me just how much non-billable time they invest in ensuring their staff are as prepared as possible.

If you're a practice owner, or if you have some administrative role, you're going to want to grab a pen and paper to take some notes, because there are a lot of ideas for staff development and support in this podcast. We go over topics including rapport-building with trainees, soft-skills, staff morale, professionalism, teaching and upholding core organizational values, common struggles of trainees, and lots more!

If you're an RBT or BCBA, and this model of training and service delivery appeals to you, connect with Jim, or contact the folks at Apollo directly to learn more about potential job opportunities in their Atlanta-area clinics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the behavioral observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior
0:14.0	analysts.
0:15.3	Now here's your host, Matt Sequoria.
0:19.5	All right, everyone, welcome back to the seventh installment of the Apollo case study series.
0:24.8	I'm joined, as always, in the series by Dr. Jim Moore.
0:28.5	And this is brought to you by the good folks at Apollo Behavior.
0:32.4	So, Jim, thanks for joining me again.
0:34.2	And you've brought with you a cast of characters here.
0:41.9	And I'm looking forward to a, get another lively discussion. So I'm going to let you,
0:46.4	I'm going to actually let you do all the work today. I'm going to let you do the hosting duties.
0:49.7	I'm going to let you ask the questions. I'm going to let you introduce people. So why don't you take it away from here? And I look forward to just kind of sitting back and sipping on my my sparkling
0:58.1	water as we proceed through this really fascinating conversation. I'll of course jump in here
1:02.6	and there because I can't help myself. But other than that, take it away, Jim. All right. Thanks,
1:08.1	Matt. We're so excited to be back. took a little holiday break, and now we're
1:14.2	here to really talk about an important subject to practitioners, which is RBT onboarding and
1:20.5	RBT training. As many of your listeners probably know, it's so vital to have strong training for RBT's.
1:30.3	They spend the most time with clients.
1:33.3	But it also can be a huge expense and a huge investment of resources.
1:41.3	So as with everything that we've talked about on our case study series, we're trying to balance both effectiveness and efficiency.
1:51.0	And so I thought who better to talk about our training program than some of the folks that help make it great.
2:00.0	And we continue to try and become better and better and better.
2:04.8	So it's my pleasure to welcome Rachel, Christina, and Emily to the podcast today.
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