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About Us
Mission
At-A-Glance
Mission
Helping the Behaviorally Challenging Child in Tustin (HBCC) is a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation that is composed of individuals who are committed to helping behaviorally challenging children lead more productive and inclusive lives.
Vision
At-A-Glance
Mission
To transform children's lives by deepening the world's understanding of their behaviors, and promoting effective interventions that focus on connectedness, collaboration and inclusion.
At-A-Glance
At-A-Glance
How Did HBCC Start?
HBCC teaches a revolutionary, evidence-based approach that promotes the understanding that challenging kids lack the skill, not the will, to behave well. Through coaching, training, therapy, parent support and referrals to services that support Collaborative Problem Solving®, HBCC is championing the cause to rethink challenging behaviors
HBCC teaches a revolutionary, evidence-based approach that promotes the understanding that challenging kids lack the skill, not the will, to behave well. Through coaching, training, therapy, parent support and referrals to services that support Collaborative Problem Solving®, HBCC is championing the cause to rethink challenging behaviors and amazing results are happening.
Specifically, skills related to problem solving, cognitive flexibility, executive function, and frustration tolerance.
Unlike traditional models of discipline, which use an abundance of rewards, consequences and ignoring; HBCC teaches an approach that avoids the use of power, control and motivational procedures.
HBCC focuses on teaching at-risk, behaviorally challenging complex kids the skills they need to succeed and maximize potential.
How Did HBCC Start?
How Did HBCC Start?
How Did HBCC Start?
A note from Debra Ann Afarian
Parenting a child with ADHD, ASD, OCD, DMDD, Anxiety, ODD, PDA, etc., can morph people who are supposed to be your allies into treating you as a failure!
Teachers, church leaders, friends, and even relatives lecture you about your child because their big emotions don't live up to expectations. You feel like h
A note from Debra Ann Afarian
Parenting a child with ADHD, ASD, OCD, DMDD, Anxiety, ODD, PDA, etc., can morph people who are supposed to be your allies into treating you as a failure!
Teachers, church leaders, friends, and even relatives lecture you about your child because their big emotions don't live up to expectations. You feel like hiding under the covers or moving your family to the other side of the States to live among strangers. Especially, when it is thought that your child's challenging and concerning behaviors are because of "poor parenting" -- compelling people to lecture you with (ineffective) ways to "make" your child behave and meet expectations.
Having been "that" challenging child myself and raising "that" challenging child, I set out on a quest to learn "what was really going on?" I knew I wanted to meet expectations as a child, and also knew our son did.
I learned about the pitfalls of misunderstanding directions, rigidity, low frustration tolerance and living in the fight, flight, freeze and fibbing part of the the brain (the amygdala). All my new knowledge led me to parent differently, counter-intuitively, yet successfully! Other families and teachers noticed and asked me to share what I had learned and thus, HBCC was born!
Helping families change outcomes by eliminating and understanding the "stigma" that has persisted throughout much of the 21st century has been the most rewarding journey.
It is time to end the systemic discrimination in the professions of psychology and psychiatry, which blames parents, mostly mothers, for causing their offspring's challenging and concerning behaviors.
In 2003, when I started learning about behaviors and neuroscience, there were not many "relational approaches" other than Collaborative Problem Solving®.
Now in 2021, there are over 25 parenting programs that I know of in the field of understanding behaviors BEYOND rewards, consequences & control!
This has become my passion along with my husband, although he has a full-time engineering job, he helps me a lot behind the scenes because he wishes there was this kind of parenting help and support when we were struggling with our sensitive, energetic, 2e son.
If you feel like it is tough understanding behaviors and its "sea of options" -- it is! You are not alone! First know that there are many parenting programs, yet they all fall in one of two categories:
(1) Rewards & Consequences ... a token economy ... behavior modification to be sure that your child knows they will not get away with defiant, non-compliant behavior.
(2) a skill building approach that understands rewards and consequences were never meant to teach complex thinking skills. Challenging behaviors are about lagging skills in the areas of:
I. Language & Communication
II. Social Thinking
III. Emotional & Self-Regulation
IV. Cognitive Flexibility
V. Attention & Working Memory
And builds skills by:
a. Pursuing Expectations
b. Reducing Behaviors
c. Teaching Skills
d. Solving Chronic Problems
e. Improving Relationships
Each family who finds HBCC and the skill building parenting & teaching approach (#2) reaps positive results and becomes another advocate for change.
Let us know how we can help YOU!
How Can We Help?
How Did HBCC Start?
How Can We Help?
Adult/Child power struggles can leave both parties frustrated.
Rewards, Punishments and Ignoring approaches can make matters worse.
HBCC introduces adults to Collaborative Problem Solving® (CPS). CPS helps with parenting, teaching and treating children, teens, and young adults with difficult-to-manage behaviors who are having trouble me
Adult/Child power struggles can leave both parties frustrated.
Rewards, Punishments and Ignoring approaches can make matters worse.
HBCC introduces adults to Collaborative Problem Solving® (CPS). CPS helps with parenting, teaching and treating children, teens, and young adults with difficult-to-manage behaviors who are having trouble meeting the demands of home life and school expectations.
Time and again, this approach has produced positive, evidence-based results in treatment. It has improved relationships between children, their teachers, families, and caregivers.
If you would like to find out more about CPS:
- Explore this Website
- Watch Our Videos
- Take a 5-Week Parent/Caregiver Course
- Join Our Book Club
- Join Our Parent Support Group
- Ask about the "Language of Advocacy" workshop which brings together "Parents & Teachers as Allies"
- Sign up for a Workshop
Questions: email info@hbcc.us
Call (714) 695-1057
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How Did HBCC Start?
How Can We Help?
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