About HBCC

Who We Are

Our History

Helping the Behaviorally Challenging Child (HBCC) was first founded as a Parent Support Group in 2004 and grew to be the first organization in Orange County to focus exclusively on a system of care around Collaborative Problem Solving®(CPS). This exciting evidence-based approach helps with parenting, teaching and treating, children, teens, and young adults, with difficult-to-manage undesired behaviors who are having trouble meeting the demands of home life, school and work expectations.

In 2007 HBCC in Orange County, California started providing Parenting Classes as well as the Parent Support Group and has been a leader in this innovative model that has proven its efficacy at all levels of caregiver support by expanding trainings for both Educators and Mental Health Service Providers.

Both locally and nationally since 2002 this approach has realized improved outcomes in treatment and ultimately has improved relationships between children and their parents, their teachers, families, caregivers and their employers.

Our Staff

Our team is made up of dedicated peer professionals who are passionate about making a difference in the lives of those we serve. From our Certified Parent Coaches, Advocates, to Outreach Workers, we work together to provide comprehensive support to our clients.

Our Partners

We are proud to partner with a variety of local organizations to provide the best possible support to our clients. From LMFTs, MSWs, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, OTs, Speech & Language, Sibling Shops, Support Groups, home schooling, public schools & private, HBCC looks to partner with others who are CPS Certified and/or CPS Trained to help us extend our reach and impact in the community.

CPS Program Overview

Trainings in CPS

CPS is an approach to understanding and helping those 3-25 years old with concerning and behavioral challenges who may or may not carry a psychiatric diagnoses such as, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), pathological demand avoidance (PDA), conduct disorder (CD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), mood disorders (DMDD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), etc, or a developmental disability such as, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), down-syndrome, intellectually challenged, etc.

Typically, a child with concerning and challenging behaviors will have a diagnosis or a developmental disability; however, HBCC is not in the business of a diagnosis, HBCC is here to help adults in understand challenging behaviors and help parents, educators, mental health providers and clinicians understand what has conventionally been done about challenging behaviors and what neuroscience has learned to do about them to build skills and break the cycle of stressors causing challenging behaviors.

CPS uses a structured problem-solving process to help adults pursue their expectations while reducing challenging behavior and building helping relationships and thinking skills. Specifically, the CPS approach focuses on teaching the neurocognitive skills that challenging kids lack related to problem solving, flexibility, and frustration tolerance. Unlike traditional models of discipline, this approach avoids the use of power, control, and motivational procedures and instead focuses on teaching at-risk kids the skills they need to succeed. CPS provides a common philosophy, language and process with clear guideposts that can be used across settings. In addition, CPS operationalizes principles of trauma-informed care.

Lagging thinking skills are identified in five primary areas:

Language and Communication Skills
Attention and Working Memory Skills
Emotional and Self-Regulation Skills
Cognitive Flexibility Skills
Social Thinking Skills

Three options to respond to predictable difficulties:

Plan A - Unilateral Imposition of Adult Will
Plan B - Solve the problem collaboratively and proactively
Plan C - Drop or setting aside the expectation (for now)

HBCC provides CPS in English, and we partner with Heart 4 Kids Coaching to provide CPS in Spanish

PHILOSOPHY - KIDS DO WELL IF THEY CAN...

Adult/Child power struggles can leave both parties frustrated, with adults wondering how it could have gone differently. HBCC's CPS/TK trainings are derived from the Collaborative Problem Solving® concepts outlined in the books:

"Treating Explosive Kids" by Greene, PhD & Ablon, PhD
“The Explosive Child” by Greene, PhD
“Lost at School” by Greene, PhD
"The School Discipline Fix" by Ablon, PhD
"Change-able" Ablon, PhD

Trainings are designed for parents, caregivers, educators, and mental health service providers to learn how to effectively support and teach lagging skills to children, teens, & young adults with complex undesired behaviors. Participants in the trainings will receive exposure into the assessment of behaviors to answer the question “what’s getting in the way of this child/teen/young adult meeting the daily demands of life?”

A Certificates of Completion is awarded and, in some trainings, CEUs.

The Parent classes, Support Groups, Parent Coaching and 2-hour Parent Overview are exclusively for parents/caregivers which includes grandparents, stepparents, foster parents - addressing challenging behaviors - all are welcome.

HBCC hosts trainings for Educators, Mental Health Professionals and Service Providers, which are listed under EDUCATORS/CLINICANS menu tab.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

Consideration of philosophical underpinnings of the Collaborative Problem Solving®(CPS) approach.
Discussions on how traditional approaches to address maladaptive behavior have been ineffective for people with moderate to severe social, emotional, behavioral, and life challenges.
Identify how the Collaborative Problem Solving®(CPS) approach assesses challenges in living.
Begin to see challenging behavior as a by-product of lagging skills vs. willful.
Begin identifying a highly specific list of problems to be solved in living.
Identify key cognitive skills necessary for handling demands that life puts in front of us.
Identify expectations that address the needs of the person based on an accurate Collaborative Problem Solving®(CPS) assessment.
Identify the steps necessary to be effective at Collaborative Problem Solving® and what goals the Collaborative Problem Solving® process accomplishes.
Identify where cognitive skills are taught in the Collaborative Problem Solving® process.

SCHEDULE AVAILABLE

CPS PARENT/CAREGIVER/GRANDPARENT TRAININGS

6-week on-going course (weekday mornings, weeknights, Saturdays)
2-hour Parent Overview
Weekly Wednesday Evening Support Groups
Individual Parent Behavior Coaching
Group Parent Behavior Coaching

CPS Parent Behavior Educational Advocacy
The Language of Advocacy
Parents and Educators Together as Allies
CPS Role Play
CPS Navigating Services

CPS EDUCATOR/CLINICIAN TRAININGS

2-hour Professional Overview
2-day Essential Foundations Tier I CPS Essential Foundation Intensive

Educators and Parents Together as Allies
I'm a Teacher not a Therapist
Truly Trauma-Informed?
Your FBA is a Fantasy!

Certificate of Completion is awarded to those who complete trainings.

Completion of training qualifies, in some instances, for CEUs.

Optional

Completion of Advanced Tier I Essential Foundation Intensive is a prerequisite for an Advanced Concepts Tier II Intensive.
Completion Tier I & Tier II qualifies as a prerequisite for CPS Certification through Think:Kids.
Once CPS Certified, participants qualify to apply for the Trainer of Trainers certification track.

For more information on Certification/Trainer Track www.thinkkids.org

Helping the Behaviorally Challenging Child (HBCC) is a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to enable children experiencing behavioral health challenges to lead more productive and inclusive lives. We work to transform these children's lives by deepening adults’ understanding of their behaviors, and promoting effective interventions that focus on connectedness, collaboration, and inclusion.

HELPING THE BEHAVIORALLY CHALLENGING CHILD

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