Program Readiness

1) What is the name of your organization or service? *

2) Where is your organization located?

Street Address *

City *

Province / State *

ZIP / Postal Code

Country

3) What is your catchment area?

4) Your Name *

5) Credentials

6) Job Title

7) Email Address *(this is the email our team will use to contact you)

8) Are you affiliated with an existing consortium or partnership?YesNo

8a) If Affiliated (Yes), please describe

9) Does your organization currently receive funding from the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services?YesNo

9a) If No, what is your programs primary funding model?

10) The Social ABCs is designed for very young children who may be pre-diagnostic or have other developmental concerns. We recommend that practicing sites have access to a regulated health practitioner, such as a psychologist, to be available for clinical oversight of the program. Do you have a regulated health practitioner on staff who could provide clinical oversight to the program? YesNoNot Sure

10a) If Yes, please indicate credentials and anticipated FTE commitment:

11) Our local team can most often start off by training 2-4 new trainees. Have you identified 2-4 front-line staff who will be trained as Social ABCs Coaches?YesNo

11a) If Yes, what are the credentials/current job positions of those staff?

11b) Do these potential trainees have experience with parent training?YesNo

11c) Do these potential trainees have experience with children 0-3 year old?YesNo

11d) If No, what is the plan for building this capacity locally (e.g., train internally, hire externally...)?

12) We highly recommend sites designate a “Site Lead” at the beginning of training. This person will be one of the 2-4 front-line staff receiving the training, but will also get some additional training (requiring added time commitments over the training period) in coding/quality control, supervision, and coaching so they can eventually train new internal staff. This ensures sustainability of the program if a trained staff leaves, or if new staff are hired in the future. This person does not need to have a senior role, and is not expected to take on organizational management activities, but would be the go-to person to train someone new to the internal team.

Among those 2-4 front-line staff identified above, have you identified one trainee to take on the role of “Site Lead?”YesNo

12a) If Yes, what are this person’s credentials and experience?

12b) Are you interested in having a second person get this extra training? If so, what are their credentials and level of experience?

13) Training in the Social ABCs takes approximately 6 months, and requires support from trainees, management and the organization. Please review the steps involved in training below, and indicate whether or not you feel your organization is able to commit to supporting each step:

13a) Attend all training content workshops – approx. 1 full week or 6 individual sessions (scheduling to be determined, option to be delivered virtually if COVID restrictions in place): YesNoUnsure

13b) Be available to practice implementation of the Social ABCs (approx. 1-2 families per trainee, recruited by the program delivery site) for 9 hours each (amounts will vary based on staff experience and current skill level; some of this will involve receiving in-vivo coaching from Expert Team):YesNoUnsure

13c) Have access to technology and permissions to submit recorded videos to the Social ABCs training team for evaluation of their implementation fidelity and later parent coaching fidelity: YesNoUnsureNote: If fidelity targets are not met, additional training time commitment may be required.

13d) Be available to observe the Social ABCs trainers coaching (schedule may vary):YesNoUnsure

13e) Be available to observe the Social ABCs training team leading Group sessions with families:YesNoUnsure

13f) Be available to practice coaching parents with meta-coaching from Social ABCs trainers (approx. 3 families per trainee recruited by the program delivery site for 9 hours each, over the 6 month period):YesNoUnsure

13g) Be available to practice delivery of didactic content with (live or recorded) observation and evaluation by the Social ABCs training team:YesNoUnsure

13h) Learn data coding techniques in the areas of Parent Fidelity and Toddler Responsivity:YesNoUnsure

13i) Operate under the acknowledgement that trained staff will only be permitted to use the Social ABCs as part of the program where they are trained: YesNoNote: If other sites are in a partnership with the organization requesting training, permission would be needed if the trained site wishes to train other external sites within their network/partnerships. Training does not permit private practice external to the organization.

14) Does your organization currently work with toddlers with ASD (aged 12 – 40 months)?YesNo

If Yes, what is the approx. number of new cases/ month?

If No, please describe your interest in the Social ABCs and your plan for accessing families with toddlers:

15) In order to provide quality care for families, we do not recommend more than 4-6 families per full-time coach, per 6 week cycle. What is the current case load of the potential trainees? Do you anticipate challenges with caseload expectations?

16) Video recording and review is central to the Social ABCs training process. We require that your staff are able to video-record sessions with families and share those recordings with the Social ABCs team. This can include sending video files over a secure file-share link, providing the Social ABCs team with access to local drives, etc. This may involve getting consent from families to record and share for the purposes of training.

Do you anticipate any problems with the video recording aspect of the training? YesNo

Please explain:

17) Can your organization commit to sharing (anonymized) information with our Social ABCs training team (e.g., quarterly, twice a year), regarding:

Click options to indicate "yes"

a) Patient flow (# of families served, ages, sex, wait-time) b) Staff retention (# of trained Coaches who are still providing the Social ABCs; caseload/ staff) c) New staff (# of new staff being trained) d) Anonymized outcome data: (1) PARENT FIDELITY of implementation; (2) TODDLER Responsivity (3) Family Satisfaction ratingsNote: This data is collected for our own program tracking. If you anticipate problems with sharing this type of data, it can be discussed with the Social ABCs for problem-solving (and may be negotiable).

18) Timing for training will vary based on the availability of the Social ABCs Training Team. Due to the amount of requests, we may not be able to provide a firm commitment regarding timeline at this time, We are committed to being as accommodating as our resources allow.

For planning purposes and consideration, please let our team know your ideal timeline for training.

Thank you for your interest in the Social ABCs and for taking the time to fill out this form.

Our team will review the information provided and get back to you as soon as possible, at the email address you provided.

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