The conference titled "Excellent Behavior Support:  How to Find it, How to Fund it, How to Keep it" sponsored by the Institute for Behavior Change at the Eden Resort in Lancaster Pennsylvania on November 21st was a terrific success.  The DVD set has been completed and features all of the presentations, and includes all of the hand-out material distributed at the conference, with up-to-date information about national trends like the new Pennsylvania law ("Act 62 of 2008") intended to prevent children with autism who have private health insurance from accessing Medicaid benefits that they have been entitled to under the Social Security Act since 1989.  This is the only source of documented information about how to implement successful "Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services" for children and how to get and keep their funding via Medicaid (regardless of family income)......

The Issachar Project was inaugurated in Phoenix, Arizona on February 21, 2009 when Steven Kossor addressed a group of about 70 people in a meeting sponsored by the Phoenix chapter of the Autism Society of America who had gathered to learn more about the opportunities that exist within the Medicaid system to fund behavioral treatment for children with Autism and other disorders using the EPSDT funding mandate.  This presentation was highly praised and explains the treatment model created by Mr. Kossor and how it could be applied in Arizona and other states.  Mr. Kossor is available to present this information, customized for any state in the USA......

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have completed an initial analysis of over 300 "Treatment Plans that Worked" between 2002 and 2007, finding strong support for a link between the implementation of these Plans and improvements in child behavior.  Without a Control Group, it is not possible to claim that these Plans caused the improvements in child behavior that were documented, but the data is remarkable nonetheless and clearly calls for further research on the effectiveness of the IBC model for Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS) that we have developed.  We are in the process of adding new Treatment Plans that Worked to the database.......