What Could Better Parent Training Change for You?
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What could better parent training change for you?

Answer a few questions about your caseload and this builds a report from your own numbers. It separates what's theoretically available from what you could realistically deliver, and it will tell you when parent training isn't the answer to the problem you have.

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What are you responsible for?

This changes the questions you'll see and the report you'll get.

Where would additional parent training fit?

This determines how much of any gap could realistically be additive.

Used only to convert weekly capacity into an annual figure.

What could you realistically deliver?

Enter completed sessions rather than scheduled ones, so attendance is accounted for once.

Your current caseload. Waitlist families are asked about separately.
per month
hours
hrs/month
$/hour
Use your own contracted rate. This varies widely by payer and region.
Eligible
20
Units available
16
Could participate
11

How much of this could actually be additive?

Revenue only counts as new if it doesn't replace billable work you're already doing.

What does preparation cost you?

Include finding resources, building handouts, adapting examples, deciding what to teach, and documenting from scratch.

minutes
minutes
Leave blank to skip. Any number here is your assumption, not ours.
Master ABA
Planning report

Your Parent Training
Opportunity Report

Built from the responses you gave. Every figure below comes from numbers you entered.

What your responses add up to

MeasureAnnual estimate

What the figures above are saying

Based on your responses

What moves this

What won't move this

Your next steps

    Why parent training gets stuck

    Parent training sits between direct-service demands, caregiver schedules, authorization limits, and the time it takes a BCBA® to decide what to teach and build the materials to teach it. Any one of those can be the binding constraint, and they aren't interchangeable. Solving the wrong one produces no change at all.

    Appropriate dose depends on the family and the goals. Two hours a month of the right information, delivered in a way a family can actually receive it, does more than two hours a week aimed at a family who doesn't need it or can't use it right now. What's worth measuring is the distance between what's clinically appropriate and available, what could realistically be delivered, and what's actually happening.

    What a structured system does

    A structured system reduces session-by-session reinvention. It gives you a way to move from a caregiver's current concern to relevant teaching content, start from reusable materials rather than a blank page, individualize examples to the family in front of you, track what's already been covered, and document the session without rebuilding the process each time.

    What it doesn't do is make clinical decisions. The judgment about what this family needs, in what order, at what pace, stays with the BCBA®.

    Build it or use an existing system

    Build it internally

    Create a library of teaching content, organize it around the situations families actually bring in, develop reusable materials and documentation supports, and establish a workflow you follow consistently. The cost is clinician time, both to build it and to maintain it as your caseload changes.

    Use an existing system

    Remove most of the setup burden and start from content that's already organized. The tradeoff is that you're adapting someone else's structure rather than designing your own around how you already work.

    Where ACHIEVE fits

    A parent training system you don't have to build

    ACHIEVE gives BCBAs® organized parent-training content, ready-to-use lessons and family-facing resources, and a repeatable way to match training to what families are bringing in. The Parent-Centered curriculum is built around the situations families arrive with rather than a fixed sequence of concepts. The Classic curriculum, paired with the Pathway to Progress and planning tools, gives you a different route to the same connection between sessions and what a family is working toward.

    ACHIEVE does not create authorized units, guarantee caregiver engagement, or replace clinical judgment.

    See how ACHIEVE works

    What this report doesn't assume

    Parent training should be based on clinical need, payer requirements, caregiver priorities, and appropriate treatment planning. More parent training is not automatically better.

    These figures are planning estimates built entirely from the responses you gave. Authorization, billing, documentation requirements, and reimbursement vary by payer, state, contract, organization, and client need. This report doesn't estimate downstream revenue from reduced direct-service intensity over time.

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