Developmental/Behavioural Support Contract Providers (DBS)

Developmental/Behavioural Support CONTRACT

Sometimes, when a child does not qualify for Specialized Services, when they have transitioned from them or while they wait for Specialized Services to be approved, a DBS (Developmental/Behavioural Support) might be offered by FSCD. This contract is less intensive than Specialized Services and has a 6 month duration. Typically, it has 9 hours of Aide support per week and 26 total hours of consultation from 1 or 2 professionals (the hours can be split). One of the consultants has to be the program coordinator and write a plan that includes the family goals to focus for the duration of the contract.

Some service providers may offer FSCD rates, however not all professionals within an organization charge the same, so some may still require parents to top-up the rate. Please check in with each service provider individually.

Linked Platform

Easter Seals and Children’s Link Society joined forces and are now operating solely under Easter Seals Alberta. They have an online platform called LINKED that lists many resources, services, supports and more (BDS, SS, Mental Health, Education and other supportive agencies). They also offer Transition to Adulthood support and have a Family Support Team through their FRC.

www.inked.easterseals.ab.ca/resources

Navigate for Kids

Navigate for kids is an online tool to help find disability related resources for families with children (up to 18 years of age) with developmental disabilities in Calgary. It is available in additional languages including Tagalog, Punjabi, Chinese and Arabic. There are different areas of support available including Behavioural Developmental Supports (BDS), Specialized Services (SS), respite, counselling, social rec, transportation and transition to adult support.

www.navigateforkids.com

Achievements Unlimited

Specializes in providing services to both preschool and school-aged children with FSCD funded contracts. Offers a wide range of therapy services tailored to address various developmental needs. Neuro-affirming and trauma-informed approach, creating a playful, nurturing, and validating environment for children. Therapy sessions take place in the child’s home. Can also meet in community locations to support the child/family’s needs.

Airdrie Foundation 4 Early Childhood Intervention (Inspiration Station)

Airdrie Foundation 4 Early Childhood Intervention is a private ECS operator providing services at Inspiration Station (an independent preschool in Airdrie) and at The Village Kindergarten. They offer a common approach to provide Specialized Services to children enrolled in their PUF program. They have very specific suitability criteria and a child’s primary diagnosis should be communication delays and/or disorders. Contact them to determine eligibility/suitability for programming.

www.inspirationstation.ca

Along Dusty Trails

Is an approved provider of SLP services through FSCD. Provides traditional and alternative speech-language programming, including nature and/or community based intervention. Offering both individual services and social-language therapy play groups. Area of expertise is nature based therapy for children of all abilities; SLP supports for newcomer and/or trauma impacted families. Provides SLP services – speech, expressive & receptive language, literacy, social communication and various assessments. Willing to work within an MDT. Works within FSCD rates. Contact to discuss payment options.

www.alongdustytrails.com

Ascend Pediatrics

Ascend Pediatrics Offers in-home Private Therapy Support Services in Cochrane, Canmore, Chestermere, Banff, Airdrie, and Calgary, AB. Their service providers are approved to work within FSCD contracts. Assessments they offer are ASD Diagnostic, Psyco-educational assessments, Giftedness, Fluency, Language and speech sounds, language and literacy, sensory processing, fine motor and visual motor integration, Gross motor and Developmental coordination. They have a social thinking program and offer small interactive Respite Groups where kids can explore activities and play with friends. They have summer camps and more.

www.ascendpeds.com/

Autism Partnership

Offers an ABA approach, providing in-home & clinic multidisciplinary services to children with autism and other developmental disabilities, specializing in children 18 months to 6 years old.

www.autismpartnership.ca

Aurora Rising

Aurora Rising Ltd. is an agency based in Calgary, Alberta, providing psychological and behavioural services for families and individuals. They have a growing team of Behaviour Specialists, BCBAs, and Registered Psychologists. Their team provides Counselling, Assessments, Behavioural Developmental Support (BDS) and Specialized Services (SS) in the family home, community or virtually.

www.aurora-rising.ca

AXB Psychological Services

Allison Beckman Psychological Services an approved vendor for Behavioural Developmental Support and Specialized Services. They also offer Psychology Support, FSCD Clinical Coordination Services and Sibling Intervention (SibShops) for families with SS and BDS through FSCD.

www.axbpsychologicalservices.com/

Behaviourlytics

Applied Behaviour Analysis, Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) and Behaviour aide/tutor available to support learning and monitor goal achievement and offers respite services. Accepts funding through FSCD BDS & Specialized Services as well as Private Clients. Providing services to families in the community, family home or preschool in Calgary’s N.E. Chestermere and Airdrie.

Beyond Speech Therapy Services Inc.

Provides person-centered adult and pediatric speech and language therapy, adult and pediatric occupational therapy, and pediatric and adolescent behaviour consulting services in Calgary and southern Alberta, in their clinic, in-home, and virtually. Their team can offer support with Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) and they provide PUF services in some daycares and preschools.

www.beyondspeechservices.com/

Bridging Abilities

Focuses on growth and connections with their families and communities. Offers BDS and SS services from their multidisciplinary team of behaviour consultants, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and counsellors.

Professionals Available: Psychologists, Behaviour consultants, Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Counsellors and Child Development Facilitators

www.bridgingabilities.ca/

Canadian Centre for Development

The Canadian Centre for Development is a private provider of FSCD’s Behaviour Developmental Support and Specialized Services. They also offer recreational activities, respite, social activities, camps and more. Their services take place in their agency space, the community, family home, preschools and virtually. They are able to coordinate an MDT. Utilizes techniques and equipment like: Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI), Cuevas Medek Exercise (CME), Sensory Integration Strategies, Movement ABC Assessments, TrexoRobot, Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation, Full Body Vibration Therapy, Feeding Therapy, Orofacial Myology, Beckman Oral Motor Method, and others.

www.canadiancentrefordevelopment.org

Carly van Boven Consulting

Consultative and coordination services provided for FSCD’s Specialized Services or Behaviour Developmental Support contracts.

www.cvbbehaviourconsulting.com/

Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Provides Early Childhood Education (PUF), Clinical Services for FSCD’s BDS & SS as well as Community, Social, & Recreation Programs. They have supervised and trained specialists in autism (usually a speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist, and behavioural case manager/behaviour analyst) provide BDS & SS services in home and community.

www.centreforautismab.ca/

Connect Behaviour Inc.

Connect Behaviour provides BDS, Specialized Services, recreational activities, respite, social activities, social skills programming and more in their agency space and the home & community. They work with parents and caregivers to create and support strong connections with their children. By focusing on practical skills and strategies that families can use every day, they address and support the skills of the entire family, with the emphasis that skillful and well supported families, raise thriving children.

www.connectbehaviour.com/

Connecting Dots

Connecting Dots is a family centered agency in Calgary providing support for children, youth and parents in their natural environments, such as home, school or local communities. They use evidence-based practices and neuro-diversity affirming approaches to help families learn and grow to meet their potential. They offer in-home or online therapy services including SLP, OT, Psych, and PT.

www.connecting-dots.ca

Elevated Abilities

Provides a multidisciplinary approach for children aged 0-17 diagnosed with disabilities and their families. These services provide consultation and support for acquiring skills, learning strategies, and building capacity to help a family promote their child’s healthy development. They also offer counselling, in agency group respite, clinical services, and psychological assessments.

www.elevatedabilities.ca/

Intuitive Therapy Solutions

Specializing in Feeding Therapy and Intuitive Parent Coaching; Intuitive Therapy Solutions empowers families to move from surviving to thriving. They have the ability to support FSCD contracts, including Behavioural Developmental Supports (BDS), Specialized Services (SS), and offer MDT coordination services.

www.intuitivetherapysolutions.com

Hispir Care

Provides behavioural/developmental aide services services that align with existing BDS or SS contracts through FSCD. Their aides collaborate closely with the family’s clinicians to create customized intervention plans, ensuring each session is tailored to the child’s development. They also offer respite, community aide, extraordinary care and daycare aides.

Billing: Direct Billing to FSCD

www.hispir.com

Haven Family Wellness

Haven Family Wellness is a service founded by Marcy Medeiros, a Métis woman who supports Indigenous youth through connection to the land, experiential learning experiences and open discussions about the culture and history of Indigenous people. Haven offers Aide Support, Behavioural Specialist, Psychology (no counselling), Respite, Social Skills Programming, Recreational activities & transportation. If your family has funding for programming, but cost for admission to an activity is a barrier, please reach out to discuss your individual family needs.

www.havenfamilywellness.com

Jared Hazzard Consulting

Jared is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) with a master’s degree in Applied Behaviour Analysis.Provides Behavioural Therapy in the family home for BDS and Specialized Service FSCD contracts. Able to coordinate an MDT.

www.jaredhazzard.com

Jared Shore, Speech-Language Pathologist and Occupational Therapist with The Communication Coaching Centre

Dual certified Occupational Therapist and Speech-Language Pathologist works privately or through FSCD contracts providing services for BDS, SS and Social Skills. Therapy is provided in the office or in the family home. Has a focus on autism, augmentative communication, picky eating, sensory processing and uses a variety of approaches.

www.Therapyjared.com

Jessica Fritz, Board-Certified Behaviour Analyst

Jessica provides services to children of all ages using an evidence-based approach to address challenging behaviours in the natural environment. Jessica works on DBS and Specialized Services contracts through FSCD. She provides services to families in Calgary and the surrounding areas. Jessica believes in collaborating with families and other community members to build up the individual’s potential, while at the same time strengthening everyone’s knowledge and skills. She is dedicated to designing and supporting families with individualized strategies that are specific for each child and their unique ways of learning while using the principals of applied behaviour analysis.

Kids Early Treatment Centre (Kids ETC)

Kids ETC offers assessment, diagnostic, and treatment services for children and adolescents with a variety of presenting difficulties. They provide a series of treatments to help improve cognitive, social, play, adaptive and communication skills in their agency space or the family home. They offer services for FSCD’s BDS and SS contracts and are able to coordinate an MDT and also offer Psychoeducational Assessments.

www.kidsetc.ca

Kin-Dir Education Foundation

Provider of DBS services for children birth to 8 years in home. Can work with a child’s PUF provider to offer DBS programming.

www.kindired.com/

Lead Foundation

Specializes in working with children diagnosed with ASD and their families. They offer individual and group-based programs, can provide BDS and SS as well as a common approach for PUF programming. Their teams provide services in preschools, child care programs & kindergarten programs in Calgary and surrounding areas. Their multi-disciplinary teams include: Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Behaviour Specialists, Psychologists, and Child Development Specialists.

www.leadfoundation.ca/

McMan Milestones Program

Milestones BDS provides parents/caregivers who have an FSCD contract with in-home support to address the unique needs they have parenting a child with a disability. In-home support focuses on strengthening parent skills, learning new strategies, accessing resources and strengthening their support network. They also offer one to one, non-emergency counselling as well as Transition to Adulthood services for families with a youth, 16 – 18 years of age with a disability and SibShops. They are available in Calgary, Okotoks can and several rural communities South of Calgary such as High River, De Winton, etc.

Professionals Available: Aide Support

www.mcmancalgary.ca/milestones/

Monarch House

Monarch House provides family-centered, seamless services that are interdisciplinary and evidence-based to families and individuals with behavioural, communication, learning, and motor needs across the lifespan. Supports both Specialized Services (SS) contracts and Developmental Behaviour Support (DBS) contracts. They provide services in agency settings, family home or school.

www.monarchhouse.ca/

New Heights

New Heights Home and Community Support (HCS) is a unique program for children 2.5 to 5 years old that supports both Specialized Services and BDS FSCD Agreements. All HCS needs to begin providing in-person 1-1 support in your home with your child, is your child’s approved FSCD Agreement. They support children directly in the areas of self care skills, communication, sensory support, transitions to full day school, social skills and gross/fine motor skills and more. Parent Priorities are supported by Therapist(s) and an intervention aide in your home to practice with your child and coach you as a parent how to increase your child’s skills in the areas parents would like help with.

www.newheightscalgary.com/

Pacekids

Pacekids Programs supports children with diverse needs and their families through therapy, education, and play. Pacekids is a qualified provider of the Behavioural and Developmental Supports Program and works with children from six months to approximately 10 years of age. Pacekids takes a family-centered, play-based approach to our services by supporting both the development of the child, as well as the functioning and development of the family unit.

www.pacekids.ca

PlayFull Potential

PlayFull Potential is a group of independent contractors providing a multidisciplinary approach to SS and BDS services in the family home. They can collaborate with PUF providers to offer a common approach.

Professionals Available: Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, Speech & Language Pathologist

www.playfullpotential.com/

Sahaara Therapy Services Ltd.

Sahaara Therapy Services Ltd. provides support for families and their children. They have a team of OT, SLP, PT, Behavioural Therapist, Clinical Counselor and Aide support. They work in family homes, in the community and in schools to provide individualized, play based support.

www.sahaaratherapy.com

Skills to Learn

Offers social skills programs for children with disabilities aged 6-14. They are funded as a Behavioural Developmental Support. They teach Social Emotional Learning, emotional regulation, executive functioning and conversation skills.

www.skillstolearn.info

Society for Autism Support and Services (SASS)

Provides DBS contracts for children 2.8 to 6 years old. PUF program at their centre and/or in a community preschool.

www.autism.ca/

Spreading Light (LeVangie Behaviour Consulting) Inc.

A Behaviour Consultant with over 10 years of experience in the area of child development, Rochelle provides play-based Behaviour Therapy services in the home, community, and preschool settings (e.g. FSCD, PUF, fee-for-service, etc.). She practices and promotes a cooperative behavioural approach – one that is inclusive, play-based, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity affirming. She has experience working together with toddlers, children, and youth with various diagnoses/developmental capabilities including Autism, Down Syndrome, ADHD, and/or PDA profiles. Rochelle prioritizes skill building, acceptance, and up-to-date education. Willing to work within and/or coordinate a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), available in Airdrie, Calgary, Chestermere, Cochrane.

Professionals Available: Behaviour Consultant / Therapy

www.levangiebehaviourconsulting.com

Step by Step Early Intervention Society

Step by Step Early Intervention Society is a charitable organization providing exceptional early childhood education (PUF), therapeutic and family supports for developmentally delayed and disabled children and their families (BDS & SS). Supporting families is where they are rooted and they remain committed to providing a family-centered approach to enhance their therapeutic children’s programs. Step by Step provides a variety of opportunities for families to connect, learn, and grow alongside others on a similar journey.

www.stepbystepyyc.com/

Stepping into L.I.F.E. Inc.

Provides Respite, Community Aide, BDS, 24 hr. Overnight Care, Personal Care

www.steppingintolife.ca

Tandem Behaviour Consulting Inc.

BDS and Specialized services are offered targeting communication, social skills, play skills, sleep, food selectivity , toileting, adaptive living skills, and severe challenging behaviours.