Southeast Works is home to a growing behavioral department committed to provide reliable analysis of behavior and quality behavioral insight and support to the staff. While the agency’s behavioral approach is rooted in Applied Behavior Analysis and functional assessment, Southeast works takes a larger, systems view of behavior and attempts to formulate interventions that promote the development of healthy and supportive environments.

Good Neighbor and the Productive People Programs

These incentive based rewards lead to positive successful actions and provide staff a means to continually notice the good around them.

Social Skills

Workshops and Residences

Here individuals who are having difficulty with each other sit and engage in various social activities (board games, card games, etc). During this time they are interacting in a positive way and learning and developing coping skills.

Van Skills

Here individuals who are experiencing difficulty on their van are brought together in a controlled environment to discuss the difficulties and learn about respecting others, following rules and increased socialization.

Living Together

In residences the task of living with 5 to 14 other people can be challenging. In this group we offer an open forum to vent frustrations and then learn how each person in the home can support the others in managing their frustration. The notion of learning how to become friends to increase fondness and caring that can help smooth out the inevitable difficult times is stressed.

As the agency continues to grow the opportunities for further behavioral discovery within this population expands. With the creation of the “Broadway” OPTS program, focusing on intense skill building, the opening of the William St East IRA, which is committed to caring for individuals with dementia and a developmental disability, and the planned opening of the Our Lady of Czestochowa apartments, which will create an integrated living environment for individuals with a developmental disability and their families or caregivers, the potential to branch out into new areas of research and discovery are potent.

For more information contact:

Behavior Specialist
Joe Clem
jclem@se-works.org
716-683-7100 Ext. 260