Adult Community-Based Services
What is Adult Community-Based Service?
Our Adult Community Based Service Program provides individualized, person-centered support designed to help adults build meaningful life skills, strengthen independence, and access fulfilling experiences at home, in the community, and with others.
Through individualized support, skill building, and social opportunities, we help adults work toward goals that matter to them in ways that feel practical, respectful, meaningful, supportive, and fun!
What is ABA?
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is an evidence-based approach to understanding how people learn, develop skills, and interact with the world around them. At its core, ABA focuses on helping individuals build meaningful skills, increase independence, and reduce barriers to participation in everyday life.
At GMBC, ABA is always person-centered, compassionate, and individualized. We work collaboratively with individuals, families, and support teams to identify meaningful goals and create supports that feel practical, respectful, and effective.
We believe meaningful support should promote dignity, autonomy, confidence, and access to a life that feels meaningful to the person receiving services.
What Does Support Look Like?
Behavior Consultants (Clinicians):
Our Behavior Consultants collaborate with the individual receiving services, their family, caregivers, and other support team members to develop individualized plans that build meaningful skills, increase independence, and support access to community, social, recreational, vocational, and daily living experiences.
Consultants use ongoing collaboration, observation, and meaningful data to help guide decision making and adjust supports as goals evolve and new skills emerge. Services are individualized and designed around the strengths, preferences, and priorities of each person.
Our Behavior Consultants, or also referred to as Clinicians, are highly trained professionals with experience in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Clinicians are at minimum, Masters level professionals and may also hold certification as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst® (BCBA®) or a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst® (BCaBA®); to learn more, visit: BACB®
GMBC provides their Behavior Consultants with ongoing supervision and training opportunities to ensure they are implementing up-to-date and evidence-based practices.
Behavior Instructors (BI’s):
Behavior Instructors (BIs) provide individualized, direct, day-to-day support to adults in community and center-based settings. BIs help individuals build meaningful skills, increase independence, and work toward goals that matter to them in everyday life.
Supports may include practicing daily living skills, participating in community activities, building communication and social skills, strengthening routines, accessing employment or volunteer opportunities, and increasing confidence in navigating the world more independently.
At our center in Montpelier, BIs may support individuals in structured skill building, social opportunities, and group activities where adults can practice communication, social connection, recreation, and independent living skills in a supportive and engaging environment.
Through compassionate, relationship-based support, BIs help individuals practice skills where they naturally occur and increase access to meaningful participation in everyday life.
To support safety and preparedness, all BTs are trained in emergency crisis intervention as well as CPR and First Aid.