Bayes Achievement Center, Inc., in an effort to re-invent residential treatment by providing a highly normalized alternative for institutionalization, offers a residential treatment program staffed with professionals and paraprofessionals. The staff at BAC continually works toward providing a warm and loving family environment which offers the comforts, conveniences, privacy and nurturing of a normal home.

The teaching home environment has been structured to foster the independence and development of the child in a normalized manner, assisting them in reaching their maximum potential, which allows them to participate more fully in our society.

BAC's desire is to serve children who are most in need. The basis of our services is twofold: normalization and unconditional care. The basic premise of normalization is that children can learn to become normal, competent adults if they live in and learn from a normal environment, neighborhood and community. Unconditional care extends to the right of care to high risk children who have been discharged from previous placements due to severity of behavior. This premise further asserts that children need loving care regardless of their behavior and rejecting them from care and treatment for misbehavior worsens their condition and our society's ultimate burden.

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION

The behavior program is based on an eclectic, pragmatic prevention-based approach of utilizing positive interventions. The program is individualized to meet the needs of each student. The overall environment is highly structured using a structured teaching model. Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis are used to identify the function of the maladaptive behaviors. The primary focus of intervention is to provide positive behavioral supports to teach the students appropriate behaviors to replace the maladaptive behaviors that led to placement. A cognitive behavioral approach is inherent in the treatment philosophy. This approach is strength-based. The students are helped to understand how thinking errors influence their behavior. They are taught to take responsibility for their behaviors. Students are rewarded for appropriate behaviors. Natural and logical consequences are utilized for inappropriate behaviors; no aversive interventions are used.