Programs & Services by

💻Hybrid (Sudbury/Manitoulin)
Location:Sudbury-Manitoulin
For help with:
  • Behaviour
  • Caregiver Training
  • Coaching
  • Consultation
  • Mental health
  • Teens
Provider:Mariani and Associates

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND. We are happy to offer drop-in clinics for adolescents and caregivers to access a 50- minute consultation session with Dr. Price. Clients will be able to schedule a time during one of the clinic days, where they are able to discuss any current mental health concerns, learning basic strategies that can be implemented at home and in the community, and to receive recommendations to plan for next steps.

Virtual
Location:Sudbury-Manitoulin
For help with:
  • Behaviour
  • Caregiver Training
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Self-regulation
Provider:Mariani and Associates

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND. This caregiver group involves participation in a Parent Management Training (Kazdin, 2008) program that aims to enhance parenting skills to manage challenging behaviours in children, such as aggression, hyperactivity, and non-compliance. The training will take place virtually in a group session. Handouts will be emailed to participants prior to each scheduled session.

In-person
Location:Sudbury-Manitoulin
Who is Eligible:

This group is intended for children ages 8 to 12 years who have heightened level of anxiety (e.g., worries or fears), are verbal/conversational, and reading at the Grade 2 level or above. Initial screening for eligibility is required to ensure that the group will be a good fit for each participant.

For help with:
  • Anxiety
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Mental health
  • School Age
  • Self-regulation
Provider:Mariani and Associates

Facing Your Fears (FYF) is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) program for children and youth with ASD who experience significant symptoms of anxiety. This group focuses on helping children and their caregivers in identifying worries, developing coping strategies, and practicing managing anxiety. This group consists of 12 weekly in-person sessions. Caregiver AND child participation in each session is required.

In-person
Location:Sudbury-Manitoulin
Who is Eligible:

This group is intended for adolescents aged 13 to 18 years who are verbal/conversational. Initial screening for eligibility is required to ensure that the group will be a good fit for each participant.

For help with:
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Mental health
  • Skill Building
  • Teens
Provider:Mariani and Associates

This CBT for Mental Health group is intended for adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder, aged 13 to 18 years, who are interested in learning about their own mental health and ways to cope with difficulties as they arise. The group will focus on increasing knowledge and understanding about one’s own emotions and the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, while learning strategies to better regulate emotions and behaviour in the face of stress and adversity. All materials will be provided to participants. Note: All applicants must undergo an intake interview to determine eligibility.

In-person
Location:Thunder Bay
For help with:
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Communication
  • Consultation
  • Early Learning
  • Life Skills
  • Skill Building
Provider:Ignite Positive Behaviour

Following a 1-hour consultation meeting with our on-site BCBA, your child will receive 3 hours of 1:1 follow up service with our clinical team, at our center, for up to 4 weeks. Session dates and times will be arranged with each individual family.

In-person
Location:Thunder Bay
For help with:
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Communication
  • Consultation
  • Early Learning
  • Life Skills
  • Skill Building
Provider:Ignite Positive Behaviour

Following a 1-hour consultation meeting with our on-site BCBA, your child will receive 3 hours of 1:1 follow up service with our clinical team, at our center, for up to 4 weeks. Session dates and times will be arranged with each individual family.

In-person
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Reserved for children and families who are not engaged in a similar service with another provider.
Children who engage in any of the following are not eligible for this service: self-injury, aggression, property destruction, pica, other potentially dangerous behaviour, and clients actively receiving direct ABA services, or services via telehealth, that are supervised by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).

For help with:
  • Caregiver Training
  • Consultation
  • Life Skills
  • Reinforcement
  • Skill Building
Provider:Ignite Positive Behaviour

Following a consultation with our Board Certified Behaviour Analyst, caregivers will develop a goal for their child. They will then have access to 3 hours of 1:1 coaching and/or continued consultations with the BCBA or Lead ABA Therapist for the following 4 weeks. Consultations will occur via telehealth, phone, and in-person where possible.

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Pre-requisites include verbal communication & minimal challenging behaviour; able to attend in a virtual session up to one hour

For help with:
  • Anger
  • Emotional Regulation
  • School Age
  • Self-regulation
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

The Next Step (8-12 year olds) will review emotions and zones and focus on the identification of moving through the four zones of regulation. Participants will learn a number of strategies that will enable them to increase their ability to self-regulate and increase their emotional awareness.

In-person
Location:Thunder Bay
For help with:
  • Caregiver Training
  • Communication
  • Life Skills
  • School Age
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
  • Teens
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

PEERS is a 15-week evidence-based social skills program delivered in person for students aged 12 – 17. There is a weekly mandatory parent session. Topics include:
• How to use appropriate conversational skills
• How to find common interests by trading information
• How to appropriately use humour
• How to handle rejection, teasing and bullying
• How to handle rumours and gossip
• How to be a good host during get-togethers
• How to make phone calls to friends
• How to be a good sport
• How to handle arguments and disagreements
• How to change a bad reputation (by investigating one new extracurricular activity)

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Ages: 8-12; Pre-requisites include verbal communication & minimal challenging behaviour; able to attend in a virtual session up to one hour

For help with:
  • Antecedent Strategies
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Assessment
  • Behaviour
  • Caregiver Training
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Consultation
  • Daily Living Skills
  • Daily Routine
  • Early Learning
  • Independence
  • Life Skills
  • Play
  • Preschool
  • Reinforcement
  • School Age
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
  • Teens
  • Transitions
  • Visuals
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

Model Me Kids Tips & Tricks is a 10-week evidence-based social skills program delivered virtually for students aged 8-12. Topics include:
- Topics include; demonstrating social skills in school and in the community
Each topic is demonstrated to help explain that particular rule. Each skill is demonstrated in more than one situation and across environments. This is useful to children with Autism because it helps with generalization of the skill taught.

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Pre-requisites include verbal communication & minimal challenging behaviour

For help with:
  • Communication
  • Independence
  • Life Skills
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
  • Teens
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

I Can Do It is a 10-week evidence-based social skills program delivered virtually for students aged 14-17 Topics include:
Topics include; do my best, social skills in the context of challenging circumstances.

Each topic is demonstrated to help explain that particular rule. Each skill is demonstrated in more than one situation and across environments. This is useful to children with Autism because it helps with generalization of the skill taught.

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
For help with:
  • Communication
  • Independence
  • Job skills
  • Life Skills
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
  • Teens
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

Get job ready! Job P.R.E.P. is for teens ages 14-17, who are looking to develop skills to help them find and maintain a job. The 10 session individualized program will work on skills such as, resumes, interview skills, public vs private, managing stress & anxiety, hidden social rules, and much more!

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Pre-requisites include verbal communication & minimal challenging behaviour; able to attend in a virtual session up to one hour

For help with:
  • Antecedent Strategies
  • Assessment
  • Behaviour
  • Caregiver Training
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Consultation
  • Daily Living Skills
  • Daily Routine
  • Early Learning
  • Independence
  • Life Skills
  • Play
  • Preschool
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
  • Teens
  • Transitions
  • Visuals
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

Model Me Going Places™ provides children with Autism the skills to enable them to participate in a variety of community outings successfully.

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
For help with:
  • Antecedent Strategies
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Behaviour
  • Caregiver Training
  • Reinforcement
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

FCW is a series of 5 – 2 hour workshops which provides parents and caregivers with a foundational understanding of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and evidence based strategies. Topics include; ASD, reinforcement, antecedent strategies, replacement behaviour, functions of behaviour, and setting events.

In-person
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

This service is not intended for complex behavioural needs due to short service block period

For help with:
  • Antecedent Strategies
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Assessment
  • Behaviour
  • Caregiver Training
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Consultation
  • Daily Living Skills
  • Daily Routine
  • Early Learning
  • Independence
  • Life Skills
  • Play
  • Preschool
  • Reinforcement
  • School Age
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
  • Teens
  • Transitions
  • Visuals
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

GJCC Focused Consultative ABA services (using the techniques and strategies of Applied Behaviour Analysis – ABA) can help individuals learn new skills, cope with, and tolerate different situations, and decrease some challenging behaviours. Individualized plans will include 1 goal, which is then broken into smaller steps through teaching strategies. Some examples are:
• Improving social skills, taking turns
• Following instructions, transitioning between activities, following a schedule
• Learning to care for personal needs, like: getting dressed, teeth brushing, basic daily self care

You will guide the process. Together, we will talk about your needs, goals, and what you and your child/youth need support with. Do not worry; we will help give clinical recommendations if you do not know where to start.
When you have selected the goal, we will observe and assess your child/youth to see his/her current strengths and needs. Our clinical team will create an individualized 10-week plan for your child/youth based on your goals. Your child/youth will be working 1-1 with a Behavioural Therapist to deliver the plan with the Clinical Supervision of the BCBA. There are also opportunities for caregiver mediated coaching throughout the 8 weeks of sessions. All services can be delivered virtually or in-person, as determined in collaboration with your child/youth’s Behaviour Clinician (BCBA). These goals can happen in a variety of environments based on needs and consents.

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Pre-requisites include verbal communication & minimal challenging behaviour; able to attend in a virtual session up to one hour
**Must have an adult (parent/caregiver) available to support during sessions

For help with:
  • Anger
  • Emotional Regulation
  • School Age
  • Self-regulation
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

Faces and Emotions will focus on identifying facial expressions and different emotions in both self and others and is explored virtually.

In-person
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Pre-requisites for teens include functional verbal communication and comprehension skills and they must be interested in attending and participating in a group setting with minimal behaviours. Weekly attendance for parents and teens is mandatory.

For help with:
  • Anxiety
  • Daily Living Skills
  • Daily Routine
  • Independence
  • Life Skills
  • Skill Building
  • Teens
  • Transitions
  • Visuals
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

Running for 8 individualized sessions, E.I.B. focuses on enhancing the independent life skills of individuals. Working with an ABA Therapist, teens will have the opportunity to work on different life skills. Skills include; Personal Living Skills (grooming, hygiene, and dressing), Independent Living Skills (clothing care, meal planning and cooking, and home safety), and Community Living Skills (money management, shopping, and community safety).

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Pre-requisites include verbal communication & minimal challenging behaviour; able to attend in a virtual session up to one hour

For help with:
  • Communication
  • School Age
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
  • Teens
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

Conversation Cues is an 10-week evidence-based social skills program delivered virtually for students aged 8 - 12 years of age. Topics include:
- When to start a conversation
- How to start a conversation
- How to take turns appropriately
- How to maintain conversation with peers
- How to stay on top
- How to identify emotions of their conversation partner respond appropriately
- How to end a conversation

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Pre-requisites include verbal communication & minimal challenging behaviour; able to attend in a virtual session up to one hour

For help with:
  • Antecedent Strategies
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Assessment
  • Behaviour
  • Caregiver Training
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Consultation
  • Daily Living Skills
  • Daily Routine
  • Early Learning
  • Independence
  • Life Skills
  • Play
  • Preschool
  • Reinforcement
  • School Age
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
  • Teens
  • Transitions
  • Visuals
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

Model Me Confidence & Bullying Prevention™ provides children with Autism a teaching tool for preventing bullying and building self-esteem.
Model Me Confidence & Bullying Prevention™ will give children some good ideas about how to make themselves as strong as they can be. The lessons will teach them how to add to their toolbox with a variety of strategies to use every day at school, at home, and in their community.

Virtual
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

For ages 6-9 (First series) + caregivers. Pre-requisites include verbal communication, minimal challenging behaviour, and an interest in social interactions and making friends.

For help with:
  • Caregiver Training
  • Communication
  • Play
  • School Age
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
Provider:George Jeffrey Children's Centre

Children’s Friendship Training is an evidence based interactive program delivered in module sessions in which children and families develop and practice social skills necessary to initiate and maintain meaningful peer relationships. Caregivers attend sessions at the same time as their children/youth.

Through ten modules, children will learn to make phone calls, host play-dates, maintain play, share in the interests of others, and respond appropriately to bullying/teasing. During these sessions, caregivers will learn how to support their children as they navigate different social situations.
Facilitators will complete a pre-screening tool with families expressing an interest in participating.

💻Hybrid (Kenora/Rainy River)
Location:Kenora-Rainy River
Who is Eligible:

These sessions are not intended for children already participating in therapy / intervention programs targeting ASD. They are intended to guide and support caregivers immediately following ASD diagnosis through education, consultation and coaching as a pre-cursor to future service selection.

For help with:
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Communication
  • Early Learning
  • Independence
Provider:FIREFLY

Caregivers of children recently diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will participate in a group session together with other Caregivers and FIREFLY team members that will introduce them to a range of services and approaches used to support individuals with ASD. Following the group session, a member(s) of the FIREFLY team will provide up to 4 hours, follow-up consultation, matched to the needs and interests identified by each Caregiver. Topics of interest for families may include, but are not limited to: communication, behaviour, early learning and independence. Caregivers will complete this service having basic information that will help them support and understand their child’s needs as they transition to life beyond initial diagnosis.

In-person
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Reserved for children and families who are not engaged in a similar service with another provider. Children who engage in any of the following are not eligible for this service: self-injury, aggression, property destruction, pica, other potentially dangerous behaviour, and clients actively receiving direct ABA services, or services via telehealth, that are supervised by a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) or working with a Speech Language Pathologist, or Occupational Therapist.

For help with:
  • Antecedent Strategies
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Behaviour
  • Caregiver Training
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Consultation
  • Daily Living Skills
  • Daily Routine
  • Early Learning
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Feeding
  • Independence
  • Language
  • Life Skills
  • Picky Eaters
  • Play
  • Preschool
  • Reinforcement
  • School Age
  • Self-regulation
  • Skill Building
  • Sleeping
  • Social Skills
  • Teens
  • Toileting
  • Transitions
  • Visuals
Provider:Creative Therapy Associates

Caregivers will work together with the Occupational Therapist, Speech-Language Pathologist and BCBA, to choose a goal. They will then have 9 sessions of 1:1 coaching and/or consultations with any of the professionals, based on what the needs and goal is.

Following a brief screening by the team, you will discuss strategies related to skill acquisition or a behaviour of concern that the family may find challenging. Caregivers will leave the initial consult with specific, measurable goals. The professionals will develop strategies and will then help coach the family or work with the child directly for the remaining sessions.

Hybrid
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Children and families who are engaged in a similar service with another provider. They can be on a waitlist for services with another agency.

For help with:
  • Caregiver Training
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Consultation
  • Daily Routine
  • Early Learning
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Play
  • Preschool
  • Reinforcement
  • School Age
  • Skill Building
  • Social Skills
Provider:Creative Therapy Associates

A Speech-Language Pathologist will conduct a parent interview and screen your child to determine speech, language and/or social communication skills. Based on parent focus and child’s skill level, SLP will work with child, demonstrate strategies and coach the caregiver in order to facilitate learning and help transition skills to home.

In-person
Location:Thunder Bay
Who is Eligible:

Children and families who are engaged in a similar service with another provider. They can be on a waitlist for services with another agency.

For help with:
  • Caregiver Training
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Consultation
  • Daily Living Skills
  • Daily Routine
  • Early Learning
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Life Skills
  • Play
  • Preschool
  • Skill Building
  • Transitions
  • Visuals
Provider:Creative Therapy Associates

Consult and collaboratively work with an Occupational Therapist to identify concerns related to fine motor skills, visual motor skills (paper and pencil, cutting), self-regulation, self-care skills as well as areas of sensory processing affecting the child’s functional skills in their everyday life.

In-person
Location:Sudbury-Manitoulin
For help with:
  • Feeding
  • Independence
  • Life Skills
  • Picky Eaters
  • Preschool
  • School Age
  • Social Skills
Provider:Bright Spot Therapy Services Ltd.

The SOS Feeding Therapy Group is designed for children aged 2 – 7 years of age that are selective feeders and eat a limited repertoire of foods. It is designed to increase children’s willingness to explore, interact, and accept new foods. Each child will receive a feeding assessment and then will participate in 6 sessions with peers.