Maple Ballroom

Wait times and restrictive intake criteria are common challenges across provincial healthcare services. While families wait for core clinical services, Ontario Autism Program (OAP) providers offer proactive foundational family services and reactive urgent response services to prevent an escalating crisis. Although beneficial for families who are waitlisted for services, a major challenge is that both OAP programs have specific intake criteria, which may also prevent a family’s access to service.

To mitigate these barriers and fill a current gap in the continuum of OAP services, McMaster Children’s Hospital Autism Program developed a unique four-week model of brief behavioural consultation based upon previous evidence for brief models of intervention.

This Solution Room will discuss the brief behavioural consultation model for families who experience barriers to accessing targeted services within the OAP, with potential applications to other service areas.

3 Key Takeaways
1.    Identify common barriers to service provision within the Ontario Autism Program (OAP).
2.    Describe the brief behaviour consultation model and how it addresses service barriers. 
3.    Discuss the potential applications of the presented BBC model to OAP and other health services
 

Rebecca Ensor, Clinical Supervisor, McMaster Children's Hospital Autism Program
Joseph Robertson, Clinical Supervisor, McMaster Children's Hospital Autism Program
Talia Ennett, Clinical Supervisor, McMaster Children’s Hospital Autism Program