[ The Situation ]

STE Consultants was in expansion mode. After a successful operation in the Bay Area, the team decided to expand services to New York.

Unfortunately, their current training model was difficult to emulate at the new location, placing a financial burden upon STE's interstate growth."We were not hiring enough employees to support a full-time training supervisor at our new location", said Sarah Trautman-Eslinger (M.A., BCBA), Executive Director of STE Consultants. "Our New York office could not absorb the costs." Sarah sought an affordable training solution that would allow her to continue interstate growth without compromising the quality of her staff's field performance.

[ The Solution]

Sarah gathered her New York director, Casey Ludwick (M.A., BCBA), to discuss and review Autism Training Solutions' curriculum. After agreeing to move forward, ATS put together an affordable implementation plan to standardize training across the California and New York locations.“Implementation was easy”, stated Sarah. The ATS Team set up STE's account and trained the STE directors how to utilize the online supervisory function.

“The online supervisor function allows our management team to review employees' test scores and plan future hands-on training sessions around their needs," added Sarah.

Because the platform is customizable, it also allowed the STE team to assign specific lessons to staff. As Sarah noted, "Our front-line staff do not need to take a VB-MAPP training, they need to learn the basics, such as Verbal Operants." With ATS' content exclusion application, the STE team can make sure staff only view curriculum that meet their current needs.

[ Results ]

Today, Sarah and her team are successfully training new employees with Autism Training Solutions. Not only is it a financially sound decision, it affords them many other benefits, including free BACB-approved Type II CEUs, free parent training seats and an easier way to meet TRICARE's stringent 40-hour training requirement.

When asked if online training compromised her staff's performance, Sarah replied - "Not at all." In fact, she is hoping to use it again at her newest location in Colorado this summer.  

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