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Collaboration with Professionals
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This CEU is designed for BCBAs who want collaboration that actually holds up outside the session. You will learn practical, field-tested ways to work effectively with teachers, caregivers, and medical providers so behavior plans are clear, realistic, and sustainable across real settings like schools, homes, and clinics. The training targets common points of failure, including jargon-heavy explanations, slipping into “expert mode,” and relying on data to persuade instead of align. You will leave with concrete communication and coordination strategies that build trust, increase follow-through, and keep your work firmly within ethics and scope of competence.
This CEU is designed for BCBAs who want collaboration that actually holds up outside the session. You will learn practical, field-tested ways to work effectively with teachers, caregivers, and medical providers so behavior plans are clear, realistic, and sustainable across real settings like schools, homes, and clinics. The training targets common points of failure, including jargon-heavy explanations, slipping into “expert mode,” and relying on data to persuade instead of align. You will leave with concrete communication and coordination strategies that build trust, increase follow-through, and keep your work firmly within ethics and scope of competence.
CEU Objectives
- Identify where the BCBA fits in the broader picture of a client’s life.
- Map the full team around the learner, clarify roles, and plan communication that supports coordinated care.
- Recognize common collaboration mistakes that reduce buy-in.
- Spot behaviors that unintentionally create resistance: over-correcting language, lecturing, over-relying on graphs, or drifting outside your professional lane.
- Use collaboration strategies that increase follow-through.
- Apply practical, audience-centered communication that helps teams agree on feasible next steps they will actually implement.
- Build skills that help you support implementers, not just clients.
- Use simple structures (e.g., brief feasibility checks, supportive feedback, and clear documentation) that strengthen consistency across staff and settings.
- Connect collaboration decisions to ethics and professional standards.
- Practice role clarity, scope of competence, and respectful coordination with other providers to protect clients and strengthen outcomes.
Meet the instructor
Mike Marroquin, Ph.D, BCBA-D, LBA-NY
Dr. Mike Marroquin is a New York State Licensed Behavior Analyst with more than 20 years of experience supporting children, families, and schools through practical, evidence-based Applied Behavior Analysis. Board Certified since 2008, he earned his doctorate from the City University of New York and has worked across school and home settings, with a focus on interventions that are realistic, collaborative, and grounded in strong clinical judgment. Dr. Marroquin has published peer-reviewed research on compliance training, stimulus equivalence, and functional approaches to psychopathology, and he serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Applied Behavior Analysis Graduate Program at Ouachita Baptist University, teaching online courses in behavior-change procedures and behavioral assessment. For nearly two decades, he also taught at Queens College, CUNY, mentoring dozens of future BCBAs. A recognized trainer and speaker, he has delivered workshops and invited lectures on ethics, problem behavior, social skills, and public-school applications of ABA, and remains committed to translating behavior science into clear, compassionate support for the communities he serves.
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Meet the instructor
Sarah Heller, Ed.D., BCBA, LBA-NY
Dr. Sarah Heller is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, special educator, professor, and committee chair with more than 20 years of experience helping children, families, and schools discover practical solutions thatgenuinely support learning and wellbeing. She has worked across early intervention, clinics, group homes, and public and private schools, developing programs that span infancy through adulthood. As a former District-Wide Behavior Specialist, Dr. Heller became known for creating systems that people could actually use by blending current research with trauma informed and neuroaffirming practices that made classrooms calmer, safer, and more predictable for everyone. In higher education, she brings that same grounded and compassionate approach to mentoring future educators and BCBAs, always prioritizing scientific integrity and real-world application over rigid formulas. Now as the Founder and Executive Director of Meaningful Metrics, Dr. Heller continues her mission to empower families and schools with training and support that are accessible, sustainable, and deeply respectful of neurodivergent identities.
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