Our Services

Our community and home based services are completed between the hours of 7:30 am and 6:00 pm in Ada County (Boise, Meridian, Garden City and Eagle) and Canyon County (Kuna, Caldwell, Star and Middleton) Sunday through Saturday. Sessions are completed in home and other community locations such as: stores (grocery, clothing, hobby etc.), libraries, parks, museums, nature centers, community centers (YMCA) and other community settings. Services are provided to children/young people (ages 3-21) and families who meet Medicaid eligibility requirements found on the Idaho Medicaid/Department of Health and Welfare website.

Behavior Intervention Services

Our team aims to promote adaptive behaviors, improve social skills, enhance communication, and increase overall quality of life for individuals who may struggle with challenging behaviors. Implementing the participant’s programs by utilizing various interventions, such as positive reinforcement, teaching alternative behaviors, modifying environments, and providing skill-building opportunities.

Creating Assessment and Clinical Treatment Plans

Conducting thorough evaluations to understand the individual’s behavior patterns, triggers, and environmental factors contributing to the behavior. Developing intervention plans that outline specific strategies, techniques, and goals to address the challenging behaviors effectively. Involving family members, caregivers, educators, and other professionals in the implementation of program intervention plans, ensuring consistency and support across different settings.

Applied Behavioral Analysis

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a science-based approach to understanding behavior and how it is influenced by the environment. At its core, ABA looks at the relationship between a person’s behavior and their surroundings, then uses proven strategies to create meaningful, positive change in areas that matter most to them.

At TVI, we are committed to using ABA ethically, responsibly, and compassionately. Our goal is to help individuals build skills, increase independence, and improve quality of life through respectful, individualized care.

ABA is a powerful tool. When used thoughtfully, it helps people grow and reach their potential. Like any tool, however, it must be used correctly. Some individuals have had negative experiences with ABA when it was practiced in ways that were overly compliance-focused, not individualized, or not based on evidence. This can include prioritizing obedience over well-being, targeting skills that are not meaningful to the individual, or relying too heavily on punishment or restrictive practices.

We believe effective ABA must be:

• Individualized to each person’s strengths, needs, and goals
• Focused on socially meaningful skills
• Grounded in evidence-based practices
• Respectful and assent-based
• Designed to promote independence and long-term success

High-quality ABA follows seven core principles. It must focus on observable behavior, be data-driven, clearly defined, grounded in established behavioral science, meaningful to the individual, effective in producing real change, and designed to last across time and settings.

We also value collaboration and ongoing training within the Treasure Valley community to help ensure that ethical, compassionate, and effective ABA is the standard of care for all Behavior Intervention practitioners.

Our commitment is simple: to provide ABA that supports growth, honors dignity, and creates lasting, positive change!

What does this mean? 

Behavioral: An intervention must focus on observable and measurable behaviors, not on private events or abstract concepts that cannot be measured for change (e.g. emotions or intentions). 

Analytic: In order for a treatment package to be considered ABA, it must be analytic, that is, it must demonstrate a direct functional relationship to the behaviors it is targeting. In other words, an intervention has to have a direct change or impact on the behavior it is targeting, and this must be demonstrated through thorough and accurate data collection, monitored by a behavior analyst. 

Technological: A treatment package must also be technological, written out in such a way as to be clear able to be replicated by any other provider to ensure consistency across behavior interventionists. This is done through writing detailed Program Implementation Plans (PIPs) for each goal a client has. 

Conceptually Systematic: It’s important, as providers, that we practice only within the scope of our own practice, and therefore ensure that our intervention methods are conceptually systematic with behavior analysis as a science, meaning we only use interventions that are evidence-based and deal with behavior analytic principles. 

Applied: What makes ABA different from just behavior analysis, is that our intervention methods are applicable and relevant to each of our clients and their individual lives, including their family dynamic. We work closely with clients and their families to ensure that our outcomes are socially significant to that individual and their immediate culture, recognizing that some skills may in fact not be meaningful or socially significant to some, while being important to others. 

Effective: Arguably one of the most important tenant of ABA is that it must produce behavior change, but more specifically meaningful change. Many non-ABA behavioral intervention methods may produce change, but if these changes aren’t significant or meaningful, they fail to be effective. If an intervention fails to produce significant and meaningful change, one must question whether it is in fact ABA. 

Generality: Generality is vital to the persistence of behavior change, if a program does not promote generality, the skills acquired will likely not persist and will fade away. Generality ensures that an individual can demonstrate a skill across all relevant scenarios, and that they can adapt the skill as needed to accomplish the same outcome.