Issachar Project

07/05/2025

The Pennsylvania Psychological Association presented their 2025 award for "distinguished contributions to the science and profession of psychology" to me on June 18th. My daughter recorded the presentation for me. Best wishes always!

I was honored by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association as the recipient of their 2025 award for "distinguished contributions to the science and professi...

05/14/2025

I’m a licensed psychologist and a certified school psychologist who is being honored as the 2025 recipient of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s award for “Distinguished contributions to the science and practice of psychology.” I have been using Medicaid — the EPSDT funding program especially — to bring successful mental health treatment services to children in their homes & schools since 1986. It has been a terrifically successful undertaking — my staff have treated more than 1,000 children in four Southeastern Pennsylvania counties via the company I created called “The Institute for Behavior Change” since 1997, which has used EPSDT funding exclusively to bring expert mental health treatment services into the lives of children and their families. I’ve created several video programs describing my work over the past 15 years. You can find my video programs by searching for on YouTube. I’ve attached some short videos below that you’re free to distribute. I know the Medicaid EPSDT program is “the greatest treatment funding secret ever concealed” and I hope it can be preserved!
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3izLu_yBvk
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3pk_JhsfKc
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqsH3P7fNew

This is an updated, expanded version of the presentation originally given in 2010 about EPSDT funding for the treatment of mental illness symptoms and behavi...

04/19/2025

Medicaid funded treatment of children with mental illness symptoms can be life-changing. This short video explains how one child's life trajectory was changed because he received Medicaid-funded treatment services. Medicaid is the *only* treatment funding program that brings mental health professionals into the homes & schools of children to directly change the trajectory of their lives. It works; it needs to be preserved. Please share this video.

Medicaid funded treatment of children with mental illness symptoms can be life-changing. This short video explains how one child's life trajectory was chang...

02/01/2025

The Eagles Autism Foundation has awarded a substantial gift to the Institute for Behavior Change!
The Institute for Behavior Change is proud and thankful to announce a gift of $20,000 to support its Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) treatment delivery in southeastern Pennsylvania and its treatment outcome measurement activities. This gift will help to support our collaboration with CentralReach for data collection and analyses, which has been progressing toward a March implementation date. More to follow shortly. Go Birds!!!!

Through fundraising efforts associated with the Eagles Autism Foundation, 169 research projects and community grants have now been funded worldwide since 2018.

10/17/2023

The Kossor Scale can help to get and keep insurance funding for necessary treatment.

I gave a presentation about "How treatment outcome measurement helps to get and keep treatment funding" at the annual conference of the Rehabilitation & Comm...

03/01/2023

Updated for 2023! Still one of the best resources for Quality-of-Life treatment outcome measurement. Used and tested since 1996 to obtain funding for mental health treatment programs for children in their homes and schools.

Updated for 2023, this 30 minute overview explains the difference between treatment delivery data and treatment outcome data, and shows how both can be colle...

09/04/2021

Navigating HIPAA and FERPA ethically and efficiently. Now there's a challenge! Here's some useful information updated to 2021.

This short program explains the similarities and differences between the HIPAA (medical) and FERPA (school) regulations, and offers strategies for planning, ...

09/01/2021

I updated my presentation about "how to get and keep insurance funding until treatment is finished successfully" to include 2021 changes in funding policy, procedures and treatment standards. Please feel free to distribute this training presentation to others!

How to get and keep insurance funding until treatment is finished successfully? My answers have been updated to 2021 and are based on 40+ years of professio...

03/20/2021

The Institute for Behavior Change has a new Web Page!

In-home and in-school behavioral support for children, with tools for success and effective treatment monitoring.

07/12/2019

The author of The Issachar Project and The Kossor Scale for Treatment Outcome Measurement will be presenting a program about "How to get and keep insurance funding for children's mental health treatment" (including "The Quantum Theory of Behavior") at the annual national meeting of the American Mental Wellness Association in Harrisburg, PA November. This will expand on the presentation given in May at the PBIS conference.

05/20/2019

This is the latest presentation about "The Kossor Scale for Treatment Outcome Measurement" created by the author of The Issachar Project which explains how it was created to get and keep insurance funding for treatment, and how it has been used successfully for the past 20 years or so.

I was invited to present my system for treatment outcome measurement at the annual Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (PBIS) conference...

04/14/2019

Thanks to all of the children, parents, teachers, schools, employees and all of the others who have worked with us at the Institute for Behavior Change since 1997! We look forward to many more years of collaboration and success!

This recording is played at annual staff training meetings of the Institute for Behavior Change. The founder of the Institute, licensed psychologist Steve Ko...