Behavioral Support Services
Our mission and vision are to ensure adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a voice in the community and access to person-centered support that promotes independence and choice. FRIENDS Behavioral Services empowers participants to overcome behavioral barriers in order to increase their access to the community, develop healthy relationships, and improve their overall quality of life.
Goals to Behavior Therapy
The goal of our Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services is to provide a holistic and person-centered approach while increasing the quality of life of our participants through evidence-based and ethical ABA services. We treat every participant individually and create a behavior plan and programming that fit the needs of our participants rather than the needs of ourselves and others. We believe in being upfront and honest with the people we serve. That includes being honest about what we can and cannot do.
Our Team
FRIENDS ABA Services provides evidence-based ABA therapy delivered by Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs). We also have RBTs in training who are not yet certified. They are supervised and trained by a BCBA. Once an RBT in training becomes certified through the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB), they are supervised weekly by a BCBA.
We currently have one BCBA and two RBTs in our behavioral department. We are small but mighty! We are looking to grow our department ethically and effectively for our participants.
Meet Our Director:
Ruby Hogan, MS, BCBA
Ruby Hogan is the Director of Behavior Services at FRIENDS of Broomfield. She has worked in the field of ABA since 2014. She has experience working with adults and children across residential, community, day program, school, clinical, and vocational settings. She received a Bachelor of General Studies in Applied Behavioral Science from the University of Kansas and a Master of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) in good standing with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB). She is certified in CPR and First Aid. She is also the Certified Safety Care Instructor at FRIENDS of Broomfield.
Ruby works mainly with participants who exhibit severe behaviors, including dangerous behaviors. She loves working with adults and advocating for their rights. Her goal is to find ways to increase their quality of life and access to their community and to advocate for their wants and needs. She has experience with emergency and safety control procedures, participants with police involvement, protecting and advocating for participant rights, implementing and fading rights modifications ethically and safely within her scope of practice, and working with interdisciplinary team (IDT) members and Medicaid. She believes in quality over quantity when it comes to her participants and ABA services.
She is passionate, hardworking, friendly, down-to-earth, and easy to advocate and talk to. She is also a wife, mother of two children, and proud owner of two pit bulls named Triton and Chubb.
Interested in Our Services or Joining Our Team?
If you are interested in our behavioral services or would like to apply to work in our department as a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT), Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA), or Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), please email Ruby Hogan.