What does BATC do?

The “sky is the limit” in terms of what we can achieve together so the best is yet to come!

Over the past 6 years, we have collaborated on such things as the following:

• Developing our first BATC Regional Conference, November 2008
• Sharing resources regarding training
• Exploring evidence-based practice in the field of youth and families
• Connecting agencies all around the greater Bay Area
• Promoting trainings that sponsor internationally known trainers and sharing space “for free” in these trainings with each other.
• Working to improve our agency intern programs. Many of our agencies train MFT trainees/interns, MSW Interns/Associates, Ph.D./Psy.D. practicum students/interns/post-doctoral fellows, or some combination of these.
• Expanding our collaborative to include quarterly meetings with University representatives and Community Colleges who coordinate Title IV-E funded trainings.
• Swapping trainers with various specialties
• Spinning other collaboratives off of our group:
  • The Intensive Services Collaborative (for leaders in residential treatment and non-public school)
• Supporting each other through challenges such as achieving accreditation (e.g. COA, CWLA , CA Alliance , APA, APIC/CaPIC, BBS/BOP)
• Supporting changes from one system of “management of assaultive behavior” to another (e.g. PROACT, Handle with Care, Cornell).
• Discussing potential possibilities of doing our own outcomes research and doing joint presentations at conferences.
• Getting to know each other better! Sharing good food and a good time. Great networking.