Field notes for RBAs in Ontario
Long reads on credentials, careers, and the mechanics of running an ABA practice in Ontario. Each one comes with its data drawn out: timelines you can step through, charts you can read at a glance, and small tools you can actually use.
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3 posts · newest firstThe Group Home Question: What CPBAO Guidance Actually Requires of RBAs in Residential Settings
The College's foster-agency FAQ settles client, consent, and record for consultative work. What it leaves to your agreements: the QAM approver clause that still says BACB, one plan with two owners, consent that becomes yours the moment you assess, and a children's-residence regime with no clinician sign-off. Four questions to settle in writing.
Consulting guide
For RBAs, consulting is a standards category with an explicit tipping point. Where the mediator model in schools falls, who the client is when you consult to a board, the record that follows, what boards require in 2026 and why, and a four-question test for your own role.
“BCBA Preferred”: What Job Postings Reveal — and What History Says Happens Next
Why a credential with no legal standing in Ontario still headlines job ads, what the OAP's requirement did that the regulator did not, four professions that ran the same transition, and the mobility question none of them had to answer.
Series · Practising under the CPBAO
Three posts for RBAs and behaviour analysts on the rules they now practise under: residential settings, credentials, and where the Ontario field is headed.
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