Mass PBS Community of Practice

Status:

As a requirement to implementation of PBS within your organization, your PBS Leadership Team must have launched some of the necessary elements in this phase. Your PBS Leadership Team may still be learning about the components of PBS, and assessing how the organization may need to change in order to fully implement PBS. During this process, your team is charged with identifying available resources, both internally and externally, and should be in the early stages of developing the PBS Action Plan (implementation and strategic plan), even though it’s likely that most of your workforce isn’t fully aware of PBS yet. Your resources, both financial and human capital, may not fully be in place or may not be allocated appropriately. PBS Leadership Team and executive leadership education and buy-in are paramount in this initial phase.

Strategies:

• Identify PBS Leadership Team members, some key members already in place.
• Increase PBS knowledge across PBS Leadership Team and executive leadership.
• Ensure organization-wide commitment to PBS.
• Identify internal or external senior and other PBS qualified clinicians.
• Self-assess your organization’s readiness for PBS implementation.
• Understand where organizational opportunities and barriers are for PBS implementation.
• Understand your organizational structure and the needs of your service population.
• Begin developing the framework of your organization-wide PBS Action Plan.
• Begin identifying, allocating, and assigning necessary resources to help with implementation.
• Design the structure of your PBS program, including selected tiers of PBS supports and their related support teams.

Detailed tasks for this phase can be found in the PBS Self-Assessment Implementation Guide.