Agency Profile

Nature of the Agency/Organization:

1. General description of your
agency (include size, description of
service…):
SET ONE
Little Steps Therapy Services is a center focused
around providing services for children and
adolescents with developmental and/or learning
challenges

2. General age of clients: Typically 2-19. Would serve children ages 0-19.

3. How does the agency or Children and Adolescents

organization refer to those being
served: as clients, patients, youth,
or something other?

4. Number of clients: Approx. 200-300

5. Description of the “average”

client: Anyone with physical, mental, emotional, and
behavioral challenges.

6. Does your placement agency or

Yes, in the policy document.
organization have emergency
plans? Where are these located?

7. What reporting methods are

Off site permission forms
used by the agency? Can you find
General data permission forms
the method for incident reporting?
Assessment forms
Is there other reporting that you will
Team meetings w/ parents
be expected to do (such as
updating a record of medicine
given)
8. Are there rules and regulations
Yes, to emphasize the expectations of representing
such as a dress code at your
Little Steps Therapy Services in a positive light
organization or agency? Why are
these in place?

9. Is there a policy manual? If yes, Yes & yes

does the manual outline the
professional ethics expected of
employees?

10. Does the agency or Yes. Signing an Oath of Confidentiality is a condition

organization keep confidentiality or of employment at LSTS.
privacy guidelines?
11. If there are no written codes of
ethics or confidentiality guidelines
in place in your practicum setting,
where will you find the ethics that
will guide your practice there?
1. Is there a mission statement? If
yes, do you see CYC perspectives
and values (think back to CYC100)
reflected in the mission?
2. Is this organization connected to
a parent organization? If so, which
one?
3. Where does the organization or
agency receive its funding from?
Who governs the organization or
agency? Is it not-for-profit, or is
there a Board of Directors, or is it a
government agency, or is the
governance composed of some
combination of these?
4. What licensing / accreditation /
legislation does the organization
operate under?
5. Where is the organization or
agency located within the larger
CYC/social service community?
What interrelationships are there
with this organization or agency
and others?
6. What are some of the traditions
or history of the organization or
agency?
Ask the directors
SET TWO
To provide services to our clients following the
guidelines of "Best Practices"
- self reflection
- continuous learning
- best interest of the child
- evidence based approach
No
Private agency
Funding comes out of pocket or from family's Autism
funding amount. LSTS is not directly funded by
Autism funding.
Autism Society of BC
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Children and Family Development
Private agency; however, they are open to working
with other organizations, such as schools, to conduct
practice that is in the best interest of the child and
their learning and development.
Always tried to provide OT or BI based on child and
family's needs
Community-minded + always open to working with
other organizations
Play based approach
Nature of the staff team:

SET ONE

1. How many employees are there? Over 50

2. What are the job titles or basic roles and
responsibilities of the people who work there?
3. Where does the leadership in this
organization come from? If you perceive there
is no leadership present in the organization or
agency, where will you go to get it?
Behavior consultants, speech language
pathologists, occupational therapists, clinical
counselors, therapy assistants, and behavior
interventionists.
3 directors: finances, operations & clinical
+ admin assistance

4. What is the team structure? Is the team Collaborative approach under the direction of
organized hierarchically, or in another fashion? the directors
Is there an organization chart?

SET TWO

1. Are professional qualifications for Yes, for the clinical and therapist roles.
employment required for some of these roles?
(are some of the caregivers required to be Masters, Bacehlors, PhDs, BaCYC, ECE,
certified ECE instructors, or licensed Physchology, Linguistics, training at the
psychologists, for example?) What is the range agency, etc.
of professional credentials represented in the
organization or agency? (For example, an
organization could have employees with a
BSW, or BA in CYC, or MEd, or another with a
Business.Administration degree.) What
professional values will those roles bring to the
organization?
2. What is the starting wage?
$15

3. Do the people working in your organization Collaboratively

or agency function collaboratively or
independently?

4. Given what you have seen so far, what are Family orientated
some of the beliefs and values that guide the Play based
practice of the team in your organization or Evidence based
agency?)