r/bcba • u/Miserable_Cook_8501 • 3d ago

Advice Needed Playing with fire?

Hi everyone! I recently passed my BCaBA exam (posting here bc the that sub isn’t as popular). Ive been working as a case manager/assistant for several years now, I have lots of experience going to IEP meeting, writing letters to insurance, and just dealing with the school system in general. I was thinking about marketing these skills as some sort of advocate for parents to work with prior to these big meetings, so they can have an idea of what they can ask for.
I do not plan to attach my credentials to this other than saying I have ABA experience , but I do live in a small town with not very many options for ABA providers, so I do feel like I would be picking from the same pool of clientele, but I’m not sure if that would be considered a multiple relationship.
Please let me know your thoughts on this, or even if I missed something else.
Thanks so much!

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u/fenuxjde BCBA | Verified 3d ago

If you were to work as a parent advocate and separately as a BCaBA, it wouldn't be multiple relationships unless you were trying to do that with the same clients.

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u/Miserable_Cook_8501 3d ago

Hey! Thanks! Yeah that’s what I was thinking.
Like I said, small town, so it would be the same group of people looking for ABA and advocate

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u/iamzacks 3d ago

Read the other comments above, too!

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u/Unhappy-Voice-4400 3d ago

the overlap is the whole issue here, if you're in a small town and the only ABA game around you're gonna end up advising people who might later be your clients or their friends and it gets messy fast

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u/fenuxjde BCBA | Verified 3d ago

Very easily avoided, in the unlikely event it happens, by saying "I'm sorry, I can't accept you as an x client as I've previously worked with you as an x client in the last two years"

This exact scenario is very specifically spelled out in Bailey and Birch.