Issachar Project

07/05/2025

The Pennsylvania Psychological Association presented their 2025 award for "distinguished contributions to the science and profession of psychology" to me on June 18th. My daughter recorded the presentation for me. Best wishes always!

I was honored by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association as the recipient of their 2025 award for "distinguished contributions to the science and professi...

05/19/2025

The House Budget Reconciliation process is on the verge of substantially reducing Federal Medicaid funding. This will force State legislatures to make deep cuts in services in order to accommodate the Federal reductions. Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans have estimated that at least 7.6 million people will become uninsured by 2034, including children and others with disabilities requiring treatment. The focus on "fraud, waste and abuse" is a clever way for Federal legislators to pass the buck on to the States to adjust to the reduced Federal funding by stopping services. This is dishonest, cruel and utterly unjustifiable. Please oppose the harmful cuts in Federal Medicaid funding that are being proposed, so that people with disabilities, including children, do not lose the *only* source of treatment funding that exists (and works) for them!

05/14/2025

I’m a licensed psychologist and a certified school psychologist who is being honored as the 2025 recipient of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s award for “Distinguished contributions to the science and practice of psychology.” I have been using Medicaid — the EPSDT funding program especially — to bring successful mental health treatment services to children in their homes & schools since 1986. It has been a terrifically successful undertaking — my staff have treated more than 1,000 children in four Southeastern Pennsylvania counties via the company I created called “The Institute for Behavior Change” since 1997, which has used EPSDT funding exclusively to bring expert mental health treatment services into the lives of children and their families. I’ve created several video programs describing my work over the past 15 years. You can find my video programs by searching for on YouTube. I’ve attached some short videos below that you’re free to distribute. I know the Medicaid EPSDT program is “the greatest treatment funding secret ever concealed” and I hope it can be preserved!
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3izLu_yBvk
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3pk_JhsfKc
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqsH3P7fNew

This is an updated, expanded version of the presentation originally given in 2010 about EPSDT funding for the treatment of mental illness symptoms and behavi...

04/19/2025

Medicaid funded treatment of children with mental illness symptoms can be life-changing. This short video explains how one child's life trajectory was changed because he received Medicaid-funded treatment services. Medicaid is the *only* treatment funding program that brings mental health professionals into the homes & schools of children to directly change the trajectory of their lives. It works; it needs to be preserved. Please share this video.

Medicaid funded treatment of children with mental illness symptoms can be life-changing. This short video explains how one child's life trajectory was chang...

02/01/2025

The Eagles Autism Foundation has awarded a substantial gift to the Institute for Behavior Change!
The Institute for Behavior Change is proud and thankful to announce a gift of $20,000 to support its Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) treatment delivery in southeastern Pennsylvania and its treatment outcome measurement activities. This gift will help to support our collaboration with CentralReach for data collection and analyses, which has been progressing toward a March implementation date. More to follow shortly. Go Birds!!!!

Through fundraising efforts associated with the Eagles Autism Foundation, 169 research projects and community grants have now been funded worldwide since 2018.

10/17/2023

The Kossor Scale can help to get and keep insurance funding for necessary treatment.

I gave a presentation about "How treatment outcome measurement helps to get and keep treatment funding" at the annual conference of the Rehabilitation & Comm...