About Us
We are BEHCA: Behaviour, Environment, Health, Collaborative Analysis.
In 2013, co-founders Torri Wright and Michael Krol partnered with the intent to help parents and professionals learn the language of behaviour and shift how we have been approaching behaviour change. Torri, previously a Special Education teacher transitioned to an independent behavior consultant, was frustrated at the manual attempt to track students’ behavior and environmental information on paper and excel spreadsheets. The laborious task was too much to ask in this busy world, while the incredibly useful data would solve much of the unknown around the complexities with challenging behavior in schools as well as in homes.
Michael, the owner of a custom software application company, supported Torri’s philosophy, experience, and knowledge and joined her to build BEHCA. The pair developed the areas that should be tracked as it relates to behavior so it can be decoded and understood—in real-time, with all the professionals caring for your child.
The passion for understanding behaviour, and seeing the meaning behind it, inspired the creation of BEHCA. It is a tool that promotes mindfulness, increases observational skills, and, through practice, teaches the variables influencing behaviour. Behaviour is simply a language, and BEHCA offers translation and identifies trends or patterns otherwise missed. This practice, in turn, shifts your perspective on how it can help you improve communication and connection with those you serve.
How BEHCA can help children
De-coding the language of behaviour – this is what we aim to facilitate with our BEHCA app, and we know this is no small feat as we live in a complex social/emotional world. We find that rarely is there something to ‘fix’ in a child experiencing challenging and complex behaviours and that ALL behaviour is communicating something. By documenting data from the world experienced by an individual we gain perspective on what is leading to dysregulation and stress in an individual’s life, and we can then better support them to regulate their body and emotions.
Tracking behaviours consistently can be a struggle when you can barely deal with the constant waves of challenging behaviour. Behaviours often change and have various ebbs and flows, which can be exhausting to understand how to support. We all want to do what’s best for our children and experience a sense of harmony within our homes. With this in mind we created our BEHCA app in order to make documenting behaviours and environmental factors as easy as possible for caregivers and to automatically collated this data into easy to understand trends and highlight patterns which are emerging.
We have supported many individual families and foster care organizations through our service, and have dedicated our resources to creating a secure data environment for collaboration between caring adults of all kinds – including with counsellors, support staff and teachers.
That said, the first thing that most families and residential caretakers that we support find useful is simply having a single, easy-to-use place to document what is occurring in the lives of those in their care. Not to mention, perhaps for the first time, the ability to make sense out of what the behaviours are communicating.
BEHCA special offer to the KidsLink community
To support the Kidslink community – we have created a discount code that can be used when signing up. Simply use ‘kidslink’ as a discount code when creating an account for an extra 10% off any subscription, and thank you for being a part of the positive change so needed in the world today!
- Families: Try our behaviour tool for free by simply signing up for a trial on our website – www.behca.nz
- For residential providers, school or larger care organizations we’d love to talk and discuss how BEHCA may be a beneficial new approach to understanding behaviour for your clients – schedule a time to talk on our website
If you have any questions about our products, feel free to contact us for more information or check out our website www.behca.nz/
Services
BEHCA behaviour support and collaboration app – for both web-based and mobile devices
training.behca.com – online neurodiversity and trauma responsive workshop courses
We were created to support all ranges of complex and challenging behaviours, especially larger and disruptive behaviours that need rich understanding in order to discern what is being communicated by that behaviour and what supports can enable that individual to more easily navigate life.
Services
BEHCA behaviour support and collaboration app – for both web-based and mobile devices
training.behca.com – online neurodiversity and trauma responsive workshop courses
We were created to support all ranges of complex and challenging behaviours, especially larger and disruptive behaviours that need rich understanding in order to discern what is being communicated by that behaviour and what supports can enable that individual to more easily navigate life.
“I’m the manager of Kapiti Neuro Therapy, our clients, mostly young children, have often complex Neurodiverse backgrounds and display complex behaviour and learning difficulties. At Kapiti Neuro Therapy we have a client centred approach and work with parents, schools and other therapists to coordinate the help our clients need. We found in BEHCA an app which lets us share information with our parents, OT, Language therapist and Clinical Psychologist in a safe way. Our clients love the positive feedback from our art therapist and Sensory Integration specialist. We found the BEHCA app incredibly powerful as we see how it helps parents to understand their child’s sensory needs and allows them to look beyond the behaviour. I contacted Torri, Michael and Zach about the BEHCA app and the BEHCA team were incredibly supportive, answered all my questions and guided me through the learning process on how to use BEHCA with my clients in the best way. I had access to learning videos where I could access more in-depth knowledge on why BEHCA was created and how it can support the wider neurodiverse community in New Zealand and Australia. The support Torri, Michael and Zach offer is the best customer service I have ever had the pleasure to experience – their support is fast, friendly and supportive, and they really go above and beyond for their customers. I can highly recommend BEHCA if you are working with children, teenagers or adults which need a system which allows them to communicate how they feel, can store their information and have intervention techniques which work, and gives each person tools towards self-empowerment, emotional self-regulation, independence and confidence which is the key for any positive personal development. ”.
Corinne Allan – Neurospecialist/ Art Therapist
