{"id":2431,"date":"2013-12-10T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grafton.local\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2014-10-29T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:56:43","slug":"the-story-of-an-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grafton.org\/the-story-of-an-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of an Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to <b>Grafton Matters<\/b>, our new blog.\u00a0 We are excited to share our thinking about high quality behavioral healthcare and engage in conversations that will benefit all of us. It is a chance both to articulate the Grafton point of view and hear what others are thinking and doing to improve the care we all provide.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 years ago, Grafton was created by Mrs. Ruth Birch, a concerned mother who faced a challenge. Her son, Tim had special needs and had just been sent home from school.\u00a0 Mrs. Birch was looking for something that most of us take granted&#8212;someone to educate her son who had a learning disability. Frustrated, she dreamed of providing Tim an education that unleashed his true potential.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Birch began to conceive an alternative educational environment that worked for her son. It started in her kitchen, drawing in children from the surrounding community.\u00a0 She pioneered a strengths-based approach, revolving all subject areas around horses, a topic in which Tim had an unending interest. From her early writing:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cEach student is allowed to progress at his own rate of speed, developing confidence, self-assurance, and initiative as he builds solid foundations, as he is shown what he can do, rather than what he cannot.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Others approached her with their own stories and challenges.\u00a0 Calls came in from as far away as New York. She moved her work to Questover, currently our Berryville facility.\u00a0 She was audacious in the best sense of the word: willing to take surprisingly bold risks to overcome the challenge before her, her son and so many others.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Birch established a culture that pervades all aspects of our organization to this day.\u00a0 Over the years the organization that has become Grafton Integrated Health Network expanded into the provision of multiple levels of care, serving a variety of needs, including psychiatric residential treatment, day treatment and day schools, applied behavior analysis, outpatient psychotherapy to name a few.\u00a0 Consistent effort on the part of Grafton\u2019s 700 dedicated professionals has given rise to innovations \u2013 innovations that we have begun to share with the rest of the profession, both nationwide and beyond.\u00a0 \u00a0These innovations found their genesis in Mrs. Birch\u2019s belief that we need to empower caregivers with tools \u2013 tools that guide day-to-day intervention and foster functional autonomy in those we serve.\u00a0 Two examples best embody this idea:<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 at the outset of my tenure with Grafton, I challenged our care teams to reduce the use of restraint and other coercive practices, without increasing risk to themselves.\u00a0 The result is now called, \u201cUkeru,\u201d the Japanese word for \u201creceive.\u201d Ukeru uses \u201creceiving\u201d techniques such as extraordinary blocking, good case conceptualization, and the philosophy of \u201ccomfort versus control\u201d to truly create a therapeutic and safe environment of care.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grafton.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/REBOOT.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2433\" alt=\"REBOOT\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grafton.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/REBOOT-300x179.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.grafton.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/REBOOT-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/www.grafton.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/REBOOT.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the past ten years Grafton has refined its use of data to inform treatment planning and support clinical decisions.\u00a0 Today, our Goal Mastery process provides a data-rich roadmap to support care. Embedding this methodology within the convenience of current mobile technologies will put it directly into the hands of those who can best use it: parents.\u00a0 We call this application REBOOT which stands for Reliable Evidence-Based Outcomes Optimization Technologies.\u00a0 For more information on REBOOT, read the June edition of Continuums, Grafton\u2019s E-Newsletter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grafton.org\/vol-4-issue-3-june-2013\/\">https:\/\/www.grafton.org\/vol-4-issue-3-june-2013\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As all of our work moves forward, we trust <b>Grafton Matters<\/b> will facilitate open dialogue about our work and our treatment philosophy, and the current challenges that we in behavioral healthcare face both on a personal, and on a system-level. We hope that we can spur conversations from which we can all draw inspiration and ideas that will lead to better outcomes for those we serve.\u00a0 It\u2019s our sincere hope that we can come together as a community of caregivers (the providers of services, and those who live with the impact of disability in their own homes every day). Together, we can overcome the myriad challenges we face today: an epidemic of autism, a healthcare system in crisis, and the need for creative community-based solutions, to name a few. Like Mrs. Birch, let\u2019s be audacious together!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Grafton Matters, our new blog.\u00a0 We are excited to share our thinking about high quality behavioral healthcare and engage in conversations that will benefit all of us. 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