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Helping children and young people understand their behaviour, build new skills, and feel more confident in everyday life.
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Our Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) service helps children and young people understand their behaviour, build new skills, and feel more confident in their daily lives. We focus on understanding why behaviours occur and what the child is trying to communicate, rather than blaming or punishing.
Our approach is strengths-based, trauma-informed, and grounded in evidence. We work closely with families, schools, and other supports to create practical strategies that improve quality of life, increase independence, and reduce behaviours of concern in safe and respectful ways.
At a glance
Our Process
A warm, collaborative process built around your child’s strengths, needs, and the situations that are most challenging.
We gather information through interviews, observations, and assessments to understand the function of behaviours — what's driving them and what your child is trying to communicate.
We develop an individualised Behaviour Support Plan with clear, practical strategies you can use at home, school, and in the community. The plan is built around your child's strengths and your family's day-to-day reality.
Ongoing coaching, modelling, and review help you feel confident using the strategies. As your child grows and changes, the plan adapts so it keeps working.
Who
Children and young people whose behaviours impact their safety, learning, relationships, or daily functioning.
Funding
Positive Behaviour Support is funded under the NDIS Capacity Building budget — Improved Relationships category.
PBS is funded under the NDIS Capacity Building — Improved Relationships line item. This funding supports participants to build safer, more positive ways of communicating, managing emotions, and engaging with others.
For children with behaviours of concern, plans may include funding for a Behaviour Support Practitioner to complete assessments, develop a Behaviour Support Plan, and provide ongoing training to families, schools, and support workers.
Caterpillar Clinic is an approved NDIS provider under Improved Relationships, with three well-qualified Behaviour Support Practitioners on the team.
Self-managed, plan-managed, and NDIA-managed participants are all welcome.
Other ways we support children, families and the people around them.
Positive Behaviour Support in Cairns — common questions.
Caterpillar Clinic specialises in diagnostic assessments and clinical interventions for children and adolescents in Cairns.
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