“It only takes one spark to light a fire inside you.”
- Unknown Author
Spark’s History
A Passion for Helping Others…
Gregin Doxsee and Alex Whitney (Spark’s founders) spent decades working on the front lines and supporting children who had significant behavioral needs. They worked with children in a wide variety of settings, including in-home, schools, residential care, and in the community at large. Alex also coordinated several behavioral programs for young children, and Gregin was a therapeutic foster parent working with some of the hardest to place at-risk children.
Creating a Better Way…
Alex and Gregin continued to expand upon their strong passion for helping others and began teaching the skills they’d learned to an upcoming generation of behavioral health professionals. While this was effective within the scope they held, they noticed many places in the community did not have access to such training programs. They saw daycares, libraries, afterschool programs, etc. containing staff asking for skilled trainings and managers lacking affordable means to provide them. Thus, the spark for a better way, and the name for a new company, was born!
Spark’s Mission and Vision
Our mission is to make behavioral management training accessible to anyone working with challenging behavior.
Our vision is to provide the behavior management tools and inspiration for you to become the solutions to your own unique challenges.
Spark’s Core Values
Accessibility
We are dedicated to providing behavioral management training to anyone working with challenging behaviors.
Person-Focused
We believe each of us deserve the opportunity to create better results, regardless of our prior skill or level of experience.
Excellence
We embrace challenging ourselves to always seek improvement, to create and deliver the most impactful and relevant material.
Empathetic
Having worked the front lines, we appreciate the challenges of the field and bring that caring into every training we present.
Collaboration
We strongly value working with local organizations and people to create training programs that work for their unique needs.