www.justicecenter.ny.gov Spotlight on Prevention: Best Practices for Body Checks COULD THIS HAPPEN IN YOUR PROGRAM? CASE STUDY Case #3 Henry was required to have body checks completed three times a day at each change of shift due to his history of self-injury. During a team meeting before Henry’s annual review, staff reported that Henry was responding well to the new strategies in his Behavior Support Plan and was not self-injuring as much. The behavior intervention specialist (BIS) said, “Great, that’s awesome to hear!” and proceeded to pull the occurrence reports and body check forms from the past year to review the data so Henry’s plan could be updated. But when the BIS looked at the body check forms, he found that many were missing and the forms that were completed were either missing information or were messy and staff’s handwriting was hard to read. This resulted in the inability of Henry’s plan to be updated.
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