Beating the Odds

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Beating the Odds IBI & Child Development Services
Beating the Odds
IndustryHealth
Founded2015
FounderAmber Maloney
Headquarters
Utopia, Essa, Ontario
,
Canada
Services Applied Behaviour Analysis, Intensive Behavioural Intervention
OwnerAmber Maloney
Website www.beatingtheoddsautism.com

Beating the Odds IBI & Child Development Services, commonly known as Beating the Odds, is a Canadian company that provides therapy to children on the autism spectrum.

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Founded by Amber Maloney in 2015, the company initially provided home-care visits, and opened a therapy centre near Barrie, Ontario in 2022.

The centre was shut down in 2023, shortly before the owner was arrested.

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Beating the Odds IBI & Child Development Services was founded in 2015 by Amber-Lee Maloney [1] (born 1986or1987). [2] Based in Essa, Ontario, [3] the company provided Applied Behaviour Analysis and Intensive Behavioural Intervention therapies. [1] Initially providing autism therapy via home-visits, the company opened a therapy centre on June 23, 2022. [4] By July 2023, the centre had not obtained a license to operate the therapy centre. [5]

On July 18, 2023, the Ontario Ministry of Education issued a protection order to the school, declaring "an imminent risk to the safety and wellbeing of the children receiving care." [6] The order prohibited the centre from operating. [6] The Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General issued a statement discouraging parents from using the centre. [5] The day prior, the Ontario Provincial Police issued a public advisory about Lauriston Maloney (born 1980or1981 [6] ) the husband of Amber Maloney and a convinced sex offender. [3] Lauriston Maloney was operating a construction company, registered to the same address as the centre and lived on the same premises. [5] From 2002 to 2004, Lauriston Charles Maloney operated a business managing sex workers. According to Maloney, one of his workers was under 18 years old. [7] In 2004, Maloney was arrested [8] and charged with offences after a fourteen-year-old girl from Brampton was allegedly forced to perform sex work for one month. [9] In their public advisory, police noted Lauriston Maloney's sixteen convictions in relation to "trafficking and sexual offences involving minors." [10] His convictions occurred in 2004 and 2013. [11]

Parents of the children who attended the centre held a second protest outside the centre on July 19. [12] The same day the centre was searched by police [13] and both Lauriston Maloney and Amber Maloney were arrested. [3] Lauriston Maloney was charged with "two counts of assault, trafficking a person, receiving material benefit from trafficking a person and forcible confinement". Amber was charged with "trafficking a person, receiving material benefit from trafficking a person, administering a noxious substance, fraud and uttering a forged document." [12]

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