The Stepping Stones Group, a portfolio company of Five Arrows Capital Partners, announced on December 15 its acquisition of Building Blocks Behavior Consultants, Inc.

Building Blocks founder Mila Zea will remain with the company and assume the role of Regional Clinical Manager. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Building Blocks Behavior Consultants is a provider of center-based Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy for children who carry a diagnosis on the Autism spectrum.

The Stepping Stones Group provides therapy and behavioral health services to children in the K-12 educational setting. Stepping Stones serves more than 1,000 clients and 300,000 children annually across 42 states.

According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this marks the 99th Behavioral Health Care (BHC) transaction of 2022 and the 11th announced in the Autism subsector year to date. This is a slight decrease from the same 2021 period when there were 117 BHC deals and 19 announced in the Autism subsector from January 1, 2021, through December 15, 2021.