Apara Autism Center, a portfolio company of Dallas-based private equity firm Havencrest Capital Management, announced on January 25 its acquisition of the Autism Learning Collaborative (ALC), as well as the Missouri operations of Early Autism Services (EAS). Terms of both deals were not disclosed.

ALC & EAS are clinic- and home-based providers of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy services to children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Apara Autism Centers is a Sugar Land, Texas-based ABA service provider offering clinic- and home-based ABA therapy to children with ASD.

According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this acquisition marks the seventh and eighth Behavioral Health Care (BHC) transactions of 2023, respectively. This is a notable decrease from last year when there were 15 BHC transactions announced between January 1, 2022, and January 25, 2022.