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Finding and Building Friendships

This module shares some ways that you can find and make friends.

Friendships can make a big difference to your life. Friendships can make you happier, healthier, and help you to live longer.

This module features presentations from a range of leading professionals and self-advocates, including Beth Mount, Steve Dymond, Harvey Pacht, and Dave Hasbury.

After finishing this module, you will be able to:

  • Describe a range of ways to find and build friendships.
  • Explain the different skills needed to make and keep good friends.
  • Understand the basics of keeping yourself safe when making new friends.

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Finding and Building Community

This module will help you to understand the many ways to find out who are the people, where are the places, and what happens in your community.

This module will help you to explain how you can use your interests and the things you are good at to give back to and build your place in your community.

This module features presentations from a range of leading professionals and self-advocates, including Jack Pearpoint, Patti Scott, Margaret Cushen, Dave Hasbury, and Beth Mount.

After completing this module, you will be able to:

  • Understand the many ways to find out who are the people, where are the places, and what happens in your community.
  • Explain how you can use your interests and the things you are good at to give back to and build your place in your community.

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Active Support

We are excited to announce that our latest module titled “Active Support” is now live!

Active support is an approach that was developed to help combat the lack of engagement in meaningful activities and relationships experienced by people who receive support. Active support is about doing with, not for or to. Active support helps people to have a more active role in their lives and experience a better quality of life.

This module features presentations from Bev Ashman, Julie Beadle-Brown, and Margaret Cushen.

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to

  • Define what active support is and how it can help people have a better quality of life.
  • Describe the importance of engagement and what it looks like.
  • Understand how every moment has potential.
  • Apply the principles of little and often, taking small steps, and providing support at the right time and place.
  • Describe how you can provide just enough support for people to participate successfully.
  • Explain how active support can be used to maximize choice and control while maintaining people’s safety.

Module Length: 130 Minutes

Learn more about all of our modules here.