If you understand the power that direct support staff have when they provide personal and intimate care, then you will also know how important this essential training is. Watch the trailer:
Learning outcomes:
– Provide assistance from the perspective of the person you support that is sensitive, calm, respectful, private and patient.
– Help people to be able to make choices and be in control, even when they do not communicate by using words.
– Understand what parallel talk is and how it can be used to seek permission.
– Create and built on the boundaries between you and the person you support.
– Explain how to create and the purpose of a protocol for personal care.
Learn more about this and all of our modules here.
Narrated by Beth Mount, this excerpt from our module “Valued Social Roles” explains the importance of helping people to build wide, deep and sustaining relationships.
This module is written by Marc Tumeinski from the Social Role Valorization (SRV) Implementation Project. Marc uses his intimate knowledge of SRV to help learners to reflect on both the barriers to the “Good Things of Life” and how valued social roles may help the people we support to have greater access to these good things.
This module includes video presentations from Marc Tumeinski, Gary Kent, Beth Mount, Steve Dymond, Jack Pearpoint, and Simon Duffy.
On successful completion of this module, learners will be able to:
Describe related elements of social devaluation: negative perception followed by negative treatment.
Describe a shared practice of human service involving vision, attitudes, and skills and actions.
Understand and articulate a shared practice for supporting the people you support.
Describe the “good things in life” and valued social roles with examples, and also explain how they are linked.
Describe devalued roles as wounds, how these occur, and what the consequences of these wounds may be.
Understand and articulate skills and attitudes which support our vision including: Stepping into the shoes of the people you support, serving one person at a time, and holding high, positive expectations for the people you support and for ourselves.
Describe how rejection, distancing, and communication can be potential barriers to applying this vision.
Explain how you can be a better listener.
Explain how person-centered planning can help to raise possibilities and expectations.
Understand the importance of, and how to enhance image and competency, and how to avoid the associated challenges that may include life wasting, lost opportunities, and society’s own perception.
Your staff can now learn about “Understanding and Promoting Rights” with either our long or new short version module. But first watch this fun music video we made about rights, community and more!
Our new module “Understanding and Promoting Rights – Short Version” takes just 100 minutes to complete. But for a more in-depth look into this topic your staff also have the option to complete a more detailed 210 minute version.
Beyond defining rights, these modules give your staff first hand knowledge and expertise on how to maintain and promote the rights of the people you support. Watch the trailer:
This module features video presentations from Dave Hingsburger, Simon Duffy, Gary Kent, and Margaret Cushen.
On successful completion of this module, your staff will be able to:
– Define what rights are and understand the different types of rights.
– Detail how, why, and in what circumstances rights may be limited or taken away.
– Explain how rights interact with responsibilities, decision-making, risk, power, and control.
– Explain how to support, promote, and help people advocate for their rights.
Five things to know about Open Future Learning
1. Any size organization can access 24 rotatable seats to over 50 learning modules and over 600 videos on demand for $112 (USD) $134 (CAD) $134 (AUD) $1148 (NZD) £78 (GBP).
2. Our free trial allows up to three staff two weeks access to our entire resource.
3. There is no contract of use and no admin fees.
4. You can use any part of our resource with groups of learners and only use one seat on your membership.
5. Every user gets access to our entire resource by default.
To start a free trial or to ask questions please email hello@openfuturelearning.org
