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HOW TO BE PERSON-CENTERED?

Being person-centered helps you to learn about and understand the uniqueness of each person that you support. With the aid of both Beth Mount and Simon Duffy, your staff will have a better understanding of how being person-centered helps the people we support to take control of their lives and make their own choices.This new 80 minute module focuses on the very essence of what it means to be person-centered. By using practical approaches, explanations, strategies, and tools this module will help you to be person-centered.

Beth Mount uses her expertise, having been working in this field of study for over 35 years.  The ideal that every person with a disability can be a value member of community life. She  values the importance of person-centered plans and helps support it via art programs.

Simon Duffy is best know for defining key concepts such as individual budgets, self-directed support, the citizenship model and many others.

Upon successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

– Understand the meaning of person-centered practice and describe the key principles.

– Explain person-centered approaches, thinking and planning.

– Describe and apply a range of person-centered thinking tools to support your work.

Learn more about all of our modules here.

 

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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.

 

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Do the Write Thing

We are excited to announce the release of our newest module Do the Write Thing.

Behind every word we write, there is a person. But paperwork is loathed by almost every support professional in the field of human services. What if we could change the way we document? Join us as we make ‘paperwork’ become ‘people work.’

John Raffaele is passionate about documentation.  John starts the module by detailing the basics of creating professionally produced and meaningful documentation.  John goes on to introduce the person-centered approach of wiring with people instead of for them.  This module includes video presentations from John Raffaele, Janice Bartley, and Kathie Snow.

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

– Appreciate documentation as a competency and a skill.

– Understand the importance of and be able to apply practical strategies to ensue legible, accurate, respectful, concise, confidential, and meaningful documentation.

– Explain why paperwork is people work.

– Describe and apply the concept and process of documenting with people, know as partnership documentaion.

– Understand the importance of support the development of a good relationship with the person’s primary care doctor.