We are excited to announce that the Staff Learning Module “The Fatal Five” is now live on the Open Future site. If support staff can understand the early warning signs of the Fatal Five – they can save lives. Watch this trailer to learn more:

This module focuses on the five most common preventable causes of death for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: aspiration, constipation, dehydration, seizures, and sepsis. The module emphasizes the importance of understanding an individual’s baseline, or their typical behavior when healthy, to recognize subtle changes that could indicate a developing health problem. By recognizing these changes and advocating with and for people, support staff can ensure early intervention prevents these manageable conditions from escalating into life-threatening situations.

On completion of this module your staff will be able to:

• Explain the five preventable conditions that pose the most significant risks to the people you support.

• Understand the importance of knowing baselines and how changes from baseline often signal underlying health issues, for which early detection can prevent conditions from worsening.

• Describe the key causes, signs, and symptoms of the Fatal Five and how they can be recognized, monitored, and prevented, therefore significantly improving the health and outcomes of people supported.

• Provide effective communication and advocacy bridging communication gaps between people supported and healthcare professionals to ensure medical concerns are properly understood and promptly addressed.

Want to see how Open Future Learning can work for your team? Schedule a Zoom demo of our site and then have 24 seats to our site for one month. No obligation. No contract of use. No cost. Click here to schedule your demo.

P.S. Open Future is now SCORM compliant! This means that our modules can now be used on any Learning Management System (LMS). If you have your own LMS and want to start using it to host our content please contact us.

Have you attended poorly executed meetings that lack purpose and waste people’s time?

Together we can change disability team meetings for the better!

Our new module “Team Meetings” will turn your meetings into organized, engaging, productive and fun gatherings that contribute to team development and success!

Upon successful completion of this module your team will be able to:

• Host successful team meetings that are organized, impactful, engaging, productive, and fun.
• Explain how great team meetings exchange information, discuss progress, and identify challenges and opportunities.
• Run efficient and productive meetings that have a clear agenda, maximize participation, and build the capacity of team members.
• Encourage collaboration, idea sharing, healthy conflict, and problem-solving in team meetings.
• Apply strategies to address disruptive employees and manage difficult personalities, and other issues that can hijack a great team meeting.
• Effectively follow up on meetings, close the loop on action items, build the capacity of team members, and successfully plan for the next meeting.
• Explain what makes a brilliant team and how you can help to develop one.

Learn more about all of our modules here.

With Open Future Learning your staff can:

• Learn values based practices from the most engaging thinkers in the field of developmental disabilities.

• Learn in groups while using only one seat on your membership.

• Use our Side by Side modules to learn alongside the people they support.

• Save money on in person training costs and turnover.

Want to see how this can work for your team? Take a Zoom demo of our site and then have 24 seats to our site for one month. No obligation. No contract of use. No cost. Click here to schedule your demo.

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Email hello@openfuturelearning.org to arrange your free demo and trial.