Is this an institution?

If you can’t get up at 3 am and microwave yourself a burrito, you’re living in an institution. The burrito test is used by intellectual and developmental disability advocates to find out if a particular facility is an institution. Watch:

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Building Brilliant Teams

Help your team to develop purpose, commitment and trust. Help your team to be Brilliant. Brilliant teams help people to lead brilliant lives.

Designed specifically for team leaders the learning outcomes for this module are:

  • Explain what makes a brilliant team and how you can help to develop one.
  • Understand how a team can develop and commit to a purpose.
  • Understand the importance of trust and how you can help your team to build trust.
  • Explain how conflict can help your team to grow.
  • Explore how you can help your team to commit to as well as to be accountable for their actions and the results of their actions.

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.


Abuse Prevention By Dave Hingsburger

In collaboration with Dave Hingsburger Open Future offers abuse prevention training for support staff and for people who receive support.

Warning: Graphic images of abuse.

Our Staff Learning Module “Abuse Prevention” offers one of the only dedicated abuse prevention and safeguarding trainings that is truly specialized to the needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This is not a generic human services or health and social care training. Expect passion, values, first-hand examples, and stories to underline the importance of keeping people safe.

In addition to our Staff Learning Modules we also offer Side by Side Learning Modules. The Side by Side approach allows support staff and the people they support to use some of the time they spend together, to learn together.

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.

We don’t just provide professional development. Instead we teach your staff how to apply what they are learning to the life of the person they support. In turn you’ll see better lives for the people you support.

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.