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.