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Understanding and Promoting Rights

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.

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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

 

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DROWNING BY DAVID PITONYAK

http://youtu.be/qf_e-bcxs5I

It might seem odd that a professional would ignore someone who is drowning. But as David Pitonyak explains, this happens all the time in our field. People who have disabilities and difficult behavior are often overboard and terrified, and we barely seem to notice.

About the module: Jumping Into the Chaos by David Pitonyak

David Pitonyak has a way of understanding and communicating the needs of people who have been labelled as having challenging behavior that is profoundly straightforward. This module offers a unique compilation of tips gleaned from David’s library of adventure books (most particularly, Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm). Often people with challenging behavior are overboard, drowning, terrified, and we barely seem to notice.

David Pitonyak explains the ways in which people can change physiologically and psychologically in the face of threat and helps us to understand why remaining calm and clear of purpose is critical to the well-being of a person in crisis.

This module features presentations from David Pitonyak, Beth Mount, and Doreen Kelly.

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

– Understand the ways in which we change physiologically and psychologically in the face of threat.

– Understand why remaining calm and clear of purpose is critical to the well-being of a person in crisis.

– Contribute to a crisis support plan based on the unique needs of the individual served.

– Understand the importance of a support plan for the person’s supporters based on their unique needs.

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Relationships, Dating, and Intimacy by Dave Hingsburger

Direct support staff can now use the time they spend with the people they support to help those people to learn about relationships, dating, and intimacy. We proudly launch this new three part series of Side by Side module written by Dave Hingsburger.

These modules have been designed to help the people you support to develop a wide range of relationships in a more confident and safe way.

Side by Side learning is a concept unique to Open Future Learning. Side by Side modules allow the people who receive support and the people who provide support to learn together.

Part 1 of this three-part series has been designed to help people to have a good healthy relationships.

After completing this module, you will be able to:

– Understand what give-and-tanke and sharing and caring mean in a relationship.

– Explain some different ways that two people can be nice to one another.

– Understand how to respect and take care of another person’s feelings.

– Explain what consent means and what it means in terms of sex.

Part 2 of this three-part series has been designed to help you become more comfortable with dating.

After completing this module, you will be able to:

– Describe how, where, and when you might meet someone.

– Understand the importance of getting to know, liking and spending time with people first.

– Explain how to ask someone out.

– Describe good ways of dealing with rejection.

Part 3 in this three-part series has been designed to help you learn the rules around being sexual with another person.

After completing this module, you will be able to:

– Understand what it means to be intimate with another person.

– Explain that you only become intimate with and have sex with another person when you both have made a decision to do so.

– Describe why it matters when and where yo have sec and the importance of being safe.

 

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