APD Approved 4-hr In-Service: Participant Empowerment
4-hour In-Service: Successful Community Living
Course Description: This class investigates the strategies to assist people receiving support to recruit, train, and manage support staff.
Class Objectives: 1. Identify strategies to assist people receiving support to recruit, train, and manage support staff.
NADSP Code of Ethics Skills 1. Recognizes support services, related policies, procedures that violate rights or pose challenges to the exercise of rights and offers suggestions to address.
APD Approved 4-hr In-Service: Providing Behavioral Supports & Principles of Positive Intervention Culture
4-hour In-Service: Successful Community Living
Course Description: This class investigates the strategies to assist people receiving support to recruit, train, and manage support staff.
Class Objectives: 1. Identify strategies to assist people receiving support to recruit, train, and manage support staff.
NADSP Code of Ethics Skills 1. Recognizes support services, related policies, procedures that violate rights or pose challenges to the exercise of rights and offers suggestions to address.
APD Approved 4-hr In-Service: Facilitating and Supporting Community Inclusion
4-hour In-Service: Successful Community Living
Course Description: This class investigates the strategies to assist people receiving support to recruit, train, and manage support staff.
Class Objectives: 1. Identify strategies to assist people receiving support to recruit, train, and manage support staff.
NADSP Code of Ethics Skills 1. Recognizes support services, related policies, procedures that violate rights or pose challenges to the exercise of rights and offers suggestions to address.
8-hr In-Service: NTG: I/DD & Dementia for Families
8-hr In-Service: NTG: I/DD & Dementia for Support Staff
Target Audience:
This curriculum is designed for families supporting older adults with intellectual disability at disability, health care, and aging related agencies or in home settings.
Course Description/Purpose:
Many adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are living longer resulting from the positive effects of improved health care and quality of life. Concurrently, with advanced age, more adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are and will be experiencing age related health problems and exhibiting symptoms of cognitive impairment and decline, some attributable to dementia. This workshop is based on the NTG’s new Education and Training Curriculum on Dementia and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to help those who care for the aging population of people with Intellectual Disabilities. This training covers information about organizations advocating for ID with dementia, maintaining function and well-being in later years, health challenges and disparities for adults with ID over the lifespan and how dementia may appear different. It covers information about different types of dementia and medication, and cultural considerations. It explains behavior of ID with dementia and provides strategies on what you can do to help the individual.
8-hr In-Service: NTG: I/DD & Dementia for Support Staff
8-hr In-Service: NTG: I/DD & Dementia for Support Staff
Target Audience:
This curriculum is designed for staff/caregivers with direct or ancillary care responsibilities for supporting older adults with intellectual disability at disability, health care, and aging related agencies or staff/caregivers providing supports in home settings.
Course Description/Purpose:
Many adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are living longer resulting from the positive effects of improved health care and quality of life. Concurrently, with advanced age, more adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are and will be experiencing age related health problems and exhibiting symptoms of cognitive impairment and decline, some attributable to dementia. This workshop is based on the NTG’s new Education and Training Curriculum on Dementia and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to help those who care for the aging population of people with Intellectual Disabilities. This training covers information about organizations advocating for ID with dementia, maintaining function and well-being in later years, health challenges and disparities for adults with ID over the lifespan and how dementia may appear different. It covers information about different types of dementia and medication, and cultural considerations. It explains behavior of ID with dementia and provides strategies on what you can do to help the individual.
In-Service; Successful Community Living (In-Person or Zoom)
4-hour In-Service: Successful Community Living
Course Description: This class investigates the strategies to assist people receiving support to recruit, train, and manage support staff.
Class Objectives: 1. Identify strategies to assist people receiving support to recruit, train, and manage support staff.
NADSP Code of Ethics Skills 1. Recognizes support services, related policies, procedures that violate rights or pose challenges to the exercise of rights and offers suggestions to address.
APD – Direct Care Core Competencies – DCCC: (Zoom or In-Person)
Welcome to the Direct Care Core Competencies. This course will provide you with information about the roles and responsibilities of direct support professionals. course enlightens participants on the many issues […]
APD – Direct Care Core Competencies – DCCC: (Zoom or In-Person)
Welcome to the Direct Care Core Competencies. This course will provide you with information about the roles and responsibilities of direct support professionals. course enlightens participants on the many issues […]
APD – Direct Care Core Competencies – DCCC: (Zoom or In-Person)
Welcome to the Direct Care Core Competencies. This course will provide you with information about the roles and responsibilities of direct support professionals. course enlightens participants on the many issues […]
APD Zero Tolerance: (Zoom or In-person)
This Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) informative course enlightens participants on the many issues relating to abuse and equips participants with the necessary tools to help reduce and stop […]
