APD Approved 4-hr In-Service: Vocational, Educational and Career Support (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.
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.
NADSP Informed Decision Making 4-hr In-Service
Audience: This curriculum is designed for organizational trainers to use in training with Direct Support Professionals; Frontline Supervisors; Administrators; Families; and interested others. Description/Purpose: The purpose of this training […]
In-Service: Facilitating & Supporting Community Inclusion (In-person or Zoom) (Class cancelled)
This is a 4-hour In-Service Workshop that covers:
Class Objectives
Describe the importance and rationale for assisting individuals with disabilities in becoming more connected to their communities.
Describe the three perspectives on community connecting.
Describe the concept of a “Social Guide” and a “Community Builder” and apply these concepts to the role of the Direct Support Professional.
APD In-Service: Advanced Teaching Strategies: In-Person or Zoom
Class Objectives 1. Explore why we teach and the role of the DSP 2. Describe at least five things we need to know about the person we are teaching for […]
APD In-Service: Interpersonal Communication: In-Person or Zoom
Class Objectives Identify at least five barriers to effective listening. Define the goal of communication. Describe the four approaches to communication. Identify the qualities required for an assertive communicator. Demonstrate […]
APD In-Service: Individual Service Planning and Self Determination: In-Person or Zoom
Class Objectives Identify the components of an Individual Service Plan. Identify the basic beliefs and commitment of the person-centered-planning process. List ways to gain information about a person’s strengths, preferences, […]
APD In-Service: Successful Community Living – In-Person or Zoom
Successful Community Living – Assisting People to Direct Their Own Supportive Services NADSP Code of Ethics Skills Recognizes support services, related policies, procedures that violate rights or pose challenges to […]
