Skills for Active Support
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Course Overview
A 90-minute eLearning for Support Workers to learn the 4 Essentials of Active Support and improve the quality of life of people with an intellectual disability.
Why take this course?
Support Workers play an essential role in enhancing the quality of life, engagement, and participation for people with an intellectual disability. By developing skills for ‘Active Support’ – a person-centred approach to support – Support Workers can provide the right support for a person to be engaged and improve their overall wellbeing.
This eLearning module will guide Support Workers through the 4 Essentials of Active Support – encouraging people with intellectual disabilities to be engaged, interact with others, communicate, exercise choice and control, and participate in activities at home or in the community.
*This module includes videos, knowledge checks, and a handbook for reflective practice. Module content was developed by the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University and Greystanes Disability Services. It has been reproduced by DSC using DSC graphics and knowledge checks with full permission from La Trobe University.
What you’ll gain
We’ll explore:
Why engagement is important to quality of life
Why you should use ‘Active Support’
The 4 Essentials of Active Support
How to use Active Support in your everyday work
Who’s it for?
Support Workers
Frontline Workers
What’s included?
90 minute eLearning module
Downloadable videos
Downloadable slides
A handbook for reflective practice
Templates to use in training with your staff
Certificate of completion
FAQ
A 90-minute eLearning for Support Workers to learn the 4 Essentials of Active Support and improve the quality of life of people with an intellectual disability.
Why take this course?
Support Workers play an essential role in enhancing the quality of life, engagement, and participation for people with an intellectual disability. By developing skills for ‘Active Support’ – a person-centred approach to support – Support Workers can provide the right support for a person to be engaged and improve their overall wellbeing.
This eLearning module will guide Support Workers through the 4 Essentials of Active Support – encouraging people with intellectual disabilities to be engaged, interact with others, communicate, exercise choice and control, and participate in activities at home or in the community.
*This module includes videos, knowledge checks, and a handbook for reflective practice. Module content was developed by the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University and Greystanes Disability Services. It has been reproduced by DSC using DSC graphics and knowledge checks with full permission from La Trobe University.
What you’ll gain
We’ll explore:
Why engagement is important to quality of life
Why you should use ‘Active Support’
The 4 Essentials of Active Support
How to use Active Support in your everyday work
Who’s it for?
Support Workers
Frontline Workers
What’s included?
90 minute eLearning module
Downloadable videos
Downloadable slides
A handbook for reflective practice
Templates to use in training with your staff
Certificate of completion
DSC On-Demand Learning
$265 / yr. Cancel Anytime.
Includes this lesson and a huge, always-updated library of 140 NDIS topics.
Sign UpBuy Single Course
$55
