TRAINING COURSES
Do I Take Sugar?
(for professionals)
An introduction to learning disability awareness. This course advises participants on good practice by exploring the barriers that exclude people with learning disabilities from living fulflling lives. We tell our own stories - the good, the bad and the ugly - which is a very effective way to challenge misconceptions. Anybody interested in ensuring that their service is inclusive for people with learning disabilities should take this course.
Care Values - Our Support, Our Say
(for professionals)
This course follows on from ‘Do I Take Sugar?’. It aims to encourage good practice in care settings and looks at promoting dignity, respect, independence and inclusion in more depth. Developed from work carried out with service users and their carers, this training covers what is important to people and what they want from their care providers. It is valuable for service providers looking to deliver quality services.
Relationships and Sexuality
(for service users)
Promotes the rights of people with learning disabilities to make decisions about their personal relationships. This workshop encourages staff to think about their own attitudes towards sex and relationships and how this impacts on the people they support. We also look at the challenges of balancing safeguarding, duty of care, rights and how these can present conficting issues for care
providers.
Self Development
(for service users)
We are constantly developing training for people with disabilities across a wide range of practical life-skills and wellbeing issues. Please ask about our current range of services or make suggestions about any training you would like to see.