TRAINING COURSES
Do I Take Sugar?
Without giving too much away this course puts staff in the shoes of a person with a learning disability who is facing discrimination and asks the question "how would you feel?"
This is a very effective way to break down barriers and challenge misconceptions about people with learning disabilities.
This course is a must for staff to attend and benefits anyone who wants to support people with a learning disability to live a full and rewarding life. An excellent course for those staff who want to refresh their approach.
Your Health, Your Life
This course is designed to enable people with learning disabilities to take control of, and responsibility for their own health.
The course covers:
- Nutrition and healthy eating - interactive discussion with a qualified nutritionist.
- Physical activity - participants are encouraged to try a range of activities with a qualified fitness instructor.
- How to get support to do what you want to do - useful contacts & information about fitness opportunities in the area.
- Travel & transport - New Vision give tips on how to get out and about which is one of the biggest barriers faced by people with learning disabilities.
Accessible information packs are given out to support people to make changes in their lives when they leave the course.
Personal Relationships and Sexuality
New Vision are currently working alongside The Gateshead Primary Care Trust and Gateshead Councils Training and Staff Development Team to deliver training to staff who support people who have a learning disability to have personal relationships should they choose to.
The aim of the workshop is to support staff to learn about their own values and attitudes towards sex and relationships and how this may impact on the people they support. We also look at the difficulties between balancing safety, duty of care and rights in relation to sexuality and relationships of people who have a learning disability and how this can present conflicting issues for care providers.
New Vision plan to develop this training further in the future and deliver to the wider workforce.
Training Costs
New Vision Costs for training, meetings, consultancy, presentations and photographs :
Full day training £300+expenses
Half day training £250+expenses
Consultancy work £25 per hour
Attending meetings £25 per hour
Inspirational Talk £50 - £100 + expenses
(Depending on size and type of organisation)
Presentation £100 - £300 + expenses
(Depending on size and type of organisation)