Thursday, October 20, 2011
Disabled Development Services
To provide Consumers with the best possible services that promote their independence, self-esteem, and abilities in the least restrictive environment, in a timely manner, and with the greatest possible attention to details that ensure they are satisfied with our services and that their needs are met.
VISION
Individuals with developmental disabilities have the right to lead self-directed lives, make informed decisions, and deserve a support system designed to promote these endeavors so a high quality of life can be achieved.
VALUES
•PLANs team members respect and support every Consumer’s abilities, desires and strengths
• Advocacy and full community inclusion for Consumers is vital to their quality of life
• Promoting Consumer independence is a top priority
• Honesty is the best policy
• Communication with all team members is key
• Quality is more important than quantity when it comes to our PLANs
• Training is a necessary component of quality PLANs
• Documentation with attention to details is critical to a quality organization
• PLANs are recognized for a job well done
• Have fun & enjoy life!
Family Support Service
Family support services are community-based services that assist and support parents in their role as caregivers. Family support services promote parental competency and healthy child development by helping parents enhance their strengths and resolve problems that can lead to child maltreatment, developmental delays, and family disruption.
Services include peer support and counseling, early developmental screening, parent education, early childhood development, childcare and respite care, home visits, family resource centers, school-linked services, recreation, and job or skills education or training. Programs may address the general population or target particular groups such as
ethnic/cultural minorities, adolescent parents, or families facing health, mental health, or substance abuse issues
Services include peer support and counseling, early developmental screening, parent education, early childhood development, childcare and respite care, home visits, family resource centers, school-linked services, recreation, and job or skills education or training. Programs may address the general population or target particular groups such as
ethnic/cultural minorities, adolescent parents, or families facing health, mental health, or substance abuse issues
Different Language Training
appropriate customer service within industry-sInterpreter Training
We invite you to experience the benefits of investing in Interpreter Training, such as:
Increased Efficiency
Increased Effectiveness of Communication with Limited English Proficient (LEP) Populations
Decreased time and fiscal costs of inaccurate communication
Greater Trust in spite of cultural and linguistic barriers
Greater Professionalism
There are several components to being a fully trained interpreter. In addition to being able to speak multiple languages, it is imperative that the interpreter is thoroughly trained.
We invite you to participate in LTC Echo’
Role of the Interpreter
Interpreting Skills
Professionalism – Offers culturally pecific protocol - Practices specific skill set shared in the interpreting profession to facilitate communication as a third party. Interpreters actively practice these skills including: register, sight translation, code-switching, cognitive strengthening, active and critical listening, and more. - Executes efficiently the multiple functions of the interpreter. Commits to the national standards, laws, and expectations of interpreting which is crucial considering the paucity of training available in the interpreting field. - Ensures proficiency in native and target languages. Language assessment also allows for evaluation of the vocabulary set of the interpreter, and determines whether she/he will need specialized terminology training, such as medical or mental health specific vocabulary.
We invite you to experience the benefits of investing in Interpreter Training, such as:
Increased Effectiveness of Communication with Limited English Proficient (LEP) Populations
Decreased time and fiscal costs of inaccurate communication
Greater Trust in spite of cultural and linguistic barriers
Greater Professionalism
There are several components to being a fully trained interpreter. In addition to being able to speak multiple languages, it is imperative that the interpreter is thoroughly trained.
We invite you to participate in LTC Echo’
Role of the Interpreter
Interpreting Skills
Professionalism – Offers culturally pecific protocol - Practices specific skill set shared in the interpreting profession to facilitate communication as a third party. Interpreters actively practice these skills including: register, sight translation, code-switching, cognitive strengthening, active and critical listening, and more. - Executes efficiently the multiple functions of the interpreter. Commits to the national standards, laws, and expectations of interpreting which is crucial considering the paucity of training available in the interpreting field. - Ensures proficiency in native and target languages. Language assessment also allows for evaluation of the vocabulary set of the interpreter, and determines whether she/he will need specialized terminology training, such as medical or mental health specific vocabulary.
Professional Volunteer Training
Widespread volunteerism is an indicator of a healthy culture. A society in which people are willing to spend a few extra hours per week working to help their community for free means that its citizens have both leisure and goodwill to spare. But what if you want to take it to the next level? What if you want to turn a few hours of volunteer work every week into an occupation? And if that work becomes a full-time job, how do you maintain the volunteer spirit? Is it possible to become a professional volunteer?
That depends on how you define it. For instance, things get a little muddy once you start to consider people like teachers and
There's no formal definition for professional volunteerism, so picking out what it means can be a bit difficult. The word "professional" suggests that whatever you're doing, you're good at it and getting paid. But the term "volunteerism" almost always means that you're working for free. For the sake of convenience, we're going to try to walk the thin line and consider as a professional volunteer someone who devotes most of his or her life -- as much time as is allotted for any paid labor -- to the service of others for little or no compensation. A professional volunteer is willing to give up material comforts and financial stability in order to make the world a better place, even leaving friends and family to pick up and move to unfamiliar areas.
It's a noble course to take, but there are a few practical considerations. After all, you're going to have to pay for food and rent somehow. On the next page, we'll take a look at some of the logistics of being a professional volunteer. who are dedicating their lives to community service. Are they professional volunteers or just professionals? On the other hand, what if you're the princess of Monaco but also spend 60 hours a week reading aloud to the blind? What if you've chaired the Red Cross board of directors on Sunday afternoons for 35 years? Or you work as a fry cook but underreport your hours?
That depends on how you define it. For instance, things get a little muddy once you start to consider people like teachers and
There's no formal definition for professional volunteerism, so picking out what it means can be a bit difficult. The word "professional" suggests that whatever you're doing, you're good at it and getting paid. But the term "volunteerism" almost always means that you're working for free. For the sake of convenience, we're going to try to walk the thin line and consider as a professional volunteer someone who devotes most of his or her life -- as much time as is allotted for any paid labor -- to the service of others for little or no compensation. A professional volunteer is willing to give up material comforts and financial stability in order to make the world a better place, even leaving friends and family to pick up and move to unfamiliar areas.
It's a noble course to take, but there are a few practical considerations. After all, you're going to have to pay for food and rent somehow. On the next page, we'll take a look at some of the logistics of being a professional volunteer. who are dedicating their lives to community service. Are they professional volunteers or just professionals? On the other hand, what if you're the princess of Monaco but also spend 60 hours a week reading aloud to the blind? What if you've chaired the Red Cross board of directors on Sunday afternoons for 35 years? Or you work as a fry cook but underreport your hours?
Family and Community Counseling
The Family and Community Counselling program offers specialized training for delivering social services within the cultural values and beliefs of the Aboriginal community. Students are encouraged to understand their history, and to integrate traditional knowledge and skills into their professional practice. The program has two levels leading to a certificate and a diploma.
The Family and Community Counselling certificate program addresses issues of power and issues of discrimination based on age, race, gender, sexual orientation, class and culture. The educational objective of the certificate is to provide students with the knowledge, values and skills necessary for an initial level of professional practice focusing on the relationship between client problems and public issues. Critical thinking and structural analysis are central to the learning experience and to the promotion of social justice and human well-being.
The Family and Community Counselling diploma program is designed to further increase the skills and knowledge of certificate graduates working in Aboriginal community agencies or other social service agencies. Diploma program offers a transfer option for students interested in furthering their education. Special areas of interest are child welfare, recovery from substance abuse, and intervening in traumatic situations that affect Aboriginal families
The Family and Community Counselling certificate program addresses issues of power and issues of discrimination based on age, race, gender, sexual orientation, class and culture. The educational objective of the certificate is to provide students with the knowledge, values and skills necessary for an initial level of professional practice focusing on the relationship between client problems and public issues. Critical thinking and structural analysis are central to the learning experience and to the promotion of social justice and human well-being.
The Family and Community Counselling diploma program is designed to further increase the skills and knowledge of certificate graduates working in Aboriginal community agencies or other social service agencies. Diploma program offers a transfer option for students interested in furthering their education. Special areas of interest are child welfare, recovery from substance abuse, and intervening in traumatic situations that affect Aboriginal families
Social Skill and Training
Social skills training is a well recognized behavior therapy. It is evidence based for several psychological disorders. Many organizations exist for behaviour therapists around the world. ANTBC with the World Association for Behavior Analysis offers a certification in behavior therapy, which covers social skills training techniques.
Our major goal of social skills training is teaching persons who may or may not have emotional problems about the verbal as well as nonverbal behaviors involved in social interactions. There are many people who have never been taught such interpersonal skills as making "small talk" in social settings, or the importance of good eye contact during a conversation. In addition, many people have not learned to "read" the many subtle cues contained in social interactions, such as how to tell when someone wants to change the topic of conversation or shift to another activity. Social skills training helps patients to learn to interpret these and other social signals, so that they can determine how to act appropriately in the company of other people in a variety of different situations. Sociol Skills Trainig proceeds on the assumption that when people improve their social skills or change selected behaviors, they will raise their self-esteem and increase the likelihood that others will respond favorably to them. Trainees learn to change their social behavior patterns by practicing selected behaviors in individual or group therapy sessions. Another goal of social skills training is improving a patient's ability to function in everyday social situations. Social skills training can help patients to work on specific issues for example, improving one's telephone manners that interfere with their jobs or daily lives.
Our major goal of social skills training is teaching persons who may or may not have emotional problems about the verbal as well as nonverbal behaviors involved in social interactions. There are many people who have never been taught such interpersonal skills as making "small talk" in social settings, or the importance of good eye contact during a conversation. In addition, many people have not learned to "read" the many subtle cues contained in social interactions, such as how to tell when someone wants to change the topic of conversation or shift to another activity. Social skills training helps patients to learn to interpret these and other social signals, so that they can determine how to act appropriately in the company of other people in a variety of different situations. Sociol Skills Trainig proceeds on the assumption that when people improve their social skills or change selected behaviors, they will raise their self-esteem and increase the likelihood that others will respond favorably to them. Trainees learn to change their social behavior patterns by practicing selected behaviors in individual or group therapy sessions. Another goal of social skills training is improving a patient's ability to function in everyday social situations. Social skills training can help patients to work on specific issues for example, improving one's telephone manners that interfere with their jobs or daily lives.
Social Center Program
Case management assigns the administration of care for an outpatient individual with a serious mental illness to a single person (or team); this includes coordinating all necessary medical and mental health care, along with associated supportive services.
Case management tries to enhance access to care and improve the continuity and efficiency of services. Depending on the specific setting and locale, case managers are responsible for a variety of tasks, ranging from linking clients to services to actually providing intensive clinical or rehabilitative services themselves. Other core functions include outreach to engage clients in services, assessing individual needs, arranging requisite support services (such as housing, benefit programs, job training), monitoring medication and use of services, and advocating for client rights and entitlements.
Case management is not a time-limited service, but is intended to be ongoing, providing clients whatever they need whenever they need it, for as long as necessary.
Case management is not a time-limited service, but is intended to be ongoing, providing clients whatever they need whenever they need it, for as long as necessary.
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