Objectives of the Course:
- As a Frontline Supervisor I will guide the team to assist and encourage each person to direct his or her own life.
- As a Frontline Supervisor I will guide the team to assist each person we support to identify and reach life enhancing goals.
- As a Frontline Supervisor I will guide the team to work in partnership with the people we support, and the people close to them.
- As a Frontline Supervisor I will guide the team to honor the person's right to assume reasonable risk.
Section 1: Guiding the team to assist and encourage each person to direct his or her own life
- Respecting the values and ideals of the people we support.
- Facilitating their expression of decisions and choices related to those values.
- How empowered people look, feel, and act and how other people treat them.
- Empowerment and self-determination and people who have more intensive levels of disability.
- Assisting people who have higher levels of disability to become more empowered
- Everyone deserves to be assisted to be the leaders of their own lives.
- Working to overcome barriers to self-determination.
- Using our knowledge of the person, from our relationship with that person, to make the decisions if the person is unable to participate in the decision.
- The person’s right to be satisfied with the supports they receive.
Section 2: Guiding the team to assist each person we support to identify and reach life enhancing goals.
- Potential differences in dreams and goals of people with and without disabilities.
- Potential ethical dilemmas related to differences in dreams and goals.
Section 3: Guiding the team to work in partnership with the people we support, and the people close to them.
- The concept of ‘partnership.’
- The purpose of the partnership
- Letting the person guide the partnerships.
Section 4: Guiding the team to honor the person's right to assume reasonable risk.
- Equipping the person to weigh risk as they make decisions and choices and take actions.
- Considering negative consequences to decisions people make.
- The downside of protecting people from natural consequences and mistakes – restricting their ability to grow, mature, and learn.
- Including the person in decisions and putting them in the ‘drivers’ seat.’
- Identifying and addressing significant risk versus reasonable risk.
- Acceptable and unacceptable consequences.