Option 8 outline
8 Contact Hours
Chapter 1: Mentor/Protégé guidelines
- Identify mentor responsibilities
- Clarify protégé responsibilities
- List tasks a mentor can teach
- Review the values of mentor relationship
Chapter 2: Individual specific training
- Identify skill development goals, service/support activities, behavior support plan, planned interventions, & related documentation requirements
- Clarify individual's preferences, strengths, diagnoses, related needs; care needs
- List nutrition, diet, mealtime support, restroom assistance, mobility needs, lifting, and general supervision/support requirements
- Review of medication administration, teaching techniques, managing of individual's funds, and related documentation requirements
Chapter 3: Skill building
- Adult Day Support
- Identify necessary activities and environments that build on the individual's strengths
- Foster the development of skills that lead to greater independence, community membership, relationship-building, and self-direction.
- Develop natural supports
- Career Planning, Group Employment Support, Individual Employment Support, and Vocational Habilitation
- Advancement on the path to community employment
- Foster the development of skills necessary for competitive integrated employment
- Assistance in seeking advancement if currently employed
Chapter 4: Self-Determination
- Identify methods of assisting individuals to develop self- advocacy skills, exercise civil rights
- Clarify how to exercise choices regarding services received
- List ways to facilitate building skills that enable the individual to become more independent
- Review methods to generalize skills to become productive and integrated within the community.