Associate Education
| Everyday Inclusion Part II | |
| Date: | September 3, 2010 |
| Time: | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
| Presenter: | Ric Miller |
| Description: | Part II of Everyday Inclusion begins with July's training. This is a 1-hour review course with Direct Support associates to follow-up with actions taking place to ensure community inclusion. |
| Positive Approaches to Behavior Support, Refresher | |
| Date: | September 8, 2010 |
| Time: | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Kathy, Pam Schoonmaker |
| Description: | Discuss and review positive approaches to be taken with people we serve, which is a portion of the OMRDD curriculum for Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention(SCIP). |
| Comments: | If you are required to take SCIP or SCIP refresher class, you should not register for this class. |
| CPR / AED / Standard First Aid | |
| Date: | September 10, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Jim Murray |
| Description: | Instructs participants on the American Red Cross standard first aid and cardiac pulmonary resuscitation course. Required of all direct service associates within three months of hire. This class must be renewed every three years to maintain certification. |
| Comments: | If not required for your job position, the participant is required to pay the American Red Cross Fee charged to the agency. Kneeling expected; dress comfortably. |
| Max Number: | 8 |
| Orientation II | |
| Date: | September 13, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Varies |
| Description: | All day training to include: Health Issues including Infection Control, Seizure Management, Confidentiality, Tuberculosis (TB), Bloodborne Pathogens, and Health Literacy; Overview of Rights, Consent, Sexability Training; Associate Benefits; Developmental Disabilities Awareness Training; and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and Breaks will be announced. The orientation series is to be taken as full-day trainings, in sequence, within the first 90 days of hire. Please review the bulletin for specific updates offered quarterly, if needed as refreshers. |
| POA Interviewer Training | |
| Date: | September 9, 10, 13, & 14, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - |
| Presenter: | Beckie Austin, Kriggy Porter |
| Description: | This training, which has been developed by the Council on Quality and Leadership, requires a 4-day commitment. The class is scheduled for Thursday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday beginning at 8:30am each morning and will require some evening hours on the first 2 days. |
| Comments: | The training will teach associates about a tool for evaluating personal quality of life and the degree to which organizations can individualize support to facilitate outcomes. Personal Outcome Measures focus on the choices people have in their lives. Associates will learn and conduct actual interviews with the people we support as well as follow-up interviews with the support circle of that individual. |
| Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention Refresher | |
| Date: | September 16, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Ending times vary depending on class size. |
| Presenter: | Lesa Didas, Amy Ryan |
| Description: | Teaches Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention which is an Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities curriculum that emphasizes prevention. |
| Comments: | Required associates are to attend the three-day initially and thereafter attend an annual update/refresher class. Dress comfortably; active physical participation expected. |
| Min Number: | 8 |
| Max Number: | 15 |
| Process Improvement | |
| Date: | September 17, 2010 |
| Time: | 9:00 am - 11:00 am |
| Presenter: | Karen Andrus |
| Description: | Process Improvement is part of our Arc Way to Excellence and helps us to improve our organization's performance, ensure our business systems are effective, meet customer requirements, and helps us to work SMARTER not harder. This training will assist you with Doing Business Better and provides information on how to identify key processes, set up a process management system (Plan, Do, Check, Act), evaluate a process, and identify improvement opportunities. |
| Comments: | Team Leaders are strongly encouraged to attend. |
| Orientation III | |
| Date: | September 20, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Multiple |
| Description: | All day training to include: Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA); Understanding Corporate Compliance; Observation, Service Provision, & Documentation; Abuse Prevention; Incident Reporting, Administrative Designee on Call (ADOC); Open Book Management (OBM); and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and Breaks will be announced. The orientation series is to be taken as full-day trainings, in sequence, within the first 90 days of hire. Please review the bulletin for specific updates offered quarterly, if needed as refreshers. |
| CPR / AED / Standard First Aid | |
| Date: | September 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Vicky Cornish |
| Description: | This training provides the student with knowledge and skills necessary for them to identify and prevent potentially hazardous conditions and give appropriate care regardless of the type of emergency. These emergencies include but are not limited to Checking an ill or injured person; breathing emergencies and conscious choking; cardiac emergencies; CPR and unconscious choking; soft tissue injuries; injuries to muscles, bones and joints; and heat- and cold-related emergencies. Policy 16 will be reviewed as well as knowledge and skills in emergency procedures and CPR. |
| Comments: | This class must be renewed annually to maintain certification. Required of direct service associates within six months of hire. If not required for your job position, the participant is responsible to pay the fee charged to the agency. |
| Max Number: | 8 |
| Initial Investigation | |
| Date: | September 22, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
| Presenter: | Mary Lou Hunt-Quintal |
| Description: | Initial Investigation Training. For associates identified by their Team Leader. Training in the requirements of becoming an initial investigator for 147 incident reports. Responsibility includes to ensure the safety of the people we serve has been completed and documented according to 624 regulation. |
| Final Investigation Training | |
| Date: | September 22, 2010 |
| Time: | 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Mary Lou Hunt-Quintal |
| Description: | This training is for associates identified by their Team Leader and who have completed Initial Investigator Training. This training is required to become a final investigator for 147 incidents. Responsibilities would be to interview people, review documents, and identify corrective actions to ensure the safety of the people we serve by making recommendations through the final investigation report to the Special Review Committee. |
| Comments: | For all final investigators, please attend one of these two available trainings. This is a review of expectations of final investigators. We will be reviewing the tools a final investigator uses and reviewing how to put the final investigation document together. This will be an opportunity to network with other investigators and share what works and what does not. This will be especially valuable if you have not been assigned an investigation in a while. |
| Direct Support Professional Training | |
| Date: | September 23 & 24, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Each Day |
| Presenter: | Multiple |
| Description: | This two-day training is to be taken within 90 days of hire as a Direct Support Associate. It includes a holistic view of the Direct Support Associate's work surrounding the areas of responsibility and accountability, communication and documentation, and health and well-being. Strengthening sensitivity skills as well as skills allowing the work to be viewed as a whole and not just as individual tasks needing to be accomplished is also emphasized throughout the training. |
| Max Number: | 20 |
| Everyday Inclusion | |
| Date: | September 27, 2010 |
| Time: | 9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
| Presenter: | Ric Miller, Kriggy Porter |
| Description: | Everyday Inclusion is a 2-part training used to introduce and expand the horizons and ideas utilizing Community Inclusion as a way to increase the positive quality of life for all the people we support. We will look at the way to improve the current ways as well as addressing barriers to inclusion. Come prepared to share experiences and to learn how each person within the agency can make an impact to increase the community lives of all the people we support while also opening the eyes of the community at large to everything that the people we support have to offer them! |
| Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention | |
| Date: | September 29, 30, & October 1, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Marilyn Kuhn, Stephanie Schwartz |
| Description: | This class teaches Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention which is an Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) curriculum that emphasizes prevention. |
| Comments: | Required associates are to attend the three-day initially and thereafter attend an annual update/refresher class. Required of direct service associates within six months of hire. Dress comfortably; active physical participation expected. |
| Min Number: | 8 |
| Max Number: | 15 |
| Medication Administration | |
| Date: | October 4, 5, 6, & 7, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Each Day |
| Presenter: | Nursing Team |
| Description: | This class meets OMRDD standards for medication administration. |
| Comments: | Anyone within the agency who is responsible for the administration of medication is required to obtain this certification. Must attend all 5 days. Class being held in the Family Service Society Conference Room. |
| Min Number: | 5 |
| Max Number: | 15 |
| CPR / AED / Standard First Aid | |
| Date: | October 8, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Sarah Briggs |
| Description: | Instructs participants on the American Red Cross standard first aid and cardiac pulmonary resuscitation course. Required of all direct service associates within three months of hire. This class must be renewed every three years to maintain certification. |
| Comments: | If not required for your job position, the participant is required to pay the American Red Cross Fee charged to the agency. Kneeling expected; dress comfortably. |
| Max Number: | 8 |
| Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention Refresher | |
| Date: | October 11, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Ending times vary depending on class size. |
| Presenter: | TBD |
| Description: | Teaches Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention which is an Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities curriculum that emphasizes prevention. |
| Comments: | Required associates are to attend the three-day initially and thereafter attend an annual update/refresher class. Dress comfortably; active physical participation expected. |
| Min Number: | 8 |
| Max Number: | 15 |
| Orientation I | |
| Date: | October 13, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Tammy Slayton, Kriggy Porter |
| Description: | All day training to include: Meet and Greet with the Directors; Intro to the Arc Way; Safety Matters, Fire Safety, Hazard Communications, and Back Safety/Slips, Trips, and Falls; and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and breaks will be announced. |
| Planning for Services with Personal Outcome Assessment (POA) | |
| Date: | October 14, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Jean Jensen |
| Description: | The Personal Outcome Measures are a powerful tool for evaluating personal quality of life and the degree to which organizations individualize supports to facilitate outcomes. People define outcomes for themselves. The outcomes are non-prescriptive; they have no norms. Each person is a sample of one. The meaning and definition of personal outcome items will vary from person to person. Through the personal outcome assessment tool and the associates trained in its use, information is gathered about outcomes in the factors My Self, My Work, and My Dreams. These factors guide person directed planning. Our responsibility as an organization is to support people in developing a person-directed plan and to learn about the person's focus. |
| Comments: | This training will be held at Industrial Park. |
| Min Number: | 15 |
| Max Number: | 40 |
| Orientation II | |
| Date: | October 18, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Multiple |
| Description: | All day training to include: Health Issues including Infection Control, Seizure Management, Confidentiality, Tuberculosis (TB), Bloodborne Pathogens, and Health Literacy; Overview of Rights, Consent, Sexability Training; Associate Benefits; Developmental Disabilities Awareness Training; and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and Breaks will be announced. The orientation series is to be taken as full-day trainings, in sequence, within the first 90 days of hire. Please review the bulletin for specific updates offered quarterly, if needed as refreshers. |
| CPR / AED / Standard First Aid | |
| Date: | October 19, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | TBD |
| Description: | This training provides the students with knowledge and skills necessary for them to identify and prevent potentially hazardous conditions and give appropriate care regardless of the type of emergency. These emergencies include but are not limited to checking an ill or injured person; breathing emergencies and conscious choking; cardiac emergencies; CPR and unconscious choking; soft tissue injuries; injuries to muscles, bones, and joints; and heat and cold related emergencies. Policy 16 will be reviewed including a review of knowledge and skills in emergency procedures and CPR. |
| Comments: | If not required for your job position, the participant is responsible to pay the fee charged to the agency. |
| Max Number: | 8 |
| Abuse Prevention/Incident Reporting | |
| Date: | October 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Marcel Lamb |
| Description: | Reviews The Arc of Steuben's policy on Prevention and Management of Allegations of Abuse. Reviews the definitions of abuse classifications, provides an exercise to assist with identifying allegation of abuse incidents and reviews the process to follow when an allegation of abuse is identified. |
| Comments: | Required by all associates within three months of hire with annual updates. |
| Infection Control/TB | |
| Date: | October 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
| Presenter: | Karen Miller |
| Description: | Reviews in detail infection control, TB, HIV/AIDS, and provides the information needed to prevent and control the spread of infections. |
| Comments: | Required by all associates to take this update annually. |
| Hazardous Communication | |
| Date: | October 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 11:30 am - 12:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Kriggy Porter |
| Description: | Provides information on hazardous products. Teaches the importance of reading the label, following manufacture's instructions for proper use, equipment to wear and proper disposal. |
| Comments: | Required by all associates within three months of hire with annual updates. |
| Sexual Harrassment in the Workplace | |
| Date: | October 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Tammy Slayton |
| Description: | The Arc of Steuben is committed to ensuring that each associate can have a work environment that is free from sexual harrassment. This training will teach associates what is and is not expected in the workplace and define different types of sexual harassment. |
| Comments: | This is a required training, and all associates are required to update this annually. |
| HIPAA - Overview | |
| Date: | October 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
| Presenter: | Dennis Nichols |
| Description: | An overview of each associates' responsibilities according to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the organization's expectations. |
| Comments: | This requires an annual refresher. |
| Corporate Compliance Update | |
| Date: | October 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 9:30 am - 10:30 am |
| Presenter: | Matt Mehlenbacher |
| Description: | An overview of associate expectations related to the Arc of Steuben Corporate Compliance Programs. |
| Fire Safety | |
| Date: | October 21, 2010 |
| Time: | 10:45 am - 11:30 am |
| Presenter: | TBD |
| Description: | Review of PASS and RACE to build awareness and to increase associate ability to respond to a fire for the improved safety of all. |
| Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) | |
| Date: | October 22, 2010 |
| Time: | 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
| Presenter: | Dennis Nichols |
| Description: | A general HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Training is offered to all associates as a part of the Agency's Orientation series. Team Leaders and Service Coordinators have additional responsibilities in regard to HIPAA, as outlined in the Agency's HIPAA Privacy Plan (Policy #90). This training will go into more detail about the specifics of those responsibilities. |
| Comments: | Target audience is Team Leaders and Service Coordinators who have not yet had the extended version of the HIPAA Training as well as those who need the annual refresher. |
| Orientation III | |
| Date: | October 25, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | varies |
| Description: | All day training to include: Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA); Understanding Corporate Compliance; Observation, Service Provision, & Documentation; Abuse Prevention; Incident Reporting, Administrative Designee on Call (ADOC); Open Book Management (OBM); and Review. |
| Comments: | The orientation series is to be taken as full-day trainings, in sequence, within the first 90 days of hire. Please review the bulletin for specific updates offered quarterly, if needed as refreshers. |
| Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention | |
| Date: | October 27, 28, & 29, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Pam Schoonmaker, Heather Bevacqua |
| Description: | This class teaches Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention which is an Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) curriculum that emphasizes prevention. Required staff are to attend the three-day initially and thereafter attend an annual update/refresher class. |
| Comments: | Required of direct service associates within six months of hire. Dress comfortably; active physical participation expected. Safe/appropriate footwear required. |
| Min Number: | 8 |
| Max Number: | 15 |
| Positive Approaches to Behavior Support, Full Course | |
| Date: | November 1, 2010 |
| Time: | 9:00 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | TBD |
| Description: | Discuss and review positive approaches to be taken with people we serve, which is a portion of the OMRDD curriculum for Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention (SCIP). |
| Comments: | If you are exempt from taking the 3-day SCIP class, then you will be required to take this 1-day course and a refresher every year for Positive Approaches to Behavior Support. The update is a 4-hour course. If you are required to take SCIP, you should not register for this class. |
| CPR / AED / Standard First Aid | |
| Date: | November 2, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | TBD |
| Description: | Instructs participants on the American Red Cross standard first aid and cardiac pulmonary resuscitation course. Required of all direct service associates within three months of hire. This class must be renewed every three years to maintain certification. |
| Comments: | If not required for your job position, the participant is required to pay the American Red Cross Fee charged to the agency. Kneeling expected; dress comfortably. |
| Max Number: | 8 |
| Orientation I | |
| Date: | November 3, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Various |
| Description: | All day training to include: Meet and Greet with the Directors; Intro to the Arc Way; Safety Matters, Fire Safety, Hazard Communications, and Back Safety/Slips, Trips, and Falls; and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and Breaks will be announced. |
| POA Interviewer Training | |
| Date: | November 4, 5, 8, & 9, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - |
| Presenter: | Beckie Austin, Kriggy Porter |
| Description: | This training, which has been developed by the Council on Quality and Leadership, requires a 4-day commitment. The class is scheduled for Thursday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday beginning at 8:30am each morning and will require some evening hours on the first 2 days. |
| Comments: | The training will teach associates about a tool for evaluating personal quality of life and the degree to which organizations can individualize support to facilitate outcomes. Personal Outcome Measures focus on the choices people have in their lives. Associates will learn and conduct actual interviews with the people we support as well as follow-up interviews with the support circle of that individual. |
| Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention Refresher | |
| Date: | November 10, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Ending Times Vary Depending on the Size of the Class |
| Presenter: | Matt Mehlenbacher, TBD |
| Description: | Teaches Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention, which is an OMRDD curriculum that emphasizes prevention. This is a one-day update. |
| Comments: | Must have attended the 3-day initial training. Dress comfortably; active physical participation expected. Safe/appropriate footwear required. |
| Min Number: | 8 |
| Max Number: | 15 |
| Orientation II | |
| Date: | November 15, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Multiple |
| Description: | All day training to include: Health Issues including Infection Control, Seizure Management, Confidentiality, Tuberculosis (TB), Bloodborne Pathogens, and Health Literacy; Overview of Rights, Consent, Sexability Training; Associate Benefits; Developmental Disabilities Awareness Training; and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and Breaks will be announced. The orientation series is to be taken as full-day trainings, in sequence, within the first 90 days of hire. Please review the bulletin for specific updates offered quarterly, if needed as refreshers. |
| Personal Allowance | |
| Date: | November 16, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Terry Clymo |
| Everyday Inclusion Part II | |
| Date: | November 16, 2010 |
| Time: | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Ric Miller |
| Description: | Part II of Everyday Inclusion begins with July's training. This is a 1-hour review course with Direct Support associates to follow-up with actions taking place to ensure community inclusion. |
| Defensive Driving, NTSI | |
| Date: | November 18, 2010 |
| Time: | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Debra Gleason |
| Description: | National Traffic Safety Institute Defensive Driving course is a Point and Insurance Reduction Program (PIRP) which offers education for safe driving. In addition, if you complete a PIRP course approved by the Department of Motor Vehicles you may receive: ? A reduction of up to four (4) points on your driving record ? A minimum of 10% reduction in auto liability, no-fault and collision insurance premiums each year for three years, if you are the principle operator of a vehicle. You may take the course as often as you wish, but you may take it only every three years for insurance reduction benefits, and every eighteen months for point reduction. |
| Comments: | If you are currently unable to drive an agency vehicle because of points on your license, you will be charged the $12 registration fee per Agency policy. ? associates who are not required to drive agency vehicles will be charged the $12 registration fee. Open to family members or friends if space is available. They will be charged $20 and is expected to be paid at the time of the class. ? Please bring your driver?s license to the class. |
| CPR / AED / Standard First Aid | |
| Date: | November 19, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | TBD |
| Description: | This training provides the student with knowledge and skills necessary for them to identify and prevent potentially hazardous conditions and give appropriate care regardless of the type of emergency. These emergencies include but are not limited to Checking an ill or injured person; breathing emergencies and conscious choking; cardiac emergencies; CPR and unconscious choking; soft tissue injuries; injuries to muscles, bones and joints; and heat- and cold-related emergencies. Policy 16 will be reviewed as well as knowledge and skills in emergency procedures and CPR. |
| Comments: | This class must be renewed annually to maintain certification. Required of direct service associates within six months of hire. Kneeling expected, dress comfortably. If not required for your job position, the participant is responsible to pay the fee charged to the agency. |
| Max Number: | 8 |
| Waiver Services Training | |
| Date: | November 22, 2010 |
| Time: | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
| Presenter: | Mary Kuhlmann |
| Description: | Learn how to develop and document comprehensive and Medicaid compliant Residential, Pre-Vocational, Vocational, and/or Day Habilitation plans and progress notes. |
| Comments: | Training includes small group activities which are best done with 3 to 4 team members from the same program site. |
| Orientation III | |
| Date: | November 22, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Multiple |
| Description: | All day training to include: Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA); Understanding Corporate Compliance; Observation, Service Provision, & Documentation; Abuse Prevention; Incident Reporting, Administrative Designee on Call (ADOC); Open Book Management (OBM); and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and Breaks to be announced. The orientation series is to be taken as full-day trainings, in sequence within the first 90 days of hire. Please review the bulletin for specific updates offered quarterly if needed as refreshers. |
| Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention Refresher | |
| Date: | November 29, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Ending times vary depending on class size. |
| Presenter: | TBD |
| Description: | Teaches Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention which is an Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities curriculum that emphasizes prevention. |
| Comments: | Required associates are to attend the three-day initially and thereafter attend an annual update/refresher class. Dress comfortably; active physical participation expected. |
| Min Number: | 8 |
| Max Number: | 15 |
| Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention | |
| Date: | December 1, 2, & 3, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm each day |
| Presenter: | Shawn Manhart, Marilyn Kuhn |
| Description: | This class teaches Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention which is an Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) curriculum that emphasizes prevention. Required staff are to attend the three-day initially and thereafter attend an annual update/refresher class. |
| Comments: | Required of direct service associates within six months of hire. Dress comfortably; active physical participation expected. |
| Min Number: | 8 |
| Max Number: | 15 |
| Process Improvement | |
| Date: | December 6, 2010 |
| Time: | 9:00 am - 11:00 am |
| Presenter: | Karen Andrus |
| Description: | Process Improvement is part of our Arc Way to Excellence and helps us to improve our organization's performance, ensure our business systems are effective, meet customer requirements, and helps us to work SMARTER not harder. This training will assist you with Doing Business Better and provides information on how to identify key processes, set up a process management system (Plan, Do, Check, Act), evaluate a process, and identify improvement opportunities. |
| Comments: | Team Leaders are strongly encouraged to attend. |
| CPR / AED / Standard First Aid | |
| Date: | December 7, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | TBD |
| Description: | This training provides the students with knowledge and skills necessary for them to identify and prevent potentially hazardous conditions and give appropriate care regardless of the type of emergency. These emergencies include but are not limited to checking an ill or injured person; breathing emergencies and conscious choking; cardiac emergencies; CPR and unconscious choking; soft tissue injuries; injuries to muscles, bones, and joints; and heat and cold-related emergencies. Policy 16 will also be reviewed including a review of knowledge and skills in emergency procedures and CPR. |
| Orientation I | |
| Date: | December 8, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Multiple |
| Description: | All day training to include: Meet and Greet with the Directors; Intro to the Arc Way; Safety Matters, Fire Safety, Hazard Communications, and Back Safety/Slips, Trips, and Falls; and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and Breaks will be announced. The Orientation series is to be taken as full-day trainings, in sequence, within the first 90 days of hire. Please review the bulletin for specific updates offered quarterly if needed as refreshers. |
| Direct Support Professional Training | |
| Date: | December 9 & 10, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Each Day |
| Presenter: | Various |
| Description: | This two-day training is to be taken within 90 days of hire as a Direct Support Associate. It includes a holistic view of the Direct Support Associate's work surrounding the areas of responsibility and accountability, communication and documentation, and health and well-being. Strengthening sensitivity skills as well as skills allowing the work to be viewed as a whole and not just as individual tasks needing to be accomplished is also emphasized throughout the training. |
| Max Number: | 20 |
| Orientation II | |
| Date: | December 13, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Multiple |
| Description: | All day training to include: Health Issues including Infection Control, Seizure Management, Confidentiality, Tuberculosis (TB), Bloodborne Pathogens, and Health Literacy; Overview of Rights, Consent, Sexability Training; Associate Benefits; Developmental Disabilities Awareness Training; and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and Breaks will be announced. The orientation series is to be taken as full-day trainings, in sequence within the first 90 days of hire. Please review the bulletin for specific updates offered quarterly if needed as refreshers. |
| Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention Refresher | |
| Date: | December 16, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Mark Failing, Heather Bevacqua |
| Description: | Teaches Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention which is an Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities curriculum that emphasizes prevention. |
| Comments: | Required associates are to attend the three-day initially and thereafter attend an annual update/refresher class. Dress comfortably; active physical participation expected. |
| Min Number: | 8 |
| Max Number: | 15 |
| CPR / AED / Standard First Aid | |
| Date: | December 17, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm |
| Presenter: | TBD |
| Description: | Instructs participants on the American Red Cross standard first aid and cardiac pulmonary resuscitation course. Required of all direct service associates within three months of hire. This class must be renewed every three years to maintain certification. |
| Comments: | If not required for your job position, the participant is required to pay the American Red Cross Fee charged to the agency. Kneeling expected; dress comfortably. |
| Max Number: | 8 |
| Orientation III | |
| Date: | December 20, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm |
| Presenter: | Multiple |
| Description: | All day training to include: Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA); Understanding Corporate Compliance; Observation, Service Provision, & Documentation; Abuse Prevention; Incident Reporting, Administrative Designee on Call (ADOC); Open Book Management (OBM); and Review. |
| Comments: | Lunch and Breaks will be announced. The orientation series is to be taken as full-day trainings, in sequence, within the first 90 days of hire. Please review the bulletin for specific updates offered quarterly, if needed as refreshers. |