Supporting Quality of Life for Individuals with IDD
Hours: 1.00
This course introduces direct support professionals, or DSPs, to the quality of life concept. It explains the history and importance of quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or IDD. It also describes how you can support quality of life for the people you serve.
You will learn about the values and goals behind the quality of life approach to services. You will learn how to use the core quality of life domains to guide supports and planning. These concepts will help you customize support so the people you serve can have the highest possible quality of life.
The goal of this educational program is to provide direct support professionals in IDD services with an overview of the quality of life approach to services.
This course introduces direct support professionals, or DSPs, to the quality of life concept. It explains the history and importance of quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or IDD. It also describes how you can support quality of life for the people you serve. You will learn about the values and goals behind the quality of life approach to services. You will learn how to use the core quality of life domains to guide supports and planning. These concepts will help you customize support so the people you serve can have the highest possible quality of life. The goal of this educational program is to provide direct support professionals in IDD services with an overview of the quality of life approach to services.
National Academy of Certified Care Managers
Relias,LLC is approved by the National Academy of Certified Care Managers (NACCM) as a continuing education provider, #18-502RA.
This activity approved for 1.00 CMC contact hours
National Alliance for Direct Support Professional Frontline Supervisor Training
National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals
This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hours.
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (ALL Direct Care Workers)
Relias Learning, LLC is approved as a Curriculum Developer by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. This activity is approved for 1.00 contact hours for all WA State Direct Care Workers. Training Provider Code: WA0624. CE Approval Code: CE2438124
Explain quality of life in the context of IDD services.
Identify the eight quality of life core domains.
Describe strategies to enhance quality of life.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: What is Quality of Life?
What is Quality of Life?
Models of Disability
Rethinking Disability
Basic Human Needs
QOL Basics
QOL Core Domains
Digging Deeper into the Core Domains
Measuring QOL
Assessing QOL
Observing QOL
Review
Summary
Section 3: Supporting Quality of Life
Service Quality
System of Supports
Troy’s Life
Adding Supports to Troy’s Life
Types of Supports
Support Strategies
Show Respect
Support Choice
Problem-Solve
Advocate
Person-Centered Planning
Richard’s Home
Summary
Section 4: Conclusion
Summary
Course Contributor
References
Congratulations!
Katy Kunst received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Master of Business Administration from Elon University. She has 15 years of experience serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their supporters, including roles as direct support professional, program director, and training facilitator. She has created and facilitated training on topics including non-violent crisis interventions, person-centered planning, cultural competence, quality service delivery, regulatory compliance, and a variety of topics related to IDD services.
The target audience for this course is: Direct Support Professionals; in the following settings: Intellectual Developmental Disabilities.
Asynchronous/Online Distance Learning; please see certificate details for specifics on delivery format.
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To earn continuing education credit for this course you must achieve a passing score of 80% on the post-test and complete the course evaluation.
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