This course is designed to influence, empower and educate a wider population to improve the health and healthcare of people with intellectual disability. You will gain an understanding of the barriers and enablers for people with intellectual disability, their families, and their healthcare providers. Provider: The University of Queensland.
This module aims to provide ongoing support and training for allied health assistants (AHAs), allied health professionals (AHPs) as well as allied health team leaders and managers. This has been developed collaboratively by the Department of Health and Human Services, Monash Health and Wodonga TAFE.
Tailored for families, carers, people working in health, law, finance, disability, ageing and social work sectors - this 30-minute, interactive E-Learning module provides an overview on giving people with disabilities more control in making their own decisions.
This course will reflect on what a good life means for you and hear from other people with and without disabilities about their views on what a good life means for them. You will engage in thinking about and discussing contemporary disability issues such as disability politics, history and disability across the life course. Provider: Future Learn.
Participants will explore a human rights approach to disability and examine how disability politics and policy, advocacy and activism can inform what we mean by a good life. You will reflect on the meaning and significance of human diversity, inclusion, access and support. Provider: Future Learn.
This course provides an introduction to enabling risk. It will introduce ways you can support people with cognitive disabilities, including people with intellectual disabilities and acquired brain injury, to make choices and be involved in activities that may involve some risk, while minimising potential harm to themselves or others. Provider: La Trobe University
This online course consists of four modules on client engagement: Building Effective Working Relationships with Clients, Building Further Engagement, Effective Engagement with Aboriginal Clients, and Effective Engagement with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Clients. Provider: NGO Learning Centre.
This free online course is a learning resource developed specifically for disability support workers. The resource provides an introduction to Person Centred Active Support - a way of working that enables everyone, no matter their level of intellectual or physical ability, to make choices and participate in meaningful activities and social relationships. You will learn the skills you need to practice Person Centred Active Support in your workplace and the positive outcomes this way of working achieves. Provider: Greystanes and La Trobe University
This course is intended for those interested in exploring a career as a Home Health Aide or Personal Care Aide. The course provides an overview of responsibilities and includes concepts and skills involved in working with patients with mental illness, developmental and physical disabilities. Provider: Coursera (Course created by The State University of New York).
Many people do not recognise their care of a person with a disability as care, instead seeing it as an extension of their relationship to the person. This course will develop your knowledge and skills to identify hidden carers that may present themselves in social housing. Once identified, your help in connecting these carers to existing services will support them, develop their capacity, and improve their well-being and engagement with their communities.