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Our Great Working Relationship – Part 1

This module is the first part in a three-part series. It has been designed to help you and the people who support you learn how to have a great working relationship.

The relationship between you and your staff can be confusing. People are paid to work with you. But it’s not a one-way street, and as this module will explain, you actually need to be equal partners.

This module features presentations from many leading professionals and self-advocates, including Patti Scott, Jeremy Donaldson, and Natalia Manning.

After completing this module, you will be able to:

  • Understand what it means to be in charge and how to provide the people who work with you the support they need.
  • Explain the role of support staff.
  • Describe why you should be involved with “each other’s people.”
  • Explain why good staff blend in and what that means.

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My Rights

This module will explain what some of your most important rights are.

This module includes presentations from a range of leading professionals and self-advocates, including Simon Duffy, Harvey Pact, and Peter Leidy

After completing this module, you will be able to:

  • Understand what rights are and why they are important.
  • Explain some of the most important rights.
  • Discuss ways to protect and build your own rights.
  • Understand when and why rights may be limited.

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Valued Social Roles

This module is written by Marc Tumeinski from the Social Role Valorization (SRV) Implementation project. Marc uses his intimate knowledge of SRV to help support professionals to reflect on both the barriers to the “Good Things of Life” and how valued social roles may help the people we support to have greater access to these good things.

 

 

This module includes video presentations from Marc Tumeinski, Gary Kent, Beth Mount, Steve Dymond, Jack Pearpoint, and Simon Duffy.

 

On successful completion of this module, learners will be able to:

 

    • Describe related elements of social devaluation: negative perception followed by negative treatment.
    • Describe a shared practice of human service involving vision, attitudes, and skills and actions.
    • Understand and articulate a shared practice for supporting the people you support.
    • Describe the “good things in life” and valued social roles with examples, and also explain how they are linked.
    • Describe devalued roles as wounds, how these occur, and what the consequences of these wounds may be.
    • Understand and articulate skills and attitudes which support our vision including: Stepping into the shoes of the people you support, serving one person at a time, and holding high, positive expectations for the people you support and for ourselves.
    • Describe how rejection, distancing, and communication can be potential barriers to applying this vision.
    • Explain how you can be a better listener.
    • Explain how person-centered planning can help to raise possibilities and expectations.
    • Understand the importance of, and how to enhance image and competency, and how to avoid the associated challenges that may include life wasting, lost opportunities, and society’s own perception.