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Presenter: Peter Leidy
About This Video:
Peter Leidy sings 3 Days a Week about a person wanting a little more than an outing and a van ride three times a week.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
- Rights
- Self-Determination
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Janis Swindlehurst
About This Video:
Janis Swindlehurst tells a story that demonstrates the need to use the experience and knowledge that parents have acquired.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains that people with dementia lose the ability to see things in 3D and the consequences that this may have for them.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
John shows us how to respect someone's wants and wishes in a balanced relationship.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This film takes a fun look at some of the interactions that that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities experience in the community.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Communication
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains how supported decision making is a global concept being utilized by various countries and cultures.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that although challenging, providing end of life care can also be a privilege that can lead to feelings of happiness and satisfaction for years to years knowing that you did the person you support proud.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene explains how having a proper funeral, one that the person who has died would have wanted, can help the bereavement process because it gives family, friends, support workers the opportunity to say a proper goodbye.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hewett
About This Video:
Dave Hewitt explains why the word naturalistic is often used to describe intensive interaction.
Subjects Covered:
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Malia describes the challenges she faces in her roles as both parent and as a member of Cory's supported decision making team.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount explains that it is often those with the most challenging or profound needs who derive the most benefit from the personal attention that person-centered work brings.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Person-Centered Planning
- Rights
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Tyrone Towers talks about his experiences of his own circle to explain what makes a positive and constructive circle of support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 1 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele shares a beautiful story to explain that a support relationship can be rooted in love providing the head and the heart are in balance. John explains how the staff were able to ensure that a lady that they supported had a proper eulogy and burial when it did not look like this would be the case.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how everyone needs a sense of achievement to feel good about themselves and feel happiness.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Kate Fulton
About This Video:
Kate explores that to work alongside people and families in a meaningful and respectful way requires a significant shift in expertise.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Working on the Inside
Length: 3 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
This film is taken from the module 'Jumping Into the Chaos of Things.' David Pitonyak explains why it is a natural response for the people we support to form strong feelings towards particular staff members.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey shares a story about a young man whose post traumas affects his behavior in present day.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Steve Dymond
About This Video:
Steve Dymond talks about what friendship means to him and why it is important.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Bernard Carabello
About This Video:
Bernard Carabello talks about the horrific levels of abuse that he and other people endured living at the Willowbrook state institution.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
- Rights
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
In this video Karyn Harvey explains the various types of abuse and its prevalence in the field we work in.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich explains the need to understand and accept what a person who has FASD cannot do.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick explains a time when a parent act's on her son's wishes in an unconventional, yet successful way.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 3
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen introduces the concept of active support. Active support is a person-centered approach that aims to build the relationship you have with the person you support by supporting inclusion and control.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains how active support is based around the person's needs.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Julie Beadle-Brown
About This Video:
Julie Beadle-Brown tells a story that highlights the importance of active support and being actively engaged in an activities.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains how participating in activities can build our sense of belonging in our community.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
A mother explains a time when a very difficult, but necessary decision had to be made.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Erica Streisslberger explains how important it is for support workers to understand the specific disability of the person they support in order to understand and support them more accurately.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen talks about what advocacy is not, and also reviews some different conflicts of interest that you may encounter during your work as an advocate.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that it is there is no right or wrong way to the grieve but you need to have awareness of this and make space in your life for this and be kind to others throughout the grieving process.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Graham Firth
About This Video:
Graham Firth explains why intensive interaction may challenge preconceptions about age appropriateness.
Subjects Covered:
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains how difficult behaviors result from unmet needs.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Listening
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains the importance of staff and support to restrain from imposing their own opinions and advice, but rather, let the person they support make their own decisions with guidance, unless serious harm or danger is at stake.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Yona Lunsky explains how it is okay to take some time to grieve and feel sadness but it is also important to find ways to recover from sadness and grief.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick explains how what you see is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of peoples' true potential.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich explains an alternative way to understand the acronym FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth and John Raffaele discuss the story of an ethical dilemma that challenged the relationship the support worker had between the person they supported and the organization that employed her.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Rights
- Risk
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells the story of a lady who enjoyed to sew and how someone came in a taught her that she wasn't who she thought she was.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth and John Raffaele talks about the discrepancies that exist within the role of a direct support professional.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger helps us to think about the feelings people may experience towards the expectations of learning in sex education classes, when the very nature of their disability refers to the difficulty they have with learning.
Subjects Covered:
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Yona explains that it is our job to help both the person we support to develop a language to understand their own anxieties while also helping the people around them understand that everyone’s experiences with anxiety are individual and unique.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how she believes that women with disabilities have been overlooked and unrepresented and they deserve an apology at the very least as a starting point for change.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Advocacy
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Aimee Althoff talks about some of the key principles that you will want to keep in mind when supporting someone through the process of applying and interviewing for a position.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht describes the different pieces of paperwork that will be needed to accompany a job application.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Amanda Sawyer
About This Video:
Amanda Sawyer explains the importance of support workers to take notes when the person they support are taking medications to share with their doctors to endure that the particular medications they are taking are working and that there aren’t any side effects causing greater issues.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains why it is important to ask for permission before you start helping.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth talks about the importance of asking for permission when meeting with people and families affected by FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Heather Hermans
About This Video:
Heather Hermans explains how important it is for support workers to feel comfortable, confident and prepared to ask questions during health care professional visits because if they don’t understand what is happening, how are they going to be able to explain it to the person they are supporting?
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley reviews the different aspects of brain development affected by FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood discusses where and how he feels Asperger's Syndrome may fit into the autism spectrum.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood defines Asperger's Syndrome.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger describes some of the assumptions that we make about community and the danger of thinking that community for people with disabilities means a community completely without other people who also have disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger speaks about the assumptions we make about friendships for the people we support. Dave explains how we have discouraged people with disabilities from being friends with other people who also have disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North explains how difficult auditory sensory processing can be for people with Autism.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
- Listening
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood explains how communication devices can help alleviate confusion or misunderstandings associated with the person's communication difficulty.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood reveals the mental health needs of people with autism.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood introduces how a diagnosis of autism is typically made.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North talks about three key strategies to be applied when working with someone with an autistic spectrum condition.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Adele Mason describes how it felt to learn about her diagnosis of autism. She also gives an insight into how some of the social and sensory difficulties we have already touched on affect her day-to-day life.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Good Support
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood explores the meaning of autism spectrum.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North explains what we mean when we use the term Autism Spectrum Condition as a frame of reference.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood talks about the strengths and special interests of people with autism.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hewett
About This Video:
Dave Hewitt discusses the infant communication development. Observe the fundamentals of communication in action - being actively rehearsed and learnt by the baby within the gentle but dynamic interchange.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount explains how person-centered planning was first established.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains the difficulties of delivering bad news and the importance of having a team together to help break bad news to the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint describes the story of a lady who combined her skills with the support of her circle of support to find employment.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Employment
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Kathie Snow
About This Video:
Kathie Snow overviews some personal, social, and physical barriers to communication.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht explains the basic rights that people have.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Rights
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Janis Swindlehurst
About This Video:
Janis Swindlehurst talks about her early experiences of being a parent of a child with disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich explains some background to the behaviors that a person with FASD may exhibit.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Kathie Snow
About This Video:
Kathie Snow explains why behavior is communication.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Communication
- Good Support
- Listening
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains and provides examples that support the statement 'behind every problem behavior is a skill not yet learned.'
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Evelyn Perez talks about her experiences of becoming a parent of a child with disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Janis Swindlehurst
About This Video:
Janis Swindlehurst tells a story that reflects her experience of being a parent.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 9 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells his own story of being 'claimed.' This poignant and touching story highlights the need for every person to have someone who 'claims' them.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 10 min
Presenter: Janis Swindlehurst
About This Video:
Janis Swindlehurst shares her experience of being Danielle's mother.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 4 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains the importance of feeling needed and being able to contribute and why we should help the people we support use their gifts, capacities and skills to make a contribution to the larger whole.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Mental Health
- Self-Esteem
Length: 11 minutes
Presenter: Kate Fulton
About This Video:
Kate Fulton explores the art of being present and explains an example from her own life of when she was not present.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Listening
- Working on the Inside
Length: 3 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David talks about how our tone of voice often changes when we are talking to the people we support.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury emphasizes the importance of a relationship that makes sense to both you and the person you support, and the need people have to know they can trust and count on you to be there for them.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Self-Determination
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Kate Fulton
About This Video:
Kate Fulton provides an example that demonstrates how our values and beliefs affect the outcomes and quality of our experiences.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Working on the Inside
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount explains one way of knowing if people truly belong to their community.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Lucy Golder talks about the various benefits and outcomes of intensive interaction.
Subjects Covered:
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains how the most important benefit of supported decision making is empowerment because the people we support come to understand that this is a process that allows them to make decisions about their own lifes.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski explains the benefits of different values social roles.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains why the reality of rights for the people you support is different from our own by describing a piece of work that he carried out to help a group of people with developmental disabilities design their own bill of rights.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Rights
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how the brain operates when presented with trauma and how the brain changes when overcome by traumatic experiences.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains how most children develop a sense of body modesty, and how and why the people you support may experience difficulties with or have no understanding of such privacy or boundaries. As Dave explains, many people attribute 'a lack of inhibitions' as part of the 'disability,' instead of recognizing that we get what we teach.
Subjects Covered:
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains the need to be thoughtful about the boundaries you create when providing intimate care to ensure that privacy is achieved in a not so private service.
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Boundaries
Length: 5 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger asks the question why do we take such great care in protecting our own boundaries especially in intimate settings but we do not think of the boundaries of the people we support when providing intimate care?
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Boundaries
Length: 5 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger highlights the importance of boundaries and explains why they are important for everyone.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
- Risk
Length: 4 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains how often, changes in people's behavior can be attributed to a breakdown in important relationships.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
- Contribution
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Sam Sly
About This Video:
Sam Sly talks about the importance of breaking down the task and risk assessing each element separately.
Subjects Covered:
- Rights
- Risk
- Choice and Control
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Patti Scott
About This Video:
Patti Scott tells a story that expresses the importance of using the person's capacities and bringing value.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendricks explains how people should look for the capacities of people and build on them.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick tells the story of a man who used his capacities to create a micro enterprise.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak provides some examples about how he builds relationships with people who are going through a difficult time.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich uses some of his own life experiences to highlight the importance of building a trusting relationship with the person you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains why the small interactions in community are so important.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Patti Scott
About This Video:
Patti Scott underlines that making introductions to new opportunities is highly reliant on a trusted relationship between you and the person you support and your ability to keep the focus on them. Patti goes on to tell a story as an example of a gentle and thoughtful approach to introducing new interests when the person you support is less certain.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich talks about his own life experiences and how he started mixing with some people who were not a good influence on him. He goes on to explain how he was able to move his life forward and make healthy friendships.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Friendships and Community
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen describes her own experiences of bumping into people she knows from the past and explains how support workers can help people to build on such chance encounters.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth explains how she builds trust with the people and families of people with FASD that she works with
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne describes the importance to building someone’s background knowledge to help prepare them for bad news that is to come.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explores the problem of a neighborhood where 'nothing happens' and provides a positive example of how lady created her own small contribution to her neighborhood, which built relationships and also served to support her own passion.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy talks about the importance of least restrictive practices. Simon reflects on a story that highlights this and the importance representation and decision making.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Sue explains that although it is difficult to come to terms with the fact that someone you care about is going to die, it is important to try to focus on what their wants and desires are for their death rather than trying to keep them alive.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy explores the differences between 'caring' for someone and 'supporting' someone.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Louise Heatley
About This Video:
Louise explains that when the people you support are coming to the end of their life, the priorities in supporting them change and you might need to change the way you support them so they can enjoy what time they have left to the fullest.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen reviews some of the challenges of active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen reviews some of the challenges of building community.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North talks about some of the challenges that people with autistic spectrum condition experience when their sensory processing is unreliable.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Graham Firth
About This Video:
Graham Firth introduces some of the potential challenges of applying intensive interaction in your workplace.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Sue explains that one of the struggles for support workers to cope with during end of life care is the seeing the shift in the person that they have been looking after and the change in their role from being an enabler to a caregiver.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele explains the importance of understanding that documentation has changed from the days when the medical model was the norm. John goes on to describe a better way of documenting.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski explains how SRV proposes that you can help to positively challenge and change how society perceives the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Julie Beadle-Brown
About This Video:
Julie Beadle-Brown explains how to help people to maintain choice and control when doing active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Choice and Control
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Julie Beadle-Brown
About This Video:
Julie Beadle-Brown talks about choice, safety and active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Choice and Control
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Julie Beadle-Brown
About This Video:
Julie Beadle Brown explains some things to think about when someone says no when doing active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Choice and Control
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Heather Simmons
About This Video:
Heather Simmons explores the sharing of power between staff and the people we support.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Patti Scott
About This Video:
Patti Scott explains that a circle is really just about people having relationships. Patti explains that there are many ways that people may choose to involve others in their life, and it is likely that the person you support already has and uses other people to informally support their life.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint describes what a circle of support is and how it can work. By watching this film, you can begin to understand how a circle can be a remarkable resource to help the person plan, find and maintain employment.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Patti Scott
About This Video:
Patti Scott explains that the members of a circle of support may ebb and flow in and out as the person's life develops and changes, depending on the role they are providing.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Patti Scott
About This Video:
Patti Scott explains how people can be invited to join a circle of support, and highlights the importance of making an invitation that people can relate to.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
- Self-Determination
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg tells a story of acceptance.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount explains how person-centered work can change the nature of the relationship between the person being supported and the paid worker.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains the trauma of being born addicted to cocaine.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North reflects on what it might feel like to spend a lifetime being seen as impaired.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll describes the behaviors that occur as a result of heightened levels of anxiety in people with Prader-Willi Syndrome which include black and white thinking, physical and verbal aggression and skin picking.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Louise Heatley
About This Video:
Louise Heatley describes the difficulties in explaining death and it’s finality to people with disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Families
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg explains the importance of openly and honestly communicating with families.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Families
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Janis Swindlehurst
About This Video:
Janis Swindlehurst explains that the relationship you have with families is as good as your communication.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Janis Swindlehurst
About This Video:
Janis Swindlehurst explains how important it is to have open and structured communication with family members.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Kathie Snow
About This Video:
Kathie Snow provides some examples and concepts to consider when we think about when we communicate with the people we support.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains the importance of communication when being intimate and the understanding of when to stop when necessary.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood explores how you can think about and structure your communication to develop the quality of the relationship you have with the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Challenging Behavior
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains why he will not let people say that someone is non-verbal. Dave goes on to describe how a language dictionary or passport can help us to understand how people are communicating.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Listening
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Adele Mason uses her own personal experience to offer advice on how to communicate with someone who has autism, which in turn illustrates the importance of verbal and non verbal communication.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Brad Goldman introduces his manual communication board and electronic Dynavox communication device.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Listening
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy explains how becoming part of community can be a messy and complicated process, but one that gives life purpose and meaning.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Rights
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger uses his own experience to tell a personal story that illustrates how community and friendships bring safety.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Friendships and Community
- Risk
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint talks about the safety community brings and explains why it it not safe to be entirely dependent on paid support.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Lynda Kahn
About This Video:
Lynda Kahn offers a definition of what community means to her.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen talks about community as a place where we belong and a place that adds meaning to our lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount uses this animated film to describe how she feels it is important to know as much about the community as we do about the person. Beth also begins to explore the many ways of gaining and recording this information.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North uses a story to explain how complicated it can be for people with autism to unravel social meaning.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video shows how equal choice in a relationship is important.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Steve Dymond
About This Video:
Steve Dymond talks about the importance of the people you support being able to advocate for themselves, to recognize and report abuse, and what it takes for those people to feel confident enough to be able to do so.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
- Rights
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood explores why people's confidence and skills may be low, and what you can do to address this.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
Length: 2 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele explores the importance of confidentiality when documenting.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Bob Fleischner
About This Video:
Bob Fleischner talks about conflict of interest to be aware of when being a supported decision-making supporter.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
John shows us how in a balanced relationship, sometimes your own needs are put aside for the needs of someone else.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Monica Stannard explains how certain behaviors communicate feelings and the importance of consistency by all support workers in dealing with these behaviors in order to give reassurance to the person being supported.
Subjects Covered:
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy expands of the subject of control, and the challenges and difficulties that may restrict people's rights to maintain control over their own lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy talks about the importance of control. Simon helps us make the correlation between some of the worst cases of abuse and an absence of control.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Choice and Control
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent tells a story that explains how smaller decisions can have a significant impact on the choice and control that people have over their lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Listening
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Rights
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury introduces how self-determination helps change the uneven balance of power many people experience.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Self-Determination
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint expands on the importance of the person deciding who gets invited to a planning meeting, as well as the significance of giving people the time and space to speak for themselves during the meeting.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene explains that although difficult it is okay sometimes to give people permission to die when they have chronic discomfort as it is a release for them to be free of the pain they were enduring
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
A young man gives his firsthand experience with supported decision making.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains the term counterfeit criminality and how it impacts the people we support.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Advocacy
- Boundaries
- Friendships and Community
Length: 9 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount explains how support staff can cross traditional professional boundaries and explore how much more of themselves they might want to bring into a relationship.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg uses her own experiences to demonstrate how different cultures understand disability.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Fredda Rosen
About This Video:
Fredda Rosen defines customized employment and explains what makes it a truly person-centered approach.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Monica tells the story of the difficulty of explaining to her son, James, that her father has passed away and the inability of James to understand the concept of death and its finality.
Subjects Covered:
- Breaking Bad News
- Communication
- Families
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Fredda Rosen
About This Video:
Fredda Rosen highlights some of the potential concerns regarding working for an employer for no pay.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video gives helpful hints to make dating a success.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene explains that if you can come up with a plan to support someone through the process of dying, it can bring great comfort not only for the person who is dying but also for the family and support workers involved.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 7 minutes
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy uses a story to highlight the importance of reviewing people's capacity to make decisions.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Self-Determination
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr defines dementia and introduces the different types of dementia and the affect they may have on different people.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains why you should and how you can bring joy, love, and relaxation into the life of someone with dementia.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr uses the story of Mary to review a range of strategies to help people with dementia who are experiencing a different reality.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 7 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele explains why he feels documentation has become demonized and how we can change the way we think about this part of our work.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Shineeca Mcleod explains how doctors can help people with disabilities understand their mental health illness and aid them in coming to the realization that they are still accepted by others regardless of their mental health issues.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Yona explains how we don’t focus enough on the topic of suicide and how there is much more we could do help people before or when they feel like living their live is not worthwhile any more.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains some different ways that you can help the people you support to develop self confidence in social situations.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 8 minutes
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Yona explains the importance of having someone to discuss how you are feeling in order to make the proper diagnosis and to cognizant of the face that all people experience things differently.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 5 minutes
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North describes how a diagnosis of an autistic spectrum condition is made.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 2 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains how the symptoms of health problems can be misattributed to the person's primary diagnosis.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg shares some thoughts on how to ensure families and support staff have a successful relationship.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Peter Leidy
About This Video:
Peter Leidy suggests that in some instances we may cause a behavior problem. Peter explores the different standards that are often expected for the people we support. Peter also asks why we use different words for the people we support than we use in our own lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains the different types of traumas and how many small amounts of trauma can have the same effects as one large scaled trauma to a person.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Advocacy
- Challenging Behavior
- Good Support
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg says that she is not a difficult family, but a family with difficulties.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Janis Swindlehurst
About This Video:
Janis Swindlehurst provides a fascinating answer to the questions 'Are you a difficult family'?
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This videos tells a story of a young man who is giving the opportunity and dignity to make his own decision although being advised otherwise by his supported decision making team.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy introduces the importance of direction in our lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Planning
- Self-Determination
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Richard delivers the message that it not okay to pity, patronize, point, or shout at people with a disability as it makes them feel stupid and disrespected.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
- Self-Esteem
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains the importance of acting like an adult at work and although you may be angry or frustrated, you need to put your negative feelings and emotions aside when supporting someone.
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
Length: 5 minutes
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele explains the importance of creating accurate documentation.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
Length: 2 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele shares a story that demonstrates the importance of accuracy and clarity when completing documentation.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele explains the importance of handwriting and provides some suggestions to help those who struggle with this part of their role.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
Length: 3 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele tells the story of a staff team who through good documentation were able to protect the person they supported from a potentially abusive situation.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Documentation
Length: 5 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele uses the example of completing bowl charts to explain why documentation needs to be completed sensitively.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
Length: 2 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele introduces the concept of partnership documentation and the need for support staff to document with and alongside the people they support.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North talks about the gift of a diagnosis, but highlights that there are many things a diagnosis does not do.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explores the difference between doing thing with people instead of for them.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
In this film, taken from the module 'Jumping Into the Chaos of Things' David Pitonyak describes the importance of giving someone space when they are going through a difficult time.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Janice Bartley
About This Video:
Janice Bartley talks about her own experiences of people who talk over and around her.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Documentation
- Rights
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
We created this film to start a conversation about the complicated work of direct support professionals. They often have, literally, people's lives in their watch and often have to contend with rights-restrictive planning. Please do not be offended by this but let it create a deep look into how we can be EQUAL and SAFE and RESPECTFUL.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Rights
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick explains that through supported decision making we can unlock the true potentials of people.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger uses the story of Doris to explain how brutally honest we are with the people we support and how we say things to the people we support that we would never say to our friends, family, and work colleagues.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Patti Scott
About This Video:
Doug Smith, with the help of Patti Scott, talks about his life and how his circle of support has helped him. This film highlights the innate need that we all share to have people in our lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Patti Scott
About This Video:
Patti Scott describes how drawing or graphic facilitation can support organizations to keep closer to their own plans.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury explains how drawing or graphic facilitation can support creativity to help to enable change.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury explains how drawing or graphic facilitation can help to provide a reference point to the work we do with people.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury describes how drawing or graphic facilitation supports a public commitment.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury describes an example to demonstrate how drawing or graphic facilitation can be used to start supportive conversations with others.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury explains how drawing or graphic facilitation can support a more creative approach to planning.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury explains how drawing and graphic facilitation helps people to be heard and to see what was heard and how it was understood.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Listening
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury explains how visuals are a natural and essential piece of planning.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak uses this animated film to explain that often the people we support are terrified and we barely seem to notice.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Steve Dymond
About This Video:
Steve Dymond explains what easy read information is and describes how it can be used.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth tells the story of Ed and how he was supported to advocate for himself and manage the potential risks so that he could move into his own home.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Rights
- Risk
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Kathie Snow
About This Video:
Kathie Snow tells a story about the importance of following the lead of the person you support and ensuring that you clarify what they are communicating to you to avoid miscommunications.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Rachel Pollock explains the research that her organization Job Path conducted demonstrating that people supported by the customized approach were more likely to keep their paid positions and also more likely to need less support.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains how to embed active support into your workplace.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger talks about how we can help people to embrace their disability and to develop honest, healthy self esteem.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Good Support
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint tells the story of a man who started his own small business by helping others with their shopping needs. The business gave this man a form of paid work, served his needs to positively occupy his spare time, and, in turn, created a powerful way to network with, and contribute to, the community.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Employment
- Friendships and Community
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Steve Dymond
About This Video:
Steve Dymond talks about how his own work experiences as co-chair of the Cornwall Learning Disability Partnership Board and Chairman of Cornwall People First have helped him make friends with many different people.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Friendships and Community
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Richard explains what a good opportunity it is to know when someone is dying so you can spend time and support them in their final days.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains the importance of engagement in activities for a person's happiness and well-being.
Subjects Covered:
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 2 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak describes how for some it is almost as if their problem behaviors are designed for others to be able to see them.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Communication
- Listening
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski explains in more detail, and by example, some different competencies that are fundamentally important to the maintenance of valued social roles. It is useful to consider that, as Marc explains, not all valued roles require high levels of competency.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski introduces the importance of enhancing the image of the people you support so that they may be positively perceived.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Maria Hodermarska
About This Video:
Maria Hodermarska explains some of the challenges she faced as parent entering the world of services.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains that every moment has potential for active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Fredda Rosen
About This Video:
Fredda Rosen explains that people with particularly profound or complex disabilities have been written off in the past. But she suggests that if you know that the person can do one thing, or one task, then you also know that they can work.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Good Support
- Employment
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains how supported decision making is based on the concept that everyone makes decisions by asking advice, getting opinions, and advice from others, on a daily basis on both small decisions and big ones, and therefore the people we support should be granted the same opportunities.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video tells a story of a woman that with the help of supported decision making and a lot of time, support, advice, and effort was able to make her own informed decision in regard to her medicine.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how being excluded can cause trauma and hence behavior issues.
Subjects Covered:
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich explains how promote patience and appropriate expectations when supporting someone with FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Evelyn Perez explains that after her daughter was abused it became very difficult to let other people care for her.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patricia Morgan explains how support workers can help people with Prader-Willi Syndrome be able to speak to others about their disability without their disability being the sole focus of the conversation.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Fredda Rosen
About This Video:
Fredda Rosen talks about using the discovery process as a tool to learn about the person when preparing for employment.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Employment
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Patti Scott
About This Video:
Patti Scott talks about people who have used self-determination to find their own home and manage their own staff team, some of the common misconceptions people have, and the powerful learning that takes place when they can exercise this freedom.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Risk
- Self-Determination
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger talks about the importance of discovering what someone finds sensually fulfilling.
Subjects Covered:
- Sexuality and Relationships
- Good Support
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne tells a story that illustrates how it may take many years for people with disabilities to express grief and loss and possibly decades for profound grief and loss.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Communication
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Kathie Snow
About This Video:
Kathie Snow tells a story about her own son Benjamin that shows the assumptions that some people make when people are not making eye contact.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Listening
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Peter Leidy
About This Video:
Peter Leidy introduces Sherry's story that inspired him to write the song 'F Word.' The song is a humorous song about Sherry speaking her mind and how the staff had to record this word.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 12 min
Presenter: Lynda Kahn
About This Video:
Lynda Kahn tells a story that helped her organization reflect on the tendency to over support people and the need think more about natural support as a way to fade their own paid supports.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Fredda Rosen
About This Video:
Fredda Rosen highlights the important role that families play when planning for employment.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Person-Centered Planning
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley explains why FASD is considered to be an invisible disability.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Marsha Wilson
About This Video:
Marsha Wilson explains how she adjusts her language to better support people who have FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Communication
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Marsha Wilson
About This Video:
Marsha Wilson tells a story about her son and how he has been successfully supported into employment.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Employment
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley explains a way to understand the executive functioning difficulties that people with FASD experience.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley explains how people with FASD struggle with executive functions and abstract thinking.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich speaks about the increased health difficulties that people with FASD experience.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth speaks about some approaches and strategies to think about when supporting someone with FASD with personal care.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Marsha Wilson
About This Video:
Marsha Wilson talks about some of the secondary disabilities that people with FASD experience. Marsha goes on to explain how we can avoid or better support those disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich speaks about some different sensory difficulties that people with FASD may be experiencing and how they can be better supported.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich speaks about some of the sensory difficulties that people with FASD may have and how they can be better supported.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Marsha Wilson
About This Video:
Marsha Wilson explains the challenges and solutions that people with FASD have and need regarding sleep.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Marsha Wilson
About This Video:
Marsha Wilson speaks about the stigma she has experienced as a mother of a child who has FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley describes the impact that stress has on someone with FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Marsha Wilson
About This Video:
Marsha Wilson explains how building structure into her son's life has brought safety.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth talks about the importance of avoiding conflict and arguments with a person who has FASD, and how you can do this.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley explains why people with FASD are sometimes taken advantage of.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley explains how you can investigate and build on the strengths of the person with FASD that you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley explains why confusion can be misinterpreted as lying for people with FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth explains the need to understand why people who have FASD are consistently inconsistent.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley offers a short definition of FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich explains why FASD does not define him.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley explains the different ways in which a diagnosis can be important for someone with FASD
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley explains why FASD is a spectrum and the different ways that it affects people.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth speaks about difficulties and strategies to keep people with FASD safe.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Risk
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Marsha Wilson
About This Video:
Marsha Wilson offers some thoughts on lessons she has learned about FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth talks about some of the lessons she has learned from supporting people with FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth speaks about some approaches and strategies to think about when supporting someone with FASD with money and budgeting.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth tells a story about supporting a woman with FASD and how she was able to better support her and help her to apply a more structured and organized approach to her life.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth speaks about the patience needed when supporting someone who has FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth highlights the need for people with FASD to experience safety and security.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich speaks about the stigma and struggles that he has experienced as a person with FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley explains some strategies and approaches to support success for someone who has FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth talks about the importance of and strategies relating to structure for people who have FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains how Fay who was once very lonely, built friendships and relationships in her local community.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 6 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak tells the story Fay's isolation.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Friendships and Community
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Diana McCourt
About This Video:
Diana McCourt explains that having lived it she will always fear that institutions might re-emerge.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video shows how people with disabilities feel when people tell them they are not ready for intimate relationships.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains the importance of finding a safe place to be intimate with your partner.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Julie Beadle-Brown
About This Video:
Julie Beadle-Brown explains what to do when things do not work when doing active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint tells an inspiring story about a man who was experiencing a lot of anger and frustration. This man's story demonstrates the power of a meaningful and purposeful life and the importance of control.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
- Contribution
- Employment
- Good Support
- Listening
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent talks about an exercise that he performed with a team of professionals to explain the importance of finding our place in society.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Heather Simmons
About This Video:
Heather Simmons speaks about the usefulness of John O'Brien's five accomplishments.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Families
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Rights
- Sexuality and Relationships
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Pat explains how focusing on what people can do, rather than what they cannot do help people with disabilities to reach their full potential.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
- Self-Esteem
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll promises that if you can focus on all the good qualities that people with Prader-Willi Syndrome possess and accept that there will be challenges at times, you will see over time that this is a phenomenal group of people to support and spend time with.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Bernard Carabello
About This Video:
Bernard Carabello explains the freedom he now feels, and the control he now has over his life since leaving the institution.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Home
- Good Support
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Samantha Hughes talks about what freedom means to her.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Rights
Length:
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how meaningful friendships and relationships are directly correlated to people's level of happiness.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Pat explains the importance of maintaining social relationships to her mental health such as lunch dates, shopping trips and phone conversations and how not having these social connections can lead to feelings of loneliness and depression.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
- Friendships and Community
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains why we must teach people with disabilities the skills themselves so they can recognize and report abuse.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
- Rights
- Choice and Control
Length: 4 min
LIST
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Evelyn Perez explains what it takes to gain her trust as a parent.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint explains how to gather a circle of support and how the story of the person you support can help to engage people to be part of the circle.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Janice Bartley
About This Video:
Janice Bartley shares how she got some upsetting and inappropriate wording out of her file. Warning contains swear word.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Documentation
- Rights
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Person centered planning helps to meet each person's individual and unique needs.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
A mother's story of the hardships their family faced when choosing guardianship for her son.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Yona explains that we always have to be open to being creative in finding new approaches when helping the people we support who are struggling with their mental health. Helping the people you support understand that there will setbacks and difficulties through this journey will help them to cope better when they are struggling with their mental health.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Maria Hodermarska
About This Video:
Maria Hodermarska tells her own story about getting services for her son and unexpectedly a diagnosis.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 10 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak describes how he got to know Lynda a lady with complicated support needs.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Doreen Kelly
About This Video:
Doreen Kelly explains how her organization gathers information about the people they support and how they use this information.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Listening
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak talks about how gets to know people.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht introduces some thoughts about getting to know people.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene explains that although you don’t know exactly how much the person you support understands about the death and dying, we owe it to them to be open, honest and frank about what is happening and treat them like you would anyone else in that same situation.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele tells the story of a man who wanted to learn to drive and explains how the support workers good intentions went bad.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Rights
- Risk
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy talks about the person-centered planning process that was used to help a gentleman named Patrick to leave an institution that demonstrates the powerful potential of planning.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Friendships and Community
- Listening
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
- Families
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Lynda Kahn
About This Video:
Lynda Kahn talks about what good support means to her. Lynda goes on to suggest we think about "If I needed support how would I like that offered to me."
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 2min
Presenter: Julie Beadle-Brown
About This Video:
Julie Beadle_Brown explains the term graded assistance and how it works when doing active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
Length: 8 min
Presenter: Amanda Sawyer
About This Video:
As a psychiatrist, Amanda Sawyer explains that it is beneficial when a support worker documents all medications taken and how each affects the person taking it, both negatively and positively, so together they can help the person being supported achieve optimal mental health.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick tells an inspirational story of a dying man's last wishes and how they were answered with the help of supported decision making.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount used this animated film to explain that our service systems have a history of disconnecting people from the relationships they do have. Beth goes on to highlight the importance of helping people contribute to the community as a means of growing new relationships.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick explains how guardianship could be more successful if it shifted from stopping bad things from happening and began creating new life opportunities.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Hands Off It's My Home is a song that highlights the rights people have in their own homes.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Home
- Listening
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Rights
- Risk
- Self-Determination
- Self-Esteem
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth uses a story about a man who wanted to be part of a Harley Davidson club and community to explain why we should not judge other people's wishes and desires.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Rights
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Charles Archer
About This Video:
Charles Archer explains the importance of being unafraid to have conversations about race, gender, sexuality, etc. for change to occur in our profession and society in general.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Communication
- Rights
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger and Karyn Harvey explain how the opinions of people that have power over others has more meaning than the opinions of people without power.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Christine explains how all behavior is communication and it important for staff members to realize this and attempt to figure out why the person they are supporting is acting the way they are. We need to remember to think with both our heads and our hearts when supporting people with disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Utilizing the acronym “HELP” to examine why someone is feeling poorly, Yona explains that it is important to consider how one’s ENVIRONMENT, such as outside influences, could be contributing to their mental health difficulties.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Yona explains that it can be tricky to figure out if someone is suffering from a mental health issue. Before coming to a diagnosis, Yona encourages people utilize the acronym “HELP”. “HELP” is one way of thinking about all the potential things that might be contributing to why someone is feeling poorly.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Utilizing the acronym “HELP” to examine why someone is feeling poorly, Yona explains that it is important to consider how one’s LIFE EVENTS, such as abuse, bullying, loss and grief, could be contributing to their mental health difficulties.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Utilizing the acronym “HELP” to examine why someone is feeling poorly, Yona explains that after reviewing one’s health, experiences, and life events, it’s important to see if a PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER, could be contributing to their mental health difficulties.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Erica Streisslberger states that people struggling with mental health issues should not feel alone and know that it is okay to reach out to others for help because we are all in this together.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains how it might be a good idea to include someone on your team that is comfortable talking about death and bereavement when breaking bad news to the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy tells the story of Nan. This story highlights the importance of making sure people have all the information they need when making decisions, and the fundamental right that people have to make their own decisions in their own time, and in their own way.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Self-Determination
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick explains how important it is that direct support staff workers have principles that will guide and support the people they work with.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains the importance of me and mine, not me and mine, so people understand that who that who they are is OK.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Boundaries
- Good Support
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Graham Firth
About This Video:
Graham Firth discussed some of the benefits of intensive interaction for staff teams.
Subjects Covered:
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains that, 'History Makes the Person'. Dave refers to the experiences of people who have lived in institutions and to the traumatic experiences they are likely to have lived through.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Documentation
- Good Support
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy tells Michael's story that highlights the role of family and the meaning of home.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Home
- Rights
- Self-Determination
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood describes how you can adjust the environment of a group home so that it better serves the needs of someone with autism.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Good Support
- Home
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Heather Hermans
About This Video:
Heather Hermans explains how when support workers enter other people’s homes and environments, it is important that they leave their personal feelings and issues aside so that the people they support feel they are in a place where there is trust and can feel safe.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Victor Pereira describes the importance of family in helping him get through difficult times such as when he experiences a great deal of anxiety.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
- Friendships and Community
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger discusses the risks that are present in our own systems that often get overlooked in favor of other risks outside of our services.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Risk
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video shows the correct way to ask someone out on a date.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains some strategies that can help people to become better known in their communities.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Victor Pereira explains that if you are a support worker it is most important to just try to communicate, listen and share experiences with the person you support and to let them know that everything is going to be okay.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Listening
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video shows an inappropriate way to handle rejection.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht explains some things that will help people to keep a job.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Tim explains how it is important to get to know people in order to find out if a relationship is possible.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Listening
- Sexuality and Relationships
- Communication
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video show a better way to approach someone you would like to date.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that it is okay as a support worker to take time for yourself and get the help that you may need if feelings of your own personal losses arise when supporting someone who is dealing with loss.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger shares his frustration with “hypocrisy of choice” because the reality is that we take choice away from people with disabilities all the time because we do not want the people we support to make decisions that run counter to our philosophies.
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Choice and Control
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
L'Arche Toronto produced this film to help raise awareness about the individuality of each person. This film helps us to understand that despite any formal diagnosis, the people you support are more like you than not.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Maria Hodermarska
About This Video:
Maria Hodermarska explains why she thinks she is a difficult parent.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich explains the importance of seeing the whole person and not thinking someone is broken because they have FASD.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North talks about the significance of the impact of managing social difference.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells a story about a man who follows the rules about privacy and boundaries, but still encountered problems.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains that people cannot be who they are if you cannot see their diversity. Diversity is a critical piece of who people are.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Rights
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Amanda Cresswell tells the story of how she had to be an advocate for herself when she was ill and the importance of people to speak up for themselves so they can get the right treatment.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Families
- Good Support
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth and John Raffaele share their thoughts about support staff who say "I love my guys." Joseph explains that good support is about a balance of both the head and the heart.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
A mother explains how her thoughts of guardianship were very different from the reality of guardianship.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Roger Ramsukh
About This Video:
Roger Ramsuhk tells a story about a time when his calm and professional approach helped to promote an positive experience while breaking down racial barriers.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Rights
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Amanda Cresswell explains how being excluded from bad news allowed for missed opportunities such as quality time with her mother before she was gone. Additionally, if she were informed and therefore prepared for what was going to happen, maybe it would have been easier to cope with.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Amanda Cresswell explains how being protected and sheltered from her mother’s illness and ultimate death led her to have more fear and trauma than if she was informed throughout.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Timeinski expands on the importance of enhancing the image and competencies of the person so that they may be more positively perceived.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Heather Simmons
About This Video:
Heather Simmons uses her own experiences of living with her partner Richard who is a person with disabilities. In this film she talks about the imbalance of power between the person that is supported and the supporter.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth tells a story about a person with FASD who was overwhelmed with the impatience and expectations of others.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Kathie Snow
About This Video:
Kathie Snow helps to underline the importance of having a communication device.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Steve Dymond
About This Video:
Steve Dymond talks about the importance of, and his own experience of being paid to work. He then goes on to describe the regrettable experiences of his friend who worked for an employer for over four years for no pay.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Rights
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Sam Sly
About This Video:
Sam Sly talks about the importance of working positively with families and the special considerations that need to be made in relation to the difficulties families have often faced.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak talks about loneliness and the importance of meaningful and enduring relationships.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 5 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll explains that by sometimes looking at the positive attributes instead of the negative behaviors of someone with Prader-Willi Syndrome you can improve the relationship between yourself and the person you are supporting.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth talks about some informal safeguards that she helped someone with FASD to develop.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Risk
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains briefly explains what informed consent is and how it applies to the people we support.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains why we need to give people choices instead of ultimatums.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Tanya Carnell
About This Video:
Tanya Carnell explores some of the signs and symptoms of institutional abuse.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hewett
About This Video:
Dave Hewitt explains how intensive Interaction can simply be a way of relating to others. Dave explains how it enables access to the everyday pleasure and joy of human interaction, connection, relationship, and chit-chat.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Max with Hayley, his teacher, show it is easy to see the way in which some of the fundamentals of communication are practiced within the flow of the activity. Max is still at an early stage of understanding communication routines and Hayley's relaxed, facilitating style enables him, in his own time, to take part in turn-taking, exchanging vocalizations, using eye contacts and exchanging facial expressions, gradually building his ability to focus and take part.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Example of people with a diverse range of ages and abilities benefiting from and enjoying intensive interaction.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
A range of practitioners share some of the key practical principles of intensive interaction.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg explains some of the devastating interactions she has had with doctors.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patricia Morgan explains that external motivators such as gum and frozen yogurt can be useful in motivating people with Prader-Willi Syndrome, but supporting someone to find an internal motivator helps them to find a sense of pride and has lasting effects and the ability to sustain motivation.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video tells the story of Nellie and how even with limited communication capabilities, she was able to express her will and desires with the help of supported decision making.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr provides a short introduction to the importance of understanding dementia.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Patti Scott
About This Video:
Patti Scott talks about the significance of a good introduction to forming a positive relationship and tells a story that illustrates how someone repaired a relationship that was not off to a positive start.
Subjects Covered:
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Heather Simmons
About This Video:
Heather Simmons uses her own experiences of living with her partner Richard who is a person with disabilities to explain the intrusion of support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Sam Sly
About This Video:
Sam Sly explains that a good support worker is often invisible.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich speaks about the importance of involving and speaking to the people with FASD that you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Richard explains that it is important to tell the people you support, and help them understand when someone they care about or live with has died because it is more upsetting when it comes as surprise and they realize that the person is gone and is not coming back.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how we can – with a moment, a gesture, a decision – be the ones who listen. In doing so, we are helping others to not have to use extreme behavior to communicate.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Rights
- Challenging Behavior
- Communication
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that although difficult, it is imperative that you break the bad new to the person you support, even if you fear their reaction to it. People will be upset, but it is important to allow them the opportunity to emote.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 6 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger recounts a personal experience that required intimate care and the realization that came from his experience that people should expect care that is compassionate, gentle, and respectful and how detrimental any care that is given conflicting to this can have on the person being supported during such a vulnerable time.
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Choice and Control
Length: 13 minutes
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth tells a story about an elderly diabetic man who was refusing to eat and how the support worker used his relationship to support this man through a difficult time.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury explains why drawing or graphic facilitation is not about being an artist.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Janice Bartley
About This Video:
Janice Bartley tells an amazingly powerful story about her first real relationship.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Rights
- Self-Determination
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 13 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Katrina Reese explains how she supported Omer to use his interest and talent for origami to create a work opportunity. Job creation is a customized approach that identifies an opportunity that is not being attended to by the employer.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
John would like a balanced relationship, one that includes both give and take.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Sexuality and Relationships
- Friendships and Community
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains how some of the messages we send through our philosophies to people with disabilities is that it is not okay to be a person with disabilities and it is not okay to be friends with other people with disabilities and people who are not like you have more value than you, which in turn leaves the person with disabilities feeling that they are not good enough, and this needs to change.
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jill Bradshaw explains how to keep it simple in relation to active support.
Subjects Covered:
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht describes the give and take, and other skills needed to keep a friend.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Pat explains how keeping active, both physically and mentally, helps to improve her overall mental health.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explores the need to keep communication simple.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jill Bradshaw explains how you can simplify your communications when applying the principles of active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Chad, the manager of a bookstore in Brooklyn called Book Court, talks about their employee Keith, who was supported to accept a position in the store, and how he feels Keith has benefited from working there. This is the first job that Keith has ever had. He was previously told that he would never be able to achieve paid work.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Employment
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger discusses the importance of knowing how a person's disabilities affect them and how this knowledge can be harnessed to help provide the most effective support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Doreen Kelly
About This Video:
Doreen Kelly describes the story of a man who had been abused. The story demonstrates that, despite his disabilities and complex needs, Doreen and her team were able to use their knowledge of him to clearly identify when he had been abused.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Louise Heatley explains that losing a loved one can be less terrifying if a doctor takes the time to explain what is occurring during an illness or as death is approaching.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains that everyone is entitled to his or her sexual orientation and to not let anyone try to take that away from you.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Rights
- Self-Esteem
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger expands on the concept of helping people have the knowledge and power to stop abuse and what this actually means for the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
- Rights
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent tells a story that clarifies the importance of our role that is not to be paid to be a friend, but to facilitate friendships.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Evelyn Perez tells a story that helps to explains why she finds it very difficult to trust paid support staff with her daughter.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains how society has long believed that the people we support lack the capacity and ability to make their own decisions.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North talk about some of the challenges that occur between language and sensory processing difficulties.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
- Listening
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains why people with dementia and an intellectual disability often miss receiving an early diagnosis.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger describes the different relationship roles that the people we support must learn about.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains how our service system confuses people's ability to learn appropriate body privacy. Dave goes on to explain how we can support a better approach to privacy.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Bernard Carabello
About This Video:
Bernard Carabello talks about leaving the institution and the responsibilities and challenges that he faced after leaving.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Home
- Good Support
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains the significance between intervening and the more respectful approach of teaching.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury tells Lester's story to highlight how drawing or graphic facilitation can help people to articulate themselves while also helping others to better understand the person's dreams.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 5 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
This film is taken from the module 'Jumping Into the Chaos of Things.' David Pitonyak explains the danger a drowning person poses and how a certain compassionate distance, at a time when a person is upside down and inside out, is appropriate.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick shares an experience of a man who's previous distress was mitigated through supported decision making.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
This film is taken from the module 'Jumping Into the Chaos of Things.' David Pitonyak explains why a person who is desperate and filled with doubt needs help from people who are not as desperate and doubtful.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Bernard Carabello
About This Video:
Bernard Carabello talks about life at the New York state institution Willowbrook where he lived for 20 years from the age of two.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
- Rights
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Dementia Kerr explains the importance of life story work by describing the story of George that demonstrates that we need to know a person's past in order to help them with their present.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski explains the term life-wasting in more detail, and how it can prevent access to the 'good things in life' and the roles that we all value.
Subjects Covered:
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This couple shows how each person in the relationship must be respectful to one another's feeling, concerns and needs.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger and Karyn Harvey explain that when people feel powerless they will do anything they can to assert their power over others. Therefore, if we put our energy into teaching people to govern their language and express their pain, we can change the way people use behavior as communication.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
- Challenging Behavior
- Communication
- Diversity
- Rights
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent tells a story about an event during which his organization gathered feedback from the people they support. The film highlights the importance of listening to people and responding to what they say.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Listening
- Person-Centered Planning
- Rights
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount offers her own perspective of what listening with heart can bring to the relationship between you and the person you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Listening
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jill Bradshaw explains the concept of little and often as it relates to active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 2min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent talks about living in a large group home that his parents operated. Gary goes onto talk about life outside of the home and the unique perspective his life has provided him.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll explains that people with Prader-Willi Syndrome can live on their own if they have support in place that includes daily visits from support workers and time specific refrigerator locks that open at meal times that contain regulated meals.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll highly recommends that people with Prader-Willi Syndrome live with other individuals with Prader-Willi Syndrome to have a chance to feel like everyone else, develop relationships and friendships, and feel like a part of a community all living similar lives together.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount talks about her quote "loneliness is the only disability," and explains how some of the most disconnected people in our community are often the most at risk.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Risk
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Erica Streisslberger describes how exercising and hobbies help to distract her from her mental illness and give her a place to focus her mind rather than worrying about her mental state.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Heather Hermans
About This Video:
Heather Hermans explains how it is important to look beyond a person’s behavior and carefully consider the triggers that might be causing the behavior to more accurately diagnosis mental health issues.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains why a loss of an interest might be an indicator for the onset of dementia
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy details how a loss of direction can affect people and how we can help people to move their lives forward.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Listening
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
LIST
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury explains how people can be supported to maintain control of their own meetings
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jill Bradshaw explains how you can make the situation speak for itself as it relates to active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
A mother explains how each individual has the right to lead their own life with some guidance.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Bev Ashman
About This Video:
Bev Ashman explains what makes active support work.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury talks through a range of strategies that can be employed to ensure people control their own meetings.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
- Rights
Length: 8 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury talks through some strategies that will help manage a conflicting relationship when helping a person to plan.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen describes some strategies you can use to help the person you support to map your community.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen continues to explain how you can help the people you support to map their community.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint introduces the person-centered planning tool Maps. Jack explains how Maps can be used to collect relevant information and then help plan their futures.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains why masturbate is never taught.
Subjects Covered:
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Sean Vecchione describes how he matched a job with the skills and abilities of someone he was supporting and how he negotiated this position with the employer.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains the boundaries of me and mine, and you and yours, and how these are supported by a stronger sense of self.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
- Good Support
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Bev Ashman
About This Video:
Bev Ashman explains what meaningful engagement means when doing active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht explains some things to think about when you are going to meet new people.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Friendships and Community
- Risk
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Aimee Althoff offers some best practice advice for arranging the first meeting with an employer, and also touches on some of the challenges you may encounter.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth tells the story of a man who wanted to meet the Pope. The support worker in this story demonstrates the power of thorough planning and research, and need for dreams.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr uses a practical analogy to explain how you can imagine the loss of short term memory for someone who has dementia.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr uses a personal story to explain how memory loss can affect the person with dementia's ability to orient themselves.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Victor Pereira explains that mental health is different than a mental disability because mental health is a condition that there is a treatment versus mental disability that has no cure.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood introduces mental health, how a mental health problem is diagnosed, and what the term dual diagnosis means.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Heather Hermans
About This Video:
Heather Hermans describes the importance of understanding how people’s past affects them on a daily basis so we can support them in a way that they feel safe and secure.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Heather Hermans
About This Video:
Heather Hermans describes the advantages and successes experienced when the people supported and support workers come together and engaged in various group therapies.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains the challenges and difficulties that are associated with mirrors for the people we support.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells two stories that highlight some common misconceptions about people's sexuality.
Subjects Covered:
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Heather Hermans
About This Video:
Heather Hermans tells a story that reminds us that the people we support can have mental illness the same as the typical population and we need to recognize that they may express it or experience it in different ways and it is our job to make sure to understand that so we don’t mislabel them.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how trauma can cause behaviors that are often misunderstood.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Challenging Behavior
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy talks about the importance of helping people to control their money,
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Christine explains how sometimes the people you support may need more support than you can give and that is okay but knowing that it is beyond your scope of support is actually the best support that you can give.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Bernard Carabello
About This Video:
Bernard Carabello reminds us that the best support staff never forget the human nature of our work.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains why people with dementia are often drawn to wanting to go home and to be with their mother. Diana goes on to explain some practical strategies.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
When Malia's son expresses that he longer needs guardianship but guidance, she turns to the supported decision making project.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent tells a story that reflects on the understanding that the people we support are sexual beings, capable of being in a relationship, and being fully and completely adult.
Subjects Covered:
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North explains and gives an example that demonstrates the importance of thinking about every single word when we communicate.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
- Listening
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Heather Simmons
About This Video:
Heather Simmons tells a personal story that demonstrates that we all have an integrity gap given the right circumstances.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Working on the Inside
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Lauren Baletsa explains that having Prader-Willi Syndrome and not having support as a young girl led to overeat and become extremely unhealthy and heavy, but with the right support in place, she is now healthy and happy and supported by people who are encouraging, caring and positive.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Shineeca Mcleod explains what mental health means to her and how she keeps mentally healthy by going to the gym, to the movies and takes her medications regularly.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Brad Goldman explains how he used his skills and interests to establish and operate his own small business. Brad's story helps to reaffirm the fact the everyone can work.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht reviews a range of important rights.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Rights
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Rachel Pollock explains what natural supports are and how you they can help the person you support in the workplace.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
We collaborated with the brilliant Michael Steinbruck to create this song titled "Naturally" and staring Roger Crown about the right of all people to build a home and a life in their community.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Home
- Rights
Length: 5 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains that many people with disabilities do not have much to look forward to in their lives, and describes how important it is for people to experience fun and joy.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains how he supported Roland and Fay to have more fun and joy in his life.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains how you could help someone to discover more fun and joy in their life.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Good Support
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains that the drive and need for intimacy is greater than the drive and need for sex.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Maria Hodermarska
About This Video:
Maria Hodermarska explains her understanding of the challenges of working in our field and the need to be honest about that.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski provides some examples that demonstrate how negative perception leads to negative treatment for the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Tanya Carnell
About This Video:
Tanya Carnell explores some of the signs and symptoms of neglect and acts of omission.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells an intriguing story that explains the quote "never do work for your client that belongs to them."
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Good Support
- Self-Determination
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent tells the story of two people he supported, who originally lived in an institution together, and their journey to completely transform their lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Planning
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains the difficulties that someone with dementia may have with night waking.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Janice Bartley
About This Video:
John Raffaele asks Janice Bartley how it might feel if people did her documentation with her instead of without her.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains how noise can contribute to the challenging behavior that is often seen in people with dementia. Diana goes on to suggest some practical strategies to help.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Dementia
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Janice Bartley
About This Video:
Janice Bartley talks about why she hates the words normal and high functioning. Janice goes on to talk about how she would like people to perceive disabled people.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Rights
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount explains that some services and systems have, mistakenly, tried to turn person-centered planning into a paperwork process. Beth goes on to explain what a real person-centered plan looks and feels like.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
- Documentation
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Victor Pereira explains how support workers, doctors, and parents need to learn how to treat people with disabilities fairly so that we can all live together in harmony, and we can end the stigma associated with disabilities once and for all.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North explains why we should move from thinking that people are impaired to being different.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint highlights that the only way you can help people have a meaningful and full life is to support one person at a time.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent tells the story of a woman who was moving out of a home that he operated. This story helps to explain the importance of asking questions, listening, and 'opening choice.'
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Listening
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Kate Fulton
About This Video:
Kate Fulton talks about our Reticular Activating System (RAS), which is like our gatekeeper or filter of words, conversations, and so on. Kate explains, what we think about is very often what we see.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Working on the Inside
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hewett
About This Video:
Dave Hewitt describes the fundamentals of communications as the outcomes of intensive interaction.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Graham Firth
About This Video:
Graham Firth reviews a range of helpful outcomes that can result from applying intensive interaction.
Subjects Covered:
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jill Bradshaw explains pace and scope as it relates to active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr highlights the similarities between how someone with dementia may respond to pain and how we recognize dementia.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains the complexities of identifying and communicating pain that may be experienced by someone with dementia. Diana goes on to suggest how pain relief should be administered to someone with dementia.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that when someone you support only has a limited time left to live, it is important to focus not on how they want to die but rather on how to they want to live with the remaining time they have left.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains the benefits of parallel talk for support staff in that it helps to remind us that our role as supporters is not to support “for” the person but rather “with” the person.
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Abuse Prevention
Length: 7 minutes
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North explains why autism is part of who people are.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint details the benefits of the Path process when helping people plan for their futures
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains how important it is to understand the disability that people have. As Dave describes although disability is not always visible it is real.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Louise Heatley
About This Video:
Louise recalls a time when she supported someone who was dying and how special it was that the days and weeks ahead of his death, there was an open-door policy for people to share time with him and also say their proper goodbyes.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Louise Heatley
About This Video:
Louise recalls how important it was to make space for Patrick’s housemates to play a role in his end of life care because not only was it special for Patrick to have friend’s support, it was also important for the housemates to feel that they were helping him while also gaining a better understanding of the fact that he was dying.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains why you should integrate yourself into an activity rather than just standing and watching.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Bernard Carabello
About This Video:
Bernard Carabello describes his role as a peer advocate and the importance of the role.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Kathie Snow
About This Video:
Kathie Snow introduces people first language and explains that people first language communicates what the person 'has', not who the person 'is'.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick explains how behaviors can be a way for people to communicate their wishes for control over their own lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kenrick explains how in supported decision making there will be some decisions that are poor ones, it is not a reason for someone to not be able to make his/her own decisions.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele reminds us that behind every piece of paperwork is a person.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger talks about his experience of first using a wheelchair and how boundaries changed for him.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
- Risk
Length: 8 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount talks about person-centered planning as a journey to explore possibilities and help people to find their unique contribution to their communities and find their place in society.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger highlights the need for personal care protocols to develop routines and rituals so the people we support can receive care that is constant and therefore comfortable.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Communication
Length: 12 minutes
Presenter: Steve Dymond
About This Video:
Steve Dymond talks about working alongside a gentleman called Fran who has multiple disabilities. Steve describes the rejection that Fran experienced on a work trip that they took together.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Rights
- Advocacy
- Rights
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains how although both personal and intimate care require you to be cautious and handle the situations that involve touch with great care, it is extremely important to understand your boundaries very clearly and provide extra care when providing intimate care.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Boundaries
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells a story that highlights the loneliness that many people experience, and how it is often overlooked. WARNING: This film should only be viewed by adults.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains how you can use physical and verbal prompts to assist the active support approach.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Christine Lilley
About This Video:
Christine Lilley speaks about the physical features that people with FASD experience.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Tanya Carnell
About This Video:
Tanya Carnell explores some of the signs and symptoms of physical, financial, psychological, and sexual abuse.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Richard explains that if we knew he going to die, he would want the opportunity and assistance to plan it so that his wishes and desires could be granted.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Louise Heatley
About This Video:
Louise explains that planning end of life care is important to do early on with the person you support and create a plan as you, the support worker, knows what their everyday needs are and what is important to them so they can be properly supported when the time comes.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains how you can organize your active support approach to plan for success and how you can learn from your mistakes.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene explains how it is important during end of life care to make sure that all supporters are in agreement and prepared to support based on the wants and wishes of the person and their family members and if they are not, they should remove themselves from the team.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount explains that person-centered planning was originally created, in part, with the specific intention of helping people to think about and find real work.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
John Macbeth tells the story of a support worker who played it safe. John goes on to explain what it would take to move on from a good afternoon onto a great life.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
In this video Karyn Harvey explains how experiences of pleasure in life lead to an overall happier existence.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Friendships and Community
- Self-Esteem
- Families
- Listening
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Advocates recite a pledge of personal power created in collaboration with Dave Hingsburger.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Rights
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger talks about good policy and explains why policies need to govern staff behavior, not the behavior of those with disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Amanda Sawyer
About This Video:
Amanda Sawyer explains that it is important for a support worker to not try to diagnose the person they support’s mental health on their own. There needs to be thorough documentation and assessment completed before anyone is given a proper diagnosis.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains that, "Direct support workers are often the least powerful people in the organization, so they forget that they are often the most powerful person in the life of the person with a disability."
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Kathie Snow
About This Video:
Kathie Snow reveals her own experiences with professionals who did not have a positive attitude, and underlines the importance of developing a positive attitude in our own life and work.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Planning
- Working on the Inside
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Graham Firth
About This Video:
Graham Firth and others describe various positive outsomes of intensive interaction
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 5 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele explains how we can approach risk positively.
Subjects Covered:
- Risk
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury explains the powerful nature of being able to see the conversation and plan that is being developed.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger talks about his own personal experience of power, control, and abuse, and reviews the need to always be able to reflect on your own practice.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Choice and Control
Length: 9 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kenrick explains the importance of support workers giving the people they support the opportunity to make decisions so they can see themselves as decision makers.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Gina Sheehan describes the challenges she faced when first working with people with disabilities and how being your authentic self is the best way to get to know and support people with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll explains how people living with Prader-Willi Syndrome often have elevated levels of general anxiety which make them prone to having behavioral outbursts.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patricia Morgan tells a story that illustrates how support staff can acknowledge someone with Prader-Willi Syndrome’s wishes to be more independent with communication between themselves and their doctors
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Gina Sheehan offers advice to support workers that it is perfectly okay to have personal times of stress and anxiety, but it is important in these times to remove yourself from the situation and rely on others to take over as support in times that you are not able to.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll explains that when you see challenging behavior in someone with Prader-Willi Syndrome it is usually their way to pushing you away or testing you. Responding by not giving the behavior the attention they are looking for will often make the misbehavior go away.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll describes different ways to support a person with Prader-Willi Syndrome that includes monitoring their health by privately taking their daily weight and establishing calorie restricted meal plans.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patricia Morgan illustrates that with the help of support staff, people with Prader-Willi Syndrome can be part of the community and have friendships with people outside of their support programs.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll tells a story that illustrates the need to be flexible in the way you support someone with Prader-Willi Syndrome to give them the best opportunity to succeed which will in turn lead to a better relationship between you and the person you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patricia Morgan explains how it is important for support workers to understand that strict portion controlling of food for people with Prader-Willi Syndrome is not a form of punishment, but rather what is medically necessary in order to maintain their physical and mental health.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patricia Morgan offers ideas for support workers to help people with Prader-Willi Syndrome during times of high anxiety, specifically related to food.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll explains the need for food consistency in people with Prader-Willi Syndrome. Allowing an extra cookie or treat can ruin any goals or routines, can lead to major setbacks, as well as death.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Kristen Fichtner explains how her biggest obstacle with having Prader-Willi Syndrome has always been her never ending desire to want to eat but having limitations and structure in place has helped to keep healthier and less anxious.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 5 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Kristen Fichtner describe how having a food menu helps to alleviate her anxieties about being on a calorie restricted diet and how she often feels anxious and goes off track when she is at home and not on a regulated food plan.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll tells a story about a man with Prader-Willi Syndrome that used goals setting as a way to overcome his struggles with obesity.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Gina Sheehan offers advice to support workers to always be themselves, be predictable and know what they are doing is truly important to the quality of life for people with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll illustrates how giving someone with Prader-Willi Syndrome specific plans, guidelines and expectations can help them to succeed in attaining goals and living a less anxious life.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll tells a story about a young woman with Prader-Willi Syndrome who would intentionally make herself sick in order to go to the hospital where food was unrestricted but once the support staff was able to but restriction into her chart, the desire to go the hospital ceased to exist.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patricia Morgan explains that designating meal times as a time to join together and talk about the day and enjoy one another’s company often helps alleviate the anxiety that people with Prader-Willi Syndrome experiences regarding food.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patricia Morgan explains how sometimes a reward-based system can help motivate people with Prader-Willi Syndrome to exercise which may lead them to be introduced to positive opportunities they would never otherwise be exposed to.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Kristen Fichtner explains that her idea of a good support is someone who is loving, caring and supportive and creates an environment filled with positivity, laughter, and happiness.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll explains that they key reducing anxiety in a person with Prader-Willi Syndrome is managing their environment and having an extremely structured routine.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patricia Morgan explains that having routines, schedules and structure are most important when supporting someone with Prader-Willi Syndrome. Having consistency and knowing what is coming next greatly alleviates anxiety in the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Gina Sheehan introduces us to the word conflabulation and offers some of the best ways to support someone with Prader-Willi Syndrome when they are story-telling.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Patrice Carroll explains that you will see quick progress and success when supporting someone with Prader-Willi Syndrome if you are patient, have the right attitude and are willing to try new things or retry things that may have not been successful in the past.
Subjects Covered:
- Prader-Willi
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explores the preparation that is needed to best enable the active support approach.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explores what you need to do to prepare so the person can flow through the active support session.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains that we should not make assumptions about people and that instead we should presume competence.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
Length:
Presenter: Louise Heatley
About This Video:
Louise gives advice on how to support someone when they have apprehensions about dying.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger uses his own experiences to tell a story that highlight the understanding that privacy is a learned skill.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
Length: 9 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells a story that highlights the importance of not discussing private matters in public.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
- Rights
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 8 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North explains how your processing system works.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North uses and interactive example to demonstrate some of the challenges that someone with autism may have with processing language.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North explains how we can use our understanding of our own processing system to help find solutions to the difficulties others are having with their's.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains why in certain circumstances a professional independent advocate is needed.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Rights
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how post traumas can lead to constant states agitation and arousal.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
- Self-Esteem
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey shares how trauma can cause behavioral issues.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how PTSD can cause people to have a negative view of everything.
Subjects Covered:
- Trauma Informed Care
- Self-Esteem
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how PTSD can lead people to experience extreme phobias and fears.
Subjects Covered:
- Trauma Informed Care
- Self-Esteem
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how triggers can bring on symptoms of PTSD and cause behavior issues in present day.
Subjects Covered:
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
- Self-Esteem
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger shares a story that explains how what is public and what is private can become confused.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Boundaries
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how having a sense of purpose can help people overcome traumas from their past.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Choice and Control
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene tells the story of Victoria’s end of life care that shows that although there were tears there was a lot of laughter and good times at the end of Victoria’s life because that is what she would have wanted and it gave her the quality at the end of her life that she deserved.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Peter Leidy
About This Video:
Peter Leidy speaks about the need to question policies and procedures that you feel get in the way of a person's rights.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Rights
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount talks about the importance of raising expectations specifically referring to employment.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Good Support
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Kate Fulton
About This Video:
Kate Fulton introduces some thoughts on how you can raise your awareness of how present you are.
Subjects Covered:
- Listening
- Working on the Inside
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Yona explains that when we understand why people are struggling, we can change how we respond to them. It is easy to react to behaviors but being able to recognize why someone is acting a particular way changes how we support them and help them to move forward.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Graham Firth
About This Video:
Graham Firth explains the importance of and the various ways of recording intensive interaction.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hewett
About This Video:
Dave Hewitt highlights the importance and various means of recording the progress of your intensive interactions.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jill Bradshaw explains how to reduce demand and complexity as it relates to active support.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Amanda Sawyer
About This Video:
Amanda Sawyer explains that in order to support someone’s mental health better we need to look at what medications an individual is on and evaluate whether or not medications are necessary before adding more medications.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains how best to reduce stress and agitation for someone with dementia.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Dementia
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent tells the story of a couple who were banned from their day program for sexual behavior the organization that ran the program found unacceptable. However, as you will understand from this film, their behavior was entirely understandable given their circumstances.
Subjects Covered:
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount explains the importance of creating deep and meaningful relationships in order to lead rich and fulfilling lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey shares a story about a man with a great deal of trauma who develops a relationship with someone that helps to heal his PTSD.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
- Trauma Informed Care
- Self-Esteem
Length: 5 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explores the problem of repeated crises that many people appear to experience.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Jan Gordon
About This Video:
Jan Gordon explains when to and when not to do intensive interaction. Other practitioners go on to explain the importance of repetition.
Subjects Covered:
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 3 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele explains why we need to connect even the most mundane tasks of documentation to the people that we are there to support.
Subjects Covered:
- Documentation
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Tanya Carnell
About This Video:
Tanya Carnell talks about several important considerations when reporting abuse.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht explains how you should report abuse.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Tanya Carnell
About This Video:
Tanya Carnell explains what your responsibilities are for reporting abuse.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Graham Firth
About This Video:
Graham Firth talks about the various research studies that have been undertaken and how they support intensive interaction.
Subjects Covered:
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kenrick tells a story that illustrates the importance of privacy for people so they can feel that they have authority and independence over their own lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kendrick tells a story that highlights the importance of respecting the privacy of the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains how you can respect the choice and control someone has during an active support session.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Heather Hermans
About This Video:
Heather Hermans explains that is it is equally important to follow through with one’s mental health treatment as it is for their physical health treatment, which is not always the case.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains how we can respect and recognize the boundaries of the people we support.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger highlights the responsibility of trust that exists between you and the person you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains how people have become addicted to receiving help because staff members have difficulty holding back and in order for someone with disabilities to grow, they need to figure out things for themselves at times.
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Choice and Control
Length: 9 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tell a story that emphasizes the idea that we have to let people with disabilities be the way they are in order for them to grow their own particular way. It should be the goal of staff to help the people they support to be able to be more independent and able do things on their own.
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Choice and Control
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury talks about how you can support people to review the challenges and successes of building community and friendships.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint talks about why and how we can help people to meet to review the person-centered planning journey according to the needs of the person.
Subjects Covered:
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hewett
About This Video:
Dave Hewitt explains how intensive interaction can be applied to connect with someone who is displaying rhythmic/rocking behavior.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Heather Simmons
About This Video:
Heather Simmons explains how she discovered that a right relationship shares the power between the worker and the person receiving supports.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht explains the right to support that people have, and what good support means to him.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Rights
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht explains the rights that people have at home.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Home
- Rights
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
David Hasbury explains that people need to not only be responsible for their own actions, but they also need to be encouraged to consider their responsibility to contribute to their community and society.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 4 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele talks about the subject of risk in our work.
Subjects Covered:
- Risk
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Yona explains that one of the major health concerns of the people we support is stress and their ability to cope with this stress. Helping the people we support to have a greater amount of choices and knowing what to choose when feeling stressed is an important way to give support.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger presents two examples that demonstrates that we think about risk we can teach and not just forbid.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Choice and Control
- Risk
Length: 9 min
Presenter: John Raffaele
About This Video:
John Raffaele shares a story that demonstrates an informed and supported decision making process that respected the rights of a man who wanted to own a gun.
Subjects Covered:
- Rights
- Risk
Length: 4 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak tells the story of Roland's loneliness to introduce that relationships are critical to our wellbeing.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Friendships and Community
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Sam Sly
About This Video:
Sam Sly talks about role modeling and how it can help the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent tells the story of a man who used to run away from his residential home. It was deemed that he needed to be protected, but when the home closed and he was finally given his opportunity to make a choice and take control of his own life, the understanding of his needs also changed.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
- Home
- Listening
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Richard explains that if the person your support cannot verbalize their grief when someone they care about dies it is still important to include them in that person’s celebration of life.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
LIST
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
This film with Dave Hingsburger highlights the need for organizations to be safe places.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Richard explains that he would feel badly if he lost someone and didn’t get the chance to say a proper goodbye.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Janis Swindlehurst
About This Video:
Janis Swindlehurst explains the importance of scheduling communication with a family.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hewett
About This Video:
Dave Hewitt explains how some people may miss out on receiving the intensive interaction approach because their abilities are misleading.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Kathie Snow
About This Video:
Kathie Snow reflects on a story about how her own vision of what was possible for her son differed from what professionals told her.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Working on the Inside
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury describes how drawing or graphic facilitation can develop an uncomfortable but useful tension between how things are and how things need to be.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury explains how drawing or graphic facilitation can help us to see what is really important to people.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
John Elkin talks about having a cleft palate. John’s cleft palate can make his speech hard to understand. But he has learned to accept this and explain what it means to other people.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Samantha Hughes explains why people with good self-esteem feel good about themselves and are proud of who they are.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood highlights sensory processing difficulties as one of the key factors that can cause challenging behavior.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood presents an example of a sensory intervention and how it may help the person.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood explores what sensory processing difficulties may mean for people with autism.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood explains that when you witness challenging behavior, you need to be able to separate the behavior from the person.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Peter Leidy
About This Video:
Peter Leidy introduces the background to and shares the song '7 Ways to Cause a Crisis' to help us to reflect on our own interactions with the people we support and how those interactions can impact people.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
- Communication
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger asks why we are so focused on sex education and explains why he prefers to call what he does relationship training.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger states that the people you support are already being educated about sex, and he stresses the need to balance what people learn from the media with more accurate information.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains that most of the people you support will have been abused and that many of those people were abused by the very people who were paid to support them in the same way you are.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger expands on the importance of teaching that people are safe here and with me when you are conducting sex education.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Harvey Pacht
About This Video:
Harvey Pacht explains the importance of shared interests to support good friendships.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Sue explains that an important conversation to have with individual support workers is to ask when they would like to know when the person they support has died. Having this information in advance gives some relief to the support workers so they don’t feel pressure to be present at all times as well as assurance that they will be told at a time that is comfortable to them.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey tells the story of Shaun and the role of a staff member in helping change Shaun's negative behaviors into positive ones.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
- Self-Esteem
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells a story about a woman's boundaries that were ignored by her support staff.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr uses a personal example to demonstrate the effect short term memory loss may have on someone with dementia. Diana goes on to explain how she comforted someone though this difficulty.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains some of the difficulties that someone with dementia may have with showers and baths.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury talks about using people's gifts to show up and become known in community places and the function that your role can play in supporting people's experience of the community.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Listening
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
- Self-Determination
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury talks about how you can guide people through the process of showing up and learning how to be and what to do when things do not go as planned.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent tells a story about how he helped people to have single beds in the belief that they would have single lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Choice and Control
- Home
- Rights
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg uses her own experience as a parent to reflect on the challenges of being a single parent raising a child who has disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy explores the six keys to citizenship that he developed to help people understand what constitutes good and individualized support.
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Contribution
- Employment
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Home
- Person-Centered Planning
- Rights
- Self-Determination
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint introduces the essential person-centered skill of listening.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Listening
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen explains that small steps mean progress during an active support session.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg explains that talking about yourself or things that are not work related can help to bring the family closer to you.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski introduces social devaluation.
Subjects Covered:
- Valued Social Roles
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Adele Mason talks about the challenges of considering other people's perspectives when developing friendships and relationships with others.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
- Friendships and Community
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North talks about some of the ways that people may try to control a social world that is otherwise oblivious to their needs.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger describes how children usually develop social distance, and again highlights the difficulties the people you support may have with this concept.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Sexuality and Relationships
- Abuse Prevention
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Graham Firth
About This Video:
Graham Firth explains how intensive interaction can support both social inclusion and communication.
Subjects Covered:
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Adele Mason talks about the progress she has made with her confidence, but also explains how she still struggles to develop relationships with others, demonstrating how complicated relationships can be.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski explains how social roles function in our society.
Subjects Covered:
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North talks about the social rules that we live by and gives an example of how difficult it can be for people to get the social interaction right.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Maria Hodermarska
About This Video:
Maria Hodermarska tells a story about a frustrating interaction with an agency who supports her son.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Christine explains how sometimes people with disabilities’ behaviors are overlooked by the people who support them and feeling and emotions that are trying to be conveyed and therefore it is important to remember that all behavior is communication.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski introduces Dr Wolf Wolfensberger's work and the concept of of Social Role Valorization.
Subjects Covered:
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains that support staff will suffer vicarious trauma by helping the people they support. Karyn emphasizes the need for self-care, in order to help alleviate the secondary trauma support staff experience.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Challenging Behavior
- Employment
- Good Support
- Rights
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Charles Archer and Karyn Harvey discuss the different types of diversity, beyond that of race and the obstacles that both support workers and the people they support struggle with on a daily basis.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Employment
- Abuse Prevention
- Rights
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how staff members have trauma too and it makes it sometimes difficult for staff members to help others because they have yet to heal.
Subjects Covered:
- Trauma Informed Care
- Self-Esteem
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Shineeca Mcleod explains that in order to remain mentally healthy it is important to take your medications, be active, and have a support circle for when times are good and for when they are not.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski talks about the benefits of stepping into the shoes of the people you support. Marc also considers some factors that can consciously or unconsciously affect our ability to see things from the perspective of the person you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
- Good Support
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains the steps of supported decision making.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Shineeca Mcleod describes how she feels when she doesn’t take her medication and the steps it takes to get back to feeling healthy again.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Mental Health
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Roger Crown tells his story (with the support of Gary Kent) of the abuse that he has experienced in his life.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Advocacy
- Choice and Control
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells a moving story about companionship.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Listening
Length: 10 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr tells a personal story that helps to explain how stress can affect our memory. Diana goes on to explain how stress affects people with dementia and how you should avoid or comfort someone through stressful times.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Evelyn Perez shares some of the emotional strain and stresses that she experiences as a parent.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg discusses some of the stresses that she experiences as a parent.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood explores why and how transition and change can be planned for by using an established structure that gradually introduces how and when the change is going to happen.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth tells the story of a man with FASD whose success at work led to problems.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Richard explains the importance of having support from friends and family to talk and to express feelings especially when going through a difficult time.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
- Self-Esteem
- Families
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Sue explains that support workers find supporting someone with end of life care very challenging because so much of the support that is given is geared around living life to the fullest and getting the best healthcare possible. Admitting that someone is nearing the end of their life and are not going to be better can almost feel like a failure to someone who is supporting them.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Christine explains that when the people we support talk through their behavior we start to support with fear rather than thinking about what the behaviors are actually communicating. It is important they we look into these behaviors and find out what they are saying so that the people we support can live a good life.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
- Challenging Behavior
- Communication
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains the role of the direct support staff in supported decision making.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video provides awareness about the challenges associated with supported decision making and suggests solutions for these hurdles in order for supported decision to be successful.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
A mother tells her story of choosing supported decision making for her son and the wonderful effects it has had on him.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kenrick explains how supported decision making has evolved over the years into a formal and explicit plan in relation to people with disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains how supported decision making gives the supported person a right to make decisions, even if not always the best choices, to help them grow and have control over their own life.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
This video explains that if decision making is introduced ate an early age, people arrive at adulthood more sure of themselves and familiar with their own power to make decisions.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video tells a story of a young woman who was able to make her own financial decisions with the assistance through supported decision making.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains that the people we support, with assistance, are able to make decisions about their own lives such as banking, housing, and recreation, through supported decision making.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kenrick tells a story of one woman's determination for independence even if it meant risk was involved.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 2 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak presents several examples that demonstrate how people can be supported to make a contribution.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Doreen Kelly
About This Video:
Doreen Kelly explains that good support is about meeting more than people's basic needs. Doreen explains that your job is really about helping people to attain their human rights.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Good Support
- Rights
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Diana McCourt
About This Video:
Diana McCourt explains how she would like support staff to interact with her.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Marsha Wilson
About This Video:
Marsha Wilson explains how the support that people with FASD need may often be different to the support provided to other people with disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Myles Himmelreich
About This Video:
Myles Himmelreich says your success may not be my success and my success may not be your success.
Subjects Covered:
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Beth Mount
About This Video:
Beth Mount explores the differences between system-centered and person-centered services.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Doreen Kelly
About This Video:
Doreen Kelly discusses how important it is for services to be tailor made to the person, particularly when that person has challenging behavior.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Louise Heatley
About This Video:
Louise Heatley explains the importance of having a support network to share fears, emotions and questions to get through difficult times such as illness, loss, and death.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that although death is an extremely difficult topic to discuss, it is important to be as straightforward as possible so the people you support can understand what has happened.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that people approach death and dying differently and it is important to talk out what the culture and ideals of both your colleagues and the family of the person you support are, so you are prepared when the times comes.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Amanda Cresswell explains that if you are talking to someone with a disability, you should talk to them as adults, even if the news you are sharing is difficult to hear. She also explains some additional techniques to use when sharing bad news with someone who has a disability.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Sue explains that most of the time when someone becomes ill, the people who live with them are usually aware of the changes and it is best that the support workers be honest and open about what is happening with everyone to avoid confusion on what is really going on.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains some strategies that can be used to help teach about public vs private boundaries.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains how you can think about teaching social distance.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
Length: 8 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Sue describes the various challenges of supporting someone during their end of life care and explains the importance of utilizing various tools that are available to support workers to help them to give information in way that the person who is being supported understands.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Amanda Cresswell explains that people with disabilities who can understand, should be informed, even if they need a little more help to understand what is being said.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
- Communication
- Good Support
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Louise Heatley tells of a time when she had to break bad news to someone and questioned when, why, how and whether it was the right time or whether she was the right person to break this news to him?
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Richard recalls a time when his friend was going to die and how being able to go see him whenever he wanted and spend quality time with him gave him the opportunity to say a proper goodbye.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Louise Heatley
About This Video:
Louise recalls a time when one of the people she supported requested a party when he found out he was going to die, which turned out to be a great framework for friends, family, and support workers to express how they felt about him and the feelings associated with the fact that he was going to die.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Test
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells a story about a man who announces his loneliness. The response from his worker does not serve to help this man.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Boundaries
- Good Support
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explores the stereotypes attached to the sexuality of the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 3 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak tells a personal story about an encounter with a bear to explain how the activation of the limbic brain changes our brain-body complex and how these changes have implications for the people we serve.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Good Support
Length: 10 min
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth tells the story of support worker who had good intentions, but was misguided and lacked understanding of her ethical responsibilities to the person she supported.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Self-Determination
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Direct Support Professionals provide the best support when they are actively engaged and present in the life of the person they support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells a story that illustrates the importance of providing the best service and being the best you at work, regardless of whether your personal opinions and beliefs align with the company’s expectations and standards.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Employment
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how bullying can be more overpowering than grief when it comes to the trauma it creates.
Subjects Covered:
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Diana Kerr
About This Video:
Diana Kerr explains why the color Red is so useful for someone with dementia and how you can use this knowledge to better support people.
Subjects Covered:
- Dementia
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains how it is important for everyone to have the opportunity to make their own decisions for it is in the mistakes that we make we can see true growth.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger talks about the importance of the disability community. Dave goes on to explain why he is more concerned about the number of communities that people are part of than how many friends they have.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger talks about the need for people with disabilities to have a healthy relationship with who they are.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt
About This Video:
Elizabeth explains how she approaches people with FASD when she meets them for the first time.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Length: 1 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak tells a story that highlights the rules of social engagement and explains why the people we support might need help to learn these rules.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Mental Health
Length: 10 minutes
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski explains what the 'good things in life' are and their importance in the lives of the people we support.
Subjects Covered:
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North uses the example of a graphic equalizer to think about sensory processing in more detail.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth tells story about a man with disabilities and a Harley Davidson Motorcycle club.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Heather Simmons
About This Video:
Heather Simmons talks about her husband Richard who has a disability and the impact the support he needs has on their lives.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Listening
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy explains that community is more than just a collection of buildings. As Simon explains, community is, in fact, a place that can support and facilitate the interaction of a wide range of valued social roles.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
- Friendships and Community
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Jack Pearpoint
About This Video:
Jack Pearpoint explores the importance of dreams, and how they can be interpreted.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Simon Duffy
About This Video:
Simon Duffy explains the importance of home and highlights the difference between 'having a home' and being 'put in a home.'
Subjects Covered:
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Home
- Self-Determination
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how staff members can affect the health and wellness of the people they support.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Diana McCourt
About This Video:
Diana McCourt talks about her early experience of being a parent and her daughters time in the state institution Willowbrook. Diana also speaks about how her approach to the challenges she has faced with her daughter has changed over time.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 7 min
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tuminski expands on his own experiences of helping someone to experience a valued role for the first time.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Joseph Macbeth
About This Video:
Joseph Macbeth tells a moving story about a person who receives support connecting with a long lost brother. This story demonstrates the potential of truly great support.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North explains what processing means and gives an example of how fast the system does that job.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains that the most important social skill is reciprocity, and expands on its importance.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 6 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak tells a story about a potted plant that exemplifies how taking charge of even a very small part of your life can help you take care of yourself.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains the correlation between positive regard and happiness.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma Informed Care
- Communication
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains how we should focus on encouraging and supporting the happiness of the people we support, rather than correcting the negative.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Communication
- Self-Esteem
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Aimee Althoff explores the strategy to use to ensure the person you support is matched to the right job.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Gary Kent
About This Video:
Gary Kent helps us to think about what it might be like to be supported by someone you do not have a good relationship with.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne reminds us that sometimes it is better for the people you support to come to terms with their own bad news and be there to support them through it, rather than telling them bad news before they are ready.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak explains how anxiety affects people and how he has been helping a friend reduce his anxiety and become more self-confident in social relationships.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 7 minutes
Presenter: Roger Ramsukh
About This Video:
Roger tells a story that reminds us that ,“we need not to do it for them, but assist for them to do.” Roger’s remembers this uplifting story of his own when faced with adversity and racism.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Choice and Control
- Good Support
- Rights
- Self-Esteem
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells a story that emphasizes the point that providing personal and intimate care leaves people with disabilities very vulnerable so we need to look at ways that can give power back to the people we support.
Subjects Covered:
- Personal and Intimate Care
- Choice and Control
Length: 5 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video explains the role of the supporter in shared decision making. It includes but is not limited to, providing information, offering advice, listening to whom you support, assisting in making decisions, respecting decisions when make and helping communicate the decisions that are made.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 1 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak tells a story about a theatre troupe that can help us better understand and support people experiencing feelings of anxiety.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 14 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Lydia Swinton overviews the way in which Intensive Interaction focuses on some of the effects of the central triad of impairments, which are impairment of social interaction, communication, and imagination.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger tells a story about using the washroom at conferences. This story highlights the importance of teaching the appropriate boundaries and how we help people to value their own bodies.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
- Risk
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
This video show the wrong approach to meeting someone for the first time.
Subjects Covered:
- Advocacy
- Friendships and Community
- Sexuality and Relationships
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Margaret Cushen
About This Video:
Margaret Cushen examines the details of active support and how you can think through the various steps and details of the assistance you provide.
Subjects Covered:
- Active Support
- Good Support
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Amanda Sawyer
About This Video:
Amanda Sawyer reminds us all that it is important to remember that medications need to be chosen with care and with purpose.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains the three ingredients necessary for people to heal from PTSD and other traumas.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Listening
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma Informed Care
- Choice and Control
- Communication
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Heather Hermans
About This Video:
Heather Hermans explains that the feelings of being ignored, isolated and not given adequate privacy are three mental health risks that are often overlooked and need to be recognized for greater mental health support.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Peter Leidy
About This Video:
Peter Leidy shares the three things that are most valued by support staff, and how those things can be supported.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 6 min
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood explains that to achieve the gold standard of high quality support for people with autism, you must understand that you will need time, and that your work is a marathon, not a sprint.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Challenging Behavior
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David explains that when people are having a difficult time they cannot process too many choices, let alone think about much of anything except their immediate needs and problems.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Choice and Control
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that you need to be careful not to give too much information to someone you support who is not ready to hear it or understand it.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Amanda Sawyer
About This Video:
As a psychiatrist, Amanda Sawyer explains that the more documentation and information a support worker can provide, the better she is at properly diagnosing and caring for the person being supported.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Clara Berg
About This Video:
Clara Berg explains that when the people you support are transitioning out of the family home everyone needs to move slowly.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains the difference between trauma response and behavioral response.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Challenging Behavior
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey discusses the importance of support staff in helping the people we support overcome traumas.
Subjects Covered:
- Abuse Prevention
- Communication
- Good Support
- Listening
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma Informed Care
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Diana McCourt
About This Video:
Diana McCourt explains why trust comes slowly.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger expands on the statement trust without compliance. As Dave explains he originally thought that the trust others placed in him was because he was extraordinary before realizing that in reality the people he was working with simply had a lack of boundaries.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
Length: 8 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Amandine Mouriere talks about intensive interaction and learning to do less. She goes on to describe her experiences of working with children who have very profound disabilities who may have extremely limited ability to move or display outward behaviour. She talks about the need to learn about 'micro' tuning-in.
Subjects Covered:
- Intensive Interaction
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Peter Leidy
About This Video:
Peter Leidy explores the reasons why people stay working in our field. Peter goes on to share a song that relates to this subject.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Roger Ramsukh
About This Video:
Roger Ramsukh explains how it is important as a support worker to utilize your own coping skills when faced with adversity to give yourself distance and clarity so that you are able to have the space and frame of mind to help others.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Communication
- Rights
Length: 6 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hasbury
About This Video:
Dave Hasbury provides an example that demonstrates how a picture can give people a way to have conversation that may not exist otherwise.
Subjects Covered:
- Graphic Facilitation
- Person-Centered Planning
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Michael Kendrick
About This Video:
Michael Kenrick explains the different types of guardianship and the dangers and risks associated with them.
Subjects Covered:
- Supported Decision Making
Length: 3 min
Presenter: David Pitonyak
About This Video:
David Pitonyak talks about the importance of ensuring people's health is being appropriately monitored by demonstrating the potential impact of underlying physiological issues.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
Length: 4 min
Presenter: Yona Lunsky
About This Video:
Yona explains how modeling expressions and emotions in your own life can help the people you support find ways to express how they are feeling better.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 3 minutes
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that although someone might not communicate with words it doesn’t mean that they cannot understand bad news and therefore it is important to find ways and communicate bad new to them.
Subjects Covered:
- Families
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Listening
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 4 minutes
Presenter: Louise Heatley
About This Video:
Louise Heatley tells a story illustrating that there are many different ways that people with disabilities understand and deal with illness and death.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 5 minutes
Presenter: Kate Fulton
About This Video:
Kate Fulton explores how your impact can make or break the effectiveness of your support.
Subjects Covered:
- Good Support
- Working on the Inside
Length: 3 min
Presenter: Kate Fulton
About This Video:
Kate Fulton shares an example where she changed her focus from completing a task to achieving a bigger and more valuable intention.
Subjects Covered:
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
- Listening
- Person-Centered Approaches and Thinking
- Working on the Inside
Length: 5 min
Presenter: Judith North
About This Video:
Judith North explains that to do our work with people with autistic spectrum conditions well, we must first understand ourselves.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Good Support
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Alex explains how it feels when people have different expectations for him than they have for people who don't have disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Challenging Behavior
- Trauma Informed Care
- Communication
- Friendships and Community
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Katrina Reese presents the example of a man she supported who was able to use an unpaid opportunity to showcase his skills to the employer and move into paid employment.
Subjects Covered:
- Employment
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne says you cannot withhold bad news from someone you support in fear of them being too upset. Not telling people bad news doesn’t make it go away.
Subjects Covered:
- Communication
- Good Support
- Breaking Bad News
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
Dave Hingsburger explains the importance of how you manage your everyday interactions with the people you support.
Subjects Covered:
- Boundaries
- Good Support
Length: 9 min
Presenter: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
About This Video:
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne explains that a person with disabilities, who has a terminal illness, may express pain differently and a support worker can be very helpful in recognizing these behaviors and alert the medical staff to the pain and discomfort they are experiencing.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Dave Hingsburger
About This Video:
As Dave Hingburger explains in the following film, your presence in the community and the respect you demonstrate for people can teach others to understand, respect, and value people with disabilities.
Subjects Covered:
- Diversity
- Rights
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 5 minutes
Presenter: Marc Tumeinski
About This Video:
Marc Tumeinski describes the theory of Social Role Valorization and why employment is a valued social role.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Employment
- Valued Social Roles
Length: 2 min
Presenter: Heather Simmons
About This Video:
Heather Simmons explains the values of inclusion.
Subjects Covered:
- Contribution
- Friendships and Community
- Good Support
Length: 18 min
Presenter: Karyn Harvey
About This Video:
Karyn Harvey explains that trauma can stem from various forms of abuse.
Subjects Covered:
- Trauma Informed Care
- Challenging Behavior
- Good Support
- Self-Esteem
Length: 1 min
Presenter: Heather Hermans
About This Video:
Heather Hermans tells a story that illustrates the fact that people with disabilities have a higher risk of being victimized by others because of their feeling of wanting to be included by others.
Subjects Covered:
- Mental Health
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene explains that although you might not feel like it is the best plan, you have to remember it’s the want and wishes of the person that you support that matters and if you are not capable of following through on those wishes, it is best not to be part of this particular support team.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene explains that although uncomfortable, it is important to use the word “dying” when referring to someone’s end of life so that people clearly understand what is truly happening.
Subjects Covered:
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene explains that although uncomfortable, it is important to use the word “dying” when referring to someone’s end of life so that people clearly understand what is truly happening.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 2 minutes
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene tells a story about a woman named Victoria and discusses the various roles that support workers took on to help Victoria with her everyday needs during her end of life care.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Other
About This Video:
Jene explains that the role of a support worker is not an easy one - it takes a person who is an active listener, ready to learn, has the right attitude and an open mind, and is able to look at the people they will support as the prime focus.
Subjects Covered:
- End of Life Care
Length: 1 minute
Presenter: Simon Haywood
About This Video:
Simon Haywood describes the benefits of using visual aids to support communication.
Subjects Covered:
- Autism
- Communication
- Good Support
- Listening <