Internet Supported Worker Course (Dublin)

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Flexible, internet-supported learning with concentrated in-person components makes this course easy to integrate into your busy schedule while maintaining high-quality standards. Created for professionals, para-professionals, and caregivers, this Validation training combines theory, techniques, and hands-on practice to give you an effective, evidence-based communication tool for everyday caregiving.

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$1,250.00

Description

Participant Outcomes:

  • Feel more competent to handle challenging situations;
  • Contribute to a ‘person-centered’ atmosphere;
  • Experience the joy of building relationships and communicating with older adults with dementia

Who Benefits from this training

  • Caregivers of older adults living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
  • GP, HCA, OT, Activity Coordinators, Nurses, Therapists, Social Workers
  • Kitchen and housekeeping staff, maintenance staff, in-home caregivers

19 short, online training videos: interspersed with interactive webinars:  

  • 1st In-person, 2-day live training to practice new skills
  • 16 weeks of practicum: practice what you have learned
  • Interspersed with interactive webinars: get feedback on video-taped sessions; deepen knowledge
  • 2nd in-person, 2-day training to practice new skills
  • 10 weeks of practicum: practice what you have learned
  • Interspersed with interactive webinars: get feedback on video-taped sessions; learn from one another

Meet your Validation teacher
Nancy Brown

Nancy Brown has a M.A. from Pepperdine University and is currently a PhD candidate in dementia studies at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). She has over 18 years experience as a group leader in a non-profit English-speaking memory day center in Jerusalem serving all levels of cognitive impairment. In addition to conducting Validation courses, webinars, and training for a variety of audiences, Nancy is a certified NCCAP instructor and teaches the joint NCCAP/VTI course: Memory Care: Validation for Activity Professionals. She also serves as the Communication Chair for Non-Pharmacological Interventions professional interest area of the Alzheimer’s Association International.