Service Provider Training and Development (Internal and Online)

The following are training opportunities that focus on developmental disabilities and related topics and are conducted or sponsored by Lanterman Regional Center for service providers in the Lanterman community.

 

Fitness and Nutrition

This training is design to assist residential and day program staff in the planning, integration, and implementation of fitness activities in the daily lives of clients.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

10 a.m. to noon

Lanterman Regional Center

Presenter: Solid Foundation

Cost: $5 Pre-registration, $10 at door (Checks only)

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For more information, call 213.383.1300, x. 4976

 

Sexual Harassment: What Program Administrators and Supervisors Need to Know

This special in-service will provide information on AB 1825, federal vs. state law, definition of sexual harassment, investing harassment claims, and employer/supervisor responsibilities. (Employers with 50 or more employees are required by law to provide a sexual harassment training annually). Download registration flyer >>

Please note: This training is not for direct care staff. The cost of this special in-service is $10 and there will be no registration at the door.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

10 a.m. to noon

Lanterman Regional Center

Presenter: To Be Announced

Cost: $10 Pre-registration only (Checks only)

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For more information, call 213.383.1300, x. 4976

 

Provider Community Meeting (Tentative)

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

10 a.m. to noon

Lanterman Regional Center

Presenter: LRC Staff

Cost: No cost

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For more information, call 213.383.1300, x. 4976

 

Preventative Protocols for Dental Care

This training is design to assist residential and day program staff in strategies they can implement to improve the oral health of client with significant disabilities.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

10 a.m. to noon

Lanterman Regional Center

Presenter: Leticia Reyes, RDH, MS,

Cost: $5 Pre-registration, $10 at door (Checks only)

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For more information, call 213.383.1300, x. 4976

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Special Topic Training

First Aid/CPR for Regional Center Respite Providers (Accredited Nursing Employer of Record)

Accredited Nursing Service provides First Aid/CPR training for regional center respite workers who are registered with Accredited as the employer of record. Classes are scheduled on a regular basis and are held at the Lanterman Regional Center. These classes are not open to the public. For more information about the training or to register for an upcoming class, you must contact Chip Butterman, Human Resources Coordinator, Accredited Nursing Services at 818.986.1234, x. 168 or chipb@accreditednursing.com.   This training is conducted in Spanish.

Monday, July 21, 2008 (2 sessions)

9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Monday, August 18, 2008 (2 sessions)

9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Lanterman Regional Center

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Please Note:  While these classes are held at the Regional Center, we are not responsible for coordination of these classes. For more information, call Chip Butterman at 818.986.1234, x. 168.

 

Crisis Prevention and Intervention (CPI )
This training is designed to prepare direct care staff to facilitate the de-escalation of potentially violent situations through crisis prevention and intervention techniques.

August 26, 2008
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Lanterman Regional Center

Presenter: Behavior Intervention and Training Team

Cost: $25 pre-registration (make check payable to FDLRC) $15 materials fee (make check payable to Lanterman Regional Project)

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For more information, call 213.383.1300, x. 4976.

KIT Informational Forum for Providers (This Is Not a Parent Training)

This forum will include information on knowledge of different types of disabilities, accommodations for specific disabilities, techniques for supporting positive behavior, skills for partnering with families, and addressing difficult issues. Download flyer >>

 

Thursday, July 31, 2008
9 a.m. to noon
Center for Healthy Communities Conference Center

1000 North Alameda Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Presenter: Kids Included Together (KIT)

Cost: No Cost

Parking free

For more information or to RSVP, call Sherry Beamer, KIT Assistant Director at 818.858.568 Ext. 4526

 

Residential Service Provider Orientation (RSPO)
This three-day course is designed to assist potential residential service providers and administrators in the Lanterman Regional Center catchment area and to satisfy the requirements of Title 17 regulations. The program consists of an overview of the California regional center system, developmental disabilities, Lanterman's expectations of residential providers, health and wellness, client rights, Title 17 regulations regarding vendorization, referrals and placement. 

Thursday, September 25, Tuesday, September 30 and Tuesday, October 7, 2008
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Lanterman Regional Center, 7th floor – Berendo Room   

Presenter: Lanterman Regional Center Staff         

Cost and Registration Deadlines: $100 if payment is received at the Regional Center by Monday, September 15, 2008, $150 if payment is received at the Regional Center between Monday, September 15 and Wednesday, September 24. Sorry, no payment will be accepted at the door. No refunds for cancellation made after September 15.

The cost of parking is included in the registration cost. The parking structure is located behind the building on Berendo.

For more information, call 213.383.1300, x. 4976.

Download RSPO description and registration form >>

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Community Learning Opportunities

Direct Support Professional Training Program
The Direct Support Professional Training Program is a mandatory statewide training for direct support professionals, foster parents, supervisors and administrators who provide direct care in licensed Community Care Facilities. Get more information on DSP training and testing >>

Administrator Certificate Program
The Administrator Certification Program is legislatively mandated and is designed and intended to upgrade the knowledge and educational levels of persons currently employed as administrators and persons wishing to become administrators of Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFE), Adult Residential Facilities (ARF), and Group Homes (GH) through a certification process.

Administrators are individuals designated by licensees to act on behalf of the licensee in the overall management of their facilities. Licensees and administrators may be the same person.

The Administrator Certification Program is administered by the Administrator Certification Section (ACS) of the Community Care Licensing Division, Technical Assistance and Policy Branch, Technical Assistance Bureau, California Department of Social Services. The ACS is comprised of the certification and vendor units. The ACS is also legislatively mandated to approve/disapprove all vendors of 35/40 hour initial and continuing education training programs, which includes courses and instructors.

Learn more about the core knowledge requirements for initial and continuing education >>

California Statewide Treatment Education Program HIV/AIDS
Learn more about the most up-to-date information about HIV and AIDS treatment. Free education training for HIV and AIDS-related service providers.  CSTEP is currently working to update their schedule of training events.  Check back soon.

Dates and Times TBD

The Center for Healthy Communities

The California Endowment
1000 North Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213.928.8611

For more information call 415.292.3420, x. 329, or to register go to www.cstep.org.

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Online Learning Opportunities

Direct Support Professional Training
Learn more about Direct Support Professional Training at http://www.dds.cahwnet.gov/dspt/dspt_main.cfm.

the SEED (Supported Employment Education Designs)
Instructional Design, Training and Staff Development
Mindy Oppenheim planted the SEED in the spring of 1994 to provide great (and fun) training for rehabilitation, supported employment, welfare-to-work, school-to-work transition and special education staff. the SEED offers personal and professional development workshops for job coaches, job developers, employers, management and special education teachers. Disability awareness workshops are also offered. Upcoming workshops include Job Coach and Instructor "Trainer" Certification and Job Developer Certification Training. Online courses are also offered by the SEED and provide an overview of developmental disability, the rights of people with developmental disabilities, history and overview of supported employment, job development boot camp, as well as a learning styles approach to training and coaching. Visit the SEED at http://www.staffdevelopment.net/ to view upcoming workshops and for more information about online learning and staff development opportunities.

the ToolBox
After many years as an administrator and staff trainer in profit, nonprofit and governmental human service organizations, Linda LaPointe now operates her own company. The ToolBox, is a publishing, training and consulting firm featuring her staff training materials and programs. The goal of the Web site is to provide tools for direct support professionals and their supervisors to create humane workplaces and human services. Visitors to the site can sign up for teleclasses, browse through a variety of free resources, download education tools and read the E-tools newsletter.

College of Direct Support
The College of Direct Support is a web-based learning management system available 24 hours per day, seven days per week for direct support professionals to improve their skills in caring for people across disabilities. CDS now reaches learners in states from coast to coast with approximately 40,000 people making use of the training on a daily basis. They are training direct support workers in California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Mississippi, Kansas, Tennessee, South Dakota, New Hampshire and Missouri, to name a few. Their training curriculum is infused with a set of values and skill standards to train direct support professionals and their supervisors and managers as they support people in community-based settings. Values such as inclusion, honored rights, leading self-determined lives and ethical, values-based treatment, among others, are at the core of CDS training and our mission.

the QMRP Online
This site is dedicated to all who care for and work with people with developmental disabilities - to those who provide direct personal care, as well as family members, friends, educators, and those in law enforcement. They hope to promote a greater understanding of people with developmental disabilities by providing accurate information, a place to learn, to exchange ideas, and find some support. The QMRP Online offers a wide range of support services from consulting to education seminars to QMRP training.

Updated June 3, 2008