Services
Training - one to one, group work, presentations, workshops and conferences
We may be able to provide bespoke training, workshops, presentations, conferences and facilitated group sessions around:
- Housing and support options and solutions
- Shared ownership and other home ownership options
- Planning and delivering housing and support to people with disabilities
- Telecare training (including hands-on training with live equipment)
- Making services accessible
- Mental Capacity and Tenancies
- Disability awareness and Disability Equality Duty
- Other housing and support issues
Our previous projects have included:
- one to one training for an RSL officer providing new housing products
- training for several RSLs so that they are able to provide low cost home ownership products to people with varying disabilities including learning disabilities, mental health issues, physical disabilities, sensory loss, HIV+ and other long-term disabilities
- working with housing providers to enable them to understand the needs of people with learning disabilities so that they can provide services to this 'new' client group
- planning and delivering a national programme of training on housing and disability issues
- workshops to help individuals and their supporters think about housing and support in the future, including people affected by campus closures and re-provision initiatives
- speaking at conferences and facilitating break out groups and workshops
- Mental Capacity and Tenancies training for local authority and social care staff so they understand the basic rights and responsibilities their client will have as tenants and the route to gaining a tenancy using the principles of the Mental Capacity Act
- Telecare training for social care staff – hands on training using live equipment so that staff better understand how equipment works, how it may be assessed and applied. Dispelling some of the myths!
- numerous workshops, events, presentations and conferences at local and national level
If you would rather book pre-planned training / courses, please email us for further information and dates about the following:
Housing options for people with learning disabilities
This popular session helps individuals, carers, supporters and professionals to understand some of the housing options available to people with learning disabilities. It provides some practical advice about how to explore the options and tips for accessing housing services. Case studies and practical examples help to bring to life some of the options, demonstrating that they can become a reality.
Choice Based Lettings (one or two day course)
Following on from research undertaken for the Department of Health, one course will be specifically aimed at local authorities and housing provider administrators of the scheme. It will examine some of the good and poor practices identified by the research and will help providers understand how they can make their schemes more accessible for people with disabilities and the type of procedural adjustments they may be expected to make to their services under the Disability Discrimination Act. There will also be practical sessions looking at information that is provided to the public and how it is disseminated.
There will also be a session for individuals and those who support them. This will provide practical and accessible advice about what to expect when applying for housing through the scheme, how to get the best from the scheme and what to do if you feel that your disability has not been taken into account.
Mental Capacity and Tenancies
This session is for carers, staff and others supporting people with disabilities to understand issues around mental capacity as they apply to housing and to understand housing rights and responsibilities in supported living. It explores the relationship between the tenant, landlord and support provider, clarifying various roles and responsibilities. Issues covered in this training include:
- A brief overview of the Mental Capacity Act
- Legal capacity – assessing capacity, building capacity using accessible tools, tenants without capacity, the Best Interests decision-making process as it relates to housing
- What is supported living? How is housing and support separate?
- Types of tenancies
- What’s in a tenancy agreement – landlord and tenant responsibilities / expectations,
- Looking at the other agreements in supported living - what’s in a management agreement and a service level agreement - what’s the difference?
Telecare
This training focuses on the practical application and use of telecare with vulnerable people. It is a lively session including group exercises, DVDs and hands-on 'playing' with live telecare equipment. The session includes:
- What is Telecare? – brief overview of what it means, types of equipment and its uses
- Explore some of the barriers to technology
- Explore ethical issues
- Assessing and prescribing Telecare equipment using an electronic assessment tool
- DVDs / case studies to see and discuss equipment in use
- Hands on practical sessions to allow people to ‘play’ with the equipment
- Brief look at other tele-solutions.
The cost of the training includes user licenses for the electronic assessment tool ‘app’ and the opportunity to purchase this software for other staff members.
