OPEN FUTURE LEARNING EXPLAINER VIDEOS

Do you provide personal and intimate care to people with disabilities? How do people with disabilities, who do not use words to communicate, give you permission? This important question (and many more) is answered in our new module 'Personal and Intimate Care.' Learn more here: https://www.openfuturelearning.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.SingleModules Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/open_future_learning/ https://twitter.com/Open_Future https://www.facebook.com/open.futurelearning For more information on Open Future Learning visit: http://www.openfuturelearning.org/

Narrated by Beth Mount this excerpt from our module "Valued Social Roles" explains the importance of helping people to build wide, deep and sustaining relationships. Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/open_future_learning/ https://twitter.com/Open_Future https://www.facebook.com/open.futurelearning The module is written by Marc Tumeinski from the Social Role Valorization (SRV) Implementation project. Marc uses his intimate knowledge of SRV to help support professionals to reflect on both the barriers to the “Good Things of Life” and how valued social roles may help the people we support to have greater access to these good things. For more information on Open Future Learning visit: http://www.openfuturelearning.org/

This story is about a man with disabilities and a Harley Davidson Motorcycle club. Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/open_future_learning/ https://twitter.com/Open_Future https://www.facebook.com/open.futurelearning This video, by Joseph Macbeth, examines the role a direct support professional should play in helping the people they support to get involved in their community and be given the opportunity to engage in activities that he/she desires. It is the role of the direct support professional to put his/her own opinions and interests aside and do what is best for the people they support. For more information on Open Future Learning visit: http://www.openfuturelearning.org/

What is it like to be a person with an intellectual disability? You are invisible. You are ignored. Follow us: https://www.instagram.com/open_future_learning/ https://twitter.com/Open_Future https://www.facebook.com/open.futurelearning About our module: Trauma-Informed Care Repeated exposure to abuse, social exclusion and rejection has had a devastating affect on the people we support. Trauma affects the way brain's develop and function and leaves a lasting impression. This module will help you to understand the biology of trauma. This module will help to you be able to recognize and most importantly support and heal the trauma so people have experienced. This module includes video presentations from Karyn Harvey and David Pitonyak. On successful completion of this module, you will be able to: - Identify and be sensitive to the trauma that many people have experienced. - Describe the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. - Understand and support the key ingredients to healing. - Implement practices that support the power of positivity and the five levels of happiness. For more information on Open Future Learning visit: http://www.openfuturelearning.org/