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Self advocacy training project: People First Fraserburgh
- Author:
- PEOPLE FIRST FRASERBURGH
- Publisher:
- Outside the Box Development Support
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
An accessible report by People First (Fraserburgh) of a project to develop training which will help people with learning difficulties speak up for themselves is presented. The aim of the training is also to help staff who work in local authorities and other jobs understand why people can have difficulty speaking up for themselves.
Self-advocacy skills training: report of two workshops held between April and September 1987
- Author:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 31p., illus., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Assertiveness training: a five week course for self-advocates
- Authors:
- UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS, BRITISH COLUMBIA SELF ADVOCACY FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- University of St. Andrews
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 133p.
- Place of publication:
- St. Andrews
This book is about helping people with learning disabilities learn how to be more ‘assertive’, or how to speak up for themselves. This book is a guide. It shows people how to lead a group through a 5-week course on Assertiveness Training. This book gives the people who are leading the group ideas about what to do each week. It also has handout pages for everyone in the group to take home. And it has fun exercises to help people try to speak up for themselves and be more assertive.
Making your days better: a training pack for people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BAINES Margaret, et al
- Publisher:
- Pavilion,|Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This resource is is designed for use by self-advocacy groups and their supporters, as well as relevant practitioners and service providers. The use of the training pack is also for training sessions for groups of people with learning difficulties.
Self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties: does it have a future
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(4), September 1997, pp.647-654.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses self-advocacy for people learning difficulties and presents a self-advocacy framework model which includes all the elements needed to advocate and achieve permanent change.
People with a learning disability as trainers: evaluation of a values based pilot training programme
- Authors:
- BLACK Lesley-Ann, ROBERTS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 37(2), June 2009, pp.129-137.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article presents the findings of an independent evaluation of a pilot project in Northern Ireland called 'Telling it like it is!' (TILII) conducted over a 2 year timeframe (2005–2007). Seven people with a learning disability were recruited and trained as TILII trainers. With the help of a project facilitator, they designed and presented a values based training programme for staff working in learning disability services. For the purposes of this evaluation, 12 training sessions were evaluated by 119 course recipients who completed feedback forms at the end of the training session they attended. Comments were documented qualitatively and responses were thematically categorised. In addition, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the TILII trainers. Eight course participants also participated in semi-structured interviews. Findings clearly demonstrate that the trainer role has had a positive impact on the trainers; empowering them to become self-advocates and increasing their confidence and interpersonal skills. Course recipients reported that the training was an effective tool for gaining a better understanding of people with learning disability's perspective of their own needs and wishes, and highlighted the values that staff should demonstrate in their work. Additional follow-up evaluation to assess the long-term impact of this training in practice is needed, however it is hoped that more projects of this nature will be adopted in the future.
Training for change: a training pack to support adults with learning disabilities to become trainers
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education; Change
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 237p., videocassette, audiocassette
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
People with learning disabilities are often asked to give training – to staff, student nurses and social workers, for example. They are also training other people with learning disabilities. The pack is for people with learning disabilities who understand what self-advocacy is; who are in self-help groups or self-advocacy courses; may have done some training or voluntary work; or who may have done some relevant courses at college or in adult education. This pack explains all sorts of things to do with training – from being in a group to going to meetings to doing training and what you need to think about. This pack has easy words and pictures. There are 16-modules and a word bank of useful terms. Each module follows the same format and has the same set of headings. There is also a video cassette showing different kinds of training and an audio cassette for people who cannot read or are blind or visually impaired. There is a tutor accreditation guide that goes with the pack.
Good support: a training pack for self advocacy groups to train their support workers
- Authors:
- COWIE Julia, Le-SURF Mike
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 120p., DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This training course is for self advocacy groups to use to help train their support workers. It is designed to help meet the needs of self advocacy groups for trained supporters, and the need of supporters for training.
Personnel services
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, MACADAM Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.10.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how fully involving service users in the selection of new staff can have positive results for employment practice, with benefits to staff and their clients.
Making the jump: transition to work; a guide to supporting adults with learning difficulties make the jump from education to employment
- Author:
- JACOBSEN Yola
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 136p.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
The “Making the Jump” project is about how people with learning difficulties can move on from courses and training for work to actually getting a job. During the project the NIACE project workers visited colleges, adult education centres, supported employment organisations and self-advocacy organisations. Where people with learning difficulties were being helped to make the jump to work, different organisations like colleges and supported employment agencies worked together to make this happen.