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| ...Overcoming Life's Obstacles |
| COURSE OFFERINGS Transition: From Consumers to Producers |
This motivating and informative session details for staff, best practice approaches in transitioning classic day program services to a “work” oriented service model. Dr. Tom Pomeranz provides participants with the values and vision that drives the Day Program from activities of little meaning (peg boards, nuts and bolts, beads and string) to a content of meaningful activities that engender dignity and respect. Sensory stimulation rooms, mall herding and van therapy (as well as occasional TV Habilitation) are the hallmarks of Day Programs with which we are all too familiar. Tom drives home the point that “work” or expenditure of meaningful effort is the great equalizer. Work promotes the opportunity for disenfranchised people to gain dignity and respect. Being an adult is a bilateral process; one must know how to give as well as receive. Given the imposition of the highly regulated environments in which we operate, limited staff and other fiscal constraints, Tom provides realistic and common sense approaches to significantly improve quality of services. Additionally the session discusses how the objectives of the Individual Support Plan can easily be integrated into the context of a work focused program. The session addresses a variety of management strategies which enable staff to feel empowered and comfortable during the period of significant change. Specific programmatic content and instructional strategies will be delineated. Suggestions for environmental engineering and staff deployment are also reviewed. |
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