Employee Training and Development

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My Home Support believes that ongoing, high-quality training is crucial to the development of employee skills and knowledge, and to the long-term success of consumers’ programs.  

Employee Trainings fall into three main categories:

1. Required certifications in first-aid, CPR, etc.

2. General training in subjects relevant to the effective provision of Supported Living Services, including incident reporting, signs and symptoms of illness, professional boundaries, behavior management, and annual updates pertaining to the changing views and philosophies of the Supported Living community, agency policies, and other services delivery issues.

3. Training specific to the   changing needs and desires of a specific consumer, possibly including, but not limited to: Bathing and hygiene support, Medications and  documentation issues, Seizure management and   documentation, Health care issues, Behavioral shaping, Dietary issues , etc.

High quality behavioral health trainings that include courses designed to increase employee knowledge and skills necessary to perform behavior analysis and modification techniques applied to persons with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Training includes the terminology that is generally used by Behavior Analysis Consultants (BCBA) during consultation to staff, to help assure the integrity of regular reporting to regional centers and for clinical purposes. Basic concepts and procedures used to make measurable definitions for adaptive and maladaptive behavior and to make accurate descriptions and collect data on the behavior of consumers of services is also taught. Support staff are taught to recognize the differences between operant behavior, upon which positive behaviorally supportive procedures “work”, and aspects of disability, including Axis I and Axis II disorders, that must be accommodated through provision of care as well as through medical and physical techniques, and psychotropic medication  

My Home Support uses a comprehensive system for teaching skills pertaining to “Activities of Daily Living” (ADL’s). Our course is a multi-tiered course that assesses and teaches skill building for all aspects of the household. Consumers are trained towards achieving measurable goals of habilitation and learning interventions as training objectives in their IPPs.  

- Activities of daily living.

- Learning to Relax as a means of   counteracting agitation/disruptiveness, especially during emergencies. 

- Functional use of differential social attention (reinforcement) to encourage or discourage behavior. 

- Group and Individual Activity Programming as antidotes to maladaptive behaviors. 

- Communication exercises to shape culturally acceptable social behaviors and build social relationships among consumers. 

- Working with Speech and Communication Pathologists to replace maladaptive behavior as “communication” with functionally equivalent, acceptable replacement communication behaviors.  

As consumers expand their relations, My Home Support assists them with training pertaining to norms of social behavior. This may include training on communication, training on expectations common to various types of relationships, and where appropriate, training pertaining to human sexuality and adult relationships.