Community Bridge Building

Community Bridge Building – 1 day course

 

Who should attend:
  • Social and health care staff
  • Support Coordinators and Managers
  • Community workers
  • Local Area Coordinators
  • Social Workers
  • You may want to consider offering places to people who use your services and family carers
What the course covers:
  • What people with learning disability think, want and need from the community
  • The barriers to community inclusion
  • Techniques to achieve community inclusion
  • Practising and developing approaches that can be put into action
How long is this course: 1 day

 

Community Bridge Building – 2 day course

 

Who should attend:
  • Social and health care staff
  • Support Coordinators and Managers
  • Community workers
  • Local Area Coordinators
  • Social Workers
  • You may want to consider offering places to people who use your services and family carers
What the course covers:
  • Concepts of community, care in the community and care with the community
  • The principles of social inclusion and active citizenship
  • The history of exclusion, the move to integration and the shift to inclusion
  • Barriers faced by people with learning disabilities when trying to establish friendships and suggest methods to counter these
  • Community presence inventory, a social network analysis and inclusion tool-kit
  • Skills of inclusion and networking
How long is this course: 2 day