Category: All types of homes (ARF, EBSH, GH, RCFE)

  • Providing Support For Healthy Sexual Development Part 2 (Interventions)

    Providing Support For Healthy Sexual Development Part 2 (Interventions)

    This course focuses on providing support and treatment for adults in residential facilities, particularly individuals with a history of sexual offenses or dysfunctional sexual behavior (DSB). Difficulties in sexual development have aversive effects on the individuals involved, as well as the community, legal and correctional institutions, and mental and behavioral healthcare systems. Research and current

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  • Providing Support For Healthy Sexual Development Part 1 (Case Conceptualization)

    Providing Support For Healthy Sexual Development Part 1 (Case Conceptualization)

    This course focuses on providing support and treatment for adults in residential facilities, particularly individuals with a history of sexual offenses or dysfunctional sexual behavior (DSB). Difficulties in sexual development have aversive effects on the individuals involved as well as the community, legal and correctional institutions, and mental and behavioral healthcare systems. Research and current

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  • Trauma Informed Care in Residential Setting

    Trauma Informed Care in Residential Setting

    Providing trauma-informed care in a Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) residential setting means recognizing that many individuals have experienced trauma and ensuring that services promote healing rather than inadvertently re-traumatizing them. In residential environments, this approach shifts the focus from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” while honoring each person’s strengths, preferences,

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  • Supporting Individuals with Mental Health Challenges In Residential Care Setting

    Supporting Individuals with Mental Health Challenges In Residential Care Setting

    This course provides direct support professionals with a practical overview of common mental health diagnoses found in community care settings. Participants will learn to define common diagnoses, identify key symptoms, and understand how symptoms can impact behavior and emotions. The training also addresses dual diagnoses and how multiple conditions may present together. Through real-world examples

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  • Working With Grooming Behavior

    Working With Grooming Behavior

    This course provides direct support providers with the knowledge and practical tools to recognize and effectively respond to grooming as a disruptive sexual behavior. Participants will learn the warning signs of grooming, how it may present in individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and the underlying factors that influence these behaviors. The training also examines

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  • Culturally Responsive Care in Residential Care Facilities

    Culturally Responsive Care in Residential Care Facilities

    Training focuses on helping staff provide supports that honor each person’s culture, identity, values, and lived experiences while upholding HCBS principles. This training emphasizes that culturally responsive care is a core part of person-centered practice and essential to promoting dignity, respect, and meaningful inclusion in community living environments. Participants will learn how culture influences communication

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  • Delivering Person-Centered Care in Community Care Facilities

    Delivering Person-Centered Care in Community Care Facilities

    Delivering HCBS-Aligned Person-Centered Care in Community Care Facilities focuses on helping staff translate HCBS principles into meaningful, everyday support. This training highlights how person-centered practices promote dignity, choice, independence, and community inclusion for individuals living in residential settings. Participants will learn how to move beyond routine, task-focused care and instead support individuals in ways that

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  • HCBS Federal Requirements in Practice: From Daily Support to Audit Readiness

    HCBS Federal Requirements in Practice: From Daily Support to Audit Readiness

    This training focuses on the HCBS Federal Requirements (FR1–FR10) and how staff can apply them in daily service delivery in ways that are clear, observable, and audit-ready. Participants will learn what auditors typically look for, how federal requirements translate into real-world compliance practices, and how documentation, staff actions, and the home environment work together to

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