What is Engage with® Skills Training Program
What is Engage with® Skills Training Program
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The United States is facing a crisis: a rapidly aging population with mental and behavioral health needs that will require more human resources than are currently available. In addition, the existing and future workforce lacks access to the skills training necessary to work effectively with this expanding demographic. Experts maintain the U.S. must make significant changes and invest in the development of the older adult workforce in order to protect its economy.
Engage with® Older Adults Skills Training is an important resource to prepare for the influx of this aging older adult population. The program provides critical and affordable training that will help employers retain their workforce while improving the skills of both professional and professional caregivers.
The Engage with® Older Adults skills training module focuses on developing the skills necessary to work with, care for and/or support older adults during all phases of the aging process. The Older Adult module begins with the “Core Skills,” “What everyone needs to know.” It is a four-hour, stand-alone, skills-based training that provides a comprehensive foundation of skills that has immediate practical applications for its attendees. The Core Skills training provides an introduction to the Engage with® Older Adults approach and is required prior to attending any of the available supplements.
Core Skills: What Everyone Needs to Know
Learning Objectives
Following completion of the Core Skills training, there are five 2-hour supplements available which can be “mixed and matched” to meet your individual needs.
Participants will develop and/or refine skills in the following areas:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will develop and/or refine skills in the following areas:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will develop and/or refine skills in the following areas:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will develop and/or refine skills in the following areas:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Participants will develop and/or refine skills in the following areas:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Engage with® Skills Training Programs, #1809, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Engage with Skills Training Programs maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 05/04/2023 – 05/04/2026.
All of the 30-plus skills in the full Engage with® Older Adults Skills Training Program fall into one or more of these five levels of the Skills Pyramid.
The Engage with® older adult skills training program uses an innovative, simple to use interactive gamification approach. Take a tour by clicking the section to the left.
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