The Following are workshops that we provide that offer CEU or Continuing Education Units
Beginning Again After Caregiving Ends: 3 CEUs
Through our three-hour presentation program, health care professionals will better understand how to support former family caregivers who transition into their lives after caregiving ends.
More than 40 million persons in the US provide care to a family member and the numbers will continue to grow. How do these individuals adjust to life when their caregiving experience ends after the death of their caree? We anticipate about 25 professionals annually will expect to receive CEs.
The program objectives are:
- To educate health care professionals about the challenges former family caregivers face;
- To arm health care professionals with tools they can use to support former family caregivers;
- To support health care professionals interested in working with former family caregivers.
Building H.O.P.E Training Program: 1 CEU per module, 8 total CEUs
Building H.O.P.E. helps anyone who serves others heal from compassion fatigue and build resilience. We believe compassion fatigue is an umbrella term for all that we tire of.
Our program features eight modules which can be delivered as part of a day-long program or as stand-alone 50-minute workshops. Each module takes a closer look at what makes us weary and provides tools to help us feel better.
H.O.P.E stands for:
- Happiness
- Opportunities
- Possibilities
- Excellence
Learning Objectives
- Learn how compassion fatigue may appear for participants in their work and in their day.
- Identify the different types of fatigues which may make a commitment to serve challenging.
- Offer insights to help participants focus on their specific challenges.
- Provide tools and strategies to help participants heal from a fatigue and gain resilience to manage more effectively going forward.
- Minimize the feelings of burn-out that participants may experience.
Building H.O.P.E is our Coping with the Fatigues webinar series which appears on CareGiving.com.
A Manager’s Toolbox for Managing a Complex Workplace: 3 CEUs
Through our training program, managers and employers gain tools to manage a workplace that includes employees who face stress, grief and overwhelm in their personal lives. Because of the insights they gain, these managers and employers can now better manage their workplace when an employer brings those difficult emotions to work.
Consider the impact on the workplace when an employee cares for a family member. More than 40 million persons in the US provide care to a family member; six in 10 family caregivers also work. Our training program also helps managers and employers communicate effectively with their employees who care to ensure the workplace and family caregivers keep working.
The training program objectives are:
- To educate managers and employers about a personal caregiving experience and how that impacts the workplace.
- To provide managers and employers with skills and techniques so effectively communicate with employees who may be struggling to remain productive.
- To help employers and managers become comfortable with emotional discussions with caregiving employees, who are often going through the worst experiences in their lifetime.
- To ensure managers and employers are prepared for the impact of caregiving experiences on their workplace so the business continues while employees manage caregiving responsibilities.
The Caregiving Years: 1 or 2 CEUs (one or two-hour presentations)
Through our one- or two-hour presentation program, health care professionals learn about the experience of caring for a family member. Throughout the caregiving journey, which can last from six months to more than 10 years, the role of family caregivers evolves – and so should the services and the support they receive. The Caregiving Years describes the path that family caregivers take – from Expectant Caregiver, to Freshman Caregiver, to Entrenched Caregiver, to Pragmatic Caregiver to Transitioning Caregiver to Godspeed Caregiver. Most important, the stages – and their related Stumbles and Steadies– provide a map for health care professionals) to navigate successfully through the caregiving journey.
More than 40 million persons in the US provide care to a family member and the numbers will continue to grow.
The program objectives are:
- To educate health care professionals about the evolution of the caregiving experience, which changes over time.
- To inform health care professionals about effective referrals they can make given the family caregiver’s stage.
- To provide health care professionals a frame work which describes the family caregiver experience so they can be an appropriate support during each caregiving stage.
Daily Healing Plan: 1 CEU
Our one-hour course teaches participants a process that can promote healing through loss.
Materials
Participants receive a copy of the presentation hand-out for note-taking.
Program Agenda
1. The Healing Process
2. We’re healing through loss.
3. We’re healing with strategies.
4. We’re healing to a better place.
5. Implementing the Process
Learning Objectives
1. To teach a healing process which can become a daily plan.
2. To provide insights into how a three-step healing process can help participants cope with secondary losses.
3. To empower participants with ideas on how they can implement a daily healing plan.
Helping Family Caregivers Through the Compassion Fatigues: 1 CEU
“Compassion Fatigues” helps health care professionals better understand the personal caregiving experience.
Caring for a family member is an exhausting, overwhelming experience. We often equate a caregiving experience with compassion fatigue. Certainly, family caregivers get tired of feeling compassion for themselves and their carees. They also experience fatigue as it relates to coping, supporting, deciding and adjusting. During this 50-minute presentation and discussion, you’ll identify which fatigue family caregivers may be experiencing and learn how you can help them feel better.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how compassion fatigue may appear during a caregiving experience.
- Identify the different types of fatigues family caregivers may feel.
- Gain strategies to implement to help family caregivers feel better.
Note: You can use this one-work presentation as an introduction to the Building H.O.P.E. series.
Leadership Training for the Family Caregiver: 3 CEUs
Through our three-hour presentation program, health care professionals will better understand how to teach family caregivers to step into a leadership role during their caregiving experience. Family caregivers who embrace their role as leader can feel better about their decisions, their relationships and their caregiving role.
More than 40 million persons in the US provide care to a family member and the numbers will continue to grow. How do they take on a role that demands so much without losing their selves? When family caregivers see themselves as leaders, they feel empowered to set boundaries, determine their limits and delegate effectively. We anticipate about 25 professionals annually will expect to receive CEs.
The program objectives are:
- To educate health care professionals to encourage family caregivers to view themselves as leaders in their role.
- To arm health care professionals with tools they can use to support family caregiver leaders;
- To support health care professionals interested in empowering family caregivers.
CEU Details
We’ve been approved to provide continuing education hours for the following professionals who attend our Certified Caregiving Consultant™ training program. Continuing education hours are provided by the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine in collaboration with the Continuing Education Institute of Illinois.
- Certified Dementia Practitioner®
We can provide continuing education credits for Certified Dementia Practitioners® in all 50 states. - Certified Senior Advisor®
We can provide continuing education credits for Certified Senior Advisors® in all 50 states. - Nurses
We can provide continuing education credits for nurses in all 50 states. - SHRM Professional Development Credits
This program is valid for PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM in all 50 states. - Professional Coaches
Professional coaches can earn hours for resource development in all 50 states.
We also can provide CEUs for the following Illinois professions:
- Counselor-Professional/Clinical
- Dental Hygienist
- Dietitian/Nutritionist
- Marriage and Family Counselor
- Nursing Home Administrator
- Occupational Therapist
- Physician
- Psychologist
- Physical Therapist
- Respiratory Therapist
- Social Worker
Please check with me for specific questions about additional professions in your state.
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