Active Support is an approach to supporting people with additional needs to participate fully in their daily lives.
This is an introductory workshop about Active Support, which is a primary/proactive intervention within the Positive Behaviour Support framework. The aim of Active Support is to improve quality of life. The Active Support approach provides a system for training staff teams to maximise engagement, maximise participation, and ultimately increasing independence.
Target Audience
Managers of teams, Team Leaders, Senior Support workers, PBS practitioners, PBS leads and all staff within a service implementing active support.
Workshop Contents
• Understanding why activity is important to us all
• What engagement and participation looks like
• The active support model
– breaking down a task
– giving the right level of support
– giving positive encouragement
• The coaching process
Learning Outcomes
• Gain a thorough understanding of Active Support.
• Understand where Active Support fits within a PBS framework.
• Understand how to maximise participation and engagement
• Understand the active support coaching approach
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0161 864 2160
Links to all Courses
For all Organisations:
Training for Supported Living and Residential Services
• Introduction to PBS (Level 1)
• PBS Toolkit for Service Managers and Team Leaders (Level 1 Online)
• PBS Coaching in Practice Programme (Level 2)
• Foundation in Functional Behaviour Assessment (Level 3)
• Introduction to Active Support (level 1)
Training for Schools and Colleges
*Travel costs and any overnight stays are in addition to the quoted price for each workshop or course