The Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board, Inc. and PA CareerLink Lehigh Valley have teamed with volunteer trainers from Penn State Lehigh Valley, Family Answers, and Westminster Village to deliver a 77-hour training program, designed specifically for entry-level workers in long-term living settings. The program will be free of charge and, at the completion of the program, participants will become credentialed direct care workers.
A set of core competencies have been identified that is common to all direct care workers. At the end of training program, graduates will be able to:
- Distinguish between the different care settings, needs of consumers and roles of direct care workers
- Demonstrate principles of good relationships and person-centered care in different care settings
- Respond appropriately as direct care workers to consumers who are different from themselves
- Show the role and importance of the direct care worker as a member of a care team
- Demonstrate proper infection control procedures in any care setting
- Recognize the diversity of support needs and maintenance of dignity with consumers living in their own homes
- Demonstrate how to use good communications skills to clarify a consumer’s self-directed care requests
- Understand the basic principles of body functions and common disease entities
- Demonstrate proper body mechanics in all care settings
- Apply principles of Activities of Daily Living support to the elder consumer and consumer with disabilities
- Demonstrate the ability to manage challenging behaviors related to consumers with Alzheimer’s Disease and depression
- Describe a direct care worker’s role and responsibilities in reporting abuse and neglect
- Examine the need for direct care workers to manage time and stress in a healthy manner
If you are interested in attending the training, please contact Joyce Sivell, PA CareerLink Lehigh Valley, at 610-841-1189, or email jsivell@careerlinklv.org.
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