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Disability support worker supporting a person with an intellectual disability in a painting activity.

Develop your skills in Active Support

HOME Diagram showing the 4 Essentials of Active Support.
This training resource is for disability support workers

It is about Active Support – A way to support people with intellectual disabilities to engage in meaningful activities and social interactions.

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You will learn: 

  • Why engagement is important to quality of life

  • Why you should use Active Support

  • About the 4 Essentials of Active Support

  • How to use Active Support in your everyday work

 

There are 8 modules. Each module has videos to show you how to do Active Support. There are also activities to help you to learn new skills.

Icon of a computer screen - this online training resource for disability support workers is free and online allowing you to learn at your own pace.

Self-paced

learning

Icon of a video player - this online training resource for disability support workers has video content.

Videos

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Icon of a pencil - this online training resource for disability support workers provides question based activities to help consolidate your learning.

Activities

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Icon of a crossed our dollar sign- this online training resource for disability support workers is free.

Free

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Acknowledgments

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Every Moment Has Potential was developed by the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University and Greystanes Disability Services.  For a list of full credits click here.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Logo of Greystances Disability Services.
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