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Adult Services
Services overview
Audiences
Customization
Transfer of learning
Professional credit
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Links to related training
Services overview
This section focuses on the knowledge and skills adult services staff need to work with clients and community partners.
Audiences
The courses in this section can be used to train new workers or to update the knowledge and skills of experienced workers. Content can be adapted to the needs of a variety of partners in the adult services system.
Training can involve participants from a single organization or, to foster and support collaboration, multiple organizations in a county or region. Programs can serve other purposes, including:
- implementing new practice models
- introducing new delivery systems
- developing a consistent body of knowledge and common values within and across organizations, programs and staff levels
Customization
Courses that follow can be delivered as described or adjusted to meet the needs of training participants and sponsoring agencies. Customization takes into consideration:
- experience levels and program backgrounds of trainees
- training objectives
- performance gaps training should address
- whether or not training is mandated
- agency circumstances and practices related to the topic
Course topics and activities are adjusted to tailor training to the agency and audience.
If your organization has a training need not addressed on this site, The Center can develop a new course or training program.
Transfer of learning
Center training incorporates content and delivery methods that facilitate transfer of learning from the training room to the job. Center staff also can work with agencies on training overviews for supervisors and managers as well as other pre- and post-training activities that promote transfer of learning.
Professional credit
Upon request qualifying workshops can be offered for continuing education credit through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and California Board of Registered Nursing.
List of courses by title
Assessment
The Process of Aging
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Aging and Mental Health
Understanding and Managing the Cognitively Impaired Client
Adult Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
Elder and Dependent-Adult Abuse Investigations
Financial Abuse
Intervention Skills
Self-Neglect: Limits and Responsibilities of Intervention
Intervening in Adult Abuse and Neglect
Creative Interventions with the Older Adult
Death, Grief and Loss: Impact and Interventions
Helping Families Cope with Aging Parents
Working with Alzheimer's Patients and Their Families
Legal and Ethical Issues
Legal Skills and Issues in Adult Protective Services
Conservatorship
Elder Abuse and the Criminal Justice System
Medical Issues
Medical Issues in Adult Services
Health Care Decision-Making: Legal and Ethical Perspectives
View course descriptions as PDF
Links to related training
For information about training related to service integration and additional casework skills, go to Case Management.
The Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice offers training and consultation to support family group decision making and other multidisciplinary practices.
Other training useful for adult services staff can be found on the Behavioral Health, Leadership and General pages
of this site.
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