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Positive Options is a friendly, dynamic and responsive organisation that offers a range of professional services to education, social and health care providers, and their staff.

NEWS

09 July 2010

POSITIVE OPTIONS INITIATIVE TO REFLECT ITS SOCIAL PURPOSE AND PROMOTE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF USERS OF SERVICE AS PART OF THEIR RECOVERY AND WELLBEING

As part of our social purpose we are committed to promoting the artwork and other vocational activities of vulnerable people and the services that they use. In 2009 Positive Options and the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) agreed to work together to promote the artwork of RNID service users in web-based and hard copy materials used by the Company. During 2010 we have started to use the images as signature pieces for RNID commissioned training, education and learning events. We have also recently revised our presentation and resource pack and utilised service user art work to promote strong positive images of recovery and wellbeing.

Click here to view how we have promoted service user artwork in our presentation and resource pack. Images are reproduced with the kind permission of RNID.

RNID is the largest charity working to change the world for the UK's 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people. Please take time to find out more about RNID's work by visiting its website: www.rnid.org.uk.

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07 May 2010

CPI CHARITY COMMITTEE - POSITIVE OPTIONS' DONATION TO HEADWAY - THE UK CHARITY SET UP TO GIVE HELP AND SUPPORT TO PEOPLE AFFECTED BY BRAIN INJURY

Through its association with the Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc. (CPI) (see 'News' April 12, below) and the CPI Charity Committee, Positive Options has made its first charitable donation to Headway, the UK Charity set up to give help and support to people affected by brain injury. Positive Options is continuing to review its regular pledge to a chosen charity and will make information available to clients, customers and the public in due course.

Click here to visit Headway's website; find out more about its work, including current fundraising events, and/or to make your own donation to improve quality of life outcomes for people with acquired brain injury.

CPI's Charity Committee has more than 20 events scheduled throughout 2010 to motivate employee charitable giving. In the US, CPI collect food and donate it to food pantry’s; take part in walks/biking events, and raise money through pledges. Combined with a CPI company donation, funds raised are used for contributions to a variety of local and national charities. In the UK, Positive Options, as a division of CPI Inc., will consider how similiar efforts can be made to help improve outcomes for vulnerable people through benevolent and charitable acts.

26 April 2010

POSITIVE OPTIONS 'FLAGSHIP' TRAINERS PROGRAMME. LEVEL 1 MAPA® PREPARATION OF TRAINERS PROGRAMME - IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON: 2010-11 DATES ANNOUNCED

Positive Options' 40-day MAPA® ‘Train the Trainers’ programme is provided in-conjunction with the University of Wolverhampton. The Programme is delivered and assessed at degree level and consequently, it is substantial in duration with equal amounts of time devoted to academic study and physical skills development. Successful completion of the programme will enable students to be awarded a minimum of 30 points towards a health or social sciences degree undertaken at the University of Wolverhampton at a later date.

Visit the Events section on the left sidebar for more information, our Customer Information Sheet and to access an Application Pack, or click here

12 April 2010

'STRONGER THROUGH COMBINATION' - A NEW PARTNERING VENTURE FOR POSITIVE OPTIONS WITH THE CRISIS PREVENTION INSTITUTE (CPI)

Positive Options is pleased to announce that from April 1 2010 we have partnered with the Crisis Prevention Institute Inc. (CPI). This means that Positive Options now joins the CPI family of operations, which we believe to be a positive development for all Positive Options clients and customers. Jeremy Boughey, Director of Business Development said: "Over time, this partnership will benefit Positive Options and the organisations that it supports through the delivery of intellectual as well as monetary investment, thereby strengthening our existing products and services as well as enabling the fast-track investment into new learning and development offerings." He added: "We understand that CPI has an international track record for providing quality education and training and everyone at Positive Options is excited about the opportunities that the partnering of our two organisations will bring about in the future."

Please click here to access a PDF version of our PowerPoint show, which explains what the partnering means to you as an existing or prospective client or customer of Positive Options.

Representatives of existing Positive Options clients and customers have been formally notified of the change on Monday 12 April 2010. If you are an existing client or customer coming across this information for the first time then please alert colleagues with a need to know, to this section of the website or alternatively download and forward the PDF presentation.

Contact for Media Release:

Jeremy Boughey, Director of Business Development & Product Licensing

T: 01782 214 444 / E: jemboughey@positive-options.com

09 April 2010

Positive Options' contribution to the British Society for Disability and Oral Health (BSDH) - 'Unlocking Barriers to Care': Guidelines for Clinical Holding Skills for Dental Services for People Unable to Comply with Routine Oral Health Care

As part of Positive Options continued process of quality improvement activities for the MAPA® approach and MAPA® related learning programmes, we are pleased to announce that following three years successful practice development and evaluation the Company has introduced a range of training programmes relating to 'specialist holding' for people who will not or are unable to comply with routine or essential regular health or social care. One of our biggest recent successes resulting from this work has been to develop a specialist programme for specialist dental practitioners which has been well received and is improving the care and treatment of people who access special care dental services across England; we have also presented the model in Scotland and are awaiting further instruction regarding roll-out of the approach. In addition, Positive Options has worked closely with the British Society for Disability and Oral Health (BSDH) to review and revise its national guidelines for clinical holding and we were the final editors to the publication.

Click here to access the 'Unlocking Barriers to Care' BSDH guidelines document

To discuss any specific requirements that you may have relating to specialist holding and our bespoke programmes for health and social care services please contact our Office on T: 01782 214 444 or by Email: admin@positive-options.com and ask to speak to Chris Stirling, Director of Product Development.

08 March 2010

British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) publishes Third Edition of its Code of Practice for the Use and Reduction of Restrictive Physical Interventions

BILD Code of Practice for the Use and Reduction of Restrictive Physical Interventions (Third Edition, 2010)

Around half of all people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour are subject to physical interventions. High quality training, to increase staff skills and confidence and reduce injuries among staff and people who use services, is therefore critical.

The BILD Code of Practice provides guidance for trainers and commissioners of training who support adults and children with:

a learning disability
an autistic spectrum condition special educational needs
behavioural, emotional and social difficulties

This third edition has been substantially revised and updated and provides an important point of reference for commissioners of services, those with responsibility for implementing standards as well as families, carers and all who are involved in supporting people who may be exposed to the use of restrictive physical interventions.

Price: £18

You can order this book from BookSource on 0845 370 0067 from 12 March 2010; you can also order this publication online from the BILD website - click here

09 October 2009

Positive Options is awarded the prestigious 'Investors in Excellence' Standard. Click here to find out more about our news.

01 June 2009

Positive Options agrees its Customer Charter. Click here to find out more and view the Charter.

Positive Options agrees its Workforce Charter. Click here to find out more and view the Charter.

WHAT WE DO, THE SERVICES THAT WE OFFER

Diagnostics: Positive Options provide a diagnostics management service. We work with organisations to undertake a comprehensive analysis of training, policy and other corporate needs. We then work with the customer to establish a management plan to identify how identified needs are best met and how corporate risks are mitigated, through education, training and other aspects of service provision.

Education and Training: Positive Options have a wide range of education and training options to support organisations in the establishment and maintenance of a highly-skilled and professionally prepared staff group.

Much of our current work surrounds the appropriate management of difficult situations and/or aggression and violence across the whole range of care and education settings. This includes offering theoretical and practical strategies and responses that assist organisations, staff and carers in the provision of care and support to children, young people and/or adults who may have a variety of complex needs, including people with:

- mental health and emotional needs;

- a learning disability;

- social and educational difficulties; and

- people whose behaviour is affected through an acquired brain injury or as a

result of dementia type illness.

We also offer specialist clinical holding programmes that are suitable for medical, post-operative, and dental care settings.

The services offered by Positive Options provide opportunities to identify and adopt effective and acceptable strategies and responses to these identified needs. Consequently, Positive Options is committed to helping each individual organisation, staff member and/or carer to understand not only the needs of the people that they support, but also the needs of each other in relation to their work.

One of our most frequently commissioned services is the provision of MAPA^® training for staff - please see the MAPA^® section of the website for more information and/or click here to view our customer information sheet.

In 2007 we launched two complementary training programmes that are based upon the principles of person-centred thinking and planning, and are intended to support organisations and staff to think and work differently with people who use their services: Promoting Positive Behaviour in a Person-Centred Way (PPB^©) and Supported Decision-Making through Person-Centred Risk Management (SDM^©).

Click here to access our PPB^© customer information sheet and here to access our SDM^© customer information sheet.

We will publicise our expanding education and training product range during the coming months in this section of the website - watch this space!