Postive Options - Consultancy :: Training

Welcome to the Positive Options website

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

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 on the product names to view our customer information sheets for PPB^© and SDM^©

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

NEWS

1 April 2008

2008-09 'Train the Trainers' programmes announced...

We are now taking bookings for Positive Options 2008-09 MAPA^® 'Train the Trainers' Level 1 and Level 2 Programmes. There are currently no Level 3 Programmes planned.

Level 1 Positive Options Licensed MAPA^® Trainers complete a 40-day academic programme and are eligible to deliver the complete range of theoretical and physical components of the Positive Options MAPA^®curriculum.

Level 1: for latest details and application requirements please click here

Level 2 Positive Options Licensed MAPA^® Trainers complete a 15-day programme and are eligible to deliver a significant proportion of the theoretical and physical components of the Positive Options MAPA^®curriculum.

Level 2: for latest details and application requirements please click here

Attendance at any of the Positive Options MAPA^® 'Train the Trainers' programmes is contingent upon the employing organisation applying to become, and if successful entering into a formal agreement to operate as a Positive Options MAPA^®Approved Training Centre (ATC). Organisations seeking to train trainers and operate as an ATC should make a formal application in advance, or at the same time that they reserve places on these courses to ensure that the ATC is licensed to operate by the time that trainers complete their training.

ATC: for latest details on eligibility, how to apply and governance arrangements please click here

7 February 2008

Positive Options Reaccredited for a further three years by BILD...

Accreditation of Positive Options MAPA^® Curriculum by the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) is overseen by the Institute's Physical Interventions Accreditation Scheme (PIAS). Gaining BILD PIAS recognition and endorsement is a rigorous process of oversight and scrutiny by a Panel that consists of a minimum of four independent people with expert knowledge and/or interest in the use of physical interventions, and on occasions the Panel is observed by representatives of the Department of Health and BILD. Accreditation is for a maximum of three years following which an application for re-accreditation is required to be made by the aspirant organisation.

Positive Options is delighted to announce that it has today received official notification from BILD that it has been successful with its application for re-accreditation under BILD's PIAS. The accreditation has been awarded unconditionally and will run concurrently and without interruption (from the previous period of accreditation). The MAPA^® curriculum is therefore accredited by BILD until 30 January 2011.

More information about BILD can be found on its website: www.bild.org.uk.

More information about the BILD Accreditation Scheme can be found at: www.bild.org.uk/03behaviour_pi.htm.

Please visit the 'BILD Information' area of our website by following the tabs in the sidebar to the left of this message.