Facilitating Family Involvement - ✔️✔️- Collaborates with the family or designated
support persons to understand the needs of the consumer receiving services
- Maintains confidentiality
- Honors limitations
Supporting Crisis Intervention - ✔️✔️-Provide immediate support and intervention
during crisis situations
-Implement crisis prevention techniques
-Refer to appropriate resources for further assistance
Promoting Self-Advocacy Skills - ✔️✔️-Encourage consumers to voice their needs and
preferences
-Support consumers in making informed decisions about their care
-Help consumers develop self-advocacy strategies
How to collect information for assessment? - ✔️✔️-Assist in gathering information
about basic and community living characteristics for assessment purposes -
Demonstrate effective interviewing techniques -Use open-ended questions and active
listening skills -Respond to self-identified needs -Refrain from using diagnostic labels
How to orient consumers? - ✔️✔️-Orient the consumer to the program including rules
and expectations -Explain roles and responsibilities of team members to consumers and
families -Explain forms, purposes, and mandatory abuse reporting
Implementing interventions - ✔️✔️-Implement designated interventions and behavioral
management strategies -Implement treatment plan interventions within scope of
practice -Understand intervention techniques and trauma-informed care
Enhancing consumer participation - ✔️✔️-Organize, supervise, and encourage
participation in various activities -Reinforce target behaviors -Demonstrate effective
communication in group activities
Assisting with activities of daily living - ✔️✔️-Assist in completing daily activities
including hygiene, grooming, and feeding
Utilizing Strengths-Based Approach - ✔️✔️-Identify and build on the strengths and
abilities of the consumer
-Frame interventions and goals around consumer's strengths
-Promote empowerment and self-efficacy through a strengths-based approach