For Long Term Care Providers

All long term care providers offer ongoing education and training to their staff.  Kitzworks can assist providers in achieving best practice standards as well as improve staff morale and workplace enthusiasm through our engaging, informative staff training programs.  Based on the most current research and successful trends in aging and long term care, see how these programs can help your agency or facility improve the quality of your programming and care.

A sample of staff education programs include:

* Caring for People with Challenging Behaviors: Essential Skills and Successful Strategies

Staff will learn to understand what triggers and reinforces challenging behaviors from clients and residents. Solutions come from identifying the “ABC’s of behavior” and using effective techniques to encourage positive behavior.

* Promoting Family Involvement in Long Term Care Settings

Strategies your staff will learn in this program will improve residents’ quality of life, family well-being and staff satisfaction as family members become involved in the care setting in constructive, positive ways.

*  The Caring Spirit Approach to Eldercare

This creative training program shows the positive outcomes to be gained from incorporating ethical and spiritual values into daily caregiving routines.  Improve facility morale, reduce staff turnover and prevent caregiver burnout with this program.

*  Working with Older Adults: A Comprehensive Training Program

Many paraprofessionals who provide long term care to older persons have no training on the unique and meaningful experiences of aging.  This training program offers detailed units that examine the natural changes of aging, communicating with older persons, celebrating the whole person, understanding the effects of dementia, recognizing the signs of depression, connecting with the older person’s emotional and spiritual needs, dealing with death and dying, recognizing elder abuse, and the joys of caring for an older person.  Watch a renewed sense of pride and commitment evolve among your staff after participating in this program. 

A wide variety of additional programs are available.  Inservice and continuing education programs can be customized for your agency or facility.