ILA and Wideaware have been commissioned to deliver an innovative fully interactive and accessible online course which will train participants move from “Carer to Personal Assistant”.
This ground-breaking, social model-based training is the first of its kind to finally replace the obsolete and medically-based NVQ training which is traditionally focused on ‘care’ of the ‘disabled patient’. This ‘Care to PA’ training will train Personal Assistants to empower their disabled employers and understand the principles of the Social Model as the basis of service provision.
Tracey Jannaway of Independent Living Alternatives said ‘ILA since its inception has been centred on empowering disabled PA users. This training will achieve this by enabling both PAs and PA Users an opportunity to developing their skills in working together to establish improved working relationships’.
Maria Zedda of Wideaware said “I am very proud that ILA have chosen Wideaware to help design and deliver the training. Our associate disabled trainers are often PA Users and will be guiding would-be PAs to become excellent in their service provision. This is a truly empowering type of training centred fully on the disabled PA Users.
It works by providing interactive exercises, moderated discussions and real-life case scenarios that illustrate a can-do type of provision and not a medical understanding of impairment which is unnecessary”.