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NTG Canada Dementia Workshops
The NTG Canada Dementia and Intellectual Disabilities workshops consist of a 2-day Basic course and a 3-day NTG Canada Affiliated Provincial Trainer course.
This training provides information on dementia and its effects on adults with intellectual disabilities and how to provide dementia-capable supports. This includes topics such as how to develop a dementia-capable environment, normal and healthy aging, health care advocacy and support strategies for common responsive behaviours.
Registration is limited to enable participants to connect and begin to develop grassroots networks.
Courses are offered on a provincial basis to facilitate the development of regional communities of practice, where trainees have a knowledge of their own unique social service resources and systems.
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Basic Training (2 Day)
The 2-day training provides the foundation of information about dementia and individuals with ID.
Target Audience:
The workshop is appropriate for any staff with direct or ancillary support responsibilities of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in disability-related, health care, and aging-related agencies. (Direct Support Professionals, PSWs, Supervisors, Long Term Care personnel, Alzheimer Society, etc.)
Affiliated Provincial Trainer (3 Day)
This is an optional third day for those that want to go forward and become trainers.
Target Audience:
The workshop is appropriate for staff with direct or ancillary support responsibilities of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in disability- related, health care, and aging-related agencies who will take a leadership role in developing dementia capable supports in their region and want to become an NTG-Canada Affiliated Provincial Trainer.
Note: Taking the NTG-USA workshop version, while permitted, does not provide eligibility to become a NTG-Canada Provincial Affiliated Trainer nor to offer trainings in Canada using the NTG-Canada materials.