Skills for Support Team

Do you need help to train your personal assistant or supporter?
Do you want more choice and control?

If yes, you can use this book and the DVD to:
* think about your own support
* say what good support means to you
* help your personal assistant or supporter to learn how to support you better 
* train your personal assistant or supporter so that you can choose things and have control of your life

About the workbook
Kerrie Ford and Lisa Ponting were researchers on the project, which was funded by the Big Lottery at the West of England Centre for Inclusive Living. They worked in partnership with Norah Fry Research Centre.

Workbook content
This book has four parts:
Part one tells you about good support
Part two has ideas about how to train your PA
Part three has five photo stories that you can read and use to get ideas
Part four has notes for PAs, managers and trainers, including background policy

DVD content
The DVD shows real life clips that were made during the research project. It also shows some scenes from the past, which show bad support. You can watch the clips and talk about them, to think about good and bad support.

Vital information for: Learning disability service users, social workers, carers, personal assistants and community support workers.

Service users please call 0844 880 5061 to order.
Service user price: £19.95