Institutional
and Direct Care Course Descriptions
Index to Course Descriptions
The six writing courses below can be taken in any sequence or combination based on your individual or institutional needs.
Community Residence Maintenance and Repair
Basics – 1 Day
This course is designed to provide basic emergency building maintenance
instruction for employees in community based residences, urban home,
and group home settings. Participants will learn the skills necessary
to correctly identify and communicate common residential repair and maintenance
problems so that proper operations and maintenance support can be dispatched.
Participants will be able to:
- Learn basic “building maintenance” skills
- Handle confidently most maintenance emergencies
- Establish a residential safety management program
- Locate, identify, and “tag” all emergency shut off valves and switches
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Food Service/Kitchen Safety – 1 Day
This course is designed for all members of commercial food service teams and their supervisors. It will cover accident prevention, safe use of kitchen equipment (for example, knives, meat grinders, meat slicers, steamers, and range cooktops), sanitation techniques, personal protective equipment used in food service areas, and proper lifting techniques. Participants will learn how to:
- Provide a sanitary environment
- Prevent accidents and promote safety
- Identify potentially hazardous foods and storage procedures
- Prevent food borne illness [Return
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Home Cookin' for Group Homes – 2 Consecutive Days
Do you work in a community residence? Are you responsible for the budgeting,
purchasing, and preparation of nutritious and edible meals? Do you want
to be certain that your workspace is sanitary and the food you serve
is safe for human consumption? If your answer to these questions is yes,
yes, and yes, then this training is for you. Participants will be able
to:
- Plan a menu
- Prepare a food budget
- Prepare tasty and nutritious meals
- Provide a safe and sanitary work environment for staff and residents
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Grammar and Punctuation – One-Half Day
This course is an introduction to the basics of grammar and punctuation. Participants will learn how to:
- Identify parts of speech
- Identify parts of a sentence
- Recognize common grammatical errors
- Use standard punctuation [Return to Index]
Organizing Your Writing – One-Half Day
This course will help participants improve the organization of their writing. Participants will recognize the importance of organizing their thoughts before they begin to write and writing with their readers in mind. Participants will learn how to:
- Focus their writing directly on the topic
- Use appropriate tone for audience and subject matter
- Employ writing techniques such as outlining and bulleting
- Improve editing skills [Return to Index]
Practical Proofreading – One-Half Day
This course will help participants to apply basic proofreading techniques to their work-related writing. Participants will learn how to:
- Describe methods and use tools for proofreading written material
- Identify and correct common types of proofreading errors (misused words, spelling)
- Use standard proofreaders' notations
- Employ the proper use of capitalization, abbreviation, and hyphenation [Return to Index]
Writing Reports & Evaluations – One-Half Day
This course will help participants learn how to write various types of brief reports and evaluations. Actual forms and reports generally familiar to direct care workers will be used in the class. Participants will learn how to:
- Organize their thoughts prior to writing
- Base writing on observable facts rather than opinions
- Focus writing on relevant information only
- Improve the clarity and readability of their writing
- Present a professional image in their writing [Return to Index]
Writing for Clarity – One-Half Day
This course addresses the three stages of the writing process: planning, writing, and revising. Participants will learn how to:
- Use various techniques to plan and organize their writing
- Write clear, concise, and interesting sentences
- Write coherent, well constructed, and focused paragraphs
- Revise documents for logic, clarity, and correctness [Return to Index]
Writing for Your Audience – One-Half Day
This course will address two basic questions that all writers should consider: who is my audience and what is my purpose for writing? Participants will recognize how the answers to these questions affect the tone, word choice, and organization of their writing. Participants will learn how to:
- Define the purpose of the writing assignment
- Select the appropriate writing format
- Identify the audience and choose the appropriate tone
- Build meaningful transitions and properly connect ideas [Return to Index]
Note: Check out other course descriptions that
the Partnership has to offer on this web site, or contact
the Partnership.
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