Continuing Education Center

.8 CEU's or 8 Contact Hours

Enhancing Quality of Life Through Person-Centered Services is an 8-hour online on-demand professional development workshop designed to strengthen the role of therapeutic recreation professionals, activity professionals, and allied health professionals in advancing person-centered service delivery. The workshop focuses on how professionals can move beyond task-based programming and attendance-driven services toward individualized, meaningful, outcome-focused services that promote dignity, choice, autonomy, inclusion, engagement, and quality of life.

Participants examine how person-centered services contribute to the advancement of the therapeutic recreation and activity profession by improving professional practice, strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration, supporting ethical service delivery, enhancing documentation, and promoting meaningful outcomes for individuals receiving care or services. The course emphasizes that quality of life is influenced by how well professionals understand the whole person, honor personal preferences, adapt services, support independence, respect culture and identity, and document outcomes that show professional value.

Goals

•          Explain how person-centered services advance the therapeutic recreation and activity profession..     Identify the relationship between quality of life, dignity, choice, autonomy, and meaningful engagement.
•           Describe professional responsibility in supporting person-centered care.
•           Differentiate task-centered, program-centered, and person-centered service delivery.
•           Apply person-centered principles to program planning, service delivery, documentation, and interdisciplinary communication.
•           Develop quality-of-life focused interventions based on individual preferences, strengths, abilities, culture, and needs.
•           Identify barriers that limit participation, choice, dignity, inclusion, and independence.
•       Evaluate case studies using professional reasoning and person-centered best practices.
• .          Document meaningful outcomes that reflect quality of life rather than attendance alone.
•         Create a professional action plan for improving person-centered services within the participant’s own  work setting.

$889.95