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Wellness Training Projects For Consumers & Service Providers
- Central Valley Regional Center/Kern Regional Center
- Wellness Education for Consumers (97-98)
- This project will produce a series of educational videos on health topics
to be made available to consumer self-advocacy and empowerment groups.
- Far Northern Regional Center
- Self-Advocacy and Consumer Health and Wellness Program (97-98)
- This project's goal is to increase self-advocacy and to empower individual
consumers and their families to effectively manage their health needs
through peer training and use of a Health Check List.
- Frank D. Lanterman Regional Center
- Managed Care Guide for Persons with Developmental Disabilities (96-97)
- This project developed a Managed Care Guide to assist consumers and
their families in selecting a health plan as well as teach them self-advocacy
strategies in accessing health care.
- Redwood Coast Regional Center/Far Northern Regional Center / Valley Mountain Regional Center / Regional Center of the East Bay
- Creating a Model of Sexual Victimization Prevention and Treatment of Sex Offender Behavior in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (97-98)
- This project formed a collaboration among four regional centers to develop
and implement a treatment paradigm and training program for the prevention
of sexual victimization.
- San Diego Regional Center
- Safety Training and Awareness for Parents with Developmental Disabilities (97-98)
- This project will train consumers with children on parenting and health issues.
- Education Program on Managed Care (96-97)
- This project trained consumers, families and care providers on managed
care and health plan options to assist them in selecting the health care
plan best matched to individual consumer needs.
- San Gabriel/Pomona Regional Center
- Health Issues Seminars (96-97)
- This project sponsored a series of seminars on health related issues
for consumers, family members, service providers and volunteers.
- South Central Los Angeles Regional Center
- Health Training for Consumers and Providers (96-97)
- This project developed and implemented training modules on basic health care to increase the knowledge of consumers and providers. These were developed in two different languages.
