Mont Co. Board of Dev Disabilities Services (OH)

Direct Support Professional Hiring Event January 23

Montgomery County Board of Developmental Disabilities Services will sponsor a Hiring Event to recruit people interested in careers providing services to adults and children with developmental disabilities. Read on...
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Recreation Registration Now Open

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MCBDDS holds Behavior Support training for provider management staff in November

The MCBDDS Behavior Support Department conducted a training November 19 to help provider supervisory staff teach Direct Support Professionals critical behavior management skills.

The training included “Crisis Management 101,” which helped staff learn how to identify a behavioral crisis and its potential causes, along with ways to reduce triggers, and provided strategies for de-escalating crises before they become physical. Information and tools were also shared that could be passed along to provider agencies' staff.

MCBDDS Self-Advocacy Group members train Public Health staff about developmental disabilities
Members of MCBDDS’s Voices Matter Self-Advocacy Group and Communications Department

recently conducted training sessions to help Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County staff
improve service outcomes for people with developmental disabilities (DD).

Public Health approached MCBDDS in March with a request for two 1.5 hour cultural sensitivity trainings specific to developmental disabilities. Self-Advocacy Group co-advisor Janice Saddler Rice then worked with self advocates Torry Brown and Richard Conley to develop and present these training workshops to 40 Public Health employees. Staff gained a greater understanding of what developmental disabilities are, and how they affect the day-to-day functioning of people who have them. They also learned about the challenges and barriers that people with DD face, and worked with the presenters to identify where their services overlap with the needs of the DD community. Presenters then offered recommendations as to how Public Health could work with people with developmental disabilities in a way that would be sensitive to those needs.

The presentations were very well received, and evaluations from participants revealed an appreciation for the sessions AND consistently excellent ratings across the board for content and presenters. Way to go, self-advocacy team!