In this free training offered by the Montgomery County Board of Developmental Disabilities, provider management personnel will learn how to enhance behavior support skills of direct support professionals through the use of empowerment and positive interactions. Participants will also learn how to reduce behavioral challenges and avoid crises, and will walk away with information and tools that can be shared with their agency staff. A Question and Answer session will be held after the presentation to extend participants' learning opportunities. This session is open to day, residential and independent providers of services. Registration is required. Visit https://bit.ly/2FKagZ0 to register.

At these meetings, held on the fourth Tuesday of each month, the Probate Court's social worker facilitates an informal support group where guardians can share their knowledge and experience with each other.

Tri-More Community invites you to meet their friendly staff and learn about their exciting day program and transportation services. Come enjoy light refreshments and see the plans for their new location on Arbor Blvd. For more information, contact Nancy at 937-949-9792.

The Montgomery County Board of Developmental Disabilities Services sponsors a group known as the Parents & Advocates Advisory Council (PAAC), which offers family members, guardians, and advocates of people with developmental disabilities, and providers of services the opportunity to meet and discuss issues that pertain to individuals with developmental disabilities with MCBDDS leadership. A July PAAC meeting will be held at the Washington-Centerville Public Library, 111 W. Spring Valley Pike, Centerville. Parents, family members, guardians and providers are welcome to attend. For additional information about the meeting, contact 937-837-9214. Sign up to receive meeting agendas and alerts for cancellations at http://www.mcbdds.org/list.aspx

Come celebrate the 29th anniversary of the signing to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on Friday, July 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Access Center for Independent Living, 907 West Fifth Street, Suite 100, Dayton, 45402. Questions? Contact Maria Matzik at (937) 341-5202 or maria.matzik@acils.com, or 711 Ohio Relay ext. 1007. Space is limited. Sign Language interpreters and materials in alternative format available upon request, contact Maria Matzik 1 week prior to event. Note: The Access Center is a fragrance-free environment. Please refrain from wearing scented products out of consideration for people with chemical sensitivities and breathing problems.

If you are a part of the LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and asexual) and disability communities, or are an ally, the Access Center welcomes and encourages you to come together to talk, mingle, share your story, life experiences, knowledge and views at its Breaking Silences Peer Group. Come to have fun and make friends. Sign Language Interpreters and materials in alternative format are available if requested at least 1 week prior by calling (937) 341-5202 (voice) or 711 Ohio Relay.

Make Every Day a Good Day: How Approach and Behavior Support Techniques Can Be Used to Avoid Conflicts and Behavioral Crises. Use empowerment and positive interactions to help reduce behavioral challenges and avoid crises; enhance the skills of direct support professionals and help them develop working relationships based on trust and mutual respect; develop an understanding of the history of direct care services, and how those services impact behavior; review the roles that direct support staff play in the culture of support for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Ok, so you participated in Supervision Bootcamp at one of OPRA’s Regional presentations and you learned a lot! Now, time to earn your stripes and attend Bootcamp II where new skills will be presented. Agencies serving individuals with developmental disabilities remain faced with significant challenges in recruiting and retaining a new generation of staff. National turnover rates range from 40% to 70%, making service continuity and quality difficult. One major variable in retention is the quality of your front line supervisors. Do they have the skills to minimize turnover? In this dynamic and humorous presentation, IMPACT presenters will help your staff learn: 1. How to use the “MAGIC WORD”! (No, it's not “please”.) 2. The 15 -- no, 10 -- commandments of supervision. 3. How to be “SIC” but not “ILL.” 4. 20+ Supervision no-no’s! 5. How to communicate and create a positive work environment. 6. How to positively correct staff behaviors and handle conflict.

This class meets requirements for individuals applying for certification by the Ohio Dept of Developmental Disabilities. Also meets requirements for mandatory annual training for current providers.