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Human Services training with a human touch
Riverside Professional Development seeks to enrich the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, and mental illness. Our intimately sized, audience driven workshops for human service and education professionals provide meaningful educational experiences, offering up-to-the-minute training on best practices in this ever changing field.
RiversidePD also offers private workshops tailored to meet your specific needs. We will come onsite and present to your group of 3 to 100, matching your agencys unique population of professionals and consumers with our expert instructors to create a dynamic and relevant experience.

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Holiday Health Guide
Join our Health & Fitness expert, Karen Verlin, NFPT, AFAA, to review easy to apply ideas for staying active during the longer, darker days of winter. Apply these ideas to your home or work life - to yourself or the people you support! Also explore simple recipes or recipe adjustments to keep your holiday meals on the healthy track while maintaining it's delicious appeal!

Creating Positive Relationships through Communication and Behavior
Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Nicole Deibler, will help guests turn negative behaviors into positive actions by learning to create a better relationship with the people they support! Join us for a day of activities and information focusing on the communication and behavioral needs of others in order to establish not only a lasting connection but a connection that provides positive outcomes for all people involved.

Helping People with IDD Communicate in a Functional Manner
Communication is a basic human right! Brenda Laubach has created this workshop to help individuals communicate by whatever means they can (signs/gestures, Assistive Technologies, PECS, etc). Guests will learn to assess an individuals current manner of communication, set and implement goals to reach new levels of communication, and finally, assist them in utilizing a number of different technologies to meet those goals. Ideas, tools, and other communication devices and options will be discussed to reduce frustration in both staff and the individuals you support.

Home Visit Safety - Remember to Take Your Blinders Off
Jim Siberski joins us in December to discuss proper protocol and warning signs when visiting clients, consumers and others in the home. This workshop will review how to keep your eyes open to the entire environment when your main focus is on your client, and what to do if you find yourself in a risky situation. This will be an excellent review for professionals who have been working in our system for years and a great source of information for newer professionals. Appropriate for Case Managers, Therapists, Home-based Support Staff, TSS, Behavior Support; and all professionals in the IDD, MI and EI settings.