Intentional Care is a comprehensive set of Performance Standards that help bridge the gap between the principles of recovery and empowerment and the real-world application of these principles in the everyday work of direct service staff and their supervisors. The Intentional Care Performance Standards were developed by Advocates, Inc. and Patricia E. Deegan, Ph.D.
About Intentional Care
In our day-to-day work we encounter many difficult and ambiguous situations. Examples include:
If a client graduates from college and invites you to a celebration dinner at his/her apartment, what should you do?
If a client won't shower is it best to let him/her suffer the natural consequences of their choice?
If a client asks if you have ever received mental health services, what should you say?
If a client offers you a gift for Christmas, is it OK to take it?
If you discover that a client is a member of the same health club you belong to, what should you do
If a client is refusing to take out the garbage in his/her apartment, what should you do?
When you go to the local coffee shop on your day off, the owner complains to you about a client in your program and tells you that unless you do something, the client will be banned from entering the shop. What do you say to the shop owner?
If a client chooses to keep drinking caffeine even though it makes him/her anxious and exacerbates symptoms. What do you do?
Intentional Care Performance Standards offer staff and supervisors performance based guidelines for making decisions in these and other difficult or ambiguous situations. Intentional Care Performance Standards have been developed for the following domains:
1. Role of the Direct Service Worker
2. Client Choice
3. Professional Boundaries
4. Confidentiality
5. Cleaning: Group Homes
6. Cleaning: Supported Housing
7. Community Integration
8. Communicating Respectfully About the People with Whom We Work
The Intentional Care Package
Intentional Care Performance Standards are a core part of the training and supervision of Advocates direct care staff. We are pleased to offer a complete toolkit for implementing Intentional Care Performance Standards in your organization.
With the Intentional Care Package, you receive:
A booklet containing:
The full text of the Intentional Care Performance Standards
Competency Evaluations for each standard so you can assess staff’s mastery of each one
Performance Based Evaluation forms that can be integrated into your annual staff evaluation process so you can assess how staff implement the standards in actual practice
Role-plays for each standard that help you train staff
A supervisory tool for helping staff assess their personal limits in relation to establishing professional boundaries
A CD containing the complete text of the booklet so you can load the data into your computer, revise the material and duplicate it as needed
A DVD introduction to the Intentional Care Performance Standards.
Consultation and Training
The daily work of providing direct services is challenging and even the most well intentioned programs may find it difficult to safeguard time to make programmatic innovations. At Advocates, we have found that having a consultant as point-person for the development and implementation of the performance standards has been a key to our success.
We have skilled consultants and trainers who can assist your agency and help keep your group focused on implementing and revising the standards over time. Our trainers will:
Give a workshop to your staff to help launch the standards in our organization
Help you plan a strategy to implement the standards
Provide ongoing consultation to your organization as you develop and refine the standards to fit your programmatic approach and philosophy
Consult to your organization in person, by phone or by email.
For More Information
To learn more about Intentional Care or to purchase the package, please contact us at:
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