Attn: All Regulated Health Care Providers
Spring 2025 Caregiver Training Project Workshops Now Available
As part of the Division’s commitment to Teach, Learn, and Collaborate, the WI Department of Health Services (DHS), Division of Quality Assurance (DQA), and the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Center for Community Development, Engagement and Training (UWO CCDET) are pleased to announce the Caregiver Training Project workshops offered in Spring 2025.
Workshops for Administrators, Managers, Supervisors, Trainers & HR Professionals
Are you responsible for completing caregiver background checks on your employees? Conducting misconduct investigations? Ensuring continuing education for staff, navigating the training requirements, or adhering to administrative compliance regulations? Promoting job satisfaction & retention among your caregivers? Training staff to work with individuals with dementia?
If you answered yes to one or more of these, then these workshops are for you!
Virtual Workshops (various dates & times between March and June):
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5 Steps to Caregiver Background Checks: Completing checks & evaluating results
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Investigating & Reporting Allegations of Misconduct: Meeting state regulations
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Investigating & Reporting Requirements for Federally Certified Providers: Meeting federal regulations
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Ready, Set, Train – Continuing Education Topics: An overview of available materials
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Rules of the Road: Compliance Pathways for New & Existing Providers
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Setting Your Training Course: Navigating the regulations
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Caregivers SOAR! Encouraging Success ~ Opportunity ~ Advancement ~ Retention
To keep these virtual workshops affordable and accessible, they are partially subsidized by DQA. All workshops are facilitated by experienced CCDET trainers, and many are attended by DQA subject matter experts.
In-person Workshop (at the UWO Culver Family Welcome Center):
- Challenging Behavioral Specialist Train-the-Trainer on June 5.
This 6-hour in-person course trains qualified individuals to train their own audiences using the Challenging Behavioral Specialist training materials. This course was developed for and approved by DHS as part of the education resources found at the Wisconsin Dementia Care Project.
If you have any questions about any of these workshops, please contact us at caregiver@uwosh.edu. We look forward to hearing from you!
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