Health Care

Every social service and non-profit agency has its own field of practice. However, people with special needs can, and often need, services from every social service arena. We understand that you are overworked and underfunded and a client who appears to be frustrating to work with can be overwhelming. Let us show you how to work with clients with special needs in ways that can make your job easier, faster, and that can help your clients with their much-needed services.

Sure, you’ve got teachers who specialize in teaching techniques for special needs and social workers on staff, you don’t need the same communication and coping techniques other fields of practice might. But do you know what services your students with specials needs are entitled to? There are more than just transition services out there and we can help explain what services are available, how to share that information with parents, and how they can apply for them. Far too often we’ve seen adults with special needs who lost out on years of services because no one had told them they were available. This was not the schools fault, but lets work together to share this knowledge with parents.

Often times, police officers have to make split-second decisions and it may be difficult to assess if a person has a developmental disability or has a mental illness; how can they safely interject when this person has special needs? Further, EMS is often called when a person with special needs is engaging in dangerous behavior to themselves or others; how can this situation be tempered? Lastly, what about fire fighters who are called to a scene with a person with a disability who needs to be coaxed out of a dangerous situation? We can share tips and tricks on how to best work with this population in the field and in the station, both for short term and long term.

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