This course is Direct Care Worker Training. It covers information and skills that direct care workers must be proficient in who work in the Michigan Adult Foster Care System. For specialized homes, before purchasing note that a CMH may require you take certain training through them or their designated provider. Check with them and/or your Compliance Tool. This product allows an AFC employer to train up to 20 people for 1 year.
Lesson 2-G: Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving: Defined and Advantages
Lesson 2-H: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 3: Expectations, Stereotypes and Integration
Lesson 3-A: The Power of Your Mind and Thinking Patterns...
Lesson 3-B: What is Mental Health?
Lesson 3-C: The Mentally Healthy
Lesson 3-D-1: Defining Mental Health Services Including Defining a Recipient
Lesson 3-D-2: Defining Mental Health Services - Specific Conditions
Lesson 3-E: Documentation
Lesson 3-F: Providing a Climate for Growth
Lesson 3-G: Ethics of Touch
Lesson 3-H: How Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving Can Be Applied
Lesson 3-I: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 4: Resident Protection: Abuse and Neglect and Abuse Reporting
Lesson 4-A: Recognizing and Responding to Reports of Abuse and Neglect — Introduction
Lesson 4-B: Reasons Abuse Often Occurs
Lesson 4-C: Types & Definitions of Abuse
Lesson 4-D: Prohibited Practices in the Adult Foster Care Environment
Lesson 4-E: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 5: Disease Prevention: Infection Control - Blood Borne Pathogens
Lesson 5-A: Definition, Including What is a Pathogen?
Lesson 5-B: The Purpose
Lesson 5-C: Infection Control in Hospitals
Lesson 5-D: Threat of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Lesson 5-E: Problems of Antibiotic Resistance
Lesson 5-F: Bioterrorism
Lesson 5-G: Description
Lesson 5-H: Key Terms
Lesson 5-I: Reminder and COVID-19 Update (2020)
Lesson 5-J: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 6: Documentation Integrity: Reporting Requirements in Adult Foster Care
Lesson 6-A: Being Thorough & Accurate
Lesson 6-B: Integrity of Documentation
Lesson 6-C: Key Ingredients to Ensure the Integrity of Documentation in Areas of Care
Lesson 6-D: Key Ingredients to Ensure Integrity of Documentation in Business Operation
Lesson 6-E: Complete Rule Review for In-Home Reporting — Michigan
Lesson 6-F: Office of Child & Adult Licensing Field Offices
Lesson 6-G: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 7: Recipient/Resident Rights Training
Lesson 7-A: The Legal Basis of Rights
Lesson 7-B: 5 Main and Very Specific Rights
Lesson 7-C: Other Rights Mental Health Participants Are Entitled To...
Lesson 7-D: Confidentiality - An Introduction
Lesson 7-E: Appropriate Times to Disclose
Lesson 7-F: Abuse and Neglect
Lesson 7-G: Investigating Rights Allegations
Lesson 7-H: Rights and Responsibilities
Lesson 7-I: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 8: Environmental Emergencies: Preventing, Preparing and Responding: Managing: Fire Safety, Extreme Weather, Utility Outage, Gas Leaks and Explosions
Lesson 8-A: 3 Key Elements
Lesson 8-B: Be Prepared for Emergencies
Lesson 8-C: Your Role as a Teacher
Lesson 8-D: Severe Weather
Lesson 8-E: Safe Driving Techniques
Lesson 8-F: Emergencies in the Home
Lesson 8-G: Fire Safety and Training
Lesson 8-H: Preparing for Fire Emergencies
Lesson 8-I: Resources
Lesson 8-J: Community Safety - A Broader Understanding
Lesson 8-K: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 9: Appreciating the Differences in Others - Culture & Diversity
Lesson 9-A: Culture & Diversity: The Reality of Our World
Lesson 9-B: Helpful Items to Help You Get Along With & Appreciate the Differences in Others
Lesson 9-C: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 10: Maintaining and Restoring Your Resident’s Dignity
Lesson 10-A: Valuable Lessons to Keep Someone's Spirits Lifted: A Special Section Written by our Publication Editor
Lesson 10-B: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 11: Sanitary Kitchen Management that Prevents Disease
Lesson 11-A: Introduction
Lesson 11-B: Basic Steps to a Clean and Sanitary Kitchen and Food Handling Rules
Lesson 11-C: Instructions for Using Chlorine Bleach
Lesson 11-D: How To Intensely Clean a Kitchen
Lesson 11-E: Sanitary Kitchen Tips for the Home Cook
Lesson 11-F: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
Lesson 21-C: Appropriate Responses: Being Grabbed in Private Areas
Lesson 21-D: Appropriate Responses: Hair Pulls
Lesson 21-E: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 22: Suicide Awareness
Lesson 22-A: The Ugly Reality of Self Murder
Lesson 22-B: Suicide by the Numbers
Lesson 22-C: The Warning Signs
Lesson 22-D: The Role of Person-Centeredness in Suicide Awareness
Lesson 22-E: How Can You Further Contribute to Prevention
Lesson 22-F: The Physical Plant and Prevention
Lesson 22-G: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 23: Implicit Bias in Healthcare - Lessons in Avoiding and Eliminating It...
Lesson 23-A: What is Implicit Bias?
Lesson 23-B: How Does Bias Creep Into the Workplace?
Lesson 23-C: The Contributing Mindset
Lesson 23-D: Why Eradication in Residential Care Matters So Much...
Lesson 23-E: Why Eradication in the Medical Practice Is an Imperative...
Lesson 23-F: The Dangers of Bias in Home Care and Strategies for Eradication
Lesson 23-G: Strategies for Recognizing Bias and Keeping it Out of Healthcare
Lesson 23-E: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 24: Special Dynamics of Traumatic Brain Injury
Lesson 24-A: The Definition of Traumatic Brain Injury and Major Causes
Lesson 24-B: How the Condition is Diagnosed
Lesson 24-C: Temporal Lobe Deficits and Cognitive Re-Training in TBI
Lesson 24-D: Common Behavioral Characteristics and Other Traits of TBI
Lesson 24-E: What Causes Mood Changes After TBI?
Lesson 24-F: The Issue of Anxiety
Lesson 24-G: Depression
Lesson 24-H: Addressing These Emotional Concerns
Lesson 24-I: The Road to Recovery and its Many Twists
Lesson 24-J: The Power of Self-Healing
Lesson 24-K: Special Clinical and Behavioral Interventions
Lesson 24-L: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 25: Special Dynamics of Spinal Cord Injury, (SCI)
Lesson 25-A: What is the Spinal Cord and Spinal Cord Injury, (SCI)
Lesson 25-B: Caring for Someone with a Spinal Cord Injury
Lesson 25-C: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 26: Understanding the Value and Applying the Right Ergonomics in Residential Care
Lesson 26-A: Understanding that Value...
Lesson 26-B: The Primary Ergonomics Application
Lesson 26-C: The Value of Ergonomics in Residential Care
Lesson 26-D: Ensuring Safe Ergonomics in Residential Care Facilities
Lesson 26-E: Summary and Conclusion…
Lesson 26-F: Chapter Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Chapter 27: Trauma Informed Care
Lesson 27-A: A Special Introduction...
Lesson 27-B: Welcome to an Important Aspect of Care Delivery
Lesson 27-C: Dangers When Trauma Informed Care is Not Taught and Applied
Lesson 27-D: Key Principles of Trauma Informed Care
Lesson 27-E: Understanding and Recognizing Trauma Among Those in Residential Settings
Lesson 27-F: Trauma Informed Care in Relation to Natural Disasters
Lesson 27-G: Trauma Informed Care in Relation to Sexual Abuse
Lesson 27-H: Trauma Informed Care in Relation to Community Violence
Lesson 27-I: Trauma Informed Care in Relation to Loss and Grief
Lesson 27-J: Course Review - A Look at What We Have Discussed
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Direct Care Worker Training — Michigan Adult Foster Care | Direct Care Training & Resource Center, Inc.
Michigan AFC • Certification & Compliance Training
Direct Care Worker — Michigan Adult Foster Care
The essential course for Michigan Direct Care Workers — covering care delivery, ethics, documentation, and safety.
Equip your staff with the confidence, compliance knowledge, and compassion required for outstanding resident care.