Current Course
 

Fostering Citizenship: A New Approach to Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities

1.     Provide reasons for the current transformation of services and support for people who live with intellectual disabilities (away from the charity model, toward the citizenship model of support)

2.     Clarify the difference between the “charity” and “citizenship” models of support

3.     Describe the range of things that constitute a “best life” and the benefits to the person who lives with an intellectual disability

4.     Describe the importance of valued social roles and list reasons why people with intellectual disabilities have traditionally not taken on such roles

5.     Describe how each approach contributes differently to a person’s ability to live their best life

6.     List citizenship rights and responsibilities, and explain how these contribute to a person living their best life

7.     Identify the continuum of support, the similarities and differences between the different types of support, and how each contributes differently to a person living their best life

8.     Identify and describe differences between: just being physically present, participating in activities, building community connections, and nurturing and maintaining sustainable, reciprocal relationships, and reasons to focus on each

9.     Identify and describe benefits and challenges of providing personal support using the citizenship approach

10.  Identify and describe benefits to community when all people contribute by sharing their gifts

11.  Describe the role of the personal supporter in the citizenship model of support, and identify ways in which the personal supporter is able to empower a person to live their best life