Sitra training courses 2012
Sitra public courses new pricing structure
Courses offered by Foundations
Alphabetical list of courses
Advanced assessment and person-centred support planning
Advanced alcohol misuse: interventions
Advanced assessment and person-centred support planning
Advanced substance misuse: drugs and alcohol
Alcohol abuse in older people - half day
Assessment and person-centred support planning
Benefits and tax credits: update and refresher
Benefits and young people - half day
Beyond abuse: working with high risk service users (previously called Working with perpetrators)
Challenging behaviour: older people and learning disabilities
Client engagement: making it a reality
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: an introduction
Collaboration and partnerships - half day
Communication skills: written and verbal
Costing and managing your budget
Different worlds: hallucinations and delusions
Difficult, disturbing and dangerous behaviour
Dignity in dementia - half day
Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance
Drugs awareness: an introduction
Eating frogs: tactics for time and task management
Employment and Support Allowance (half day)
Employment and support allowance (1 day)
Equality Impact Assessments (half day)
Fire prevention and extinguisher use - half day (accredited)
First Aid at work (accredited)
Food hygiene (CIEH accredited)
Health and Safety (accredited)
HIV/Hepatitis and Sexual health awareness
Home Improvement Agencies - courses offered by Foundations
Housing law and good practice - part 1 - housing status and security of tenure
Housing law and good practice - part 2 - homelessness and allocations
Introduction to the agency management relationship
Introduction to the new care standards
Lone working and risk assessment
Managing challenging behaviour
Managing personal and professional boundaries
Managing and recruiting volunteers - half day
Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Mental health awareness and young people
Monitoring for contract compliance
Moving from Housing Support to Personal Care Services
Moving into Management - ILM accredited - 2 days
Multi-agency public protection arrangements
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Palliative care for end of life
Performance management - ILM accredited
Personalisation: Individual Budgets and Providers
Personalisation: moving forward
Personalisation: what it means for staff
Preventing and responding to angry or aggressive behaviour
Psychiatric illness in older people
Quality Assessment Framework (QAF): an introduction
Quality Assessment Framework: monitoring and evaluation of services
Recovery approaches in mental health
Safeguarding children and young people
Safeguarding vulnerable adults
Self Harm (Supporting Clients)
Service users as volunteers (half day)
Setting up a Social Enterprise
Sexual relationships and education in services
Sickness and disability benefits
Staff supervison and appraisal - ILM accredited - 2 days
Substance misuse - brief interventions
Substance misuse and older people
Support planning and Key working skills
Tenancies and licences in agency managed properties
Tendering for services - 2 days
Therapeutic activities in dementia - half day
Training and facilitation skills - 2 days
Trauma: post incident support staff
Working with elderly clients with mental health issues
Working with people with complex needs
Working with Prisoners' families
Working with young people and substance misuse
Working within a harm reduction framework
WRAP facilitation - for community and support workers
Our new training guide
The PDF of our new training guide for 2012 is coming soon, until then please see our full course listings for 2012 training dates.

ROCC courses
We are pleased to announce that ROCC, which represents the housing, care and support sector in the South East of England has transferred its business to Sitra.
ROCC’s Southampton office will be kept open and their staff will join Sitra.
ROCC’s Southampton office will be kept open and their staff will join Sitra. As a result current ROCC training courses are part of the Sitra training offer.

Courses offered by by Foundations
From 2011, Sitra and Foundations, the national body for home improvement agencies, will be working together to integrate our joint training offer.
This will ensure that we continue to provide added training value to our members and clients in the housing related support and care and HIA sectors. We are pleased to include Foundations courses in our training offer and believe that this compliments the range and variety of courses to you.
