Video Discussion Guides are available to facilitate learning, provide opportunities for sharing and clarification, and enhance the desired skills that are beneficial for an Adult Protective Services Professional. Each video discussion guide incorporates various focus areas and can be used by Supervisors or Trainers either during or after viewing the associated video.
Using the APSWI Training Video: Successful Home Visit, Self-Neglect, this video discussion guide can be used to foster conversations, critical thinking, and enhance assessment skills when working with clients experiencing self-neglect
Using the APSWI Training Video: Asking Inclusive Demographic Questions, this video discussion guide can be used to support staff in their responsibility to fulfill the mandates of AB959 and provide culturally responsive services.
This Video Facilitator Guide was designed by APSWI in collaboration with the National Adult Protective Services Training Center (NATC). This guide is designed to facilitate learning and enhance risk assessment skills using the NATC training videos: Assessing for Risk-Initial Visit and Assessing for Risk-Follow-Up Visit.
Using the APSWI Training Video: Financial Abuse Allegation, Home Visit: Alleged Perpetrator Interview Video Discussion Guide, this video discussion guide can be used to facilitate conversations, critical thinking, and enhance investigative skills when interviewing alleged perpetrators and conducting assessments in cases where clients are experiencing financial abuse.
This video discussion guide is designed to facilitate learning and enhance interviewing and assessment skills using the Adult Protective Services Workforce Innovations (APSWI) training video: Caregiver Neglect Allegation, Home Visit: Alleged Perpetrator Interview. It can be facilitated during a unit meeting, staff training such as induction or continuing education, or during supervision to support skill development around investigative skills/identifying abuse, cultural humility, risk factors, and contributing factors.
This video discussion guide is designed to facilitate learning and enhance skills demonstrated in the Adult Protective Services Workforce Innovations (APSWI) training video: Managing Conflict and Encouraging Client Engagement. There are six skill areas that a facilitator or supervisor can explore with staff, including managing conflict, rapport and trust building, creating privacy for client interviewing, person-centered approach, cultural considerations, and assessing for safety and risk (both for client and APS professional).
This video discussion guide is designed as a complement to the APSWI video: Assessing for Physical Abuse to enhance learning and develop a deeper understanding of concepts portrayed. Facilitators and APS Supervisors can utilize the video and video discussion guide to have in-depth conversations and learning moments around key skills needed when assessing for physical abuse. Learning concepts include: rapport and trust building, person-centered and trauma-informed approaches, interviewing skills, sharing resources, and safety planning.
