Your Online Resource in the Field of ID/DD
The YAI Resource Center is a membership-based website offering easy access to hundreds of downloadable training materials, including presentations, activities, lesson plans, manuals and more.
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Center of U employs a powerful exercise that helps staff learn to empathize more deeply with people with intellectual disabilities. Through this moving training, participants simulate their "universe", i.e. the supports in their lives, and compare this with the universe of a person with disabilities.
This experiential activity is guaranteed to be stimulating and thought provoking.
Ensuring Healthy Nutritional Habits
Many Resource Center downloads complement materials you and your staff will find in the Training Store. The Mission Nutrition download helps to make learning fun! This board game helps verbal and non-verbal consumers make healthy nutritional decisions. The new correlated training, Healthy Habits for a Healthy Life DVD demonstrates the importance of incorporating small lifestyle changes as part of everyday habits to ensure a healthy weight and continual physical activity.
How to be Fire Safe
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Research data from 2006 finds that 72% of the developmentally disabled population lives in private homes, apartments or mobile homes. Pre- and post-assessments found that participants could only answer 4.6 of fire safety questions correctly before training, but after class participation, the average was 8.1. More significantly, 22% of the program participants knew what to do in a room full of smoke before training; post-training, 91% of the program participants could accurately demonstrate what to do.
Fire Safety for Staff Working with Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
A Joint Publication of Fire Department, City of New York and YAI Network
This workbook is designed to address the fire safety needs of people with developmental disabilities. Education, training and strategies are offered to improve the safety of one of the most vulnerable fire risk populations. This fire safety program identifies unsafe practice and behaviors and provides ways to correct them. The joint expertise of the Fire Department of the City of New York and the YAI Network, ensure this manual promotes safety and compliance regulations.
An accompanying DVD is available for purchase from the YAI Training Store.
