Trainings
Homecare
METC offers courses for DORS workers. Check out the full listing of course descriptions and upcoming trainings below. For Voluntary trainings, you are required to wait 365-days before repeating class. Stipends will only be paid for classes attended after 1 year.
1. Mandatory Annual IP Training for DORS
Click “Upcoming Trainings” to register for your required Mandatory IP Training. Understand job requirements, timesheets, and learn how to fight against fraud, abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation.
2. New Hire Orientation
Gain critical information about your work by reviewing the job requirements, timecards, and various policies & procedures that will build your work development.
Bathing & Bedmaking
Work with the safest and most efficient techniques that protect a consumer's dignity while making an occupied bed, bathing, and helping with grooming and personal hygiene.
Body Mechanics and Safe Lifting
Prevent injury with proper body mechanics.
First Aid and CPR (DORS Only)
Learn to recognize and respond to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies and to use an Automatic External Defibrillator.
HCII Mental Health Wellness Programming 4 Part Series
The Mental Health Initiative’s Psychoeducational Series recognizes and prioritizes the importance of mental health education, community building, and community empowerment for our membership at SEIU HCII.
Navigating Stress and Understanding Trauma for Caregivers
Work with the safest and most efficient techniques that protect a consumer's dignity while making an occupied bed, bathing, and helping with grooming and personal hygiene.
Nutrition and Exercise for People with Disabilities
Apply the latest guidelines on healthy living habits that can improve the lives of people who have disabilities.
Strengthening Communication Skills
Respond to challenging situations with effective verbal communication skills.
Understanding Grief and Loss: Experiences, Impact and Collective Healing
Work with the safest and most efficient techniques that protect a consumer's dignity while making an occupied bed, bathing, and helping with grooming and personal hygiene.
Universal Precautions
Protect yourself and your consumer from infection and disease.
Working Effectively with My Consumers to Solve Problems
Manage personal and work boundaries and explore ways to present a problem constructively to your consumer-employer.
Working with a Consumer who is Depressed
Recognize the signs of depression and learn how to respond while managing your own emotional reactions.
Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Working Effectively with My Consumers to Solve Problems
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Nutrition and Exercise for People with Disabilities
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Strengthening Communication Skills
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Body Mechanics and Safe Lifting
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Working with a Consumer who is Depressed
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Nutrition and Exercise for People with Disabilities
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Strengthening Communication Skills
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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Mandatory IP Training for DORS
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After I took the Nutrition and Exercise for People with Physical Disabilities class, I learned how to prepare a variety of nutritious meals, and encourage movement when possible within proper doctor guidelines. This course was very informative!
Margo P.
DORS Homecare
