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Logistics for Adventure Therapy: Client Care, Equipment, Transportation and Staffing

  • Course level: All Levels
  • Duration 2h
  • Last Update February 3, 2022

Description

Program Development Series Module #6

Using activities in practice has a number of logistical implications. This training covers a wide range of topics related to the logistics of client care, operating outdoors, and equipment and transportation management. Sometimes we use staff, contractors or partners in the process of providing adventure therapy, too. We review considerations for getting everyone on the same page!

Course Outline

  • Basics of Client Care: Nutrition, Hydration, Hygiene, and Medicine
    • Outdoors
    • Nutrition
    • Hydration
    • Hygiene
    • Medicine
  • Equipment, Transportation, and Program Areas
    • Equipment, clothing, and footwear
    • Equipment management
    • Transportation: Drivers
    • Transportation: Vehicles
  • Staff, Contractors, and Partners
    • The basics
    • Qualifications and core competencies
    • Orientation and assessment
    • Scope of practice
    • Developing partnerships

About the instructor

Kim Sacksteder

4.86 (14 ratings)

16 Courses

329 students

Student Feedback

4.7

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Lots of great information and gets me motivated to incorporate adventure into my practice.

LS

Kim is so helpful!

AB

Great for helping me develop my AT plan.

$45.00

Enrolment validity: 365 days

Target Audience

  • Mental health practitioners who use or want to begin using activity or adventure in their practice.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand administrative responsibilities for aspects of client care including hydration, nutrition, medication, and hygiene.
  • Gain knowledge of systems needed to manage logistics such as equipment and transportation.
  • Awareness of dynamics and responsibilities related to staff, contractors, and 3rd party partners.

Requirements

  • 2.0 hours of CCAT credit are offered upon completion of the full course and evaluation. Evaluations are completed as a lesson at the end of each course. Completion of the evaluation is required to be issued a certificate. The certificate will be available for download upon completion of the course and evaluation.

CCAT Hours

  • Organizational & Administrative Policies in AT: 2 hrs.

Course Format

  • This course is presented asynchronously with primarily pre-recorded video and supplemental reading components.
  • Video recorded on: 16/04/2021

Accommodations

If accommodations are requested for this course, please submit requests to [email protected]