AT Program Development Course Series & Group Consultation

Description

This six month program combines online training courses with group consulting to help participants grow and develop their Adventure Therapy program or practice. The series includes a 2 hour training and a 1.5 hour group consultation sessions  each month.  

Total Training hours: 12 hours

Total Group Consulting hours:  9 hours

Program overview:

AT Administration Series #1: Defining Your Mission and Understanding the Ethics 

Time: 1.5-2 hrs

Content Outline:

• Defining the mission/purpose of your AT practice
  • Define mission/purpose
  • Define population
• Developing your strategic plan
  • Assessment of where you are currently
  • Vision for where you want to go
  • Gap analysis to solidify action plan
  • Logic model for practice
• Understanding the ethics of providing AT
  • Clinical ethics for AT
  • Environmental ethics for AT

Group Consult # 1

Date:  June 29th, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6pm EST

Topics: Mission/purpose, population, strategic planning/vision, ethics (General Policies and Procedures manual outline)

AT Administration Series #2: Risk Management Practices

Time: 1.5-2 hrs

Instructor: Kim Sacksteder

Content Outline:

• Risk management overview
  • Where risk comes from
  • Managing risk (retain, avoid, mitigate, transfer)
    • Informed consent, liability releases
• Hazard assessment and risk analysis
  • Managing risks from environment
  • Managing risks from activities
  • Managing risks from people
• Risk management practices
  • Documenting incidents and near misses
  • Analyzing incidents and near misses
  • External review processes

Group Consult # 2

Date:  July 27, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6pm EST

Topic: Risk management – hazard assessment and risk analysis, managing risks from environment, activities or participants, documenting and analyzing incidents and near misses (Operations Policy and Procedure Manual, Risk Management section)

AT Administration Series #3: Clinical Practices

Time: 1.5-2 hrs

Content Outline:

• Defining clinical approach, clinical targets, and any EBP integration
• Intake practices
  • Participant screening for appropriateness, including medical
  • Informed consent 
    • Participant expectations
    • Liability release
• Managing clinical behaviors
  • Responding to SI, HI, aggression, etc. 
• Intervention planning
  • Session structures and sequencing
  • Session follow up including documentation, post-session checklists

Group Consult # 3

Date:  August 31st, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6pm EST

Topic:  Defining clinical approach, intake practices, managing clinical behaviors, and intervention planning

AT Administration Series #4: Adventure Activities

Time: 1.5-2 hrs

Content Outline:

• Deciding what activities to offer
  • Types of activities
  • Clinical intention
  • Provider training
  • Process for adding new activities (hazard assessment, research industry standards, etc)
• Policies and procedures for activities
  • Set up instructions
  • Safety policies and briefing
  • Leading the activity 
    • Participant instructions
    • Monitoring
• Equipment management
• Use of third party contractors/partners

Group Consult # 4

Date:  September 28, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6pm EST

Deciding what activities to offer, policy and procedure development for activities, equipment management, partnering with third party contractors

AT Administration Series #5: Emergency Response 

Content Outline:

• Duty of care for responding in emergencies
• Types of emergencies
  • Clinical and/or medical
• Emergency action plans
  • Crafting emergency action plans
  • Medical training for providers
  • Interface with governmental agencies (EMS, police, land management agencies)
  • Ensuring needed logistical support (adequately informed/trained clients and providers)
  • Serious incident protocols

Group Consult # 5

Date:  October 26, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6pm EST

Topic: Duty of care, types of emergencies, emergency action plans, serious incident protocols (Operations Policy and Procedure, EAP section)

 

AT Administration Series #6: Considerations for Nutrition, Hygiene, Med Management, Transportation and Other Logistics

Time: 1.5-2 hrs

Content Outline:

• Nutrition and water
• Medication management
• Hygiene and communicable disease
• Transportation
• Facilities and program area use

Group Consult # 6

Date:  November 30th, 2021 @ 4:30pm – 6pm EST

Topic: Logistics including nutrition, water, medication management, hygiene, and transportation (Operations Policy and Procedure, logistics section) plus closing up.