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Seminars and CoursesJFK Partners trainees and fellows participate in a variety of learning experiences as part of their respective training programs. Among these experiences are three graduate level courses accompanied with a practicum.
Key Concepts in Pediatric Developmental DisabilitiesIDPT 6650/6651/6652 This interdisciplinary leadership seminar focuses on systems issues affecting children and youth with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities and their families. The seminar provides an advanced knowledge base in populations of neurodevelopmental and related disabilities needed to implement coordinated, family-centered, community-based, and culturally competent care. There are four organizing concepts: 1) health-related quality of life constructs, 2) theoretical framework for disability (disablement schema); 3) standards of care; 4) community/school-based healthcare delivery in the current managed care environment for populations of children with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities. The theoretical framework for disability (disablement schema) provides students with a means to classify the functional consequences of pathology, or illness. Leadership DialoguesIDPT 6660/6661/6662 The Dialogues Seminar provides opportunities for knowledge acquisition, individual reflection, and development of a sense of context for the practice of teamwork, consultation, and leadership. This seminar enhances the trainees' own integration of teaching and mentoring and the application of skills into clinical and community practice. Content in the seminar is provided to orient trainees to best practices. The seminar focuses equally on the value base of services and on leadership practices. The value base covered includes family-centered, culturally competent, and coordinated services with attention to ethics and inclusionary program design. Leadership practices covered include teamwork and team leadership, consultation theory and practice, leadership theory and practice, systems theory, organizational development, change management, conflict resolution, problem-solving, and resource allocation. For each seminar topic, trainees participate in group discussions and/or reflective exercises that require each to apply the information to actual work contexts. A year-long course project engages trainees in working both individually and as team members to complete a project, focusing on leadership, planning, systems change, and the needs of populations of children and their families with special health care needs. Seminar on Diversity and CultureNon-credit course The Seminar on Diversity and Culture supports an evolutionary, cooperative learning effort for trainees and fellows to learn along with students in other programs, JFK Partners' faculty, faculty from other departments at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, local and distant community members, family members, invited presenters, representatives of supporting agencies, and others. This seminar encourages individual and collective interest in, and sharing of, knowledge about diverse areas of life experience including world and local history, world and local geography, music, art, dance, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, religion, ethics, languages, child rearing practices, health beliefs and practices, experiences with prejudices, developmental disabilities, coping resources and skills, and death and afterdeath beliefs. The seminar supports each trainee and fellow's progress towards greater cultural and multicultural expertise and encourages each in the role of educator for others in their work and community settings. The goals of the seminar include assisting trainees and fellows in having first hand tutoring in the values and manners of cultures that may be very different from their own, and to explore the meaning of health care delivery from a multicultural point of view. PracticumIDPT 6670 Practicum opportunities are offered for the purpose of implementing the course content and skills. JFK Partners is pleased to offer a wide range of practicum opportunities in a variety of settings. Practicum sites are matched with individual participant's interest and experience and may include your work site, pending approval of program faculty. Types of practicum options include:· Interdisciplinary Clinical Practicum - This practicum provides opportunities to apply interdisciplinary team leadership skills and service coordination. · Community-Based Consultation - The focus of this practicum is to provide opportunities to demonstrate competency in effective procedures to successfully include children with special needs in to the community through the consultation process. · Research - All core faculty members are involved in a variety of research efforts from which trainees may choose to participate. Activities will permit trainees and fellows to participate in needs assessment, program evaluation, and investigational research. · Policy Analysis/Systems Development - This practicum offers opportunities for trainees to work on issues of implementation of value based (family-centered, community-based, culturally competent) and coordinated care at the clinic, institution/agency, or state system level. Projects have focused on policy, populations, standards of care, quality assurance, and national or state defined expected outcomes.
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