Training and workshops

Who should attend: New service providers and case managers working with Lifetime Care participants and/or Workers Care Program participants

Delivery format: Face-to-face, One-day workshop

What we cover:

• how the Lifetime Care and Workers Care Program works
• eligibility criteria and application process for participation in Lifetime Care and the Workers Care Program
• what we can and can’t pay for
• key roles of everyone, including icare staff, case managers and other service providers
• how to request services for participants
• how decisions are made about requests for services
• how to review a participant’s care needs
• requesting attendant care
• working with an attendant care provider.

Who should attend: Approved case managers who are new to Lifetime Care and Workers Care Program.

Delivery format: Face-to-face, One-day workshop

What we cover:

• your role as a case manager when working with Lifetime Care or the Workers Care Program
• planning with participants
• requesting supports on behalf of participants
• promoting independence for participants and their families.

Who should attend: Service providers who are completing a care needs reviews or plans with Lifetime Care or Workers Care participants.

Delivery format:

• Face-to-face, 2.5-hour workshop OR;

• 5-part online workshop comprising: 2 videos (approximately 10 minutes each), and online e-learning module (approximately 30 minutes) and a 1-hour live webinar.

The CANS is designed to measure the level of support needs of older adolescents and adults (16 years and older) with traumatic brain injury. The CANS is required to be used for all adult participants with a brain injury when undertaking every care needs review or plan.

What we cover:

• background of the CANS
• how to administer, score and interpret the CANS.

We run CANS workshops in conjunction with the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research.

Who should attend: Service providers who are completing care needs reviews or plans with Lifetime Care participants aged 5 to 15 years old.

Delivery format: Face-to-face, 4.5-hour workshop

The PCANS-2 is designed to measure the types, extent and intensity of support needs of young people aged between 5 and 15 years who have an acquired brain injury. The PCANS-2 is required for all participants aged 5 to 15 years on an annual basis.

What we cover:

• background of the PCANS-2
• how to administer, score and interpret the PCANS-2

We run PCANS-2 workshops in conjunction with the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research.

Who should attend: Service providers who want to complete FIM or WeeFIM assessments with icare Lifetime Care participants. FIM and WeeFIM assessors must have current credentials with the Australasian Rehabilitation Outcomes Centre (AROC).

Delivery format: FIM and WeeFIM - Face-to-face, One-day workshop

The FIM and WeeFIM instruments provide a basic indicator of severity of disability. It forms part of the eligibility criteria for participation in the Lifetime Care and Support Scheme and acceptance into the Workers Care Program. 

What we cover:

• background of FIM and WeeFIM
• how to administer and score FIM and WeeFIM.

We run FIM and WeeFIM training in conjunction with AROC.

Providers who haven’t previously attended training and been credentialed should attend the full workshop. We pay for the workshop and manual, but the fee to sit the final exam is not paid by us.

Providers who have previously been credentialed may be eligible to sit an online refresher (which includes the exam).

See the AROC website online services section for more information.