Training Plan

About This Handbook

Purpose

Handbook 3C provides an overview of guidelines, criteria and resources for developing a Training Plan to support the Home and Community Care Program.

The Handbook is intended for community/tribal council/ regional Inuit association planners and regional First Nations and Inuit organizations.

Using this Handbook

This Handbook is a guide. The steps outlined in the Handbook do not need to be followed in every way. Its goal is to support - not replace - the essential process of determining what will work best in your community. Importantly, the Handbook promotes the integration of community beliefs and values into the design of the program. In this regard, select the examples and suggestions in the Handbook that reflect the values in your community and are most appropriate for meeting your community's particular needs.

Introduction

A training plan outlines the knowledge and skills a person/ staff will need to learn, develop or maintain in order to do the job. The plan sets out steps, or identifies how selected staff will learn or develop the needed knowledge, skills or abilities. It also provides a timetable for training and a time line from which you can evaluate results.

Training plans vary in length and in the amount of detail required. For some communities the training plan will be short and for others, depending on the proposed area of staff training, it will be more detailed.

The word training, as it is used within this document, is meant to include the broad scope of all learning and skill development opportunities available to potential home care providers. Training is meant to be used interchangeably with the term learning and any planned skill development.

The word program and course will also be used interchangeably in this Handbook.

The training plan you develop will be based on home and community care service needs, the skill gaps and the training needs of staff/persons required to provide "direct service" to and for clients in the First Nations and Inuit Home and Community Care Program.