Just Include Me is a free CPD-accredited online self-paced training for health professionals.

This training aims to shine a light on person-centered care and support health professionals to learn more about best practices, tools and resources to promote inclusion in health care for people with intellectual disability.

The training modules include:

• Just Include Me
• Communication Essentials
• Communications Toolkit
• Reasonable Adjustments
• Behaviour as Communication I
• Behaviour as Communication II
• Consent and Decision Making I
• Consent and Decision Making II
• Virtual Care

The modules below are only available through Medcast:

• Unconscious Bias in Health Care I
• Unconscious Bias in Health Care II

At the end of this eLearning series, you will be able to:

• Identify the individual needs of a person with intellectual disability for person-centred care.
• Determine and apply reasonable adjustments relevant to the person’s needs, while liaising with others involved in a person’s care and support.
• Effectively communicate with people by identifying their communication needs and applying appropriate adjustments.
• Understand your role in identifying underlying health factors and needs contributing to behaviours of concern in people with intellectual disability.
• Apply positive behaviour strategies to support people with intellectual disability in engaging with health services.
• Identify virtual care barriers for people with intellectual disability and determine reasonable adjustments to facilitate access to virtual care or alternatives.
• Understand your role in preserving the rights of people with intellectual disability to consent and make healthcare decisions.
• Apply decision support strategies to involve decision-makers in care provision based on individual will and preferences.

The content of the eLearning was developed through a co-production approach involving people with intellectual disability, carers, disability professionals, academics and health professionals. The case studies throughout the modules are based on lived experiences. This course can be done by anyone wanting to learn more about supporting people with intellectual disability and inclusive health care.

If you are not NSW Health staff can register for free through Medcast, which is is a nationwide platform. Once the learning is completed, there is a downloadable certificate that can be provided to the relevant professional accrediting body for CPD points.

The Just Include Me eLearning received funding from the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.