NTG Workshop - Cincinnati, Ohio May 17, 18 & 19, 2023

The NTG's evidence-informed Dementia Capable Care of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities and  Dementia is offered as a two-day "foundation" workshop or a three-day "Train-the-Trainer" workshop*.  It is based on the NTG's evidence-informed national model Education and Training Curriculum on Dementia and Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities and is held at various locations across the United States.

​Target Audience:  The workshop is appropriate for any staff with direct or ancillary care responsibilities of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in both disability-related, health care, and aging-related agencies.

Workshop Outcomes: Greater understanding of dementia and its effects on people with intellectual disabilities, greater capacity to provide dementia-capable direct services to adults with ID and dementia, and knowledge of how to develop a dementia-capable environment and programming.

*NTG Affiliiated Regional Trainer Workshop.  The first two days of the workshop cover the topics outlined above in the 2 Day Basic Workshop.  A third day is added and is devoted to understanding and delivering the full NTG Dementia Capable Care Curriculum. NTG Affiliated Trainers are authorized to use NTG branded and copyrighted training materials to train within their own organization or to conduct training for outside agencies and organizations. Affiliated trainers have access to greatly expanded topic modules, trainer manual, NTG continuing education webinars, and are mentored by NTG Master Trainers.

Following completion of the workshop participants are required to successfully complete an online test of knowledge before they will be awarded a certificate of completion and receive NTG branded and copyrighted training materials.