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Dementia Capable Care Training
2026-10-07 08:00 - 17:00, 2026-10-08 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Halifax)
This highly interactive and evidence-informed workshop covers the basic concepts of support of an adult with intellectual disabilities and dementia. This training will be delivered by a NTG Certified Instructor, and is being offered through partnership with the WIPSI program through the Nova Scotia Department of Labour, Skills, and Immigration.
Topics include:
Introduction to Aging & ID

Understanding Dementia in Adults with ID
What is Dementia?
How does it present differently in Adults with ID?
Early Detection and Screening for Dementia in ID
Obtaining a Diagnosis
Health Care Advocacy for Adults with ID and Dementia
Understanding Responsive behaviors associated with Dementia
Non-pharmacologic Interventions
Communication Tips & Strategies
Adapting the Physical Environment
Dementia Capable Homes
Stage-based Considerations
Bridging Aging and Disability Networks.

The goal of this workshop is to develop a 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 support.
The workshop is appropriate for any staff with direct or ancillary support responsibilities of older adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in disability-related, health care, and aging-related agencies. (Direct Support Professionals, PSWs, Supervisors, Long Term Care personnel, Alzheimer Society, etc.)
This training will be held in HRM, registration details to follow.

ASIST Workshop
2026-11-03 08:30 - 16:30, 2026-11-04 08:30 - 16:30
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day suicide intervention training for anyone over the age of 18 interested in learning suicide first aid intervention skills. Trusted by professionals, approved by the World Health Organization, ASIST can be learned by anyone.
We are pleased to offer ASIST at a subsidized rate thanks to the generosity of the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia. The regular cost of ASIST is $275 plus taxes and fees, per person. Registration will open in September
This training workshop is being hosted in the HRM – exact venue TBD. Lunch will be provided both days. Those who are registered must attend all day, each day, to be eligible for a certificate.
Register here: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training [ASIST] NOV
