

Leadership’s Role in a Person-centred Organization
Leadership’s Role in a Person-centred Organization is an online course that is intended for senior leadership and boards of directors. This course explores your role as a leader when it comes to embedding and strengthening person-centred practice in the organization and can be accessed at any time and completed at each person’s individual pace (over the 30-day access period).
This course will take approximately 1 hour to complete.
This course is eligible for COMPASS funding.

Leadership’s Role in a Person-centred Organization
At the core of your organization should be the belief that all people deserve a satisfying, safe, and productive life in their community. To support them in life means to stay focused on the concepts of empowerment, respect, dignity, inclusion, and choice, or in other words, being person-centred. Taking a person-centred approach to support in the disability service sector is considered best practice and is a key component of service delivery for organizations that support people experiencing disability. When people are supported in person-centred ways it means they are in the driver’s seat, deciding how to live the lives they want. As a leader, it is up to you to ensure that your organization supports people to live their best lives in ways that are meaningful and important to them. While you may not be providing direct support, you are in a pivotal position to positively impact and influence the way support is provided in your organization.
Whether you are a board director, executive director, or senior manager, this is your opportunity to reflect on and assess where your organization currently is in its person-centred philosophy and approach, and identify areas or ways in which person-centred practice can be built on and improved, as it continues to evolve and progress.
This course explores your role as a leader when it comes to embedding and strengthening person-centred practice in the organization. While you may not provide direct support, you are in a pivotal position to positively impact and influence the way support is provided.
Learners will have 30 days to complete this course.
COMPASS funding is available to SARC Regular and Associate Members, as well as Affiliate Members with CLSD funding.
COMPASS funding will cover the registration fees for an unlimited number of employees and/or board directors to take this course.
In order to receive this funding, organizations must:
- Register employee(s) at your organization for the course.
- Use your COMPASS code at check-out to access this training at no cost.
- Have the person complete the immediate session evaluation.
- Have the person complete the follow-up session evaluation which will be emailed to them.
As a requirement of CLSD COMPASS funding, SARC must report on training satisfaction rates. As a result, we ask that all learners complete individual program evaluations immediately upon finishing any training, as well as within three (3) to four (4) months of completion. Your feedback will also be used to ensure that SARC continues to provide the best training possible.