PWS Professional Providers Training in 2025
January 3, 2025 @ 3:20PM — December 31, 2025 @ 3:20PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
ARF Providers Can Earn ALL Your CEUs from PWCF!
PWCF is vendored by CA’s Department of Social Services to provide Continuing Education Units (CEU) to Adult Residential Providers. Attend an Overview Training Session any month of the year, and for more in-depth training, attend a Focus Session.
Whether you're a Residential Provider working in a group home or for a Supported Living Services agency, a Day Program Provider, or a Vocational Services Provider, we have a PWS Training Program just for you. We also have PWS Training Sessions for the School Professional -- contact PWCF to request your training session today!
PWS Overview Training Sessions
Attend a 2-hour live webinar Overview Training Session any month of the year. The course will provide an overview of PWS’s physiological and neurocognitive symptoms, describe how to create the environmental basics that all individuals with PWS need, and provide an overview of PWS-specific behavior management interventions and strategies.
This training is FREE for PWCF Professional Members (agency affiliation or individual). Handouts and video recording provided to all attendees. Attend as many training sessions as you’d like.
ARF Providers: Earn 2 CEU hours for live attendance. CEU Certificate $30/person for PWCF Members | $50/person non-members. (PWCF is vendored by CA’s Department of Social Services to provide CEU to Adult Residential Providers, Vendor #2000699-735-2.)
Training Dates (all dates 10am-12pm): 1/27 | 2/24 | 3/31 | 4/28 | 5/26 | 6/16 | 7/28 | 8/25 | 9/29 | 10/27 | 11/24 | 12/29
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PWS Focus Training Sessions
This live webinar series is designed to meet the requirement toward the recertification of Adult Residential Facility Providers. Each of the four sessions in the series provides in-depth focus on specific symptoms and provides useful strategies and interventions for symptom management. Time for questions and role-play opportunities enhance learning. Registration includes handouts and video recordings. Attend one or attend them all! Download the flyer for the full Agenda.
ARF Providers Can Earn ALL Your CEUs from PWCF! PWCF is vendored by CA’s Department of Social Services to provide Continuing Education Units (CEU) to Adult Residential Providers (Vendor #2000699-735-2). Each live webinar session is authorized to provide 3 hours CEUs for Adult Residential Facility providers, for a total of 12 hours CEUs.
4-Sessions Training Series: $170 for PWCF Professional Members (agency or individual) | $275 Non-members
Price includes up to 12 hours CEU Certificate for live attendance at every Focus Session.
Individual Focus Sessions: $45 for PWCF Professional Members (agency or individual) | $75 Non-members
Price includes up to 3 hours CEU Certificate for live attendance at each Focus Session.
Training Dates (all dates 9 AM - 12 PM): Focus Session #1 March 25 | Session #2 April 29 | Focus Session #3 May 27 | Focus Session #4 June 17
Focus Sessions Agenda:
Focus Session #1: Physiology, Food Security and Other Environmental Basics, Empathy, and Collaborative Problem Solving. The course will provide an overview of PWS’s most common physiological symptoms and current treatment or management strategies, summarize the PWS Environmental Basics and how to implement them, provide an overview of the use of Empathy as a powerful behavior management tool, provide an overview of the use of Collaborative Problem-Solving strategies, and finally, provide options for care providers to help manage their own stress as they care for this highly complex and challenging population. March 25 | 9 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Focus Session #2: Strategies to Reduce Oppositionalism and Arguing. The course will provide an overview of the ubiquitous nature of anxiety in PWS and provide specific strategies that help reduce this anxiety and therefore reduce maladaptive, unwanted behaviors. Specifically, this course will focus on strategies to respond to PWS’ low tolerance to frustration and disappointment, oppositional thinking, inflexibility, concrete thinking, and the high need to be perceived as correct. April 29 | 9 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Focus Session #3: Strategies to Improve Cooperation. This course will provide an overview of the ubiquitous nature of anxiety in PWS and provide specific strategies that help reduce this anxiety and therefore reduce maladaptive, unwanted behaviors. Specifically, this course will clarify that punishment and consequences are not effective with residents with PWS and in fact can increase maladaptive behaviors. We will focus on strategies to increase cooperation using strategies including Paint the Picture, Fixing a Past Goof, how to manage PWS’s impulsivity, attentional deficits, hyperfocus, motivational issues, and how to use PWS’s natural egocentrism to increase cooperation. May 27 | 9 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Focus Session #4: Manage Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors and When to Use Medication. This course will outline strategies to manage PWS’s obsessive-compulsive symptoms including skin picking, collecting, excessive talking, and excessive questions. We will describe how to respond to PWS’s unique symptom to confabulate, and false allegations of abuse. Finally, we will explore PWS’s psychiatric symptom profile, medication management, admonition against removing supports, and how important it is to educate other professional providers about PWS. June 17 | 9 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.