Passed Epilepsy Action's Course To Be An Accredited Volunteer

[A-ha25]

In October last year I took the above 12 module course and found out that I had answered the questions to the Local Services Manager's satisfaction.

The next stage of the course will be in March for mow.

[e-in-me]

Hi A-ha25,

Are you asking or suggesting that i have to or should complete the 12 module course?

e-in-me.

[A-ha25]

If you are interested in the course then have a go. It opened my eyes to epilepsy.

I did the course with epilepsy action because they were looking for people to become Accredited Volunteers. We have to use the booklets epilepsy action issue for the course, and are told not to use personal experiences.

What interested me in the course was that at the end of the training I would be able to go and give talks about epilepsy to schools, places of employment and what surprised me the most was being told the prison service recieved a talk.

I also goto seminars and attend local branches as well.

[e-in-me]

A-ha25,

I have given talks,met groups, and so on 20-25 yrs ago with the local social services and would like to do some work of type again.

I do remember that the main topic of the talks was my personal experiences such as physical health(cuts n bruises),mental state(sense of humour helps) and other peoples reactions to my fits.

If you are told to use the booklets,how do you avoid not useing any personal experience? after all is'nt that what we base the knowledge of this website on!

e-in-me.

[EpilepsyAction1 Partner Epilepsy Action]

Hi, the aim of Epilepsy Action accredited volunteers (AV)training programme is to provide learners with an overview of the medical and social aspects of living with epilepsy, and also practical presentation and information-giving skills.

The programme enables our AV’s to deliver epilepsy awareness training and communicate information effectively and with confidence.

In delivering presentations on epilepsy to interested groups, we recognise that drawing upon personal experience can be useful, but it is not essential (the AV role is open to anyone with the appropriate skills). So, we don’t discourage drawing upon personal experience, we merely advise that it is kept in balance. The key point being that the presentation isn’t about the individual, it’s about epilepsy. We know that our AV’s recognise this and do a cracking job – I get to see the presentation evaluations!

We’re always on the look out for new ‘recruits’ and so, if you’re interested, please get in touch for more information.

Dyfed

National Manger for Volunteers.

Epilepsy Action

[e-in-me in reply to EpilepsyAction1]

Epilepsy action,

I would be interested in completing training programmes to help

bring epilepsy awareness to our communities.Can you help put me on the right track?

e-in-me.