IHHC Online Academy is a free benefit to all employees of your agency with your membership to IHHC.
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IHHC ONLINE ACADEMY

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State Mandated Trainings Available

1. 6-hour initial and 3-hour annual Alzheimer's & dementia training
2. 1-hour sexual harassment prevention training for licensed professionals
3. 1-hour implicit bias awareness training for licensed professionals
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Home Services Worker Training

• 10-hour initial training
• 10-hour annual training

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Continuing Education Hours
Continuing Education (CE) hours are provided by the Illinois HomeCare & Hospice Council for the following licensed professionals:
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• APRN, RN, LPN
• Licensed Social Workers, Clinical Social Workers
• ​Other Professionals

Course Descriptions

Sexual Harassment Prevention Training 
This course was developed by the Illinois HomeCare & Hospice Council in July 2020 to meet the requirements of Public Act 100-762. This law requires sexual harassment prevention training for all persons in Illinois who hold a professional license issued by the Division of Professional Regulation (DPR) for professions that require CE to renew. The law requires licensees to complete a one-hour CE course in sexual harassment prevention training and is effective for all renewals on or after January 1, 2020. This CE requirement is included in the number of hours already required under the individual Acts and Rules and does not increase the number of hours required to renew a license. 

Implicit Bias Training 
This training has been developed by IHHC in collaboration with Hinshaw Culberson. Illinois Public Act 102-4 requires certain health care licensees to complete a one-hour continuing education course on implicit bias awareness prior to renewal of their licenses. This training will cover the following topics, required by 68 Ill. Adm. Code 1130.500: 

• Explanation of implicit bias; the difference between explicit and implicit biases 

• Causes of implicit bias; how they form and operate 

• Effects of implicit bias, the harms the cause 

• Interrupting and mitigating implicit bias 

  
Dementia Training  
The Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Act (410 ILCS 406) was passed by the General Assembly and signed into law in 2016. Subsequently, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) adopted rules (77 Ill. Adm. Code Part 973) to implement the law.   IHHC and C&V Senior Care Specialists, Inc. developed both the 6-hour initial training and the 3-hour annual training to meet the State requirements. 

Home Service Workers Training 
77 Ill. Adm. Code 245, The Home Health, Home Nursing, Home Services Agency Licensing Code, requires ten hours of initial training for Home Services Workers, at least five hours of which much be completed prior to first assignment and the remaining five hours completed within the first thirty days of employment; and ten hours of annual training for Home Services Workers. This set of training modules represents the initial ten hours of training: 

• Home Services Workers Responsibilities, Limitations and the Importance of Confidentiality 
• Communication 
• Observation, Reporting and Documentation 
• Basic Needs and Bathing 
• Personal Care 
• Toileting 
• Feeding, Ambulation and Transfers 
• Hygiene and Infection Control 
• Maintenance of a Clean, Safe & Healthy Environment 
• Safety and Emergencies 
• Abuse and Neglect 
• Understanding Dementia and Challenging Behaviors Associated with Dementia 

 The training modules included in the IHHC Home Services Worker series rely on information included in Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 2021.  Unless otherwise documented, all such information is republished with permission from Elsevier Ltd.