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Once you know me better, you will know I can be called a silk purse, a bag lady or any number of bag related items but certainly not “old hat” (per AD)! I am so excited to be a part of this team that I will overlook that disparagement. But back to business! I am currently looking for ways to streamline the huge training piece that our ICF/MRs have to document and track in the homes. I am having all training done within the home documented by Home Coordinators, Trainers and Therapists in T-logs and having them put Training in the title so I can check for recent training. However, I find that there are a multitude of plans and equipment trainings and I am unsure how to keep this from becoming unmanageable under the TMS. I have created curriculum sections and classes but these pieces are a whole new level of documentation that falls under training. Can anyone give me some ideas for some simple solutions? I cannot seem to see the forest for the trees!

What a nice intro! I am definitely all about technology that will rid us of cumbersome and hard to track paper files. There is nothing (in my work) that would make me happier than to be paperless! It makes many people fearful, but it will make this industry so much more transparent and all of us more responsible. I am one of those former high school students who were engrossed in the terror of the computer age of Big Brother from books like 1984 and Farenheit 451. But then my 45 year old father went back to college after dropping out in the 9th grade and got his degree in Computer Journalism. That was back when you had to write everything in computer language (such as DOS). I crept up to my first computer at a job in a Christian bookstore in my 20′s. I became fascinated and have never turned back. Sure, there is craziness associated with people shooting info across the WEB willy nilly, but the truth is that there is never progress which someone does not abuse. The tremendous advantages we have with technology are our responsibility to use wisely and protect. Documentation and communication are so much quicker and viable with programs like Therap. We become more accountable for doing things properly and timely. And that is only the beginning. I am looking forward to the many ways in which Therap will bring our agency forward as the College of Direct Support has done.