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PSW program expected re-launch this fall After a year-long hiatus, The Jarlette Training Institute is hoping to re-launch its Personal Support Worker program beginning this November. The program, which is held at Roberta Place, the provider’s Barrie-based long term care home, is part-time, running three nights a week for 34 weeks. Now in its fourth year, the Institute typically has 12 to 20 students participating in its PSW program. Enrolment has waned slightly from 2005, says Terry Bressette, operations assistant, due to competition from the nearby Georgian College and the Adult Learning Centre, who both offer a PSW certificate program. But as a long-term care/retirement home provider with more than 17 homes in Ontario, Bressette feels that the Jarlette program is unique as an extension and direct reflection of lessons learned over a thirty year history. “David’s (David Jarlette, President) theory was this: who are the experts? Well, it’s us. So then we thought, why don’t we train PSWs the way we think they should be trained?” asks Bressette. Students who enroll in the program undergo 24 weeks of theory training, five weeks of clinical training, followed by a five-week precept placement. The precept placement, explains Bressette, is not confined to a long term care setting. Students often help with in-home supports, she says. The program, directed by Carmen Priester, relies on rotating teachers – most with extensive experience and RN training – and interest at Roberta Place amongst staff in teaching remains high. “Everyone wants to be a teacher,” says Bressette. Although there are already a number of students enrolled for this fall’s program, Bressette expects that recent Ministry of Health and Long Term Care commitments to increase the number of beds in Ontario – Minister Smitherman announced applications for an additional 350 beds to south eastern Ontario last week – will increase interest in PSW training. Jarlette is also opening a new retirement home near Roberta Place sharing the same namesake. A number of PSW positions could be available there, says Bressette. Bressette notes that there has been consideration of starting a Registered Practical Nurse degree to complement and expand upon the PSW program.
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