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Training by the people who know best
People with learning difficulties can be good trainers. The Helping Each Other For a Better World team is a group of people with learning difficulties. They made a training pack and a course to help people find better things to do.

The training pack is called Making Your Days Better. The training team tried out the pack and course with three groups of people with learning difficulties.

These are the things the training team found out.


bullet point The course worked well when people knew each other and enjoyed working together.
bullet point Sometimes there were problems in running the course.
bullet point There were ways of working which helped things go better.
bullet point It is important to have the right support from staff.
bullet point The course needs to be long enough for people to learn things, and then make changes in their lives.