NZQA registered unit standard
18675 version 2
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Title
Demonstrate knowledge of the impact on family/whānau when a
family/whānau member has a disability
Level
5
Credits
6
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to identify and
analyse: the personal impact on, and issues affecting,
family/whānau; community resources and services available to
family/whānau; and community attitudes to family/whānau,
when a family/whānau member has a disability.
Classification
Health, Disability, and Aged Support > Supporting People with
Disabilities
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Support should aim to maintain, improve, or restore a consumer's independence
and/or interdependence; utilise the consumer’s existing strengths; and, where
possible, utilise the resources of the local community.
2
Legislation and codes relevant to this unit standard include:
Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services
Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996;
Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001;
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
Human Rights Act 1993;
Privacy Act 1993.
3
New Zealand Standards relevant to this unit standard include:
NZS 8134.0:2008 Health and disability services Standards – Health and disability
services (general) Standard;
NZS 8134.1:2008 Health and disability services Standards – Health and disability
services (core) Standards.
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Definitions
Consumer refers to a person accessing services in a health or disability setting in
either a residential care facility or in a private home – the person’s own or a friend’s,
group’s, or family member’s.
Whole of the person's life means the actual experiences of the family/whānau dating
from the birth of the person who has a disability (or the onset of the disability if
acquired after birth) to the present day, and potential issues for the rest of the
person's life.
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NZQA registered unit standard
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify and analyse the personal impact on, and issues affecting, family/whānau when a
family/whānau member has a disability.
Range
one person with a specific disability, and the person’s family/whānau.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The personal impact on siblings, parents, or caregivers, and the wider
family/whānau is identified and analysed in terms of the person’s disability, over
the whole of the person's life.
1.2
Issues affecting family/whānau are identified and analysed in terms of needs
relating to the person’s disability type.
Outcome 2
Identify and analyse community resources and services available to family/whānau when a
family/whānau member has a disability.
Range
community resources and services may include but are not limited to –
education, health, recreation, commercial, professional, volunteer, advocacy,
local Council publications, employment, family/whānau support groups;
evidence is required for any two resources or services.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Community resources and services available are identified and analysed in
terms of how easy they are to access by family/whānau of the person with a
disability.
2.2
Community resources and services available are identified and analysed in
terms of how well they serve family/whānau of the person with a disability.
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Outcome 3
Identify and analyse community attitudes to family/whānau when a family/whānau member
has a disability.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Community attitudes to family/whānau of a person with a disability are identified
and analysed in terms of historical and contemporary perspectives.
analysis includes but is not limited to an account of – prevailing
values and societal attitudes; legislative or regulatory requirements
underpinning values and attitudes; issues of discrimination and
stigmatisation; religious/spiritual views; medical views;
evidence is required of one historical and one contemporary
perspective.
Range
Planned review date
31 December 2015
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
17 December 2001
31 December 2011
Review
2
19 November 2010
N/A
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0024
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, or
an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can
report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading
to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Consent requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Community Support Services ITO Limited
SSB Code 101814
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NZQA registered unit standard
18675 version 2
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Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Community Support Services ITO Limited
enquiries@careerforce.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit
standard.
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