Lending Library for NISH AbilityOne Producing NPAs

The Lending Library provides resources that support the staff and organizational needs of NISH AbilityOne Producing NPAs with AbilityOne contracts. It currently contains video-based training materials on VHS, DVD, and CD-ROM; training manuals to support classroombased activities; and salary surveys covering the nonprofit sector.

Requesting Training Materials

NISH covers the cost of shipping the materials to and from the borrower. NPAs are encouraged to suggest new titles or tapes about subjects that are not currently in the library. To suggest a topic or DVD, please contact Lorraine Chan at lchan@nish.org.

Up to three (3) DVDs, videos, and/or training manuals may be requested at one time, and items may be kept for 30 days. Late fees may be assessed for items that are not returned, or are lost or damaged. To request a video, DVD, or training manual, please visit the Lending Library at www.nishacademy.org > Second Floor > Lending Library. Detailed information on materials is available online at the Lending Library. For questions on the status of your request, please contact Marc Rene at mrene@nish.org.

Requesting a Compensation Survey Collection via the Lending Library

A set of compensation (salary) surveys can be requested through the Lending Library to assist NPAs researching salary data in the nonprofit sector. NISH covers the cost of shipping the surveys to and from the borrower. Each set may be kept for up to 10 working days. The full replacement cost will be assessed for items that are late, damaged or not returned. To request a compensation survey collection, please visit the Lending Library at www.nishacademy.org > Second Floor > Lending Library.

Custodial Resources

• Asbestos Awareness: Understanding the Risk
• Bloodborne Pathogens Commercial Facilities Part 1
  (English and Spanish)
• Bloodborne Pathogens Commercial Facilities Part 1
  (English and Spanish)
• BSI—Body Substance Isolation (English and Spanish)
• Building Service Industry: Ground Rules
• Building Service Industry: Office Cleaning
• Building Service Industry: Quality Control
• Building Service Industry: Resilient Floor Care
• Building Service Industry: Restroom Cleaning
• Building Service Industry: Safety
• Building Service Industry: Successful Supervision
• Carts, Closets, Equipment & Supplies
  (English and Spanish)
• Cleaning and Polishing Floors Without Slips and Falls
• Cleaning Basics A–Z
• Cleaning the Discharge Unit (English and Spanish)
• Cleaning the Occupied Patient Unit
• Cleaning the Patient Restroom (English and Spanish)
• Contractors Guide to Employee Incentive &
• Motivation Programs
• Daily Floor Maintenance
• Ground Rules for Custodians (English and Spanish)
• Ground Rules for Professional Custodians
• Guidelines to Property, Security & Safe Etiquette
• Hazardous Materials: Your Right to Know
• Housekeeper Rules of Conduct (English and Spanish)
• How to Be a Light Duty Specialist Kit
• How to Be a Restroom Specialist Kit
• How to Be a Utility Specialist in Carpet Care
• How to Be a Vacuum Specialist
• How to Coach a Successful Team Kit
• Interior Office Building Cleaning Part 1 (available in English and Spanish)
• Interior Office Building Cleaning Part 2 (available in English and Spanish)
• Maintaining Janitorial Equipment
• Making Effective Cleaning Inspections
• Motivating & Empowering Workers
• Myths about PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
• Power Tools Training Series: Bloodborne Pathogen Procedures
• Power Tools Training Series: Carpet Care
• Power Tools Training Series: Cleaning and Disinfection
• Power Tools Training Series: Daily Office Cleaning
• Power Tools Training Series: Floor Care
• Power Tools Training Series: Hazard Communication Program
• Power Tools Training Series: Restroom Care
• Safety for Custodians (English and Spanish)
• Safety Matters
• Universal Precautions
• Unsolved Accidents
• Window Cleaning

Food Service Resources

• Food Service Sanitation Series: Keeping Microbes in Check
• Hazardous Materials: Your Right to Know
• Myths about PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
• Personal Hygiene in Food Service
• Preventing Foodborne Illness
• Safe Handling of Kitchen Tools and Machinery

Laundry and Linen Resources

• Chlorine vs. Oxygen Bleach
• Customer Needs Analysis and Installation
• Developing the Road Map: From Philosophy to Action Plans
• Handling Soiled Healthcare Linen in a Laundry (English or Spanish)
• Hazardous Materials: Your Right to Know
• The Importance of Quality
• Improving Laundry Productivity: The Power of Attention
• Introduction and Overview of Textile Management
• Laundry & Infection Control
• Linen Management: Taking Inventory
• Optimizing Operational Laundry Efficiency
• Order Makeup, Stockroom Management and Load-out
• Processing in the Plant
• Product Line Management
• Purchasing and Inventory Management
• A Resource Guide to Laundry Contracts
• Safe Handling of Hazardous Drug
• Contaminated Linens
• Solving Laundry Problems
• Textile Resource Management Series

Working with People with Disabilities

• Abandoned to Their Fate
• Accommodating Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities in the Workplace
• ADA and Disability Law
• Aging 1: Meeting Basic Needs
• Aging 2: Living with Dignity
• The Art of Effective Communication
• Asperger Syndrome
• The Challenges of Working with Staff: A Training Video for Front Line Managers in the MR/DD Field
• Computer Access: Hardware and Software Adaptations for People with Disabilities
• Conversations for Three: Communicating Through Interpreters
• Coping
• The Critical Crossroad
• Counseling Skills
• Depression and Manic Depression
• Diagnosing Challenging Behavior, Volume 1
• Diagnosing Challenging Behavior, Volume 2
• Diagnosis According to DSM-IV, Volume 1
• Diagnosis According to DSM-IV, Volume 2
• Diagnosis According to DSM-IV, Volume 3
• Disability Etiquette in the Workplace
• Drawing the Line: Professional vs. Unprofessional Behavior in the Workplace When Working with People
  Who Have Developmental Disabilities
• Effective Teaching Strategies: Ten Techniques for Staff Working with People with MR/DD
• Effective Teaching Within Community Settings
• Eight Easy Ways to Lose a Job...and How to Head in the Right Directions
• Emergency Evacuation
• Getting There
• Group Counseling: Interactive Behavioral Model
• Group Counseling: One Complete Session
• Hazardous Materials: Your Right to Know
• How to Be a Success at Work Series
• I Belong Out There: Encourage Self-Determination and Community Inclusion
• The Interviewing Edge for Job Seekers with Disabilities
• Interviewing Job Applicants with Disabilities
• Interviewing Skills for Job Candidates with Learning or Other Hidden Disabilities
• Interviewing Skills for Job Seekers with Physical Disabilities
• Is This Abuse?
• Job Coaching Strategies
• Job Search Tactics for People with Disabilities
• My Choice, Your Decision
• Myths about PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
• Open Futures: People with Disabilities at Work ( available)
• Planning for Life
• Resumes and Applications for People with Disabilities
• Self-Determination: Enabling People to Make Choices
• Self-Improvement: 10 Steps to Positive Self-Esteem
• Situations in the Workplace/Supervising an Employee with a Disability ( 2 Video Set)
• Special Interview Challenges: Minorities, Women and People with Disabilities
• Start Your Job—Promptness and Other Skills Employers Seek
• Strategies for Changing Behavior
• Succeed in Your Job—Advice to Keep Your Career on Target
• Supporting Self-Determination: Strategies for Direct
• Support Staff
• Survive on Your Job—Tips for Staying Afloat at Work
• Teaching Anger Management 
• Teaching People with Developmental Disabilities ( 4 video set)
• Telecommunications: Communications Access for People with Disabilities
• The Ten Commandments on Disability Awareness
• Ten Golden Rules for the Workplace 
• Understanding Developmental Disabilities
• Valuing Diversity at the Interpersonal Level
• Welcome to the Team: Disability Etiquette in the Workplace 
• What Is Self-Determination and How to Make it Work
• Whose Decision Is It Anyway? ( 4 video set)
• Young Adults Working on Self-Determination

The Stanford University Executive Briefings – Strategies for the Competitive Edge

Each month, a leading corporate manager, consultant, or academic is invited to Stanford University to present his or her vision of the future marketplace and strategies that will grow and create successful businesses. These presentations are recorded in the Stanford University Executive Briefings Series.

Viewers will get practical suggestions and thoughtprovoking ideas from these videos and DVDs that will help jump-start cutting-edge strategies. These videos feature some of the best minds in industry and academia as the speakers share their insights into realworld challenges and speak candidly about the critical issues that will decide the fate of businesses.

Executive Briefings

• Building Intelligent Business Alliances 
• Building Retail Brands to Drive Value 
• Coaching a Winning Team 
• Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos 
• Corporate Legends and Lore 
• Creating the Future 
• Creative Thinking 
• Creativity in Business 
• Dealing with the Crisis and Transition 
• Death by Growth 
• The Dilemmas of Team-Based Organizations 
• The Entrepreneurial Process 
• Fear of Feedback 
• Focus Your Business 
• Frontiers of Excellence 
• Getting Results in the Face of Rapid Change 
• Growing a Company by Retaining Top Talent 
• How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People 
• How Great Decisions Get Made 
• How Leaders Boost Productivity 
• How to Build a Brand 
• Implementing Strategy 
• Innovation Management and Incentives Design 
• The Knowing Doing Gap 
• Leadership Aikido 
• Leadership in a Wired World 
• Managing Change 
• Managing Communication in a Multicultural World 
• Managing with Power 
• The Mastery of Speaking as a Leader 
• Mobilizing Commitment in Your Organization 
• Organizing Your Business Around the Customer
• Overcoming Barriers to Strategic Change 
• People-First Management 
• The Power of Persuasion 
• Preventing Burnout in Your Organization 
• Race, Ethnicity, and Demographic Change in the American Marketplace 
• The Search for Life After Planning 
• Structuring Strategic Business Alliances 
• Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work 
• Value-Based Leadership: The New Frontier in Value Creation 
• The Value of Information 
• Visionary Companies 
• Winners (Don’t) Take All: Creating and Claiming Value in Negotiation 
• Zero Time: Learning to Respond Instantly