For care professionals. Here you find tools you can use in a conversation tomorrow: you put the screen between the two of you, your client chooses, and what you make together can go home on paper.
You hold the conversation; we do not need to tell you anything about that. What we add is something to look at together: a scale from 0 to 10, three circles with the people around someone, a card with the topics for today. Most tools work straight in the browser, without an account, and do not send on anything you fill in.
Further down this page there are also tools for yourself, for after a difficult conversation, and tools to make your texts and website accessible. And we point the way to good apps and websites by other makers and to the pieces in our knowledge base. The tools, their pages and the knowledge base are in Dutch.
Did you use a tool in a conversation and did it go differently than you expected? Or is something missing for your clients? Send us a message. What you notice in practice makes the tools better.
For the start, the middle and the end of a conversation. Your client chooses and taps, and you can print many of them, so your client has something to hold when the conversation is over.
A difficult conversation sometimes stays with you for a while. Take a few minutes for yourself afterwards and look at what happened, how you feel and what you did well. Or look back at the end of the day on three things that went well.
Do you write letters, leaflets or a website for clients? Then check whether everyone can read and use your text, your colours and your images. You can also make an accessibility statement for your organisation here.
Guides, explainers and checklists, in Dutch, for the questions you run into at work: which tool suits this client, what does privacy law allow, and how do you write a letter everyone understands. The sources are included.
Sometimes the tool your team needs does not exist yet. Then we design it together, with you and with your clients.
Then start with the tool finder. Below it, all tools are together, in small groups.
Answer three short questions and see which tools suit you: from E-powerment and from others.
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These tools help you prepare a conversation, have it or look back on it later. You can do that with your client, with your care professional or with someone you trust.
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Make a clear card (in Dutch) for your client's appointment, with pictures and large print. Print it and hand it over.
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Place the people around you in three circles: close, a bit further and further away. That way you see in one drawing who is there for you. There are questions to talk about, and you can print everything.
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Use a number from 0 to 10 to show how things are now, and choose which number is good enough. Then you get questions to keep talking about, or to think about on your own. You can also print the scale.
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A whole conversation in steps, on one screen on the table. Choose a route and go through the steps together. At the end you have one report: a sheet for your client and a text for the file.
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What are you good at? Pick the Dutch-language cards that fit you, or choose three for someone else. Add when you showed it.
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At the start of a conversation, choose today’s topics together. Put them in order and pick where to start. You get a card for the table.
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Turn something you want to achieve into a few small steps, on your own or together with someone who helps you. Print your plan and tick off every step you have done.
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At the end of a conversation, say how it was for you. You pick a face for four sentences, and then you look at the answers together.
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A clock that shows how much time is left. The green part gets smaller and smaller until the time is up.
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Sometimes talking is hard. Pick a photo that fits what you want to say, and a question to talk about appears. Handy at the start of a conversation, or when it falls silent.
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Unsure about a choice? List the pros and cons and choose how much each one weighs for you. A pair of scales shows what you wrote down. The choice is yours.
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Find Dutch words for how you feel. Choose a feeling, then the words that fit and how strong it is. On your own or with someone who helps you.
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Spin the wheel for a question to think about or talk about. There are questions for yourself, and questions for care professionals about their profession, for example to discuss with a colleague.
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Tools you use on your own, at a moment that suits you.
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Briefly track how you feel every day. After a week you see which days went better and which less so.
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Look at eight areas of your life, choose what you want to work on and plan a first small step. Do it again later and compare two compasses side by side.
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A few minutes for yourself after a difficult conversation. You take a moment to look at what happened, how you feel and what you did well. Nothing is stored.
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Make a small card about what helps you when things are not going well. Print it, fold it and keep it with you.
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Look back at the end of the day. Write down three things that went well, however small, and keep them on a little card.
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For anyone who makes texts, websites or documents: check whether everyone can read and use them.
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Write good alt text for an image. Answer a few questions (in Dutch) and get advice and a draft you can copy.
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Check whether your Dutch text is easy to read. See long sentences and difficult words, with a simpler word next to them.
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Test your own website using only the keyboard. Ten short steps, each linked to its WCAG 2.2 requirement, show what works and what does not, with a tip for every point.
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Check whether your text is easy to read on its background. Pick two colours and see straight away if they meet WCAG.
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See roughly how someone with colour blindness sees your colours or an image. So you notice in time whether your leaflet, website or chart works for everyone.
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List what your organisation has already done to make the website accessible, and what still needs doing. You get a simple statement in plain language, as a PDF. Public bodies have their own official model.
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Paste the HTML of a web page and quickly see what is missing in its structure: headings, alt text, link text, buttons and labels.
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How do you choose a digital tool, how do you introduce it and how do you use it safely? That is what the guides, explainers and checklists in our knowledge base are about. They are written in plain Dutch, and the sources are included.
Een goed digitaal hulpmiddel past bij de vraag van je cliënt en bij wat die kan. Begin daarom bij het doel, niet bij de app. Kijk daarna naar privacy, toegankelijkheid, kosten en bewijs, en beslis samen met je cliënt.
Een nieuw digitaal hulpmiddel werkt pas als je team het echt gebruikt. Begin bij het probleem dat je wilt oplossen, probeer het eerst klein uit en betrek cliënten en alle collega's. Kijk daarna samen wat het oplevert, en beslis dan pas of je doorgaat.
De Algemene verordening gegevensbescherming (AVG) is de Europese wet die persoonsgegevens beschermt. Gegevens over iemands gezondheid krijgen extra bescherming. Hier lees je wat dat betekent in je dagelijkse werk: van mail en foto's tot apps en chatbots. Twijfel je? Vraag dan de functionaris gegevensbescherming van je organisatie.
Een tekst op taalniveau B1 is voor de meeste volwassenen goed te lezen. Je zet het belangrijkste bovenaan, kiest gewone woorden, schrijft korte, actieve zinnen en schrijft respectvol over mensen. Deze gids laat in tien stappen zien hoe dat werkt, met voorbeelden uit brieven en berichten aan cliënten.
Sometimes the tool you need does not exist yet. Then we first work out together what is really going on, with people seeking help, care professionals and the organisation at the table.
After that, we make what is needed: an app, a website, a game or a training. On the custom work page you can read step by step how that goes.
We do not have to make everything ourselves. Here are Dutch apps and websites by other makers that you can use in your work or recommend to your client. They are listed by theme, and each shows who makes it and what it costs.
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By Stichting 113 Zelfmoordpreventie
For people who think about suicide, and the people close to them. Call or chat day and night, free and anonymous. There is also online self-help.
By Dialexis Advies B.V.
App for dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) for people with borderline. With over 200 exercises, a crisis section and a schedule for the therapist.
By Minddistrict
Platform for online treatment and self-help in care. You only use the app if your care professional creates an account for you.
By NiceDay Healthcare Nederland B.V.
App with a diary, routines and articles about mental health. You use it on your own or together with your therapist in mental health care.
By PsyMate BV (developed with Maastricht University)
App that asks you at random moments how you feel and what you are doing. The basic module is free; uses for research or care are paid.
By Stichting Lees Simpel
App that summarises a photo or PDF of a difficult letter in plain language. This is done with AI. You do not need an account.
By Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
Government guide to care and support. Explains youth care, social support, home care, mental health care and long-term care, and where to ask for help.
By Samen Beter Thuis (Oss)
Short instruction videos and tips about caring, moving people and aids at home. For people who need care, informal carers and care professionals.
By Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
Government information site about domestic violence, for care professionals and agencies. With factsheets, publications, interventions and the reporting code.
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By BeterDichtbij (owned by NVZ and SAZ, associations of hospitals)
App to send messages and video call with your own care professionals. It only works if your care organisation takes part and invites you.
By MantelzorgNL (national association)
National association for informal carers. Information about support, money, work and housing, and the Mantelzorglijn for questions by phone, WhatsApp or email.
2 tools
By Nederlands Jeugdinstituut
Database of programmes for support and help with growing up and parenting. An independent committee has assessed these interventions.
By Stichting Kinderperspectief
App and website for young people turning 18. Explains housing, money, work, school and care, with information from your municipality if it takes part.
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By Nibud (National Institute for Family Finance Information)
Online plan by Nibud, the Dutch budget institute. You fill in your goal and spending anonymously. You get tips to save money and a personal action plan.
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By Stichting Expertisecentrum Oefenen.nl
Practise reading, writing, maths, and computers and the internet online, on topics such as work, health and money. You create a free account.
Do you have an idea, is something missing, or would you like to try a tool with your team? Send us a message and tell us in a few sentences what is going on. We read everything and are happy to think along, and it commits you to nothing.
