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Stuffed

By on April 12, 2013 in Educational Workshops, OTHER Educational Workshop Topics

Hi All,

Available for use as an educational workshop in the Co-ops and Villages! You can arrange to check out the laptop and projector through Maxine.  “Stuffed” is saved to the laptop through Unbox (Amazon). You can also purchase it for a nominal amount on Amazon.com.

“Stuffed” by Arwen Curry and Cerissa Tanner. This is a 21-minute documentary about compulsive hoarding that is appropriate for service providers and residents/members alike. More information on the film at http://www.fanlight.com/catalog/films/489_stuff.php.

STUFFED

discussion questions developed by Matt Hamburg

 

 

— Has anyone worked with hoarders or clutterers before? If yes, how were you able to recognize the problem and what did you do about it?

 

— Do you identify with anyone from the video? If so, who and why?

 

— Did you learn anything about hoarding that you did not already know? What did you learn?

 

— Were you surprised by anything you saw?

 

— Does anyone have anything else that comes to mind that you’d like to talk about?

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Educational Workshop Ideas for “Not being Old”

By on April 12, 2013 in Educational Workshops, OTHER Educational Workshop Topics

Hi All,

At yesterday’s SC Team Meeting we discussed options for educational workshops that aren’t specifically geared towards older adult issues. I wanted to follow up with some ideas that the team has used over the past year (gleaned from your AASC Online reports). Please add more!

– Chef demonstrations of all sorts

– Creating and following New Year’s Resolutions

– Music Appreciation (WC3, Motown Revue, etc)

– Understanding your Ballot

– Farmer’s Market

– Public Speaking by Toastmasters

– Communicating in Challenging Circumstances

– Telling your Father’s Day or Mother’s Day Story

– Paper Organization

– Meditation

– Healthy Walking – starting a walking group

– Journaling

– Summertime/wintertime skin care

Great ideas all!

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Meet and Greet Attachments

By on April 9, 2013 in Educational Workshops, OTHER Educational Workshop Topics, Resources

Hello everyone!

I held my meet and greet yesterday and we had a great time! I just wanted to share with you some of the ideas I used during the session to help the residents get to know me and vice versa. I also handed out a survey of needs and interests so that I could better gauge what my community is looking for in services as well as educational programs. Feel free to use, ammend and share!

I started off with” 2 Truths and a Lie”. I had 12 statements broken into sets of three in which two statements were true and one was a lie (about myself) and had them guess which was which. I then discussed each statement in detail to help them know more about me.

Then I had a list of “Have You Ever” questions (have you been to Disneyland, have you been in a protest, etc) and had people raise their hands and then offer stories or explanations if they wished. This was good for me to get to know more about them and also for them to learn more about each other.

Lastly, I had a “Service Coordinator True or False” which had statements about service coordination and I had them all guess if they were true or false and then I explained the statement more in depth.

Attached is the survey of needs and interests that I left them with at the end of the session. This was really interesting to have because I was surprised by some of the interests and needs. It will help me to better focus my community research efforts and educational programming.

Hope things are well!

 

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Educational Evaluation Sheet

By on March 20, 2013 in Educational Workshops, OTHER Educational Workshop Topics, Program Evaluation Templates

Simplistist design in order to get an overall summary of what the audience prefers in  the educational presentations.

The Check- off system makes it easy to tally and the open ended questions allows the audience members to express themselves as individuals.  Most of the answersto the open ended questions,  have been expressed in one to five words therefore should be somewhat easy to summarize.

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Social Work

By on March 15, 2013 in Educational Workshops, OTHER Educational Workshop Topics

March is Social Work month, let’s celebrate !PATH Brochure

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Older Michiganians Day

By on February 27, 2013 in Company News, OTHER Educational Workshop Topics

Save the date.  Seniors from your buildings may want to join seniors from across the State for this event in Lansing.

Older Michiganians Day flyer

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Age in Place with PACE presentation

By on February 25, 2013 in Educational Workshops, Health Screenings/Topics

PACE will open their doors in Kalamazoo Co. in March!  A presentation to introduce members and their family  to the program will be given by PACE.  It will describe the benefits of the program, eligibility requirements, and all the modalities designed to assist frail members to  to get the help they need to keep them in their homes.   This resource is amazing… From hot meals to in home nurses, to medication to social activities, and usually it’s free of charge!

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Healthy Choices, Healthy Living at Flat Rock Towers!

By on February 22, 2013 in Company News, Educational Workshops, Health Screenings/Topics, Resources

Diane Crawford and Victoria Haltom, service coordinators at LaBelle Tower, agreed to lend a hand at Flat Rock Towers! This month, Crawford and Haltom are presenting their Healthy Choices, Healthy Living workshop at FRT. Thanks for helping me out!

Their flyer, which was created by Victoria Haltom is attached. I also created invites for each member using PowerPoint, which is also attached.

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Workshop Invites

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PATH Workshop begins at Flat Rock Towers

By on February 22, 2013 in Company News, Health Screenings/Topics, OTHER Educational Workshop Topics

PATH (Personal Action Toward Health) is a 6-week workshop developed by Stanford Univeristy and offered by The Senior Alliance. Recently, Lindsay, Andrea, and myself all attended PATH training at TSA. Yesterday, Flat Rock Towers had it’s first PATH workshop, which was facilitated by Amanda Pier of The Senior Alliance and myself. Please see the attached flyer.

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In addition to the flyer, members at FRT also recieved special invitations to attend the event. I created the invitations using PowerPoint.  Please see the attached invitations.

PATH Invites

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MiCAFE 2013 Updates Workshop

By on February 19, 2013 in Educational Workshops, Food/Cooking/Nutrition Topics

Please see the attached flyer for our educational workshop with MiCAFE. The outreach leader will be providing updates for 2013 and answering members’ questions.

For feedback from members about the workshop, please see the attachment.

Feedback from 3-27-13.HPM

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