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!