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What
is included in a Seminar Package?
Maximizing Brief Encounters:
Workshops in a Box
If your organization provides
services to the elderly, you know how the quality of your service can
be enhanced through training of your staff and volunteers. The problem
is that it takes time to develop workshops and training materials.
Now the work has been
done for you. 
This dynamic, award winning, course is broken into 7 distinct workshops,
each addressing a critical issue for those who provide services to the
aging adult. Everything needed to create a successful workshop is included
in the box.
Successfully Train Your
Volunteers in either a 2 hour or 4 hour workshop!
The Maximizing Brief Encounters series is so successful because it provides
effective, easy to use strategies that volunteers and staff can easily
understand and implement.
Create better job and
career satisfaction with your staff and volunteers.
Provide tools to more effectively relate to and communicate with their
clients. Your volunteers and staff will benefit by being able to:
- Provide assistance and
interventions that can help seniors live independently - in their own
homes - longer.
- Help improve the lifestyle
of aging adults by providing simple, easy to implement strategies.
- Recognize home safety hazards
and learn how to provide the proper interventions.
- Recognize potential food
and medication problems earlier, so interventions can be taken.
- Learn to understand and
recognize the symptoms of elderly depression and communicate with both
aging adults and family about treatment options.
- Recognize common age-related
changes in the senses - hearing, seeing, touch, etc.
- Better understand and empathize
with changes in sensory perception, communication, memory, and other
issues common to aging adults.
Help Family Members Better
Communicate with their Loved Ones
These workshops are not only of great benefit to staff and volunteers,
but also work well for family members. Family members can:
- Better understand age-related
issues that impact their relationships with older adults.
- Understand how sensory difficulties
with sight, hearing, touch, and taste make a difference in how aging
adults experience their world, and how these can affect their mood and
their ability to communicate.
- Learn communication strategies
to build an effective dialogue that helps to reduce defensiveness and
irritability in conversations with aging adults.
- Learn to recognize potential
home safety issues and help remedy them.
- Learn to recognize potential
food safety issues and assist in providing solutions.
- Learn about the hazards
of medications and help create effective strategies for managing the
many medications that most aging adults take.
Increase Client Satisfaction
and Safety
You will also find that your clients are happier:
- Clients are more comfortable
with staff and volunteers and welcome them to their homes.
- They communicate easier
and are less hostile.
- They feel more confident
in their ability to stay in their homes safely.
- They welcome the services
that your agency provides.
- They listen to the advice
of home health aides and potentially stay well longer.
Bring an Expert to Your
Training - without the travel cost!
These workshops have been created by Sharon Johnson - who has over 20
years of experience in providing education for home health workers, volunteers,
and extension service courses. She has volunteered with several agencies
that provides services to home-bound seniors and saw a need for training
of volunteers. One option you have is to play the presentation with Sharon's
voice to your group. There are designated areas in the presentation to
stop and discuss or lead the group activities that are included in the
instructor's materials.
Provide Training that
is Easy for Everyone to Understand
Sharon tested these materials in several workshops and made adjustments
to make the content easy to understand (even for those without a high
school education). She then worked with other instructors and developed
a package that is easy to implement. Recognizing that many of the volunteers
are seniors, she created presentations that are easy to read and aren't
overly complex. She located an assortment of research-based materials
that are written for this audience and included them in the student materials.
These workshops are now being
given at several community colleges for the community and are perfect
for meals on wheels groups or any agency that provides services to the
elderly.
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