Introduction

Care Team Ministry
Replication Education Module

Background on Care Team
   Concept Development
History of Care Team Ministry
Definitions
Description and Parameters
Where Can Care Team Ministry
    Be Established?
How Do Teams Work?
Why Only 1-2 Hours?
Referrals
Calling Volunteers
Risk Management/Background
    Checks
Training
Care Team Established
Support of Volunteers
Ongoing Reporting
Cycle of Care Teams
Lessons Learned
Forming a Care Team Ministry -
    How to Get Started
Orientation for Organizations:
    Step 1, 2, 3
Media Information
Research & Resources
Conclusion and Sending Forth
Care Team Ministry Forms

Care Team Ministry
Volunteer Guidebook

Cycle of Care Teams

An individual Care Team is ongoing, but like many things, the process has a natural cycle (beginning/middle/end), depending upon the needs of the Care Receiver and Caregiver. Given that this program serves older adults with medical conditions and limitations in functional ability, deaths and illness occur. There does come a time when needs may be too great for volunteers to be able to serve a Care Receiver. Sometimes the Care Receiver experiences great medical complexities or increasing dementia, such that it is not safe for the senior to remain at home or for the volunteer to visit this person. The Care Team Ministry volunteer will likely encounter these situations, and should be prepared for them. For example, at a Care Receiver’s death, the Care Team volunteer members may have become like family and will, no doubt, grieve over the loss of a Care Receiver along with family members. It is important to recognize and respect these feelings.