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

Support of Volunteers

Volunteers are encouraged to contact the Care Team Coordinator at any time with their questions or concerns regarding any issue involving their Care Team service, such as:

• Well being of Care Receiver and changing needs of the Care Receiver
• Need for an additional Care Team volunteer
• Needing help finding a substitute
• Care Receiver/caregiver family dynamics

At Normandale, regular meetings are held for Care Team volunteers. The meetings may be “sharing” meetings in which volunteers recount (without naming names) what they are doing with their Care Receivers and their experiences. There are also educational meetings which bring in experts on topics of interest to the Care Team volunteers, such as Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, falls prevention, senior housing choices, the art of listening, and hospice.