Care Team Ministry
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Introduction This Normandale Care Team Ministry Replication Education Module has been produced by the Normandale Center for Healing & Wholeness based on our positive experience in implementing the Care Team Ministry model program for eight years. The Care Team Ministry program at Normandale was begun to assist elderly members of Normandale Lutheran Church who were beginning to have difficulties getting around and remaining independent in the community. The program began with a volunteer lay team leader in 1998 and was later expanded in 2001 with a part-time staff Coordinator through a grant from the U.S. Administration on Aging. This 3-year grant allowed the non-profit service organization, Normandale Center for Healing & Wholeness, to expand the program to a greater number of people, both members of Normandale Lutheran Church and others from the surrounding communities in the Western metropolitan area of the Twin Cities. The grant also provided support for the Center to provide training and technical support to other parishes or organizations seeking to replicate the Care Team Ministry program. Replication training support evolved to include a series of three sessions with the replicate site, a volunteer handbook, and ongoing volunteer training sessions. In 2004-2005, the Normandale Center for Healing & Wholeness received a grant through the Twin Cities-based Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging and the Minnesota Department of Human Services, as a collaborative organization participating in the “Supporting Seniors Across Systems” project. This grant provided support to the Normandale Center for Healing & Wholeness to assist additional sites to replicate the Care Team Ministry program and to develop this education module. We hope the module provides you with helpful information in your journey to develop programs for older adults and their family caregivers. We applaud your interest in the needs of these individuals. May your work, on their behalf, be fruitful. © 2005 |