Alzheimer’s Society Charity Alzheimer’s society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. About 20,000 members of the Alzheimer society charity have personal experience of dementia, and as carers, health professionals or people with dementia themselves, and their experience help to inform the work. The charity is leading support and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers. There are 800,000 people with dementia in the UK with numbers set to rise to one million by 2021. The society’s fight for a better world for people will all types of dementia takes a wide range of forms.
Rashan Daniels American Intercontinental University Unit 2 Individual Project HLTH310 - 1402A – 01 4/04/2014 Abstract This paper is about Back to Eden Senior Assisted Living facility it will go over the strategic plan in creating healing environment. Including how it ties into customer service and also how it will benefit the employees. Back to Eden Senior Assisted Living I am the owner of Back to Eden assisted living home it is located in Plano Texas it house 75 people needing various levels of assistance we have 40 employees most of which are registered nurses. This facility is designed to us the latest in technology to assist our seniors in rehabilitation arthritis and also work with their doctors to make sure they are getting
Dave Cardiff, 21st June 2014 PREPARING TO TEACH IN THE LIFELONG LEARNING SECTOR (PTLLS) Level 4 Assignment 1: Unit Evidence 008 – Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Lifelong Learning… Context: Addiction Dependency Solutions (ADS) is a regional charity established in 1973. We work to promote a better and more sympathetic understanding of alcohol and drug related problems, to study their causes and effects and to undertake and co-operate with all relevant agencies in the prevention, treatment and aftercare of those affected by alcohol and drug misuse. (ADS Mission Statement) I am a full time, permanent employee and manage an ADS training project called ‘Bridging the Gap’ (BTG) with the help of a part-time administrator and a team of ‘Learning Mentors.’ We are funded by ‘The Big Lottery Fund’ and I have been in my current role for six years. Prior to this my role at ADS was 'Volunteer Coordinator' BTG is a 16 week course (1 ½ days per week) aimed at developing the skills of former drug and alcohol service users in order to support them to become ready to re-enter main stream education, training or employment (either voluntary or paid). I deliver all the training myself and am responsible for the recruitment and selection every 6 months of 25-30 new students, all 18+ but mostly in the 35-55 age range and supervising up to 20 voluntary work experience placements for graduating students with a number and variety of local social care service providers including rehabilitation homes, detoxification units, supported housing, homeless hostels, magistrates court, probation and more.
Session C8. Acute Rehab Services Assessment. Adrienne Elberfeld, Black Belt, Operations Improvement department, Virtua Health. In the year 2000, Virtua Health made a strategic cultural decision as an organization to implement Six Sigma to reduce the variations throughout the organization in order to better meet the needs of their customers. Three years ago, two hospital systems merged to create Virtua.
It was performing well and had already received many prestigious awards and accolades for the services performed for NYC. When the devastating acts of terror happened September 11, 2001, the organization received a sizable one year grant to help meet capacity issues that resulted from the increased demand for services. More counselors were hired and administrative services within the organization were increased. Great success was enjoyed that year so when constructing the 2002 budget, Mary insisted on including the one year grant again, assuming it would be renewed. Furthermore, steeper demands were placed to raise even more money and all was approved by the organization’s board of directors.
Since 1979 the group has started four national programs to support state SIDS and infant death services starting with the resource center that year in 1979 followed by the program support center in 1998, the National Center for cultural competency in 1998 and Project IMPACT last year in 2003. They all work together to provide states with resources for parents and professionals and a wide range of technical assistance to sustain their programs (SIDS Project Impact,
Team Composition Teams include individuals with experience in human services, psychology, mental health, substance abuse, social work, psychiatry, education or spirituality. Over 700 Behavioral Health Response Team members have completed specialized training. Team members operate under the supervision of DHHS’s Disaster Behavioral Health Coordinator, receive ongoing training and participate in community/statewide drills and exercises. Interventions The DBHRTs provide interventions in three distinct phases that may be delivered at a disaster site, in an affected community, or statewide. The phases and interventions include: Immediate Response • Behavioral Health Needs Assessment • Psychological First Aid • Crisis Intervention • Community Outreach • Public Information • Behavioral Health Consultation Transition to Recovery • Brief Supportive Counseling • Information Dissemination • Screening and Referral • Support Groups • Public Education Preparedness and Mitigation • Disaster Behavioral Health Planning and Networking • Prevention Services Designed to Strengthen
The Agency has been the main provider of primary education to Palestine refugees for over 60 years, and currently operates nearly 700 schools for almost half a million refugee pupils. UNRWA also delivers basic health services to Palestine refugee communities through 137 health centres. The Agency’s network of primary healthcare facilities and mobile clinics provides the foundation of its health services, offering preventive care, general medicine and specialized services. The third of UNRWA’s main programmes is relief and social services. Through this programme, the Agency provides essential food and cash assistance to the poorest refugee families to enable them to meet their most basic needs.
It can also take on a more formal structure, with education, child development, discipline and even preschool education falling into the fold of services. Some childminders care for children from several families at the same time, either in their own home (commonly known as "family day care" in Australia) or in a specialized child care facility. Some employers provide nursery provision for their employees at or near the place of employment. Child care in the child's own home is traditionally provided by a nanny or au pair, or by extended family members including grandparents, aunts and uncles Day care appeared in France about 1840, and the Société des Crèches was recognized by the French government in 1869. Originating in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th century, day cares were established in the United States by private charities in the 1850s, the first being the New York Day Nursery in 1854.
Many of the services include counseling services such as marriage counseling, post deployment counseling, and even parenting classes. Other services are things like the military daycare, 24 hour emergency maintenance services, and 24 hour security services. The members of the Jackson Park community