How to Establish a Volunteer Program

By next November I have to have the residents trained in HIPPA, Resident Abuse, Fire Safety, Disaster Planning, Dementia, CPR, and TB testing, Is anyone doing this yet and if so do you have any suggestions where to start? I know I am going to lose volunteers of this. HELP!

Dionne Rose

Another thing you may want to consider is having resident volunteers
you have to be careful when doing this
There could be some residents who are bored and would like to help you
Consider their strengths so they will be able to help you do what they are capable of and feel good about it
When my volunteer team was low in numbers I had a lot of resident volunteers however that got to be a problem because every resident thought he should be a volunteer especially when we had an our volunteer breakfast
What happened was that some of the higher functioning residents were upset because they felt that some of the residents should not be volunteers
Luckily I straightened it out saying
That every person has strengths and are helpful in their own way
Anyway this is something to consider

Do not get discouraged it is hard to find Quality volunteers
Also remember a volunteer is a Volunteer and occasionally they have other commitments that interfere with volunteering but give them leeway especially if they're good
I have found a good time to recruit volunteers is when you are honoring the volunteers you already have
I help this gives you some further information

Very helpful, Much appreciated

Excellent! Appreciated. Darla Spiry

This is great! Thanks for posting.