Group6

media type="custom" key="11007710" align="center" ==== Team - Lauren Lorandi, Lee Tesaluna, Rhys D'Souza, Carlo Limueco, Rafael Roxas and Jonathan Licha ====

Aim and Purpose:
The aim of our Outreach Project is to 'chill' with the elderly people at the Ardeer Nursing Home. We not only want to talk with them but volunteer to help and to assist them in any way we can. The purpose of this outreach program is to give them attention and maybe brighten up their day even if it's just by a little bit.

Desired Outcomes:
Our desired outcome is to make the elderly feel important and give someone to talk to and have a good time with. We want to have helped the staff look after them. We want to have befriended many people and build strong relationships with them.

Questions you need to ask and answer:
1. How will we get there to the nursing home? 2. Will we need any money? 3. How many times are we able to go to the nursing home? 4. How long will we be able to stay at the nursing home for? 5. Are we able to provide food for them?

Google Doc
Assessment for Outreach Program - Group 6 Communications page Outreach Proposal

Blog
6/9 LT - We have named our group 'Auxilium', the Latin word for help and assistance. It's pretty simple, as our goal is to help people.

6/9 JL - Last week I researched different organisations to volunteer for. None of which appealed to us and most did not match our values. So we decided that we would volunteer at the Overton Lea Nursing Home. Today a speaker named Chris from the Western Bulldogs Community and talked about how the Bulldogs help the Western community. They do this by setting up footy days, fundraising, carnivals and volunteering in struggling communities.

6/9 JCL - Last Tuesday, our group decided what we wanted to do for our outreach project and we've chosen to help out at Overnewton Lea Nursing Home. We would volunteer there and just try our best to help out the elderly people and also the people who runs the place.

6/9 LL - Last week we found charities with values that related to our foundation. We then looked for a charity we could help out. We chose to help out a nursing home and then decided what things we would do to satisfy them.

12/9 RD- We had different master classes that helped us with communication and teamwork. These classes have helped us get organized and ready for what we have to do do get our goals Achieved.

Meet and great: What to do and not do when meeting someone.
 * Talk with a good pace
 * Speak clearly
 * Leave contact information
 * State your name or group
 * Leave the school number


 * When greeting be formal
 * Talk with a good vocabulary
 * Have a good knowledge about the company
 * Sit up right and wear your school uniform
 * Have good eye contact
 * Do not lie

Teamwork: We saw how to work as a team and played a teamwork game which involved making a card House. We learnt different things about our group and what we need to improve on.

Respectful support: We got 2 documents on how to deal with elderly and disabled people. it taught us how to act and communicate with other people, it also showed us how we can create a relationship with elderly people.

13/9 RR -Today at the start of the day we watched a couple of videos on youtube as a group, Bunjil and MK. We were watching music videos from YouTube of a group called PlayingForChange, it was people from all over the world playing at the same time and being recorded. They sang songs that had a lot of meaning to both life and out reach. We're then deciding weather to make one as well like them with our macs and the instruments provided from the school just for fun and a theme for everyday Tuesday for Deal. Later on after recess we're going to watch a movie called <span style="border-bottom-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px 2px; border-top-width: 0px; clear: none; display: inline; float: none; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; top: -1px; width: auto;">Pay It Forward, published in the year 2000 and directed by Mimi Leder, the plot of the movie is about a young boy who tries to make a change to the world when his teacher gave him a chance to. After we watched the movie we spoke about the values and meanings about the movie, some of the meanings were "passing it forward, to change them", "being afraid of change". One good deed can lead to other people passing it on creating a ripple affect to change the world. There's an organisation that's based on the movie, and the movie is based on the book. Reach out to create a better world.

20/9 LT -

DEAL OutReach ideas notes


 * Overton Lea volunteer work
 * Spend time with the elderly
 * Talk to them for an hour or somewhere around there
 * Get there by bus

Activities: 20/9 LL - Today in Deal we continued on with our outreach programs. By doing so Mr Jilbert, spoke to our group and suggested us ideas and things we still had to do. We also had a few guest speakers who spoke about their experience at school when they did community services. It was interesting to know what people do and how much they devote themselves to. Overall, I enjoyed this day!
 * Conversation
 * Assist the staff
 * Play bingo
 * Play board games
 * Yoga, Tai Chi
 * Story
 * Drama Play
 * Teach dancing
 * Bring in a dog
 * Cook food for them
 * Play music
 * Dress ups
 * Catch
 * Easy sports
 * Wash the dishes
 * Teach them the Internet
 * Do arts and crafts with them
 * Tell jokes
 * Card games
 * Make drinks
 * Magic tricks

20/9 JL - Today in deal each group told the class where they were at in their projects. We are at the stage of making contact with the Nursing Home. We plan to talk with the Residents and get to know them as well as play games with them. At this stage we are not sure if we can play low intensity sports with them but we will find out details when we make contact. Also today student guest speakers from CRC Sydenham talked to us about their experiences with community service. Three girls talked to us about how they went to flood effected areas in Queensland.

For phone calls :

Hello my name is __(and other members) and I’m speaking on be half of my group called Auxilium from CRC Caroline Springs. We are currently doing an outreach project in school. We were wondering if it were possible to do any volunteer work at your nursing home.__

11/10 RD - Our main goal is to spend some time with the residence and get to know them. We believe this is a great opportunity for both the residence and us to learn something as well as enabling us to bond with them.

11/10 RR - Today we had an interview with Mr Jilbert and he recorded the whole conversation between the group and himself. We told him what we did today and what we're up to with out outreach program. We have found places and numbers that we're able to possibly contact in future. We have written a phone script for the phone call and an email to send to the different nursing homes. Later on during the 4th period we were working on our communication skills between Mr Jilbert and ourselves, we have learnt some new skills such as the google docs and the communication page. I believe they're great ways for a student to keep in contact with other teachers. And I reckon that it will improve our communication with him a lot easier than before it has been in the past. He gave us the recorded conversation that we had with him, but unfortunately he wasn't able to email it to us because it's to big of a file to be sent so he borrowed a usb so he can transfer the file on to the usb. Hopefully later on we'll use this recorded conversation as a reference so we can put plans together for future references for our groups outreach program.

11/10 JCL - On our first DEAL lesson after the school holidays, our groups have been working on towards the activities that we want to do with the residence in the nursing home that we are going to. Unfortunately one of our school mates told us that Overnewton Lea has been booked by another school but we are still going to get Lee to contact them again just to make sure. So now we have decided to search for other nursing homes just incase Overnewton Lea nursing home has actually been taken by another school or group.

11/10 LL - Today in Deal, our group had written up a phone script to assist us when calling different places up. We also gathered different phone numbers of nursing homes and listed them in a booklet so that we could later on call them up.

18/10 RR - Start of the day was telling Lee what we did last weeks Deal day. At the moment we've been trying to find nursing home numbers and to ring. We got rejected by Overton Lea and the one near CS Square. Jono thought the Ceasia Gardens which is the one near CS Square was a nursing home and we got rejected by them telling us they are a retirement home instead of a nursing home...

18/10 JCL - Today at DEAL, our group has been working on the same things that we have been working on for he past few weeks. But today, there were some really bad news because it turns out that Overnewton was already booked by others and Ceasia isn't even a nursing home and was actually a retirement home. We've been working on our Auxilium proposal and communication page and we have been putting as much detail as we possibly can.

19/10 LL - Today in deal, our group spent the day once again, calling different places, filled out our communication page and worked on our Axuilium proposal. Unfortunately we had no luck finding a place as many places had already been booked or were instead a retirement village not a nursing home.

19/10 RD- Today we mainly were still looking for different nursing homes that will actually accept us with out leaving us hanging. We also edited and updated or blogs and proposals

25/10 JL - Today in DEAL, Lee and I called Acare Westwood in Burnside to see if volunteer work was available. The person on the other end said that they will call us back. In the meantime we group completed our group assessment. We managed to complete most of the criteria sheet today which enabled us to focus on other Nursing Homes we could volunteer to work for if Acare rejected us. At the moment some people in our group believe that once they finish a task thats it kick back and relax. But I tell them we have to keep working together as a team otherwise we will be unsuccessful at the end of this project. That when they listen. Hopefully we can become a proper team and get the work done.

25/10 LL- Today in Deal, Lee and Jonathon called up Acare Westwood in Burnside to see if we were successful in getting accepted their. We were informed that there was a possibility, we just have to wait for them to call us back with a given response. Whilst waiting, our group filled out our criteria sheet, trying to set out things to do with the elderly if we got accepted.

8/11 LT - Arcare Westwood Nursing Home turned down our offer to volunteer. We have all our activities planned, but we still need a place to go. As soon as we find a place, we'll make preparations to go as soon as possible. First we need to find a place that is easy to get to. We have already called more than five different nursing homes in the Sydenham and Melton area, but we haven't gotten any positive feedback. We have currently discussed what each of us would do, and we're still looking for an available Nursing Home. Jonathan and Rhys are updating the activities page and the communications and contacts document.

8/11 JCL- Today for our DEAL Outreach Program, we have been working towards on actually getting our program started with a nursing home. Sadly, most of the nursing homes that we have contacted weren't available and some of them just didn't even bother getting back to us. So our group has decided to keep working on what we are doing and find as much nursing homes that we could go to and do our program in. We spoke to Mr. Jilbert about what we have done and he has assigned different jobs for each and everyone of us in our group to do. Jonathan was assigned to look up the information such as contact details and locations from the nursing homes, Lee was the person to call them up and give them the details, Rhys was allocated to find out the bus timetables and Lauren and I were to work on our blog and keep updating it as much as possible to show how much things that we have actually done. Lee has called Arcare Dalebridge and they told him that it is possible for us to do our Outreach program in their nursing home but we still have to wait for them to get back to us. Now we are trying to work out which activities that we can do with the elderly people, this means that we have to pick activities that they would participate into and would make the day as good as possible. At the moment, Jonathan and Lee are still trying to contact some more nursing home and try to get them help us with out program. So far, my group has been doing quite great because we've covered a lot of lost times that we had for the past few weeks and our progress in this program is getting better. Ardeer Nursing Home, Blue Cross Western Gardens Sunshine Aged Care, these are the nursing homes that we have contacted so far and they all said that they would call us back if it's available for our group. Ardeer Nursing Home was the only one that redirected us to another number which turned out to be a hospital.

8/11 LL - Today in Deal, our group spent the day finalizing places we could find on the internet to go to. We got in reach with a place in Melton and they told us to go to the village next Tuesday and have a meeting with them. This was fine, however we would've liked to of spent the last two Tuesday's of this deal project with them. We had asked if we could go beforehand, some time after school to attend this meeting, but it wasn't approved of as the lady told us the only time we could go was at 2:00-2:30. We had then told Mr Jilbert what had happened, and suggested us to go somewhere else as there is no point in not spending much time with them. Our group also contacted a few other places and they told us that there's a possibility in being able to go, but we just have to wait for a response which may take a while.

15/11 LT - Today in DEAL, my group went to the Ardea Nursing Home in Albion to have a meeting about our volunteer work. All Auxilium members but myself have gone to this meeting, and I am currently updating our documents and blogs on our wikispace. I have already updated our communications page and our Assessment Criteria document (both are linked on our wikispace), which now give information on what is currently happening. I have also edited our Outreach Proposal document. I have answered all the questions to be asked, and I've fixed up our volunteer work and activity timeline. I'm only waiting now on how the meeting at Ardeer is going to go.

15/11 RR - Today Jonathan, Lauren, Carlo, Rhys and myself went to Ardeer Nursing home for an arranged meeting excluding Lee who had to stayed back at school. It was a tiring trip to get there, taking the bus to Keilor then catching a train towards Albion then walking towards there in the heat. When we got there we introduced ourselves to whom is in charge of the Nursing home and the co. They gave us ideas and tips on how to handle the residence within our hands. We're planning to go back there next Tuesday because it's our last chance for deal to go and spend some time with the residence. We're all happy to what we're doing and when and of course where.

15/11 RD- Today we had a to go the nursing home for a meeting about what we will being to there next week, we mainly discussed about activities and what we are going to do for them. They showed us around the nursing home and introduced to us some of the residence that live there. We were missing one of our group member Lee because he forgot to bring is permission slip today. Today was fun and something new that i haven't done before so i am certainly looking forward for next week were we can actually do something with them.

15/11 LL- Deal today was spent going to the nursing home we had volunteered to work with for a few days. We first came to school and then went straight to the Caroline Springs bus stop. The bus came and picked us up and then took us to the Sunshine Station which then took us straight to Albian. After getting off the train, we walked to the Nursing home. It took around 45 minutes to get their. Once we got their, Devie, the co-ordinator spoke to us about what we were expecting to do with the elderly. After we were informed on what was going to happen, we detoured the nursing home and got a quick glimpse on what we would be doing/seeing the following Tuesday. After this was complete, our group walked to the first bus stop we saw and waited around 15 minutes for the bus to come. As the bus was approaching the stop, my group got ready to hop onto the bus. Unfortunately and weirdly, the bus didn’t stop and kept driving. Therefore our group had the choice to walk to the station, or wait for the next bus to come and wait an extra 20 minutes. We chose to wait and the time finally came! The bus stopped at the Sunshine Station so we got off their and walked to the train. We got on the train and then went straight to the Watergardens station and then headed straight back home via the bus. The day concluded finalizing our assignment and fixing up any errors made throughout our day.

22/`11 LL- Today in Deal, my group went to the Adeer Nursing Home. I decided to stay back as I was feeling unwell. I'm upset that I was unable to go as I was looking forward to spend a day with the elderly and experience what life's like living there. I'm happy that I went last week as I got to get a quick glimpse of the nursing home and I was informed on what was supposed to happen. Surly the boys will do a good job at assisting the elderly and we will get positive feedback.

Questions you need to ask and answer: 1. How will we get there to the nursing home? We're taking the bus towards the train station from Watergardens or Keilor Downs depending what bus we take. Then we catch the train to Albion and either walk or take the bus the rest of the way to Ardeer. 2. Will we need any money? Yes, we all need at least $2.80 for our bus and train fares to and from Ardeer. 3.  How many times are we able to go to the nursing home? Since we have been searching and have been unsuccessful lately in finding a Nursing Home to volunteer in, our program has been cut short to only 1-2 Tuesdays, if at all. 4. How long will we be able to stay at the nursing home fo r ? From the morning at 8:30 until we have to return at 3:15, when the school day ends. Any exceptions will have to be discussed with our mentor and the Nursing Home. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are we able to provide food for them?__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No. The staff at the Nursing Home already provides their meals, and we cannot bring food for them because we aren’t informed about the residents’s dietary needs. We may be asked to bring their given meals to them, but never give them food from us.