Improving Senior and Intergenerational Learning Methods

And Curricula as Workforce in Community Proyects for Disabled

2nd Partn

er Meeting

16th and 17th of May 2013

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID

UCM

SAN JOSÉ INSTITUTE FOUNDATION

The services on which our business revolves are:• Area of high dependency care and disability• Area of care and functional recovery• Area of advanced life processes

Encompassed in these areas are different programs that make our offer: Neurology-Epilepsy, Functional Recovery, Complex Care, Palliative Care, Irreversible Brain Injury, Rehabilitation outpatient Neurophysiology Cabinet, House Nursing Homes, Day Centres for intellectual and physical disabilities .

STEPS OF THE PROCESS

1. Meeting to explain the project

2. Visit the institution: detected needs

3. Two training session

4.Intervention (two sessions)

5. Evaluation

Writing workshop

Radio Workshop

Crafts Workshop

First experimental Workshop with Seniors as Co-Trainers

Each person should be take care more of the others

VOLUNTEERS - WORKSHOP

The Educational Director and the Volunteers

Work done with group of seven teenagers aged between 14 and 17 years. As a tool: cards with animals, crafts and fruit. Also description between them. So oral express their tastes, emotions and what peers are and mean.The volunteer reflects all these impressions in writing and it gives them form of poem, that once read to the boys, sign as authors. The original one stays in the Center.

Work done with the group formed by four young.Tools used:Pictures of animals (dogs) and Nature, as initial support.Writing and individual reading of his works. They express their emotions visually oriented, but also they do it departing from his deeper feelings. Sometimes also they express in an oral way. The volunteer recasts the writings and gives them a poem or story, which reads and give each young.The original is signed by all of them, and it remains filed in the Center.

WRITING WORKSHOP (Two Groups)

Of the two sessions held, there have been two poems and two stories.

 

 

 

 POEMA CONJUNTO DEL GRUPO Hay una perra que toma el atardecer,se llama Vilmay es muy bonita. La perrita tiene una sombra que es un reflejo de la vida,y detrás el bosque.

Hay una piedra blanca y otra más grande con un poste. Las flores me gustan.Ahora como estamos en primaveray un jardinero las cuidavan a ser muy bellas. Cuando nacen las flores se hacen hermosas,con muchos colores.

POEM OF THE WHOLE GROUP

There is a dog that takes the sunset,Vilma is calledand it is very pretty.

The dog has a shadowthat is a reflection of life,and behind the forest.

There is a white stoneand another bigger with a pole.

The flowers i like.Now as we are in springand a gardener takes carethey are going to be very nice.

When the flowers are bornthey become beautiful,with many colors.

Ascensión, Ana Isabel, Rafa y Jesús

ANIMALES

Sobre hierba, flores, césped,por el agua.Olas en marrón, blanco y azul.Se alimentan:Pienso, pollo, trigo, ratones,pan, peces y mosquitos.Nos dan lana, leche, alimento.Ayudan.Crecen, cambian de color,olfatean con el hocico.Los mejores amigos,en los que hay que tener confianza.

Arancha, Evan, Saladin, Cristian, Brian, Expedito.

ANIMALS

On grass, flowers, lawn,by the water.Waves in Brown, white and blue.They feed on:Fodder, chicken, wheat, mice,bread, fish and mosquitoes.Give us wool, milk and food.They help.Grow, change color, they smell with the snout.Best friends,In that one must have confidence.

Radio Workshop

This is a long term Project. It will take a long time to get it running smoothly, if ever. But it is also a Project, which will be always new, and ever changing as the participants and contents change. The radio program must be something very much alive always growing with the new ideas given by all the members. The objective, to have fun while communicating and becoming part of a team inside the Centre and, hopefully also communicating and very much becoming part with the world outside.

Beginning to walk

The objectives of this Project are varied:*1. Ludic. It can be great fun for all the members of the workshop.*2. Communication. Not just among the workshop participants but also with the world outside… A thought comes to mind: “There are people out there ready to listen to whatever we have to say” *3. Pride for a well-done job. This comes automatically as the people take charge of their sections and the program improves little by little thanks to the work of all.*4. This Project also requires the opening of a page in Internet, In Facebook or any other social net. All the programs could be published there and any friend could have access to them.

CRAFTS WORKSHOP

• The volunteers sit and talk with the people working there.

• They ask questions about the work they do and the progress they make at the workshops.

• Most of the time, it is not even necessary to ask anything as they are more than ready to talk and tell their stories and establish a relationship with the volunteers.

• Helping them, talking with them, admiring their work and above all just being there. Being with them. With or without words.

CONCLUSIONS

• Excellent reception by the Director of Education, teachers and workers, facilities and good attention to the volunteers, who have received two training sessions.

• The majority of the senior volunteers already had experience with dependent or disabled people.

• Methodology: The volunteers have had to search the tools most appropriate for each group. In one case, with simple illustrated cards from a deck. In others with pictures of animals and plants, microphones, etc. These first approaches could translate as a contact without artifice, of natural and simple way.

• To spread the works is a target of the Foundation. Possible exhibitions in Centers of education, (Institutes, Universities, etc.) and other companies or institutions. (Painting exhibitions have already been made)

• This project is starting, so the expansion of future workshops and improvements will require more volunteers, with greater involvement by all.