Building and Building and Maintaining Care Maintaining Care Teams in your Church Teams in your Church Reverend Betsy Ritzman Reverend Betsy Ritzman Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor 831 South Oak Park Avenue 831 South Oak Park Avenue Oak Park, IL 60304 Oak Park, IL 60304 Phone: Phone: 708.848.9900 708.848.9900 Fax: Fax: 708 848.9902 708 848.9902 Email: Email: [email protected][email protected]Website: Website: www.tenditmendit.com www.tenditmendit.com
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Building and Maintaining Care Teams in your Church
Building and Maintaining Care Teams in your Church. Reverend Betsy Ritzman Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor 831 South Oak Park Avenue Oak Park, IL 60304 Phone: 708.848.9900 Fax: 708 848.9902 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tenditmendit.com. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Building and Building and Maintaining Care Maintaining Care
Teams in your ChurchTeams in your Church Reverend Betsy RitzmanReverend Betsy Ritzman
Licensed Clinical Professional Licensed Clinical Professional CounselorCounselor
831 South Oak Park Avenue831 South Oak Park AvenueOak Park, IL 60304Oak Park, IL 60304
But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends. It is this type of understanding goodwill that will transform the deep gloom of the old age into the exuberant gladness of the new age. It is this love which will bring about miracles in the hearts of men.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1956
The Gift of the Care The Gift of the Care TeamTeam
•Care Teams•Parish Nursing•Screening•Healing Worship•Healing Touch•Prayer Shawls•Pastoral Care•Steven Ministry•Prison Ministries•United Power for Action and Justice•Military Support ministry•Older Adult Ministry
Assessing a Faith Assessing a Faith Community’s Readiness for Community’s Readiness for
Care Team MinistryCare Team Ministry
Conduct a congregational self study (Faith in Action)Conduct a congregational self study (Faith in Action)• Study the history of other successful outreach Study the history of other successful outreach
ministriesministries• Obtain spiritual support and pastoral blessingObtain spiritual support and pastoral blessing• Acquire strategic support of key leadersAcquire strategic support of key leaders• Identify available resources: Identify available resources:
– FinancialFinancial– People (interested and committed)People (interested and committed)
Making the Match: Making the Match: Developing Client/Care Developing Client/Care
Team RelationshipsTeam Relationships• Choose who you can serveChoose who you can serve• Nurture beneficial and healthy relationshipsNurture beneficial and healthy relationships• Establish boundaries through training and Establish boundaries through training and
supervisionsupervision• Create “normative distance” and self care valuesCreate “normative distance” and self care values• Empower clients and caregivers to say Yes…and Empower clients and caregivers to say Yes…and
No No
Support Structures for Support Structures for Healthy Care TeamsHealthy Care Teams
• Training Manual Training Manual including policies and including policies and proceduresprocedures
• Continuing EducationContinuing Education• Regular data Regular data
reportingreporting• Evaluation of GoalsEvaluation of Goals• Satisfaction SurveysSatisfaction Surveys
– ClientsClients– VolunteersVolunteers
Risk ManagementRisk Management
• The Good Samaritan The Good Samaritan – no ministry – no ministry without riskwithout risk
• Who determines Who determines tolerance for risk?tolerance for risk?
• Realistically define Realistically define your tolerance for your tolerance for riskrisk
• Establish boundaries Establish boundaries to honor that limitto honor that limit
Nurturing Care TeamsNurturing Care Teams
• Spiritual Care and Ongoing TrainingSpiritual Care and Ongoing Training• Team Composition and Team BuildingTeam Composition and Team Building• Prayer support and regular recognitionPrayer support and regular recognition• Feedback Feedback • Spiritual Retreats Spiritual Retreats
We are only human. Without faithful and sustained prayer, there is little or no hope that this work can be accomplished.
The Life Cycle of Care The Life Cycle of Care TeamsTeams
• Healthy ClosureHealthy Closure• Bereavement SupportBereavement Support• Cycles of Giving and HealingCycles of Giving and Healing
Expectations for caringExpectations for caring
We are all wounded healersWe are all wounded healers
Assist the spiritual and emotional Assist the spiritual and emotional integration of Care Team experienceintegration of Care Team experience