household toolkit

Integrating Person-First Values, Systems Design, and Workforce Development as a Methodology to Initiate and Sustain Culture Change in Long Term Care

Through funding of the Commonwealth Fund, Sunflower Foundation and the Kansas Department on Aging, Meadowlark Hills has created an integrated toolbox of materials and systems for use by long-term care providers (and others) with a stake in transforming the culture of nursing homes in a sustainable fashion. Taken together, the toolbox's components would provide an explicit roadmap for how an organization could shape itself to become a resident directed service model with a well trained, empowered, and satisfied workforce. This packaged tool box will not only assist in assuring culture-change sustainability, but will also be a vehicle for increasing the rate of culture-change penetration in the long-term care community.

Toolkits are $700 plus $28 shipping and handling. To order the Household Matters: A Good Life 'Round the Clock toolkit, please click HERE.

Each toolkit will contain:

The hard copy documents:

• The Leadership Book, In Pursuit of the Sunbeam by Steve Shields and LaVrene Norton -- To view Book Cover, Click HERE (.pdf - 1MB)
  

• A 100+ page spiral bound training guide entitled: Living and Working in Harmony, A Training Guide for Self-Led Teams

Then there are:

3 CDs:

• Policies and Procedures - 355 procedures, over 500 pages.

• Quality Indicators - 100+ files includes auditing tools, household practices, guidelines and QI procedures

• Human Resources - 300+ pages of an integrated system of household specific job descriptions, orientation, in-services, and performance tools

3 DVDs:includes short 10 - 12 minute video clips on:

• Living & Working in Harmony
  ° Come In - Competency Based Hiring
  ° Day in the Life - An Orientation to Households I
  ° Working Together - An Orientation to Households II
  

• Living & Working in Harmony
  ° We are People Too - Thinking Person-Centered Care
  ° Learning Circle - Creating Community
  

• Living & Working in Harmony
  ° Food For Thought - Kitchen Practices
  ° Let's Eat - The Dining Experience
  
  Each of these components are completely designed within the framework of:

Resident-directed service by self-led work teams in household community, supported by values-driven resource-bearing leadership, in a process-sensitive outcome-measured environment.