Category: Professional

Evaluate: Dementia Selfie

Component Evaluation: Moyra Jones – Dementia Selfie Timing: 15 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online An adaptation of an exercise that Moyra Jones used in her 1990s workshop, this learning activity helps participants situate themselves in the position of a person with dementia. Have students either draw a self-portrait with their non-dominant hand or take a photo …

Components: Self-Guided with Video Clips

Components: Moyra Jones – Self-Guided Learning Timing: 60 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Innovation is a process that involves taking a new idea and giving it value, but it is also about recognizing moments and situations where change is possible, and working with established components to give them additional worth.  Successful innovation involves delivering a product …

Component Evaluation: Ideas for Change

Component Evaluation: Edmond – Ideas for Change Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online The coroner’s inquest that followed Edmond Yu’s death resulted in 24 recommendations aimed at preventing such a tragedy from reoccurring.  After explaining to your students the role of such inquests and recommendations, use this document (the jury recommendations begin on page 4) …

Component Evaluation: Values Line

Component Evaluation: Edmond – Values Line Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online The different aspects of this set of resources (the text, the audio clips and the documents) all speak to the importance of housing for people with psychiatric diagnoses and the role that it played in the life and death of Edmond Yu. At …

Components: Self-Guided/ Lecture

Components: Edmond – Self Guided Learning/ Lecture Timing: 40 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Supported by the Learning Lens and Components in Context, these components and accompanying text provide instructors with the basic components for a lecture or a self guided learning session on Edmond Yu, PARC, and the challenges of providing good housing and social …

Component Evaluation: Place Short Paper

Component Evaluation: Place – 5 Minute Paper Timing: 15 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Use the Learning Lens and Components In Context sections as the basis for a focused 5-minute lecture to introduce learners and educators to the importance of developing PARC’s “living room” approach as a model of practice with potential applications within the broader …

Evaluation: Place Discussion

Component Evaluation: Place at PARC – Slideshow Discussion Timing: 15 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online PARC considers everyone and anyone who enters its doors to be a member, and in so doing fosters a sense of member-identity rather than a mental health client or service user-identity. Using the Hanging Out at PARC Slideshow, teachers and learners …

Components: Place Self-Guided

Components: Place at PARC – Self Guided Learning Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online “Hanging out” at PARC means something different every day. Whether members chose to play a game of pool, indulge in bingo, come together for movie night, or participate in sing-alongs, drumming circles or dances, PARC provides a space for both casual …

Components: Art – Self-Guided

Components: Art at PARC – Self Guided Learning Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Hanging on the walls of the Drop-In is art created by PARC members, past and present.  Formal art groups have existed at PARC since the 1990s, but we know that art in various forms was produced at PARC since the very …

Doing Well Through Art at Gallery Gachet

Doing Well Through Art at Gallery Gachet Unit Takeaways Appreciate the connection between art and healing Acknowledge the benefit of stakeholder engagement that fosters meaningful identity and clarity of purpose Value art as social and political engagement Component The component for this unit is a short 10-minute video based on a powerful interview that team …