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PURPOSE
To start to recognize all the things that are not like home in the institution
DESCRIPTION
Individuals or teams go around the facility and write down or take photos of things that are institutional and things that are home-like
PARTICIPANTS Team
TIME see steps
SUPPLIES clipboards, paper and pens
Steps:
VERSION 2
• Ask people to pair up. Mix departments, shifts or authority levels when you create the pairs.
• Give each pair a clipboard with two columns – one titled “Home” and one titled “Institution.”
• Ask them to tour the facility for 15 minutes and jot down what they see in the appropriate column.
VERSION 3
• Provide note pads and send people out to do a 10-minute interview with a resident.
Suggest that they interview a resident that they would love to get to know better.
• Choose a topic for the interview. For example: What simple, daily pleasures did you enjoy when you were living at home? Or, what would make our facility a better place for you to live? How could we make it more homey for you?
• When the team returns and shares their interviews, discuss what could be done with this new information. Be ready to set up teams, to accept volunteer efforts for individual residents
and to tackle broader problems.
A new look at things
CULTURE CHANGE GAMES