CTISAD Disability and Needs Awareness Project 2011-2012
This project is to be put to the Churches Together Committee on 7 Feb. We hope it will be adopted. Some of the wording may be changed after 7 Feb 2012.
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." John 13 v 34
1) BACKGROUND THINKING:-
1. There are a lot of people who need help for various reasons in our churches and in our communities. As people live longer, there are getting to be more people who need help
2. If everyone could be 10% more helpful it would be better.
3. Often people do not give others help because they are not aware that help is needed - both sides do not communicate enough - do not ask, or do not listen - or they are too shy or too busy or too ignorant to offer (or ask for) help.
4. If we could raise awareness generally it should be helpful.
2) AIMS -
The aims of this project are to
Give opportunity for people to
- Say what they need
- Say how disability provision in their churches could be improved
- Learn tips that could help people look after other people better
- Get more confidence in offering to help look after other people
As a result
- Use a questionnaire which might facilitate better communications amongst church members
- Have an interesting series of talks.
- Produce some articles for Settle Community News
Cons:-
- We don't want to raise people’s expectations too much
- It will be work to collate the responses.
Questionnaire If you live in or near Settle, and especially if you attend a CTISAD church, please download the questionnaire and answer those questions that are relevant and send the results to webeditor@ctisad.org.uk (Paste the questionnaire into an email if that helps)
The most useful suggestions are being put into information sheets. As you will see from the sheets dan-01.doc to dan-04.doc . I am generally putting in the quoted suggestions anonymously - but if you would like to have your name put next to a suggestion, please tell me.
We invite churches to print some of the quotes in their newsletters
We hope to run some talks in 2012
Material Produced so far:-
Questionnaire
dan-01.doc
dan-02.doc
dan-03.doc
dan-04.doc
If you live in or near Settle and would like to receive emails with News about Churches together events and news of this project then email webeditor@ctisad.org.uk |
