Bbass - Silver Dreams

Human Rights Human Lives Workshop

vcandrewp — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:34:11 +0000

Human Rights Human Lives is a one day workshop that aims to increase awareness of good practice in order to increase the well-being of people who use community based services.

The course is scheduled to run on Thursday 6th June in Truro and Tuesday 9th July in Bodmin.

A poster for the course can be downloaded here: Human Rights Human Lives

If you would like to find out more information about the one day course, you can get in touch with Cornwall Rural Community Council via:

Email – training@cornwallrcc.org.uk

Telephone: 07817 450468

Or you can visit their webite: www.cornwallrcc.org.uk/training

New Training Dates Announced…

Simon Long — Thu, 02 May 2013 09:43:08 +0000

We are delighted to confirm the next set of training for Bbass volunteers has been arranged. All of the training will take place at our Training Centre in Truro as follows: -

Monday 3^rd June, 9.30am – 12.30pm, Bbass Induction
Monday 3^rd June, 1.30pm – 4.30pm, Equality & Diversity
Monday 10^th June, 9.30am – 4.30pm, Befriending & Mentoring Day 1
Monday 17^th June, 9.30am – 4.30pm, Befriending & Mentoring Day 2
Monday 24^th June, 9.30am – 4.30pm, Advocacy
Monday 1^st July, 9.30am – 4.30pm, Bereavement & Loss

If you’ve not enrolled to volunteer with us and can spare some time each week to help and support someone who has suffered bereavement, use the “Get in Touch” section at the top and one of our Co-ordinators will be in touch with you.

First Client Referrals received

Simon Long — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:14:24 +0000

Working in partnership with Macmillan Nurses, Bbass has now received it first client referral from Macmillan’s nursing team.

The client will be contacted by one of our Co-ordinators who will undertake an initial meeting with them. Once the meeting has taken place the Co-ordinator will match one of our newly trained volunteers to work with the client.

The Co-ordinator will then attend an introductory meeting between the client and volunteer, before the volunteer provides on-going support to the client through their bereavement.

First Volunteers Complete Training

Simon Long — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:06:28 +0000

We’re delighted that our first group of 14 volunteers have completed their training and are now ready to work with their first clients.

Over 5 days of training our volunteers covered: -

Bbass Induction
Equality & Diversity
Befriending & Mentoring
Loss & Bereavement
Bbass Advocacy

The feedback from the training has been really positive with one attendee commenting “I found it very informative and thought your passion shone through. I feel honoured to be part of this new much needed service and am looking forward to seeing it grow…”

If you can spare some time each week to help and support someone who has suffered bereavement, use the “Get in Touch” section at the top and one of our Co-ordinators will be in touch with you.

Fulfilling Lives: Ageing Well

terrys2012 — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:44:48 +0000

The Big Lottery Fund unveils £120m drive to help vulnerable older people. to read the full story click on the link http://t.co/jp3puuexj6

Bereavement Booklets

terrys2012 — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:58:34 +0000

We saw this and thought the publications accessible through the link

http://ow.ly/jlIdu

might be a useful resource for people. The site provides a number of booklets about different aspects of bereavement.

Bbass Facebook & Twitter

vcandrewp — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:34:18 +0000

With the development of Bbass’ media networks, we’ve now added Twitter and Facebook accounts to help extend the ways that we communicate with the public and partner organisations.

Anyone visiting our blog should now see a link to our Facebook page and a short feed of our most recent Twitter posts to the right of the screen.

If you have a Twitter/Facebook account, please do follow us as we’d love to create better links though the various social networks.

Silver Dreams projects working together

Simon Long — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:00:33 +0000

Cornwall’s two Silver Dreams projects Active Plus and Bbass are now working together following a meeting last week.

Active Plus Silver Dreams delivers 6 week courses to people aged over 50 that are unemployed, have become socially isolated, are suffering ill health and wellbeing, hospital leavers or are carers. The content of the course is designed to improve communication and teamwork skills and encourage social interaction through a variety of practical teamwork and problem solving activities, to ensure people are safe and secure at home the course provides training in Fire Safety, Crime Prevention, First aid, CPR and basic IT skills. The goal is to encourage and support the group to become involved in volunteering with the local community, participation in other activities or to continue meeting as a group to provide support and friendship to each other. During the 6 weeks other advice and guidance is provided depending on the groups needs, this includes fall prevention, employability training, healthy eating, fitness and health and the presence of local groups to discuss activities and opportunities.

Towards the end of each course, one of the Co-ordinators from Bbass will be attending to offer the groups the opportunity to volunteer with Bbass, putting their improved communication skills and social interaction to good use as befrienders or advocates.

The partnership doesn’t end there though, as our volunteers will have the opportunity to refer their clients to Active Plus. By refering their client’s we hope that this will help our volunteers to support their client’s to increase their social interaction, make new friends and learn new skills which will ultimately provide client’s with a focus once they leave Bbass.

Working with Cornwall College

Simon Long — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:31:43 +0000

Following a series of meetings with the Counselling Faculty Lead, Colin Wilson at Cornwall College, Bbass is delighted that some of their students will now be volunteering with us.

The students who are all working towards NCFE, Advanced Certificate or Diplomas in Counselling Skills all need the opportunity to practice their skills as part of their learning. In particular the Diploma students have to complete 150 hours of skills practice to attain their qualification, with others are actively encouraged by the college to practice their skills learned on their courses.

Whilst Bbass does not offer counselling services, having volunteers with these skills will allow Bbass to provide quality support to those clients, who have more complex or higher needs than we may have been able to offer support to.

Our Co-ordinators will undertake an assessment of a client’s needs when they are referred to Bbass and will then match them with an appropriate volunteer based upon the volunteer’s skills, experience, knowledge, time they are able to offer and interests.

Whilst we are delighted to have students from the college with these skills volunteering with us, this of course does not stop our volunteers who have joined us through other routes working with our more challenging clients if they express a desire to do so and demonstrate the necessary skills.

Some of the first group of students have attended their Service Induction and once they have completed their Bereavement Awareness course they will be working with Bbass clients. Others will shortly be attending a further Service Induction and are looking forward to working with clients in the near future.

We’ve Had 1000 Visitors

terrys2012 — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:48:42 +0000

A ‘Big’ thank you to everyone who has visited Bbass Silver Dreams blog. Today we reached a milestone of 1000 visitors to the site. The majority of the visits have been to the recruitment page but there has been a good spread across all the pages.
The best day we have had so far was on 18th January, when we had 247 visitors in response to a newsletter we sent via Volunteer Cornwall.

Thank you for your support once again, Bbass Team.