Support Team Development Training Guidebook

A partial listing of the guidebook’s table of contents is shown below.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

• Welcome
• Overview

1. BEGINNING

• Discovery of a Need — Persons Who Need the Caring of a Support Team
• Discovery of a Response – Persons Identify How They Want to Care
• Discovering the Team Approach – A Workable Plan of Caring
• Discovery Includes Follow-Up – Is a Support Team Needed and Wanted?
• Discovering Leadership – Who Will Be the Team Leader?

2. BUILDING

• Building Overview — Organizing the Support Team
• Who are Members of the Support Team?
• Basic Training or Orientation for New Team Members
• Organize the Team for the Work of Caring

3. CONNECTING

• Connecting Overview – Bringing Together the Team and the Friend
• Confirming the Team/Friend Relationship
• The Team Decides What It is Able to Do
• Team Leader Informs the Friend about What the Team Is Able to Do

4. CARING

• Communication Is Essential to Planning and Caring
• Regular Team Meetings Empower the Team
• Team Leader Facilitates Team Meetings/Coordinates Work

5. SUSTAINING

Sustaining Overview – Keeping the Support Team Healthy

RESOURCES

• A Discovery Event
• Support Team Orientation
• Support Team Leader
• How to Make a Visit to Connect Team and Friend

If you have questions about support teams or would like more information, please call 205.934.1234 or email supportteams@uab.edu.