Mount Paran Church – Unlimited Special Needs MInistry
Year One Ministry Goals and Timeline
Month 1:
- Determine families and individuals impacted by special needs
- Create ministry forms
- Individualized Plan (detailed for myself)
- Individualized Plan at a glance (summary for volunteers & staff)
- Contact Families for interviews
- Begin volunteer recruitment and establish volunteer pool
- Recruit mentor families
Month 2:
- Determine which existing volunteers inside preschool, children’s and student ministry environments are willing to be trained for inclusion model
- Create budget for the ministry
- Continue parent interviews
- Work with existing children’s ministry leaders to assess needs for buddies or other inclusion strategies
- Research paid, trained and bonded childcare providers and agencies for emergency needs
- Plan transitional accommodations for large group and small group
- Train volunteers already working with students with additional needs
Month 3:
- Provide pointers to students about including peers with special needs
- Work with ministry leaders and parents to begin transitioning identified students to individualized accommodation plans
- Recruit and train volunteers for transition environment(s)
- Continue working with preschool, children’s and student ministry leaders to identify and meet the needs of students
- Begin planning training sessions to meet the needs of adults with intellectual disability
Month 4:
- Assess transitional plans for each student
Student A – Transitioning from elementary to student ministry
Student B – Transitioning small groups within same ministry area
Students C – M… - Reassess volunteer pool and budget concerns (i.e., materials/equipment needs)
Month 5:
- Finalize budget needs for 2014 fiscal year
- Refine environment, goals, accommodations, progress and volunteer placement for each identified student
Month 6:
- Continue refining environments, goals, accommodations for identified students
- Make plans for new enrollment of students to come through special needs ministry
- Create plan for staff and volunteers to be rolled out as part of Lead Small training events
- Begin modifying curriculum as needed
- Set volunteer training goals and curriculum modification goals
