PCT & Safety 24

Safety & Person-Centered Focus


Thematic Activity 01 (10-15 min)  

What are some everyday foods and what are special occasion foods? 


Use the *features of food worksheet to identify the different things about foods that make them special or regular everyday food 

PRESENTERS: Help participants recognize the different features of food like salty, rich, caloric, nutritious as listed on the sheet


Use the *Favorite Food worksheet to identify 

  • Your favorite everyday foods  
  • Your favorite special occasion foods 
  • Put any foods you especially dislike on the back of the sheet 

OPTIONAL LEVEL UP – deeper discussion (5 min)

Remember when we talked about training pets with rewards? Rewards are things that make our brain feel pleasure. When our brain tells us something is pleasurable it also wants us to do whatever we did to make it happen again. Special occasion foods often make our brain feel pleasure. They make us look forward to special times when we can have them again.  

  1. Why do different people like different foods?  
  2. Why is a food you love also a food someone else hates?  
  3. What other things in life are like that?  
  4. And why are some flavors neutral, we don’t like or dislike them?  

Skill Builder Activity 01 (10-15 min)  

Review the images on dangerous scenarios and Use the questions to identify the KNOWLEDGE that makes special helpers qualified to help in each situation  


  1. Who is the most likely helpful person for each situation?  
  2. Does the person need special knowledge and training?  
  3. What would a helper need to be sure of before helping in this situation? 
  4. What knowledge or skills can you learn or practice to be ready for one or more of these situations?  

Covid 19 Exposure Mitigation (QUICK REVIEW, not a full on activity —2-3 min) 

(PRESENTERS: We will be ramping up on daily exposure mitigation training tips in preparation for the coming spike and for afterward when we resume programming in some form) 

Right now the US is having the biggest increase in covid-19 we have ever had. It‘s definitely a dangerous situation, especially for medically fragile or older people. Let’s refresh our knowledge for the coming holiday to keep our community and ourselves as safe as possible. 

  1. Wash our hands with soap and water or sanitizer all the time.  
  2. Don’t wash hands quickly. ALWAYS leave the soap on for at least 30 seconds. (Sing the birthday song in your head to help you time It.) 
  3. Avoid places with strangers, or people you know but haven’t seen in a while 
  4. Don't gather indoors with people coming from different places. It may feel sad but sometimes we have to make sacrifices to be safe. 
  5. If you find yourself with people you don’t usually see, stay at least 6 feet away from them. (About the length of a shower curtain rod. )
  6. WEAR your mask and remind others to wear theirs.  

Skill Builder 02-  (5-10 min)  

Review the images of hobbies. 

  1. What knowledge and skills does a person need to enjoy these activities?
  2. Share your hobby and what you know or learned from doing it.

Skill Builder Activity 03 (5-10 min) 


Read the story about passing knowledge on together 

  1. Who in your lives has passed knowledge on to you? 
  2. What did they share with you? 
  3. How has that gift enriched your life? 

OPTIONAL Level Up (5-10 min) 

Brainstorm a list of all the knowledge and skills in your group 

Can one or more of you teach the group something new?  

If something can be taught easily, use your presenting information skills from earlier in the month to teach it to everyone <content>


What have we Learning today?

What are we doing this afternoon?

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